Global Wahrman

Into the Night is a 1985 John Landis film that features iconic Los Angeles locations in various key sequences. My favorite is the climax /...

  Its worth noting that when the Trump administration destroys a major diplomatic effort to *begin* to deal with the pollution from containe...

Valerio Street got at least 30 separate groups, perhaps an average of 3 per group.  I dont know how young the youngest was, but she was very...

So far I know three people who have lost their houses in the Pacific Palisades fire.  I also know people in Mandeville Canyon, Altadena and ...

As I was moving from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, the issue of housing costs and options came up.  There are a number of reasons for this b...

For all the years I lived in Los Angeles, I never visited the Philosophical Research Society.  I knew it was off in Los Feliz somewhere.   G...

  God forbid, LA or Van Nuys would do anything to help the women who hook for a living on a cold night.  Maybe a coffee shop where they can ...

Once upon a time, long ago but as recently as 2006, the City and County of Los Angeles had a pretty wonderful air show at the Van Nuys Airpo...

  Jill and I wrote a letter to our various local city and state representatives asking them if they would not mind looking at and possibly a...

By all accounts the new LACMA is a train wreck.  We took a trip there and it is a mess but not quite as bad as expected.  Still, they should...

Tom McMahon found this interesting traffic planning report / discussion for the City of Los Angeles from 1915.   Find the full report here: ...

We went to the Hollywood Bowl to see Verdi's Requiem as conducted by Gustav Dudamel.  For those of you not up on your classical music sn...

draft In the far reaches of the San Fernando Valley is a warehouse that contains elements of the now-distant space program of the 1960s.  Re...

draft Many years ago, Benton Jew and Josh Pines came to town and I guess we all went to Griffith Park Observatory.  

Many years ago, I was driving down Santa Monica Blvd late at night and ahead of me in Century City was a new building that created a fabu...

Sometimes we are called to look into the heart of Hell, the Devil's home, the place of Sin, where Righteousness is relegated to the g...

So I am on the Expo line between Culver City and downtown Los Angeles when suddenly 5 people get on. We are about to all be part of a fa...

One of the great advantages of using mass transit, or at least transit, in this case Amtrak, to go back and forth between LA and Oceansid...

Watching a city build a transit system is like watching the grass grow. Not much seems to be happening on any given day but things are ...

Many readers may wonder why anyone would care that Kate Mantillini's closed suddenly after many years of service.    Kate's became...