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The mosaic near the pool at Peck Park is almost done! In fact, it will be complete by Thursday, July 12 , when everyone is invited to come...

Are these merlins , or peregrine falcons? After looking at images on Google, I think maybe female harrier hawks? Here is a close up of t...

There are so many 50th anniversaries this year, of Marilyn Monroe's death, the only successful escape from Alcatraz (did they or didn...

It's been two years since I blogged about the 50-foot-wide Rose Parade Mural that once enriched the Home Savings and Loan in Pasaden...

Is she not beautiful? No history tie-in here. Just a fledgling hawkette who hasn't quite figured out takeoffs yet. No one saw her l...

Today's second post is on the oceanic or beachy mosaic at 13th and Morningside in Manhattan Beach. I'm told this little place--co...

I'll post twice today,since I was absent last week. First is Mirror Man at Griffith Park Observatory. Yes, it's from 2010. But sti...

‘PATHWAYS TO YESTERYEAR: STROLLING THE STREET OF DREAMS’ is the title of the June 9th walking tour of the University Park neighborhood o...

The Vermont station is in the West Adams neighborhood, and artist Jessica Polzin McCoy uses that neighborhood in her 24 mosaic panels. I l...

The Los Angeles Times published a great, short piece by Christopher Hawthorne two days ago, about the long-vacant Herald Examiner buildin...