Swinging Doors — Footsies

Footsies is a bar in theย Cypress Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles. Iโ€™ve been going there with wavering semi-regularity for about 17 years โ€” as many as Iโ€™ve lived in Los Angeles. Online historic information about the bar is minimal and Iโ€™d love to fill it in more, so leave comments if you can help … Continue reading Swinging Doors — Footsies

No Enclave — Exploring Colombian Los Angeles

As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were โ€œHispanic of any race.โ€ The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations of Salvadorans and Guatemalans outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the regionโ€™s smaller Latino populations, the subject of this series of No … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Colombian Los Angeles

No Enclave — Exploring Chilean Los Angeles

As of 2015, an estimatedย 48.4% of Angelenos wereย โ€œHispanic of any race.โ€ The majority ofย Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations ofย Salvadorans andย Guatemalansย outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the regionโ€™sย smaller Latino populations, the subject of this series of No … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Chilean Los Angeles

No Enclave — Exploring Brazilian Los Angeles

As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were โ€œHispanic of any race.โ€ The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations of Salvadorans and Guatemalans outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the regionโ€™s smaller Latino populations, the subject of this series of … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Brazilian Los Angeles

No Enclave — Exploring Bolivian Los Angeles

As of 2015, an estimatedย 48.4% of Angelenos wereย โ€œHispanic of any race.โ€ The majority ofย Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations of Salvadorans and Guatemalansย outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the regionโ€™sย smaller Latino populations, the subject of this series … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Bolivian Los Angeles

No Enclave — Exploring Argentine Los Angeles

  INTRODUCTION As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were "Hispanic of any race." The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations of Salvadorans and Guatemalans outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the region's smaller Latino populations, the … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Argentine Los Angeles

Top 100 Los Angeles Attractions (not in Central Los Angeles or the Westside)

If youโ€™re familiar at all with local Los Angeles clickbait generators and news aggregators you mayโ€™ve noticed that whether theyโ€™re promoting the hottest restaurants for โ€œcelebโ€ sightings, the hottest restaurants for โ€œcelebโ€ chefs, game changing brunch spots, or juiceries one has to visit before (never after) one dies, they all have one thing in common … Continue reading Top 100 Los Angeles Attractions (not in Central Los Angeles or the Westside)

Remembering Tony Ogden & World of Twist

It's been ten years since the death of Tony Ogden (30 May 1962 - 26 July 2006). Tony Ogden at the final World of Twist performance, Camden Palace, 1992 (photo by David Titlow) Anthony William Ogden was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport (Greater Manchester) in 1962. He studied art and design at Stockport College in Greater Manchester. From 1977-1979, Ogden played … Continue reading Remembering Tony Ogden & World of Twist

No Enclave — Exploring Canadian Los Angeles

Canadian Americans are a largely overlooked minority in the vast landscape of Los Angeles's diversity. Unlike immigrants from south of the Rio Grande, who are often the subject of public attention (whether celebrated, vilified, romanticized, ignored, or pandered to), those from north of the 49th Parallel are comparatively ignored and practically invisible. Los Angeles, after … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Canadian Los Angeles

California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Yorba Linda, the Land of Gracious Living

INTRODUCTION If Yorba Linda is known for one thing, itโ€™s as the birthplace of disgraced Republican president Richard Nixon. 22 years after his death, the memory of Yorba Lindaโ€™s most famous resident continues to loom over the suburb, the main attraction of which is the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, built on the site of … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Yorba Linda, the Land of Gracious Living