With Greenland so much in the news, I wanted to repost a story I wrote about my trip there almost 20 years ago. What once was a land of distant glaciers seen from 30,000 feet on trip home from Europe was something much different in person. www.latimes.com/style/la-tm-...
Civilization on Ice
Kayaks and Inuit amulets, nouvelle musk ox and Champagne among the icebergs
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So much fun to talk with these amazing authors about their amazing books. @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social @genoways.bsky.social and Victoria Blanco. Thanks you @latimes.com
Hard to believe it’s been 30 years of @latimes.com festival of books. Come join a cast of thousands – well, OK, 10 of us – as we swap stories, share memories, and remind Angelenos, how and why the world’s greatest literary festival ended up and they’re on backyard! Saturday at 3:30!
Thrilled to be moderating a Saturday panel @latimes.com Festival of Books. Come join me & @genoways.bsky.social & @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social & Victoria Blanco as we sleuth out these family histories.
Whether the dead actually speak to the living may not be the point. What matters more is the burden the living carry, the grief, the hurt, the guilt and regret — all that we’ve done, all that we hadn’t done. www.latimes.com/california/s...
What the dead have to say to the living: Lessons from a psychic reading
The Life After Life Club in an Orange County retirement community explores trance channeling, the power of animal communication and near-death experiences. It recently hosted a psychic.
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Last Sunday the all-volunteer orchestra from the Pacific Palisades performed. Especially poignant considering 16 members had lost their homes. Such a privilege to speak w/ them & catch a glimpse of their lives during this challenging time. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
Their community in ashes, the Palisades Symphony finds solace in music
A month after the Palisades fire, the Palisades Symphony Orchestra performed a two-hour program dedicated to musicians who lost their homes and to the community.
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A month later, I reconnected with wildfire experts, Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen, to see how their thinking has evolved since the January's catastrophic fires. Yet again their words are sobering. www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A. is already getting fire recovery wrong. Two experts explain how to do it better
Two wildfire experts argue that the L.A. destruction didn't have to be as bad as it was. The question isn't whether we can live with fire but how we can live with fire, they say.
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“If we think it’s wildfire, then we tend to maintain wildfire as the principal problem — with wildfire control as the solution. However, there is no evidence to suggest wildfire control is a reliable approach during the extreme wildfire conditions” www.latimes.com/california/s...
Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts
For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.
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A journey of 4300 miles from Colombia to Pasadena. Happy New Year, everyone! And thanks for being a reader. A rose’s journey from a Colombian farm to a parade float in Pasadena www.latimes.com/california/s...
A rose's journey from a Colombian farm to a parade float in Pasadena
Bob Mellano is supplying the flowers and foliage for 21 of the 39 Rose Parade floats. The Hearts rose is grown outside Bogotá in carefully controlled greenhouses.
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We all know that our downtowns are a mess. Homelessness, vacancies, fear. Last month I joined Assemblyman Matt Haney as he toured Long Beach and L.A. in an attempt to see what Sacramento might be able to do to help. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
How to revive California’s downtowns? This Assembly member is looking for answers
Los Angeles was one of nine stops on Matt Haney's tour of the state’s downtowns. From Sacramento to San Diego, he’s in search of a prescription for California’s ailing urban cores.
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Two months back I reported on another Pearl Harbor story that might be worth revisiting today as well. #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #PearlHarborDay @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
'Like freeing a ghost': A sailor's strange and wondrous journey back from Pearl Harbor
Everett Titterington, who died at Pearl Harbor, was interred at Riverside National Cemetery after his remains were identified.
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Like the Civil War, like the Kennedy assassination and, one day, 9/11, tragedies once indelible in the minds of all Americans are destined to become one day less so. www.latimes.com/california/s...
One of the last Pearl Harbor survivors recalls that infamous day
Bob Fernandez was a sailor assigned to the USS Curtiss on Dec. 7, 1941. “I wish that they never would have come"
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In my rambles through downtown, I recently visited the Los Angeles Mall, a place where I used to grab lunch when the LA Times was across from City Hall. Stunning to think that it was built for $70M and lasted less than 50 years. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Civic Center mall is nearly dead. The city is looking to revitalize it
Once bustling with city employees, the Civic Center mall has been made desolate by telecommuting options and online access to municipal departments.
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Sure, it was exciting when this initial news broke, but even the discoverer was skeptical. @latimes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/world-nation...
How explorers found Amelia Earhart's watery grave. Or did they?
The Deep Sea Vision team was out to solve the greatest aviation mystery of all: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during her epic flight around the world.
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It's hard to know whether to be let down by this news -- or encouraged. Are some mysteries meant to be ... forever? Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/california/s...
He thought he'd found Amelia Earhart's plane. It was a pile of rocks
Surely, the grainy image had to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane, 16,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. This week, Tony Romeo announced that the discovery amounted to less than they...
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