Griffith Park, Interrupted

Kevin has written about this before in LA Observed, and I signed up standby last time, but they were full. I emailed Will Camp-bell, who did get to go, and he said it was a blast. So this time I acted like a grown-up, and signed up BEFORE the last day, and got in.

The Hart […]

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I went to hear a panel of journalists talking about blogs and investigative journalism last week at the LA Press Club, and I realized, Hey! That’s me! I was so furious about the fire in Griffith Park a year ago that took FOUR DAYS to put out, that I started this blog. If you were […]

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Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks.
Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer:
This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer.
Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP needs to prevent its formation by […]

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Or, $1.29. Still a fave.
The LA Times had a nice article on wildflowers, and how if you turn your car in the right direction, you, too, might find yourself falling in love, in the canyons, in the deserts, in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. (Oh, how L. Frank Baum would have loved this.)
Well, I […]

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Downtown, with a puddle to mark where Silver Lake should be.

Interrupted, or DEAD? As of tonight, the north side of Silver Lake, the Ivanhoe Reservoir, is also gone. The remains as seen from my window.
*Updated. I had to get permission from Medical News Today to quote this:
Levels of bromate, a carcinogen, have become so high […]

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The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep.
Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep - it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made up […]

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