The LADWP almost ruined my dinner plans.
I hate the annual Christmas Light Festival in Griffith Park. The idea that the cash-poor city of Los Angeles decides that wasting tons of electricity...
Category: Griffith Park
Learning about City Hall from the treetops.
It’s all about Griffith Park, baby! Let’s keep it wild and safe. And let’s keep Silver Lake birds and animals alive, and the water clean.
I’ll bring up all the things that annoy me, and what I’m doing to change them. Your comments and opinions are welcome. (Assuming you’re not one of the annoying ones.) (Just kidding.) (I hope.)
Curious about this Silver Lake runner and Griffith Park ranter? Donna Barstow.
I’ve lived in Silver Lake and Los Feliz for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. We do good things.
Jill Stewart writes about how I fight City Hall.
I wrote several articles for the LA Weekly, including my fave: CAN CANADA’S KILLER COYOTE SPECIES SHOW UP IN LOS ANGELES?
Editorial in Los Feliz Ledger, another casualty of Covid, as of December, 2021. :(
Great horned owls invade Los Feliz for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving in Los Feliz I always look forward to major holidays in Los Angeles because it gets quiet! Even the freeways. All the roads. The...
DWP Light Festival walk and PROS meeting at Griffith Park.
Start the month off with a festive meeting! In case you wondered what these Griffith Park meetings are like, here’s your chance to see. These...
If you get in an accident with a truck, you’re dead meat.
And neither you nor your family will get bupkis. Case in point: the Interstate 5 pileup in a tunnel near Santa Clarita in October 2007,...
Halloween is over, but I’m not.
I’m starting a new category here, From Beyond the Grave. Who isn’t fascinated with death? And who will speak for those who have departed untimely?...
When Prison Break clashes with the Los Angeles DWP.
Prison Break had a very intense episode this week. The title,”Greatness Achieved” apparently refers to my favorite character, Brad Bellick. Formerly a very scary, mean...