In case you hadn’t heard, the Music Center downtown is offering free concerts designed to give you and your family a little taste of the world. Each concert brings a different country to light. This [...]

Although only part of the legendary Route 66 flows through California, it is still a part of her history, and indeed, the history of the nation. Starting in Chicago and ending on the Santa Monica [...]

It’s not too late. If you’ve ever felt like Los Angeles was just too big and long for that small town feel, well, Culver City is the place to be. Fiesta La Ballona, which started [...]

Traditionally, the Labor Day weekend is a car-centric holiday, with many families enjoying the last summer retreat before the rigors of school, work and the rigors of everyday life begin anew. Although many kids are [...]

Because of the economic uncertainty and the cost of gas, people living in Southern California who used to travel to Las Vegas, no longer need to. Ever since California and other states allowed for Indian [...]

In the 1940s it was called the Melody Room (a jazz club frequented by gangster Bugsy Siegel), in the 1970s, it was called Flithy McNasty (a Hell’s Angel hangout), by the 80s, it was known [...]

For this edition of SALS, we won’t be doing a lot of singing, but rather–a lot of foot tapping is on the way. Did you know that the Los Angeles Unified School District has an [...]

You might drive by it and not even see it, just as I did the first two times I passed them by, unless you already know that they’re there and happen to be looking for [...]

Music doesn’t get much more personal than a single person and their guitar standing in front of a microphone. For Joni Mitchell, that’s her signature. Over five decades, Joni Mitchell has taken her music from [...]

It isn’t often that a musician is honored by the state where they were born. But, that’s exactly what happened on May 28th, 2011. On that day, Michigan’s Governor, Rick Snyder, announced it was Bob [...]