California’s mild climate, consistently sunny days and open spaces were quite an incentive for film studios to relocate from their New York locations to Southern California. Once in California, filmmakers frequently used Southern California and the western states as backdrops for their films about the adventures of America’s Western Expansion.
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As you power up your shrinking machine it begins to spark and rattle. A quick glance at the settings reads a shrink ratio of 1 to 160. You take aim at a local locomotive resting in the port of Los Angeles, hit the switch and blast the locomotive with all your machine’s might! It works as you exclaim with joy,
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One of the most important aspects of goat herding for cost effective fire prevention is the protection from superlative, good-natured dogs who live with the goats night and day
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Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Announces a “Go Wild for the Peninsula” Campaign as The City of Rancho Palos Verdes and the Conservancy Announce the Creation of a New 96-Acre Wildlife Corridor.
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Let’s revisit “School days, school days, good old golden rule days, readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickry stick…” as the song heralds more innocent times in America and the world.
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The smiling face of Roscoe Arbuckle, once a starring comedian at Mack Sennett’s legendary Keystone studio and then a star in his own right, isn’t as familiar as it used to be. All too often he’s associated with the infamous 1921 Labor Day scandal, when actress Virginia Rappe fell ill at a party he hosted and died several days later.
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Tall and straight with head full of hair, Don Crocker, a 50 -year resident of Rolling Hills where he was mayor twice, and a long-time member of the City Council and the Community Association, belies his status as an octogenarian.
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Maintaining the native environment within its established reserves across the Palos Verdes Peninsula is the one of the primary objectives of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy (PVPLC).
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In Los Angeles County, thousands of people will participate in Heal the Bay's 33rd annual Coastal Cleanup Day by picking up trash from nearby beaches. On September 17, thousands of people in Los Angeles County will participate in Coastal Cleanup Day, the "biggest garbage collecting effort ever," organized by Heal the Bay. PALOS VERDES, CA
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Maria de los Dolores Asunsolo y Lopez Negrete (1904-1983) was known professionally as Dolores del Rio. Her career spanned more than 50 years and she became very popular in both the Anglo and Latin world. Having a notable career in English speaking countries, Dolores was also one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
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I wanted to learn more about the life and accomplishments of George Freeth. The book began as a novel based on Freeth’s life. I gave up after a hundred pages or so because I was clinging too closely to the few facts that I knew about him—that’s where the writing kept taking me. So I decided that I had to write his biography before I could write a novel about him.
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I am excited to share with you the video below to the video preview of the
Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra's 2022/23 season which promises to be one of our
most exciting yet, with our biggest array ever of young talent making
their debuts with our Orchestra for life-changing, transformative experiences!!
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If you are out walking in Rolling Hills Estates you might be lucky to come across four of the cutest donkeys around! I was smitten the first time I discovered them hidden away in a shady corner off one of the trails.
Who doesn’t love a face like this?
Meet Mario.
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As a Volunteer Trail Watch member with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy as well as an enthusiastic birder and photographer, I can generally count on always seeing hummingbirds when I get out into nature, very often on the 1,400 acre Palos Verdes Nature Preserve. Thanks to the Conservancy and thousands of supporters, the hummingbirds have an area to call home on these protected lands.
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In July on a Saturday morning, the Port of Long Beach began to remove the fifty-four-year-old Gerald Desmond Bridge (GDB) in order to accommodate the Port’s growing commercial operations and ever-increasing numbers of vehicles carrying commuters and commercial vehicles utilizing the GDB throughout the day to reach local and faraway destinations.
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The author of the top-rated celebrity biography, Eddie: The Life and Times of America’s Preeminent Bad Boy, and the award-winning One Eyed Jack crime novel series about a professional blackmailer who operates in and around the South Bay, sits down to talk about his latest work, DARK STATE, a modern-day thriller about a terrorist attack that takes down California’s electrical grid.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Guided Nature Walk at George F Canyon Preserve with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, Saturday, September 10th, 9am. Wander along a willow-filled canyon stream with restored coastal sage scrub habitat. Look down on the Peninsula’s rare Catalina Schist from one of the few places you can see the rock exposed. Easy to moderate. Sign up at: pvplc.org/calendar
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