The Christmas Holiday season is associated so much with the color red and green and costume designer Nolan Miller of DYNASTY fame created these two amazing gowns in red and green for Barbara Stanwyck and Ann Miller for the Academy Awards.
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You craft habits bit-by-bit with each repeated small decision, thought and action. A habit, once crafted, according to Duke University researchers, accounts for about 40% of your daily behavior! And, your daily behavior becomes your life!
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With the headlines and newscasts streaming the perils of the global pandemic and the associated chaos, it is hard to avoid the anxiety and stress of the crisis. This is not the first nor will it be the last pandemic we face. Consider maybe “What we need right now is a little Christmas!”
So here is a Christmas Story from Fifty years ago that is worth thinking about today.
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The Port of Los Angeles in the 1960s had all the makings of a gripping detective novel: corruption, graft, secretly-taped meetings, indictments, an unexplained death and a Pulitzer Price-winning expose by the Los Angeles Times. Bringing the Princess Louise floating restaurant was just one of the many scandals that erupted during that turbulent era.
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Several years ago, I was invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to attend a Travel Mart followed by a familiarization trip through Isaan, Northeast of Thailand.
Unbeknownst to me, an adventure awaited, as I travelled on this off the beaten path. The mystique, magic and mystery evoked by the resplendent Khmer temples dotting the landscape, a navigation for the Cambodians, left me wondering if I was in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Shortly after acquiring Santa Catalina Island in 1919, William Wrigley, Jr. began to leave his thump print on his beloved isle. On July 1, 1920, Wrigley opened the Atwater Hotel dedicated to his daughter-in-law, Helen Blanche Atwater Wrigley who married Phillip Wrigley, Wrigley’s son, on March 26, 1918.
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Just one block from the ocean sits the beautiful high school campus known as Palos Verdes High School (PVHS). This high school was built during the postwar population boom and was completed in 1961. In 1959, Los Angeles Unified School district hired two notable architects to accompany Richard Neutra in designing and building the school. Those other architects were Robert Alexander and a South Bay local named Carrington Lewis.
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While Southern California may not enjoy the traditional “seasons” many in colder climates look forward to, the blessings of sunshine and warm temperatures make this a joyous place to celebrate outdoors. Few settings rival the pristine patch of Los Angeles coastline along the Palos Verdes Peninsula, home to the beautiful Terranea Resort.
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Experts say that you form immediate, vivid impressions of someone during the first three seconds you encounter them. Then, in the next five minutes, you add more data to those first impressions. This happens in person and even on Zoom.
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Finding your perfect forever love is as important as finding the right job. Yet, we spend much more time and energy finding the right job, which makes us happy during the day. But what about nights, weekends and vacations? We deserve to be happy then too.
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Is that Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles Harbor? Yes! And he’s wearing a dress! He was there filming the first of three movies where he impersonated a woman. “A Busy Day” was shot amid the backdrop of the April 11, 1914 Harbor Day Celebration at the Port of Los Angeles.
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Palos Verdes is known for its wandering peacocks and the Hollywood also celebrated peacocks as well. The most famous example is probably Hedy Lamarr's amazing costume from "Samson and Deliah" which included a cape and gown covered in peacock feathers as designed by Edith Head.
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Do you believe the Loch Ness Monster exists? Or, perhaps, do you feel the whole thing’s a tourist gimmick to boost seeing the sights in Scotland? “Nessie” has always intrigued me so when (a few years ago) the Scottish Tourist Board invited me on a travel media press trip to that country, I shouted “Aye.”
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Its the most wonderful time of the year – or is it? Yes, the holidays are amazing and yet, somehow they feel more chaotic than any other time of the year. And if you are like most of us, our workouts fall by the way side.
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Sacred Solar Astrology November 2020 Forecasts
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We are finally stepping into the deepest magic and mystery of autumn with Scorpio season. Halloween draws near, and the invitation to plumb our own depths is tantalizingly extended. For millennia, this time of year has represented the same thing for many cultures across the globe – the dying away of things. In fact, Halloween itself originates in the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain (sow-en), which in Gaelic simply means “summer’s end.” It was a time to give thanks for the final harvest, reap its remaining bounty, and clear away the fallen fruits and dried leaves for burning. Our own lives follow this pattern of planting, growth,
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The Warner Grand Theatre will celebrate her 90th birthday in 2021. This is the first in a series of stories by the staff and volunteers of Grand Vision Foundation, the Theatre’s Friends Group, intended to bring the opening day and early years of the Theatre to life. We hope you enjoy it!
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All Our Halloween Articles Recapped Here!
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