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A preview of Departures: Highland Park - Launching October 10th.
California's history has consistently been one of re-invention and simulacra--an environmental space where meaning and geography are replaced or proceeded by symbols of what it was or should be.
Perched on the hills of the Arroyo Seco, the Southwest Museum opened its doors to the public in 1914. It's no exaggeration to say that it was the Getty of its era, and the city celebrated the Southwest Museum's arrival with good reason.
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, a desire for the handmade craftsmanship of wares and decorative items begin to influence design philosophies in Great Britain. This movement spread throughout Europe and then to North America and became what w...
The success of Portola's mission to colonize California launched an inexorable Spanish expansion driven by land grants and gifts that re-distributed Native American lands among the criollo elite.
By the turn of the century, city officials had recognized that the underground water reserves of the L.A. River system, including the Arroyo, would not be able to sustain the growth and demand of the city.
Gardening at school and at home can help foster healthy lifestyles and encourage healthy eating with more nutritious foods -- something that communities like South El Monte and El Monte urgently need.
After purchasing two adjacent lots next to the Arroyo Seco, Charles Lummis began the construction of El Alisal - "Place of the Sycamore Trees." Built over a twelve year period ending in 1910, Lummis would construct the entire structure with his own han...
For several hundred years, the hills surrounding this small tributary of the Los Angeles River were home to the Hahamog'na people, the river's banks a rich source of both steelhead trout - now extinct in the area - and medicinal flora.
