The City E-Zine

No, this little lady I came across this morning isn’t tagging the traffic light pole at the corner of Jefferson and Mesmer in the Del Rey/Playa Vista cusp of the city. Rather she’s de-tagging. I watched for the time it took my red light to turn green as she meticulously scraped off with her keys [...]

So, this caught my eye, but it caught it on Facebook. My friend Melinda snapped this from her cell and posted it there with the title, “Storm Troopers need coffee breaks too.”  She was kind enough to let me share it with you. (I have agents in the field!)
Where else but Los Angeles can you happen [...]

It’s not very often you pedal past the surreal Toontown incongruity of a life-sized Bugs Bunny dangling haplessly from the barrier between Ballona Creek and the Mar Vista Gardens projects as if there’s no place he’d rather be. But when you do, the headline writes itself before you get your camera out of its holster.

This kids’ oral health care center — uh, excuse me, kids oral health kare center –is right down the street from my apartment, and it’s more awesome than Geddy Lee riding a tyrannosaur into battle. As you can see, it’s painted gaily, presumably to distract children from the fact that they’re visiting the dentist. Attached [...]

A passerby provided this unexpected supernatural consequence while I stopped during my bike ride home from work Monday night to snap a timed exposure of the actual ghost that is Johnnie’s Coffee Shop. Its brightly lighted corpse has sadly haunted this corner of Fairfax and Wilshire for the last 10 years. There may be valid [...]