Tag: Los Angeles

• Local Notes No. 4 – Civic Architecture on Sunset Blvd

  

  Fighting for the people that keep Hollywood running was a tough gig in the 1930s – what can we learn about labor history from two buildings built for crew unions?

  raanderson1995

  May 11, 2021

  Essays, Local Notes

  architecture, film history, frank lloyd wright, labor unions, Los Angeles, mank, modernism, rear window, UNESCO

• Local Notes No. 3 – The Brock & Co Jewelers Building in Downtown Los Angeles

  

  Happily, I got to go to Dodger Stadium yesterday to watch my Nationals lose the third of a three-game series and slink back east, well and truly swept. The loss didn’t bug me too much though, as going to Dodger Stadium means going downtown and going to downtown Los Angeles means getting to see some…

  raanderson1995

  April 13, 2021

  Essays, Local Notes

  architecture, city beautiful, development, Los Angeles, modernism, old hollywood

• Sharing some John Ashbery, and Poetry in California

  

  Wanted to pass along some beloved excerpts from John Ashbery, who I try my utmost to imitate. Nothing is like his poetry. An immodest little white wine, some scattered seraphs,recollections of the Fall—tell me,has anyone made a spongier representation, chasedfewer demons out of the parking lotwhere we all held hands? Little by little the idea…

  raanderson1995

  August 16, 2020

  Essays, Poetry

  Bill Mohr, California, Dana Gioia, John Ashbery, Los Angeles, National Book Award, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Robin Coste Lewis