Attention Avatar fans! This weekend, Disney invites you to a special immersive art experience at Lighthouse Artspace in Los Angeles. The Art of Avatar: The Way of Water – An Immersive Experience is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that combines the remarkable Oscar award-winning visual effects of… Read More »Step Into the World of Pandora: Avatar Immersive Experience Coming to Los Angeles for Earth Day
Looking like a giant spaceship that has landed square in the middle of Los Angeles’ Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) designed by MAD Architects, has broken ground signaling the start of construction. The creator of “Star Wars” and the museum’s founder… Read More »Lucas Museum of Narrative Art shares new concept art as construction commences
A groundbreaking $1.5 billion museum honoring George Lucas and narrative film will soon be able to have its groundbreaking in Los Angeles now that the city council has approved its construction. The futuristic spaceship looking design will find a home near the campus of USC,… Read More »George Lucas Museum gets go ahead from L.A. City Council
After attempting to build his museum in San Francisco and then Chicago but having both efforts rejected by local opposition, George Lucas has decided to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles at a site near Exposition Park. “The South Los Angeles’s… Read More »Lucas Museum will be built in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park
One of the chief advantages of being a location scout is you get to go just about everywhere. That’s Nick Carr’s job. He used to live in New York, but recently moved to Los Angeles and has been having a blast exploring a new city… Read More »Finding the original Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
Go Inside Disney’s The Lion King at WonderGround Gallery in the Downtown Disney District Have you ever wanted to go behind the scenes of Disney’s The Lion King? The massively popular musical is returning to Los Angeles for a limited time (November 20th—January 12th) and… Read More »Inside Disney’s The Lion King Exhibit Open at WonderGround Gallery
Around 2pm today Los Angeles time, there were reports of a car on fire on the 101 Freeway just outside of LA. The white Jaguar turns out to have belonged to none other than Dick Van Dyke. Van Dyke had pulled over after apparently noticing… Read More »Dick Van Dyke Escapes Burning Car on LA Freeway
In 1964, the newly-built Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles was opened to much fanfare. It was the city’s crowning achievement, having lacked a modern concert hall for many years. Walt and Lillian Disney donated a wad of money to the project and were to be given a personal tour of the hall prior to dedication. I was the PR person for the park’s new “ambassador”, Miss Disneyland, and as such escorted her to the pre-dedication event. There was a bevy of Music Center execs there, along with the press, to greet Walt and Lillian and the photogenic Miss Disneyland.
The music director at the time was the young, Indian conductor Zubin Mehta. He was known for his fiery passion and diva-like temperament. Only 26 years old at the time, he was already considered a musical boy genius. To complete the picture, he usually dressed all in black. That, together with his swarthy dark complexion, made quite an impressive and dramatic presentation.Read More »The Park – Walt and Lillian’s Musical Legacy