Mount Wilson

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock's Debut

This week, a temporary exhibition takes over Mount Wilson Observatory, an artist reflects on Hurricane Katrina and LACMA's Levitated Mass finally opens to the public. 5. The artist and the hurricane "It is important you trust me enough to follow my thoughts but mistrust me enough to question them," ... More >>

Oh, Camelot!

The Pasadena Playhouse takes a final bow. Again

Stage Raw: City Council Postpones Crisis Vote

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingCHECK BACK HERE MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESCITY COUNCIL POSTPONES VOTE, CULTURAL AFFAIRS PROGRAMS SPARED FOR T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Yes, You Can Do Something of Consequence

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingCheck here on Monday afternoon for the 2009 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards nominees!YES, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING. The local blogosphere has been generating a number of letters like ... More >>

County Urges Feds To Allow Night Firefighting From Air

File photo​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday urged the U.S. Forest Service to allow nighttime air attacks on brush fires. The board cited damage done and momentum gained in the first night of the deadly Station Fire in August, which ended up as the largest wildfire in coun ... More >>

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Mount Wilson's Towercam Shows Lingering Smoke

UCLA​Back online after backfire activity temporarily cut its connection to a nearby Internet server, Mount Wilson's Towercam surveys the surrounding San Gabriel Mountains, revealing, happily, blue sky -- something that had been ominously missing a week ago. Lingering trails of smoke serve as remin ... More >>

Los Angeles' TV Station Fire

UCLA Dept. of Physics & AstronomyMount Wilson​The jury will always be out on whether a crashing tree makes noise in an unpopulated forest, but there's never any doubt about whether fires burn trees when no one sees it happening. Despite the absence of traditional wall-to-wall TV coverage of t ... More >>

Station Fire 'Could Double' Today

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Dept.Mt. Wilson Towercam Update, 6:26 a.m.​Thanks to the quirks of geography and meteorology, Angelenos who awoke before dawn today found most of the sky above reassuringly clear. Toward Angeles Crest Highway, however, the horizon told a far more ominous story as smoke f ... More >>

A Pasadena Author Researching Jogging Trails Cracks an Old Serial-Killer Case

Weston Dewalt's amazing year

Best Day-Tripping

Escape from L.A.

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Reclaiming the Air

Ah, the memories of sweet orange blossoms in downtown L.A.

If It Happened Here

A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

Bill’s Gong Show

The art of Kraft

The Great Dome

Up on Mount Wilson, Scenes from the night sky

A Bird in the hand

Field notes from Rodanthe

Expanding Microminiaturists

The Museum of Jurassic Technology goes large(r)

Sweat and Wild