97 Years on Christmas Tree Lane
Christmas at Stanton
“LA Loves Prince” Tribute Concert
Hosted by radio personality from KJLH-FM, tribute concert was held on the steps of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles and thousands of Los Angeles Prince Fans showed up to pay their respects after the sudden death of music icon, Prince. Various DJ’s including DJ R-tistic and DJ Viktor Duplaix played his most notable songs as people continued to gather on the lawn in front of the building as well as across the street all night long beginning at 5pm and the concert concluded with a line up of local Los Angeles bands who gave a free concert in honor of the legend of Prince.
The concert took place nearly two weeks after Prince was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley home in Minnesota. The beloved singer was 57.
To hear more of the musical performance watch the video below.
prince tribute from Julie White on Vimeo.
Riverside Celebrates The Year of The Goat
Gong Xi Fa Cai! (Happy New Year)
Asians in Riverside, Calif., brought in the Year of the Goat at the fifth Annual Asian Pacific Lunar New Year on Saturday January, 31st, 2015. There were lots of cultural entertainment all day as well as a health expo, Children’s Village where kids could make their own sheep and much more for everyone to experience.
Watch the video now, to see and hear just how residents started the New Year, the year of the goat.
World Fest is Back For Another Year
As previously reported last year, at Woodley park residents came out to experience the vegan lifestyle with sample foods, great music and more.
Watch the video to see what was new at this year’s festival.
LA Times Festival of Books at USC
On Saturday April 12th and Sunday April 13th, 2014, hundreds of self published authors gathered on the campus of USC for the LA Times Festival of Books. The free event invited So Cal residents to browse the thousands of titles in multiple categories including children’s, Mystery, Non fiction and more.
Watch now to see a sample of books, available to all in bookstores and online.
A Race for the New Year
On Saturday January 4, 2014, over 6 thousand runners came out for one of the only night races in the country and had the opportunity to run in Downtown Los Angeles. The race started at 7 p.m. and half marathoners ran from Pershing square down around Dodger Stadium and was welcomed back to the Staples Center with a Drumline that had came out for the momentous occasion.
There was also a shorter 5K that others took around the immediate downtown area. Both finished at Dodger stadium in as little as 3o minutes for the faster runners. The race was divided into 16 sections with the faster runners up front and the slower runners and walkers bringing up the rear.
Watch the video now and see how residents felt about the race through the beautiful city that officially started off the 2014 year.
This was the 2nd year the city of Los Angeles allowed the race and it looks like it is becoming a tradition that will continue for future years.
Reliving Great TV
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with specific TV shows like
Castle. I just got the third season and am catching up with al of them .
Of course, I also live for shows like Boy Meets World, Sabrina, and even Charles ‘N Charge and Reba. And my all time favorite being, Full House.
TV is great, there as so many great shows, like Lost, Desperate Housewives and an all new Body of Proof, but if you don’t relive them at some point, then what can you do?
Movies are great, but TV builds suspense. Movies never change, great TV grows and creates more suspense.
Random ideas!!!
What’s going on?
It’s 11:32.
Why am I here?
Haven’t a clue. I’m sitting here waiting for one whole hour. Oh, the joy of carpooling. It really isn’t all that bad, but I could think of other things. Not really. If I wasn’t sitting here I’d still be sitting in my car on the way to work or sitting in the bus trying to get here on time. But I’m not. I’m sitting outside the breakroom, writing whatever random stuff comes to my mind. You know that’s the best way to generate any kind of great ideas.
In fact, I challenge anyone who wants to, take a blank piece of paper (or a empty word document) set a time limit and just start writing. Don’t think, just write and just see what you come up with.
You’d be surprised and shocked all at the same time.
Try it. You’ll thank me later.
Only Child Syndrome
People think being an only child is the greatest thing in the whole world. Well, coming from an only child perspective, I have a different take on this who idea.
Let me tell you being an only child is not all it’s cracked up to be. People think being an only child, you get all the attention, but at the same time, you are also by yourself nearly all the time, except when you decide to call friends or go over to their house, but half the time at least while you are young, you can’t just pick up and go over to a friends house unless you live right next door.
You have a lot of time to imagine what life would be like to have a sister or brother and you create fake brothers and sisters to play with, pick on and just talk to.
One thing I loved to do when I was a little girl was go out to my back yard and pretend that my yard was a magical kingdom and each item had a different magical power: my thinking rock helped me come up with new ideas and my singing tree helped me climb to the top of the tree to see God’s amazing glory from it’s roof top, even though I never climbed that high and when it would snow, I’d take my sled and go out to the little hill in back and sled down it, protecting my hands from the coldness and having all the fun in the world. It was the life, but what I wouldn’t of given for a sister or brother to share my experiences with.