One of the treats of kids of our vintage was riding on a merry-go-round if you could find a dime during a county fair or a carnival coming to town. If I found one today I could afford to ride but the ...

The Santa Monica Pier is an entertaining place. On any given day you can see a juxtaposition of class, the full melting-pot of America present, people looking for a never-ending ocean view and ...

Poisoning the Press tells the tale of Jack Anderson’s fall from muckraking hero to blustering pundit. You’ll be forgiven if you only pretend to know who Jack Anderson was. If you have a vague notion ...

Not too long ago a meme was circulating around social media – it was a photo of an old rusted and broken playground apparatus – which my daughter Kaitlyn referred to as the “death trap merry-go-round.

It has long been rumored that the 106-year-old national landmark Looff Hippodrome (aka Merry Go-Round Building) on the Santa Monica Pier has been visited by spirits. While that may or may not actually ...

The city of Los Angeles’ Recreation and Parks Department is planning on buying the historic carousel that entertained children and celebrities for nearly a century in Griffith Park. On Thursday, Aug.

The company of the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival production of Working. Photo by Ron Heerkens Jr. /GF Media. The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival is now presenting a thought-provoking ...