Who Made 'Pinky', the Screaming Bird at the Top of Eagle Rock's Pillarhenge?
Pillarhenge is an eyesore. Since construction at the Eagle Rock site, nicknamed for a decrepit colonnade, first stopped in 2008,…
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Oily birds rescued after pipeline rupture sent crude oil into Los Angeles River
Wildlife officials said this weekend that they had found multiple birds covered in oil after a pipeline rupture in East…
Letters to the editor: You don't have to go to the forest to enjoy the beauty of nature
to the editor: I appreciated the article on “forest bathing” (“People 'bathe' in nature to get a break from the…
Anne Lamott and Neal Allen Share '36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences'
on the shelf Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences By Neal Allen and Anne Lamott Avery: 208 pages,…
Why Inara George Is Giving Flowers to These Los Angeles Theater Veterans
Inara George remembers it now with as much nostalgia as someone remembers a love story or a semester abroad. “It…
How Claire Foy Learned to Act in Front of a Bird on 'H Is for Hawk'
“H is for Hawk” is for birds. And they are such majestic creatures that they hold their own against the…
The man caught smuggling 6 parrots in his boots on the border between the United States and Mexico
A man was caught trying to smuggling parrots to California after Customs and Border Protection officers of the United States…
Building safer cities also means protecting animals
The recent forest fires of Los Angeles are the most destructive in the history of the region. More than two…
An ode to the bird of paradise, the official flower of the city of Los Angeles
In our house, beauty had different names. This was in 1995, when we lived on 58th Place, in the upstairs…
This Riverside County man is on a mission to save California's abandoned ducks
A warehouse in Orange County had received a late order of balut, a Southeast Asian delicacy made from fertilized duck…