It’s SATURDAY! It’s the FIRST DAY OF MARCH! WOW! Well, there are plenty of new and interesting people, places, and things to see and do!
Please take a look at this report and then scroll down this page FOR MORE INFORMATION I DID NOT HAVE TIME TO REPORT DURING THE BROADCAST.
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.
California Science Center
700 Exposition Park Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
323 724 3623
californiasciencecenter.org
There are more than 30 incredible inventions we can explore, new this weekend, at the California Science Center. It’s the new exhibition LEONARDO DA VINCI: INVENTOR. ARTIST. DREAMER. Ticket information is on the californiasciencecenter.org website.
IMAX Movie “Cities of the Future 3D: Engineering Innovations”
California Science Center
700 Exposition Park Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
323 724 3623
californiasciencecenter.org
See the ideas and concepts of the Leonardo da Vinci’s of the 21st century in the movie “Cities of the Future 3D” playing at the California Science Center’s IMAX Movie Theater.
This special film takes us to some of the world’s great cities where profound change is already happening.
Show times and ticket information are on the californiasciencecenter.org website.
LAPD’s exhibition explores unexpected lessons about healthcare for the homeless community that emerged from LA County-run Quarantine Isolation sites during the Covid crisis.
Opening on Saturday, March 9, from 4-7pm at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 250 South Broadway, Los Angeles, 90012
Featuring a 15-minute preview of a work-in-progress theatrical performance by LAPD at 5 pm, as well as an opportunity to meet some of the frontline heroes who staffed the QI sites.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County Health Department’s emergency Quarantine and Isolation (QI) sites for houseless Covid patients and people exposed to the virus in shelters.
In spring 2020, the LA County Department of Health mobilized resources to ameliorate the devastation of the public health crisis on the region’s most vulnerable population: people experiencing homelessness. Makeshift QI sites were set up at various locations, including then-vacant hotels and motels. More than 10,000 people quarantined at the sites. There were very few deaths, and once released, 93% of the patients needing housing were sheltered in nursing homes, recovery programs, and transitional programs leading to permanent housing—a remarkable rate.
“This exhibition focuses on the secret sauce—the spirit of the QI workers—their commitment, passion, and courage. Their ability to improvise when so many certainties crumbled. The things they discovered and employed everyday were broad departures from business-as-usual convention. The successes they saw led to a belief that the model of care they discovered and provided can be scaled up to address the twin problems of housing and healthcare.” said John Malpede, LAPD Artistic Director.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel unveils the unconventional approaches that engendered this success—holistic care coordinated among typically siloed practitioners, harm reduction, and housing first practices, along with an uncommon level of interpersonal care, steeped in empathy and compassion. The exhibition recreates elements of the facilities at a motel-turned-QI site and recordings of the staff telling how their work saved lives, transformed patient care, and got people housed. “The lessons we learned about the power of integrated care is the real gift that emerged from this experience,” said Dr. Sudarsky, who served as Medical Director of the QI sites from April 2021 until their closure in June 2022. “This model successfully merged specialty silos in housing and healthcare to help vulnerable Angelenos get swift access to care. In other words, when health and housing are prioritized as a human right for an entire community, everyone is better off.”
Free!
Intro to Emergency Preparedness
Zoom Virtual Class
Saturday, March 9th @ 10am – Noon
Registration Deadline: Thursday, March 7th
sosproducts.com
Our recent rain and subsequent flooding are over now. Question? Are we ready for the next storm, the next power outage or the next earthquake? We can get ready at the free SOS Survival Products emergency preparedness class. The next virtual session is Saturday, March 10th from 10am to Noon. The registration deadline is Thursday, March 7th. Details are on the sosproducts.com website.
Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy
1601 East 6th Street
Los Angeles
lunaluna.com
It’s what the art community describes as “the world’s first art amusement park.” It’s Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, built in Hamburg, Germany in 1987 featuring celebrated artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockey, Roy Lichtenstein and more. It lost its funding and disappeared. Well, it’s back and we can experience this amazing and unusual art and amusement park creation inside two huge Los Angeles warehouses. Ticket information is on the lunaluna.com website.
Camellias In Bloom
*Descanso Gardens: descansogardens.org
*The Huntington: huntington.org
Camellias! They are described by gardening experts as one of the best flowering shrubs, nicknamed the Queen of Winter Flowers. They are blooming at Descanso Gardens in La Canada – Flintridge. The descansogardens.org website says visitors their history and how to grow your own.
And the Queen of Winter Flowers are blooming in San Marino at The Huntington. The huntington.org website says its botanical collections include nearly 80 different species.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
Smithsonian Institution
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
323 930 2277
petersen.org
This is Black History Month, an appropriate time to examine “The Negro Motorist Green Book” a Smithsonian touring exhibition that illustrates the perils of driving while black during the mid-19th century.
This special exhibition also contains interactive video component providing a realistic experience of the dangers of driving while black.
Visitor information is on the petersen.org website.
Magic Strings!
Bob Baker Marionette Theater
4949 York Boulevard
Los Angeles
213 250 9995
bobbakermarionettetheater.com
Puppeteer Bob Baker, the creator of the oldest children’s theater company in Los Angeles. His legacy lives on with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater classic “Magic Strings.”
“Magic Strings” debuted in 1970. The bobbakermarionettetheater.com website says this new show includes “multi-screen archival footage of Bob Baker from interviews, demonstrations, and more, revealing to the audience the true magic of marionettes.”
Tickets are available on the website: bobbakermarionettetheater.com
ChocoLAte: From Beans to Bliss
Video Series
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
nhm.org/chocolate
Chocolate lovers will love this! The Natural History Museum’s CHOCOLATE: FROM BEANS TO BLISS. In addition to exploring the history of chocolate at the Los Angeles County facility, there is a series of museum stories from people such as the owners of Uncle Eddie’s Vegan Cookies.
Learn more about the vegan cookie company and schedule your visit to this new exhibition on the nhm.org/cookie website.
First All-Electric Audi Dealership in Southern California
Audi Fletcher Jones
1275 Bristol Street
Costa Mesa
949 791 1500
audifletcherjones.com
At Audi Fletcher Jones electric cars of the 21st century! We can see them, and test drive them in Costa Mesa at the first all-electric Audi dealership in Southern California.
The audifletcherjones.com website says you can see for yourself at the unique Costa Mesa facility seven days a week.
Now Through Monday, April 15th
Free Low Income Tax Assistance
CSUN Vita Clinic
Clinic Locations
csun.edu/bookstein-institute/csun-vita-clinic
Now Through Monday, April 15th
Free Low Income Tax Assistance
Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Schedule Appointments: 949 470 3062
Cityofmissionviejo.org
California State University, Northridge’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Clinic in the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics is offering free tax preparation assistance to low-income families and individuals, including non-English speakers, people with disabilities and veterans, beginning Monday, January 22nd through Monday, April 15th at CSUN and more than a dozen satellite locations throughout Los Angeles County.
The CSUN VITA Clinic is staffed by IRS-certified student volunteers and is available to taxpayers six days a week at a variety of locations, including in CSUN’s Bookstein Hall; Las Palmas Park and San Fernando Public Library in San Fernando; Sun Valley Public Library; Valley Plaza Branch Library in North Hollywood; Grandview Library in Glendale; Mid Valley Regional Public Library in North Hills; Pacoima Public Library; Panorama Public Library; Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library and the nonprofit Inclusive Action for the City in Los Angeles. A complete list of locations, date and times can be found on the clinic’s website.
Here are the guidelines for this unique program:
*The clinic accepts walk-ins, but it is highly recommended that taxpayers schedule an appointment through the VITA website.
*A list of documents and forms of identification taxpayers must bring to their session can be found on the website.
*The maximum gross income limitation per tax return has been set at $64,000.
More than 300 CSUN student volunteers complete intensive training on handling federal and state tax returns. Aside from tax preparation, some of the students are trained to serve as financial coaches to the taxpayers at the clinic.
In addition to providing service to the community, the CSUN VITA Clinic also gives students an opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge and experience in their field of study, and an opportunity to give back to the community.
Launched in 1970, the CSUN VITA Clinic is housed in the Bookstein Institute for Higher Education in Taxation, located in the Nazarian College. The clinic aided more than 8,500 low-income taxpayers in 2023, generating more than $8 million in refunds to low-income taxpayers and $2.8 million in federal tax credits.
For more information about the CSUN VITA Clinic, call (818) 677-3600, email VITA@csun.edu or visit its website.
Belmont Shore Railroad Club
3601 South Gaffey Street, Building 824
San Pedro
This is described as the “largest N-Scale Model Railroad Club on the West Coast.” The Belmont Shore Model Railroad Club says we’re invited to explore this historic model railroad club experience. The belmontshorerr.com website has visitor details.
Street Legal Dragway
Southern California Fairgrounds
18700 Lake Perris Drive
Perris
951 349 4027
streetlegaldragway.com
This is new! It’s the Street Legal Dragway in Perris, California, a drag strip facility specifically made for street legal cars, designed to deter the dangerous, illegal local street drag racing. Racing details are on the streetlegaldragway.com website.
Free!
Creating in Community
Fowler at 60
Fowler Museum
308 Charles E. Young Drive, North
Los Angeles
Fowler.ucla.edu
Creating in Community: Fowler at 60 celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Look at the research, exhibitions, and public programs of the past sixty years! Through these collaborations fresh ideas bloomed, unforeseen challenges and expectations arose, and new connections were forged.
Revisit these extraordinary projects as they bring this spirit of engagement into the future.
*Time Changes All Odds: Photography & Catalina
*Cabinet of Curiosities: 70 Objects for 70 Years
*Lasting Impressions
*Below the Surface: The Catalina Photographs of Bruce Hall
Catalina Museum for Art & History
217 Metropole Avenue
Avalon
310 510 2414
catalinamuseum.org
There’s a lot happening at the Catalina Museum for Art and History. The special exhibitions currently on view: “Cabinet of Curiosities: 70 Objects for 70 Years” – objects so rare and absurd they have never been exhibited publicly.
“Lasting Impressions” – museum’s seven decades collection of fine art.
And “Time Changes All Odds: Photography & Catalina” – explores how photography has contributed to the identity of the island since the medium’s introduction in the 1800s.
The catalinamuseum.org website exhibition and visitor details.
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March is National Kidney Month
OneLegacy / Connecting the Dots:
Hip Hop & Health
10am-2pm
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
3650 West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Los Angeles
eventbrite.com
That’s Hip-Hop Legend Leslie Pridgen, better known by his stage name Freeway in a special YouTube interview talking about how he discovered he had kidney failure, which eventually required a kidney transplant. March is National Kidney Month, so we have an opportunity to meet Freeway and learn more about his medical journey today at the OneLegacy Connecting the Dots Hip Hop and Health community event at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza starting at 10am.
The eventbrite.com website says this free event includes FREE health screenings, FREE haircuts and manicures, as well as wellness sessions, music, fun activities for children and more!
So, let’s make this “a kidney health awareness” Saturday. Gayle Anderson, KTLA 5 News.
