Hi friends… A few weeks ago I interviewed Dr. Kaitlin Brown, an anthropology professor from Cal State University Northridge; her expert information provided great insight. She introduced two tribes, the Chumash and the Tongva, to me and shared how they once traded tar for other resources. The same tar found in the La Brea pits!…

Welcome back friends, This weeks blog will be more logistical than entertaining. As most of you know I am writing an article featuring the Natural History Museum and the La Brea tar pits and how they fit in as a vital piece of L.A. culture! This past week I visited the establishment and took some…

A first quote needs to be powerful, emotional, and not easily paraphrase-able. A line which opens the story, entices the reader, but still does not lean too heavily into any cliches. A running joke with a journalism teacher of mine is any time we hear the words “passionate” or “young age” in a quote, you…