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Feeling adventurous? Here’s a way to see the city: Slide over it.
Read more about how it feels to slide over the city, 70 stories up: lat.ms/28Ql5pP
“I have a love/hate relationship with L.A.”
– Luis J. Rodriguez, Los Angeles poet laureate
Rodriguez’s “Love Poem to Los Angeles,” gets at what many Angelenos find so hard to do: define a city that’s always changing.
But if anyone knows Los Angeles, it would be Rodriguez.
Sorry, the ‘Jim Morrison’ cave is closed
Handling the graffiti at Corral Canyon Cave in Malibu used to be manageable. But after a rumor spread on social media that Jim Morrison wrote his music in the cave, tagging got out of control as people flocked to add their own touch to the landmark “Jim Morrison Cave.”
“People are posting pictures of the cave 30 or 40 times a day.”
– California State Parks District Supt. Craig Sap
So now Corral Canyon Cave is closed to the public, and $40,000 later, the cave will be blasted with walnut shells to remove the paint and still preserve the rocks.
Here’s the rub: The Lizard King never came to this spot to find his musical muse.
You can get more of the story and a 360 view of graffiti here.
Photos by Los Angeles Times
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“Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from."
— John Wayne as Ringo Kid in "Stagecoach"
Apparently, that means his own words. That line from a 1939 movie John Wayne starred in came to fruition as a commemoration for The Duke was shot down.
A lawmaker from Huntington Beach had proposed making May 26, 2016, "John Wayne Day.” Why did the Assembly vote against it? The actor’s comments on race.
In particular, he said in a 1971 Playboy interview that he supported white supremacy “until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. And when it came to how the West was “won,” he said, “the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
Why would we celebrate John Wayne here in California anyway? Well, he was a hometown kid, raised in Glendale. He also got a scholarship to play football at the University of Southern California. But Hollywood came calling.
He starred in dozens of westerns before his death in 1979. Throughout his long career, he came to epitomize for many the “cowboy values of decency, honesty, and integrity,” as History.com put it.
But time tends to shade in those previously enduring black-and-white images and attitudes of old with nuance and complexity.
The guy who introduced the legislation was certainly disappointed. He called it “political correctness” prevailing over a “profoundly American figure.”
“Opposing the John Wayne Day resolution is like opposing apple pie, fireworks, baseball, the Free Enterprise system and the Fourth of July!”
As John Wayne said in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance": "Whoa, take ‘er easy there, Pilgrim.“
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