You could spend your Saturday morning wrapped within the confines of a thick, warm blanket—long underwear optional, depending on your respective sunlight/shade situation—but everybody knows a weekend optimally maximized is a weekend best-lived. This Saturday, members of the East Village Association will leave the down comforts of bed, sleeping cats/dogs and the like to plant [...]

Photographer Stefano Paltera has a photo essay on the Los Angeles Times website documenting his recent visit to downtown’s historic Masonic Temple Lofts.
Check it out. Long Beach Heritage President John Thomas is featured, telling the building’s story.
“The buzz words around here are ‘adaptive reuse,’ a term that represents a truce of sorts between developers and [...]