by Kim Cooper | Mar 22, 2024 | The Esotouric Blog
Have you ever noticed Sunshine? That’s the name Downtown denizen Annette Zilinskas gave to a lonely, neglected Queen Palm that for many years had stood proudly above 2nd and Hill Streets on the dirt patch, the last piece of unflattened Bunker Hill topography, on a...
by Kim Cooper | Oct 31, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
Last Saturday—as we have about four times a year since Esotouric debuted in 2007—we booked a coach class bus on which to guide a large group on a tour about the unsolved 1947 murder of Beth Short, a case that shares the victim’s real life nickname, The Black...
by Kim Cooper | Aug 31, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
Something worrying has been happening in the City of Santa Ana: bureaucrats, rushing to spend a $9.3 Million critical maintenance and infrastructure grant from the California State Library “Building Forward” program before the March 31, 2026 completion deadline and...
by Kim Cooper | Jun 14, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
Even though the matter of the Times Mirror Square / Historic-Cultural Monument was officially deemed “Council action final” on 12/07/2018, we keep that hoping new indictments will finally blow the lid off the obviously corrupt vote. This vote would result...
by Kim Cooper | May 14, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
This week, Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez introduced a motion acknowledging that the proposed redevelopment of the Lincoln Heights Jail into a “maker’s district” is not actually happening. Her idea for the massive, derelict...
