by Kim Cooper | Feb 21, 2020 | The Esotouric Blog
Updates: October 16, 2024: One month after LACMA officially abandons the promised satellite gallery, the historic 84,000 square foot vacant Building 71 suffers a Great Alarm fire. September 2024: In February 2020, we published the scoop that LACMA was in violation of...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 5, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
When Hollywood gadfly and anti-corruption activist John Walsh died in early 2019, Los Angeles City Council showed its contempt for the man by adjourning in his honor—knowing, no doubt that he had asked that this never happen, for “even in death, I would consider...
by Kim Cooper | Oct 17, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
This is a guest post by Carlton Davis, who was the proprietor of The Art Dock drive-in gallery in the historic Pickle Works building in Downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District in the 1980s. We interviewed Carlton about this extraordinary, endangered landmark in 2013...
by Kim Cooper | May 29, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
Earlier this month, concerned by social media chatter about trespassers and trash around the Peabody-Werden House in Boyle Heights, we renewed our attempts to get someone at ELACC, the low-income housing developer that moved the house two years ago, to update us on...
by Kim Cooper | Jun 28, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
PEABODY-WERDEN HOUSE UPDATES August 2025: LAFD tweets: Structure Fire – Now Out 08/11/2025 INC#0352 Structure Fire – Now Out; INC#0352; 07:08AM; 110 S Soto St; https://bit.ly/45s2XA1; #BoyleHeights; Two-story, boarded-up, Craftsman-style home with light...
