Author Archives: Warren Ediger

Few people expected the Charlie Brown Christmas television special to amount to much (be very successful). When the producers (people responsible for it) watched it for the first time, they worried. Two CBS television executives watched it in what one … Continue reading →

If you’re in Los Angeles and need to repair your shoes, head over to (go to) Echo Park, to Lopez Shoe Repair. You won’t be disappointed. To find Lopez Shoe Repair, first look for Señor Fish, a Mexican restaurant and … Continue reading →

What’s the most interesting thing about Los Angeles? Steve Lopez’s answer may surprise you (he’s the Los Angeles Times writer I wrote about in The Musician and The Writer). It surprised me. And it made me stop and think. Here’s … Continue reading →

Last week my friend Don gave me something that reminded me of (made me remember) my childhood – pickled beets (a plant with round dark red roots eaten as a vegetable) in a Mason jar. Let me explain. Years ago, … Continue reading →

Every week from 2003 to 2010, on the television program Cold Case, detective Lily Rush found ways to solve (find an explanation for) crimes that no one else had been able to solve. A cold case is a crime or … Continue reading →

“You press the button … we do the rest.” That was the promise made in 1888 by the Eastman Kodak company when they introduced their first camera. Here’s how they described it: “It’s the easy-to-use camera for everyone. There’s no … Continue reading →

The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California is shaped like a large “H”. If you walk across the middle of the “H” to the left leg and look left, you’ll see the Ragpicker – a painting by Edouard Manet. He … Continue reading →

Home on the Range (land covered by grass) – an old song from the American West – begins like this: Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam (wander; move from place to place), Where the deer and the antelope … Continue reading →