Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
What's In a Name?
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I finally got a chance to start watching Bosch: Legacy .* I highly recommend it, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't help cringing ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022
The Humble Surgeon
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Those of you in the medical field may have heard the name Dupuytren. Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, a brilliant surgeon, pathologist, and profe...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Open Letter to the Los Angeles Times
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Dear Editors: I am posting this publicly because whenever I contact publications privately regarding factual inaccuracies, they ignore me an...
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Sunday, March 6, 2022
Romaine Grand and the Brick Victorian
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1030 East Cesar Chavez Avenue is tucked away in an odd little pocket of industrial Los Angeles fenced in by the 101, the 10, some rail yards...
Thursday, March 3, 2022
The Barn is Back!
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The Le Mesnager barn , long closed to the public, is finally reopening. The stone barn, built long ago by Georges Le Mesnager , was conver...
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Little Houses on Bernard Street
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Bernard Street is in Chinatown. That is, the short block of Bernard Street that concerns today's entry is in Chinatown. Bisected by the...
Friday, December 24, 2021
Why The Taix Battle Isn't Really (Just) About Taix
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Dear Readers: I know, I know. I’ve written quite a bit already about the Taix situation. I have been researching an entry on a different fam...
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