Sitemap - 2011 - Under the Hollywood Sign

Merry Christmas From My Village To Yours

When Life Imitates an Action Movie: The Shock of Recognition at the Sunset Vine Shootings

Hollywoodland and Hancock Park: Two Silent-Era Los Angeles Neighborhoods, Reunited in "The Artist"

After the Windstorm: 24 Powerless Hours in Beachwood Canyon

Pulling Back the Kama'aina Curtain in "The Descendants"

Hollywood Sign Tourism: Joys of the Low Season

Jim Thompson's Life After Death

"Don't Look Now:" Du Maurier's Story, Roeg's Film, and Venice, Then and Now

The Hollywood Sign and the Eiffel Tower: Monuments to Modernity, With Differences

Coming Soon: A Visit To That Other Monument

Bananas of Beachwood Canyon (and Los Feliz)

The Pineapple Tract of Beachwood Canyon

Alfred Hitchcock's "The White Shadow": A Chronicle of Genius Foretold

Hollywood Sign Truth and Fiction, Part II: Leo Braudy's Book

Hollywood Sign Truth and Fiction, Part I

Early Films, Now Restored, to Have New Premieres at AMPAS This Month

Lost and Found: An Inventory of Films from the New Zealand Film Archive

The New "Blade Runner": Prequel or Sequel? Either Would Be Fine, Thanks!

Polly Platt: Film's Renaissance Woman

Further Evidence of Illiteracy in Beachwood Canyon: Lake Hollywood Park

Alfred Hitchcock's Earliest Feature Film, Rediscovered in the New Zealand Film Archive

Prisoners of (the Newly Revitalized) Hollywood

Helicopters in Hollywoodland: A Perpetual Noise Overhead

Hargobind Singh's Walking Tours of Hollywoodland

MASCO in Hollywoodland: A Progress Report

Canyon Lake Lookout During Carmageddon: Tourism As Usual

High Season for Tourists in Hollywoodland

Beachwood Canyon's Summers of Discontent

Gloria Swanson in Hollywoodland: A Silent Star's Hideaway

My Blade Runner Contest: A Total Bust

Blade Runner Contest: The Deadline Approaches

Remembering Laura Archera Huxley

The 3rd Annual Big Parade, May 21-22

Blade Runner: The Contest

The Hollywoodland Gates, Still Minus Two Plaques

Wolf's Lair Makes the New York Times Home Section At Last

Blindsided on the Road to Nowhere

WSJ Does Hollywoodland

Bronze Plaques Stolen off the Hollywoodland Gates

Albert Kothe: A German Immigrant's Life in Hollywoodland, Part II

Schadenfreude, Tour Bus Edition

Albert Kothe: A German Immigrant's Life in Hollywoodland, Part I

Preston Sturges and Harold Lloyd: A Tale of Two Houses

The Krotona Colony's First Session: A Photographic Discovery

Not about Hollywood or Filmmaking: Tips for Surviving a Big Earthquake

Physically in Hollywood, Mentally in Japan

Peter the Hermit, Hollywood Star

Hollywood Sign Mania: The Week in Review

Blame the Documentarian: The Hollywood Sign, Tourism and Me

The Signs Come Down, But Problems Remain

Further Developments in the HHA Street Sign Dispute

HHA to Tourists: Drive On Up to the Hollywood Sign!

A New Home in the Hills: Augustus Knudsen in Beachwood Canyon, 1916

The Krotona Colony's Kaua'i Connection, Part IV: Augustus Knudsen's Passage to India

The Krotona Colony's Kaua'i Roots, Part III: The Indelible Influence of Hawai'ian Religion

The Krotona Colony's Kaua'i Roots, Part II: Augustus Knudsen's Enchanted Childhood

The Krotona Colony's Kaua'i Roots, Part I: Anne Sinclair Knudsen and the Ahupua'a of Koloa

Under the Hollywood Sign Takes a Vacation (Sort of)

Looking Southwest from Mt. Lee, Circa 1925

L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Hollywood

"Somewhere": Sofia Coppola's Quiet Masterpiece

2010 in review