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The Stagecraft of Life.

By Helen WalshPosted on April 21, 2024Posted in LetterboxTagged botanical, city, helen walsh, los angeles, museums, travel, writing life

Edition 28: LA’s Eastside, John Waters and the Danger of Romanticization. Eastside Los Angeles. Last month I spent a very happy week in LA, staying for the first time east of the Los Angeles River and downtown, in a community called Montecito Heights. Overlooking the mountains, the apartment offered stunning sunsets: The area was home to the Gabrielino Indians for more than two thousand years, then controlled by the Spanish in the late eighteenth century, with […]

Hola, City of Angels 😎 🌴

By Helen WalshPosted on May 2, 2022Posted in LetterboxTagged city, Diesel Books, Getty, helen walsh, los angeles, publishing, pull focus, santa monica, thrillers, travel, venice beach

Well, that was fun. Meet ‘The Jane’ – a gin, cucumber juice, fennel-infused SoCal kind of cocktail, created by Jonathan the mixologist at Piccolo Santa Monica where I held my long Covid re-scheduled City of Angels (aka, Los Angeles) book launch. A drink as feisty and original as her protagonist namesake. It was wonderful to be back in LA, a city where I previously worked. Years ago, during a two-year run on a crazy entertainment project, I’d fly […]