Stories matching tag 'Watts Towers'
Watts Towers festival attracts folk art
The 2011 annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum and Jazz Festival, which this year also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the adjacent Watts Towers Arts Center, was a success, with hundreds of people attending the two-day event. [...]
Fixing homes, building community: The Watts House Project
Art and redevelopment team up to inspire a neighborhood next to Watts Towers. [...]
Amid recession, questions over the cost, and purpose, of state parks
The California state parks department could meet as early as Labor Day weekend to consider how many parks to shutter under a state mandate. But in a recession – in which thousands of Californians have lost their jobs -- are parks and monuments, like the Watts Towers, worth the millions of dollars they cost for maintenance?
[...]Celebrating Cinco de Mayo and harmony between Latinos and African Americans
Racial harmony was a theme at the Cinco de Mayo celebration staged in the shadow of the Watts towers. The Watts/Century Latino Organization sponsored its 17th annual celebration marking the holiday -- and celebrating the ties between Latinos and African-Americans.
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