Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Los Angeles - The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) celebrates the 41st anniversary of the Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival, and the 46th anniversary of the Annual Simon Rodia Watts ...

The Watts Towers gained a bit of national recognition this week, but not for a happy reason: The outdoor sculpture composed of salvaged steel, seashells, tile, glass, wire mesh, and concrete by Simon ...

It took Italian immigrant Simon “Sam” Rodia more than 25 years to build the Watts Towers, starting work on the massive, one-of-a-kind structure in 1921. The city later protested. Rodia had no permits ...

The Watts Towers are one of LA’s most famous landmarks. The sculptures were handmade by an Italian immigrant, Simon Rodia, from 1921 until 1954. After Simon Rodia left in 1955,… The Watts Towers are ...

Huell takes the Blue Line train to uncover yet another treasure in Los Angeles - the Watts Towers. Huell takes the Blue Line train to uncover yet another treasure in Los Angeles - the Watts Towers.

Introduction: Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the search for common ground / Luisa Del Giudice -- Part I: Situating Sabato Rodia and the Watts Towers : art movements, cultural contexts, and ...

Sara Catania has said beautifully what many of us have long known (“Towers of Power,” Oct. 23). The city management of our Watts Towers, a national historic landmark, consistently has been poor and ...

A new mural designed to stop hate entitled, “Unity Under The Sun” is unveiled at the Watts Historic Train Station on Saturday, March 4. The mural is a Los Angeles County project depicting cultural and ...

LOS ANGELES — Two years after a $1.9-million seismic repair job at the Watts Towers, a committee of longtime activists is complaining that Los Angeles city officials are letting the quirky urban ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Committee for the Simon Rodia Towers in Watts records measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1953-1989. The records include clippings, a ...