*(Watts, CA) — The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) celebrated the 41 st anniversary of the Annual Day of the Drum Festival, and the 46 th anniversary of the Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz ...

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 ...

For more than 30 years, a man who stood scarcely five feet tall built a kind of skyscraper in his back yard. The Watts Towers is a soaring cluster of edifices, a supreme example of outsider art. The ...

It’s impossible to forget the first time you visit Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. I remember being confronted by the beauty of the spires that look dreamlike and ...

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 ...

California has 280 state parks, but none are quite like its smallest one. Located on a tiny triangular parcel of land bordering railroad tracks in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, Watts Towers ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – William T. Cartwright, an Emmy-winning filmmaker who helped save the landmark Watts Towers in Los Angeles, has died at age 92. The Los Angeles ...