I went to the panel discussion on urban planning and traffic in Los Angeles at the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday. The audience was made up mostly of old white people and USC students complaining about their experiences with Los Angeles’s freeways and/or transit. [Redacted]

But I did learn about the Hollywood Freeway Central Park, which will cap the 101 through Hollywood with a 44 acre park. PRETTY AWESOME. (Although I’m a little concerned about how emissions are handled in that situation, considering new studies that say that shit will travel far on a good day.) (“Oh hey, New York, how’s it going? Oh, you turned some old train tracks on the west side into a park? That’s cool, that’s cool. We turned a currently-used heavily-trafficked freeway into a park THAT KNITS HOLLYWOOD TOGETHER. SUCK ON IT.”)

Anyway, the PMCA has a great building! This is the second floor lobby, you can see the indoor-outdoor stairs that go down to the FREE garage, and upstairs is a big open area surrounded by a “private residence,” in part of which the panel was held. In the panel room there were side by side old and new photographs of landmarks in Pasadena, like sections of Colorado Boulevard and the Mount Lowe Railway Trail and the Gamble House. I get a real kick out of that kind of thing. The galleries are on the second floor and they’re small, but high-ceilinged. I really don’t know what makes a museum space good or not, so. There was an exhibition of Edith Heath’s pottery, which is cool because it’s modernist in style, but sort of primitive and imperfect in a way you don’t see in a lot of modernism, and they were selling some of her stuff in the gift shop too.