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Articles for Griffith Observatory

SoCal stargazers, mark your calendars for top astronomical events of 2025
3 weeks, 3 days ago

SoCal stargazers, mark your calendars for top astronomical events of 2025

LA Times  

The last full moon of 2024 rises above the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro on Sunday. It was a spectacular year of celestial events for Southern Californians, including April’s solar eclipse and a rare Draconid meteor shower in October. Next year’s events that are visible to Californians include planets that appear closer together, a total lunar eclipse, a …

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Norman Pfeiffer, prolific architect of SoCal institutions and L.A. Central Library expansion, dies at 82
1 year, 4 months ago

Norman Pfeiffer, prolific architect of SoCal institutions and L.A. Central Library expansion, dies at 82

LA Times  

Norman Pfeiffer, an architect with a more than half-century-long devotion to projects in the L.A. public realm, died Aug. 23 at his home in Pacific Palisades. “Norman is perhaps the architect with the greatest impact on Los Angeles’s cultural sector,” said his wife, Patricia Zohn, in reference to his contributions to venues including Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles Central Library, and …

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A Black Californian’s moon shot uplifts a people who’ve long found hope in the cosmos
1 year, 8 months ago

A Black Californian’s moon shot uplifts a people who’ve long found hope in the cosmos

LA Times  

The heavens give off a bittersweet glow for Black Americans. Paige Weathersby and Kevin Jones, both doctoral candidates in pharmacy at Western University of Health Sciences, say Pomona native Victor Glover Jr.’s historic moon mission will serve as an inspiration for Black Americans, especially young people. That feeling of shared triumph over Glover’s pioneering mission to help establish the first …

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Griffith Observatory’s planetarium storytellers petition to unionize with Actors’ Equity
2 years, 3 months ago

Griffith Observatory’s planetarium storytellers petition to unionize with Actors’ Equity

LA Times  

The dozen lecturers at Griffith Observatory have signed union authorization cards with the Actors’ Equity Assn. The dozen observatory lecturers at the Los Angeles institution have unanimously signed union authorization cards with the Actors’ Equity Assn. In addition to negotiating salary, another potential benefit of organizing with the actors’ union is consolidating health insurance, since some of the current union …

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Can you see the northern lights in L.A.? Don’t fall for this April Fools’ joke
2 years, 9 months ago

Can you see the northern lights in L.A.? Don’t fall for this April Fools’ joke

LA Times  

Tent camping under northern lights at Tombstone Territorial Park in Canada’s Yukon, a better place to catch a glimpse of the natural phenomenon. A prominent Instagram account, with nearly a million followers, claimed the northern lights “will glow strongly enough to be seen dancing above Los Angeles this evening,” in a post published on Friday morning. The post on the …

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Hello? That was Adele who shut down Griffith Observatory for a secret show last night
3 years, 2 months ago

Hello? That was Adele who shut down Griffith Observatory for a secret show last night

LA Times  

Rumor had it that Adele played a secret show at Los Angeles’ Griffith Observatory Sunday night. Eagle-eyed fans spotted Adele performing at the popular tourist attraction this weekend ahead of her highly anticipated TV special, “Adele One Night Only.” CBS confirmed to The Times that the two-hour telecast was taped Sunday evening. The impromptu concert was staged as part of …

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Photos: Storm brings rain, snow and cold to California
3 years, 11 months ago

Photos: Storm brings rain, snow and cold to California

LA Times  

Showers continued falling in parts of the Southland on Friday following a night that saw steady downpours saturate roadways and hillsides, prompting mudslides from Azusa to Orange County, but the rain is expected to taper off as the day wears on. Salinas In this image taken by a drone, a truck drives along River Road, where heavy rains caused mudslides …

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Griffith Observatory: Take a picnic, take a pal. Just remember, we are all stardust
4 years, 10 months ago

Griffith Observatory: Take a picnic, take a pal. Just remember, we are all stardust

LA Times  

Griffith Observatory at sunset. A playful scion of scandal and great wealth and growing more stately over time, Griffith Observatory is a must-do activity for out-of-town guests. They get swept up in the main entrance — where the Tesla coil lightning show draws gasps and the elegant Foucault pendulum demonstrates how Earth twirls, confusing dozens of onlookers at a time. …

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