Eric Brightwell

The 30th annual Music Box Steps Day is coming up. It celebrates Laurel and Hardy's 1932 comedy, filmed on a Silver Lake stair street. It may surprise you to learn that it wasn't the first or only film to feature a neighborhood stairway, nor even the duo's first!

Ask Silver Lake — Music Box Steps Day and Silver Lake’s Stair Stars of the Silver Screen Thanks, in large part, to its proximity to many early film studios – Silver Lake has been home to numerous film stars since at least the 1910s. Not all of those stars were human. There was, for exa…

Feliç Diada! 11 September National Day of Catalonia. Spain's long history in California is well-known. Less known is the prominence of Catalans in the state and its most populous city.

https://ericbrightwell.com/2024/09/11/no-enclave-catalan-los-angeles/

If you listen to Conan O'Brien's Summer Smores, you've heard him joke about how remote Altadena is. If you're not an Angeleno, however, you probably don't have a good sense of Los Angeles geography, though, so I created this map of Conan's Los Angeles.

https://ericbrightwell.com/2024/08/14/conan-needs-a-map/

For the July edition of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council's "Ask Silver Lake" column, I discuss the history and character of the neighborhood's beloved bungalow courts... and include a bunch of photos taken by me.

Ask Silver Lake — Silver Lake’s Bungalow Courts The following article was written for the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council’s “Ask Silver Lake” series — ‘Ask Silver Lake’ is dedicated to exploring the history and insights …