For better than a century, the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena has captured the attention of the world on New Year’s Day, selling Southern California like the enviable pot of gold at the end of the rainbow… Editor’s Note: As we gear-up for the 2012 Rose Parade, The Equestrian News dipped into its archive to […]
Mountain bikers have made a run on Verdugo Mountain Park in north Glendale, flaunting L.A.’s ban on mountain bikes by illegally constructing an elaborate dirt bike trail that undermines fire roads with 10-foot drops, switchbacks and rock canals, all less than a month after the City Planning Commission finalized a draft of the city’s 2010 […]
If there is a catchphrase that best describes the work of artist Leslie Anne Webb, it’s ‘Don’t fence me in.” Her work, like nearly everything she does, is big and bold, from her choice of oversize canvasses, to her horses, with their whimsical expressions, peering out at the viewer as though they might be leaning […]
Most little girls enjoy fairy tales and dressing up like fairy princesses, but for Virginia Hankins carriages and fairy wands could never stack up against powerful, fast-moving horses and knights with lances and shields. “I did have my purple phase,” she admits, but the Simi Valley resident says she was more influenced by Tamora Pierce’s […]
The question on the minds of many of America’s wild horse advocates is will Bob Abbey, President Obama’s appointee to head the Bureau of Land Management, offer a reprieve to 30,000 of America’s wild horses and burros removed from public lands and moved to holding facilities? Or will he take the advice of a recent […]
