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The “City of Angels” offers a luminous history and a bold look to the future of American cities. Whether you are taking in the Kodak Theatre and getting a feel of celebrity Hollywood or finding culturist value in Little Tokyo, L.A. is full of fantastic views.

Art collection is a popular hobby, but for curators, it’s usually a lot more than that. Art collection is their professional field. Curators are managers of libraries, museums, galleries and archives. They’re responsible for the collections of their specific institution, and for the collections catalogs, with the help of a publications specialist. Curators are always concerned with tangible objects, and often with collection of fine art for display to the public and to private individuals. They collect all kinds of art, from traditional and historical pieces to modern works and lesser known artists. Curators may cover a variety of topics, but are often much more specialized than this. Much of the time, they may work for museums with a specific focus. This may have a lot of influence on the work the curator does.

It was the hardest winter of all which happened in the year 1873 that Dr. Thomas Balch Elliot and almost all the neighborhood of 100 families decided to leave the place and move somewhere in west California to look for warmer and safer environment where they can start anew. They were called the California Indiana Colony. They reached the Valley where the inhabitants from Europe were all hard-working planters of vineyards and orange groves. They were able to buy 4,000 acres of the Ranch of San Pascual which was they called later on as the Old Pasadena.

Walt Disney released THE INCREDIBLES in 2004 to worldwide acclaim. At heart it is a story about a superhero family forced into denial. Once the greatest superheros ever, they have to live a quiet, stifling suburban life. This clever story was penned and directed by Brad Bird, fresh from his stint at THE SIMPSONS.

An irascible car, Herbie was unleashed on American audiences in 1969’s “The Love Bug.” Enjoying a mind of his own, Herbie can drive himself. Most of the time, Herbie is shown as a grayish-white Beetle with red, white and blue stripes running from the front bumper to the back, and has a large number “53″ on his engine lid, hood and doors. The exception to this is when he first shows up in The Love Bug. Then, Herbie is a non-descript grayish-white Beetle with a gray sunroof. The sunroof suggests that Herbie is a 1963 model. In the movie, Herbie is named after the uncle of a mechanic.

Buried in our collective conscience is at least one Disney movie we recall from our childhood. While Disney was a pioneer in the industry, their commercial success with new movies lagged a little bit in the 1980’s. In the late 1980’s and the 1990’s Disney shook up their company and revived its animation success. This period was known as the Disney Renaissance. Disney released several movies during this time period that were critically acclaimed and commercially successful. All but one of these movies was nominated for an Academy Award and certainly the most successful of them was The Lion King.

One of Winnie the Pooh’s best friends and companions is Piglet. He is often portrayed as a timid, hesitant creature, constantly startled and quick to hide. In Milne’s original “Winnie the Pooh,” in Chapter Three, Piglet says, “WHAT?”, with a jump, to show that he hadn’t been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way. In Chapter Seven, “It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffling slightly, “when you’re only a very small animal.” In Chapter Nine, Piglet says, “It’s a little anxious,” he said to himself, “to be a very small animal entirely surrounded by water.” Piglet’s catchphrase was, “Oh, dear! Oh, d-d-d-dear-dear!

A revolutionary breakthrough in live-action and animation, “Pete’s Dragon,” was released by Walt Disney Production in 1977. The story of a young orphan boy named Pete and his dragon, Elliott, the movie was the first Disney feature film to be released on home video in 1980. Animators chose to make Elliott an oriental dragon as such dragons are associated with good fortune. Indeed, Elliott is a do-gooder out to protect his orphaned ward.

You might want to sit for this. The evolution of the office chair, from its bare, four-legs-and-a-back origins, had its origins in the rise of the Second Industrial Revolution. The incorporation of steam-driven machines prompted business owners to consider a phrase that has become ubiquitous to our modern ears: productivity. As the objective of business is the generation of capital, and the generation of said capital is dependent upon labor, the question was “How best can we drain the last drops of toil from our employees?” The answer: build a better chair. The logic centered on the notion that employees who sat at their stations longer, could be more productive, therefore earning the company more capital.

There is a good chance you don’t think about the mattress you’re sleep on. Unless, of course, it’s uncomfortable - or you have a massive infestation of bed bugs. The mattress, that simplest of inventions, has been with us for thousands of years and while the concept is simple enough, like with any Thanksgiving turkey: it’s all in the stuffing.