CategoryFun at the Fair

Meet Bob Harper of NBC's 'The Biggest Loser' Saturday

September 30, 2010

Bob Harper, host and trainer on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” will make a special appearance Saturday at the Fair. He’ll be meeting fans and signing autographs from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. as part of Anthem Blue Cross’s “Health Footprint” event that continues through Sunday at Yellow Gate. You can get your own “health footprint,” the health influence you have…

5 Days Left – Say It Isn't So!

September 29, 2010

My fellow Fair lovers, today begins the last week of the 2010 L.A. County Fair. You have five days left to try the best deep-fried food in the world, shop for items you can’t find anywhere else and pet the cutest farm animals this side of, well, a farm! And we have some great ways to…

Perfect Reception Cake Contest entries too beautiful to ever think about serving

September 26, 2010

A little bit Martha Stewart Weddings met the Ace of Cakes Saturday at the Perfect Reception Cake contest at Culinary Styles. The beautifully decorated cakes transcended baked goods into bonafide sculptural art work that should never be sliced and served. Virginia Ishida of Monterey Park won First Place with her creation was titled “Finding Love…

Life is sweet for Karo Perfect Pie Contest winners

September 26, 2010

What is a county fair without pie contests? We’ve had many mouthwatering competitions, and it’s been my great pleasure to cover them. Saturday night the Karo Perfect Pie Contest took the cake for yumminess. Peggy Linberg of Upland brought a bit of aloha to Culinary Styles with her First Place-winning Hawaiian Sunshine Pie. The crushed shortbread…

Bread and Roses Strike recalled by storyteller Angela Lloyd at Sheets Center for the Arts

September 26, 2010

The Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex has become a storytellers central of sorts as each shares tales behind the exhibit The Industrial Age to the Computer Age …Three Centuries of Artistic Innovations. Not only does the show trace how the Industrial Revolution affected society, storytellers present first-person accounts of how men, women,…

1960 L.A. County Fair Queen Shares Memories

September 25, 2010

Sept. 1 is particularly significant to Carolyn Bushnell of Glendora. First, it’s her birthday; second, it was the day she was crowned Queen of the L.A. County Fair in 1960. Her sister Barbara, named Miss San Gabriel Valley that summer, was also a princess in her court. Bushnell was crowned by then-California Governor Pat Brown.…

Let the chips fall where they may – they’ll come up winners if they’re chocolate!

September 22, 2010

These certainly weren’t your grandmother’s Hershey-variety chocolate chip cookies. Competitors in the Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookie & Brownie competition held Sept. 18 used plenty of exotic ingredients in their winning recipes. Take for example, First-Place winner Marina Castle’s Decadence Chocolate Chip Cookies. The North Hollywood resident and Culinary Styles competitor since 1985 added mocha…