An artist’s canvas can take many forms — take for example Sandra Heidlebaugh of Lakewood and Evelyn Young of West Covina, whose canvasses are actually dried gourds. Both women have been demonstrating how to create gourd art in Tapestry, which is located in the Grandstand. Actually goard art is part carving, part painting to result…
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…
Band geeks (and I mean that with love. I include myself in that group) – drumline yourselves out to the Fair tomorrow for the finals of the High School Band Competiton. This is mighty, mighty exciting as Fontana’s Kaiser High, Pomona’s Diamond Ranch High and Arcadia High School compete for $5,000, one tuba-sized trophy AND…
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…
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…
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…
I’m just amazed at the many ways to enjoy the Fair’s pure fun with amazing admission discounts. The latest is Oct. 2 when the Fair celebrates LIVESTRONG Day by offering $10 admission with an online coupon that’s good for up to four admissions on Oct. 2. LIVESTRONG Day is the annual global day of action…
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,…
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.…
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…
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