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It’s Sunday! The FIRST SUNDAY OF A NEW MONTH! There’s a lot to discover and a lot to learn. Here are some suggestions on the Sunday “Gayle on the Go!” list.

Take a look at the broadcast and then scroll down this page for more information I did not have time to report during the WEEKEND KTLA MORNING NEWS.

Take a look. Enjoy. Please stay safe!

Gayle ☺

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 Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.

California Science Center

700 Exposition Park Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90037

323 724 3623

californiasciencecenter.org

There are more than 30 incredible inventions we can explore, new this weekend, at the California Science Center. LEONARDO DA VINCI: INVENTOR. ARTIST. DREAMER. Ticket information is on the californiasciencecenter.org website.

 

IMAX Movie “Cities of the Future 3D: Engineering Innovations”

California Science Center

700 Exposition Park Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90037

323 724 3623

californiasciencecenter.org

See the ideas and concepts of the Leonardo Da Vinci’s of the 21st century in the movie “Cities of the Future 3D” playing at the California Science Center’s IMAX Movie Theater.

This special film takes us to some of the world’s great cities where profound change is already happening.

Show times and ticket information are on the californiasciencecenter.org website.

 

Stay Home & Read a Book Ball

Starting at Noon

The Library Foundation of Los Angeles

213 292 6242

lfla.org/event/stay-home-read-a-book-ball-6

Stay Home! Read a Book! That suggestion is from The Library Foundation of Los Angeles because this is the occasion of the foundation’s 36th annual Stay Home and Read a Book Ball, a fundraiser where we are invited to support the Library Foundation of Los Angeles by donating what we would have spent on a night out.

Check in on the website: lfla.org/event/stay-home-read-a-book-ball-6

Share photos of your literary festivities on their Facebook event pageInstagram, or Twitter and tell them what you’ll be reading. Tag them at @LibraryFoundLA and use hashtag #StayHomeandRead to let others know how you are celebrating!

Proceeds benefit the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

 

Free!

Intro to Emergency Preparedness

Zoom Virtual Class

Saturday, March 9th @ 10am – Noon

Registration Deadline: Thursday, March 7th

sosproducts.com

Our recent rain and subsequent flooding are over now. Question? Are we ready for the next storm, the next power outage or the next earthquake? We can get ready at the free SOS Survival Products emergency preparedness class. The next virtual session is Saturday, March 10th from 10am to Noon. The registration deadline is Thursday, March 7th. Details are on the sosproducts.com website.    

 

Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy

1601 East 6th Street

Los Angeles

lunaluna.com

It’s what the art community describes as “the world’s first art amusement park.” It’s Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, built in Hamburg, Germany in 1987 featuring celebrated artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockey, Roy Lichenstein and more. It lost its funding and disappeared. Well, it’s back and we can experience this amazing and unusual art and amusement park creation inside two huge Los Angeles warehouses. Ticket information is on the lunaluna.com website.   

 

Camellias In Bloom

*Descanso Gardens: descansogardens.org

*The Huntington: huntington.org

Camellias! They are described by gardening experts as one of the best flowering shrubs, nicknamed the Queen of Winter Flowers. They are blooming at Descanso Gardens in La Canada – Flintridge. The descansogardens.org website says visitors their history and how to grow your own.

And the Queen of Winter Flowers are blooming in San Marino at The Huntington. The huntington.org website says its botanical collections include nearly 80 different species.

  

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Smithsonian Institution

Petersen Automotive Museum

6060 Wilshire Boulevard

Los Angeles

323 930 2277

petersen.org

This is Black History Month, an appropriate time to examine “The Negro Motorist Green Book” a Smithsonian touring exhibition that illustrates the perils of driving while black during the mid-19th century.

This special exhibition also contains interactive video component providing a realistic experience of the dangers of driving while black.

Visitor information is on the petersen.org website.

 

Magic Strings!

Bob Baker Marionette Theater

4949 York Boulevard

Los Angeles

213 250 9995

bobbakermarionettetheater.com

Puppeteer Bob Baker, the creator of the oldest children’s theater company in Los Angeles. His legacy lives on with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater classic “Magic Strings.”  

“Magic Strings” debuted in 1970. The bobbakermarionettetheater.com website says this new show includes “multi-screen archival footage of Bob Baker from interviews, demonstrations, and more, revealing to the audience the true magic of marionettes.”

Tickets are available on the website: bobbakermarionettetheater.com

 

ChocoLAte: From Beans to Bliss

Video Series

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

nhm.org/chocolate

Chocolate lovers will love this! The Natural History Museum’s CHOCOLATE: FROM BEANS TO BLISS. In addition to exploring the history of chocolate at the Los Angeles County facility, there is a series of museum stories from people such as the owners of Uncle Eddie’s Vegan Cookies.  

Learn more about the vegan cookie company and schedule your visit to this new exhibition on the nhm.org/cookie website.

 

First All-Electric Audi Dealership in Southern California

Audi Fletcher Jones

1275 Bristol Street

Costa Mesa

949 791 1500

audifletcherjones.com

At Audi Fletcher Jones electric cars of the 21st century! We can see them, and test drive them in Costa Mesa at the first all-electric Audi dealership in Southern California.

The audifletcherjones.com website says you can see for yourself at the unique Costa Mesa facility seven days a week.

 

Now Through Monday, April 15th

Free Low Income Tax Assistance  

CSUN Vita Clinic

Clinic Locations

csun.edu/bookstein-institute/csun-vita-clinic

 

Now Through Monday, April 15th

Free Low Income Tax Assistance  

Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

Schedule Appointments: 949 470 3062

Cityofmissionviejo.org

California State University, Northridge’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Clinic in the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics is offering free tax preparation assistance to low-income families and individuals, including non-English speakers, people with disabilities and veterans, beginning Monday, January 22nd through Monday, April 15th at CSUN and more than a dozen satellite locations throughout Los Angeles County.

The CSUN VITA Clinic is staffed by IRS-certified student volunteers and is available to taxpayers six days a week at a variety of locations, including in CSUN’s Bookstein Hall; Las Palmas Park and San Fernando Public Library in San Fernando; Sun Valley Public Library; Valley Plaza Branch Library in North Hollywood; Grandview Library in Glendale; Mid Valley Regional Public Library in North Hills; Pacoima Public Library; Panorama Public Library; Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library and the nonprofit Inclusive Action for the City in Los Angeles. A complete list of locations, date and times can be found on the clinic’s website.

Here are the guidelines for this unique program:

*The clinic accepts walk-ins, but it is highly recommended that taxpayers schedule an appointment through the VITA website.

*A list of documents and forms of identification taxpayers must bring to their session can be found on the website.

*The maximum gross income limitation per tax return has been set at $64,000.

More than 300 CSUN student volunteers complete intensive training on handling federal and state tax returns. Aside from tax preparation, some of the students are trained to serve as financial coaches to the taxpayers at the clinic.

In addition to providing service to the community, the CSUN VITA Clinic also gives students an opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge and experience in their field of study, and an opportunity to give back to the community.

Launched in 1970, the CSUN VITA Clinic is housed in the Bookstein Institute for Higher Education in Taxation, located in the Nazarian College. The clinic aided more than 8,500 low-income taxpayers in 2023, generating more than $8 million in refunds to low-income taxpayers and $2.8 million in federal tax credits.

For more information about the CSUN VITA Clinic, call (818) 677-3600, email VITA@csun.edu or visit its website.

 

Belmont Shore Railroad Club

3601 South Gaffey Street, Building 824 

San Pedro

310 831 6262

belmontshorerr.com

This is described as the “largest N-Scale Model Railroad Club on the West Coast.” The Belmont Shore Model Railroad Club says we’re invited to explore this historic model railroad club experience. The belmontshorerr.com website has visitor details.  

 

Street Legal Dragway

Southern California Fairgrounds

18700 Lake Perris Drive

Perris

951 349 4027

streetlegaldragway.com

This is new! It’s the Street Legal Dragway in Perris, California, a drag strip facility specifically made for street legal cars, designed to deter the dangerous, illegal local street drag racing. Racing details are on the streetlegaldragway.com website.

 

Free!

Creating in Community

Fowler at 60

Fowler Museum

308 Charles E. Young Drive, North

Los Angeles

Fowler.ucla.edu

Creating in Community: Fowler at 60 celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Look at the research, exhibitions, and public programs of the past sixty years! Through these collaborations fresh ideas bloomed, unforeseen challenges and expectations arose, and new connections were forged.

Revisit these extraordinary projects as they bring this spirit of engagement into the future.

 

*Time Changes All Odds: Photography & Catalina

*Cabinet of Curiosities: 70 Objects for 70 Years

*Lasting Impressions

*Below the Surface: The Catalina Photographs of Bruce Hall

Catalina Museum for Art & History

217 Metropole Avenue

Avalon

310 510 2414

catalinamuseum.org

There’s a lot happening at the Catalina Museum for Art and History. The special exhibitions currently on view: “Cabinet of Curiosities: 70 Objects for 70 Years” – objects so rare and absurd they have never been exhibited publicly.

“Lasting Impressions” – museum’s seven decades collection of fine art.

And “Time Changes All Odds: Photography & Catalina” – explores how photography has contributed to the identity of the island since the medium’s introduction in the 1800s.

The catalinamuseum.org website exhibition and visitor details.

 

League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles

my.lwv.org

my.lwv.org/california/greater-los-angeles

 

Vote 411

League of Women Voters Education Fund

Vote411.org

Reading skills are especially important next Tuesday, March 5th the day Californians can vote in the presidential primary.

To help voters with the process, the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles. The nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization provides clear, concise information on the candidates as well as ballot measures such as L.A. City Mobility Street Improvement Plan known as Measure HLA and Proposition One to reform mental health care and addiction treatment.

Mona Field, President of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the League of Women Voters says no matter your party of position, registered voters to should do their civic duty!

Important and useful voter guide information is available on the websites: my.lwv.org/california/greater-los-angeles

as well as the league’s vote411.org website.

So, let’s make this a “get ready to vote Tuesday, March 5th” Sunday. Gayle Anderson, KTLA 5 News.