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Victoria Bernal

@victoriabernal.bsky.social
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Chronicling my pocket of Los Angeles, past & present. My family has 120 years of history in Los Angeles/SoCal.

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Mount Wilson Observatory @mtwilsonobs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
FREE Star Party! Fri, June 12 | Sunset–1 AM Join Mount Wilson Observatory and the Los Angeles Astronomical Society for a free evening under the stars. See Jupiter, Venus, star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae through telescopes provided by LAAS members. Info: mtwilson.edu/events/starparty061226
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Spent Friday night at the @mtsac.bsky.social planetarium and observatory. Attempted to capture the moment our astronomer-guide pointed out Jupiter & Venus on our walk to the observatory. #astronomy #sgv
This night photo shows a blurry group of people walking on the Mt. Sac campus. Jupiter and Venus can be seen in the night sky along with the silhouette of a few palm trees in the distance.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🌙 Loved nerding out at the Garvey Ranch Park Observatory this week! 🪐🔭 #SGV #astronomy
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Did not realize there was an ebay market for old (and not-so-old) Los Angeles tap cards! www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_... #GoMetro
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“One of the most interesting objects that I encountered was [Buddy Collette's] napkin from the Mexican restaurant El Cholo with handwritten music on it. Small and informal, it captures something that a polished manuscript cannot..." @uclalibrary.bsky.social: www.library.ucla.edu/about/news/t...
The El Cholo napkin of jazz legend Buddy Collette, which includes handwritten music on the back. Image from UCLA Library & Special Collections.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Los Angeles haunts itself. Impressions of the past press against the busy denizens of its streets and clogged freeways. Everywhere you turn, a 1960s structure—which replaced an 1890s Victorian home that had staked its claim on a coyote den..." #LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/taix...
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Los Angeles Gives and Taix | Los Angeles Review of Books
On memory, erasure, and the loss of another L.A. icon.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...
Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two
Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her
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Rosina Lozano @rosinalozano.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A quick thread about the long use of the Spanish language in the politics of the U.S. Southwest, which includes some of the readily accessible documents I used to write my book. www.ucpress.edu/books/an-ame... /1
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An American Language by Rosina Lozano - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"It really undermines the legacy of what these games are supposed to represent." LA City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez calling for Casey Wasserman to resign on Spectrum, referencing the USA gymnastic team members who were abused by team doctor Larry Nassar
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"There is something incredibly important about a story so confident in its masculinity, so assured of its legitimacy as a sports romance story, taking off in the way that this adaptation has." @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/heated-rival.... #HeatedRivalry #socialimaginaries
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Heated Rivalry matters in a sporting culture that still sidelines queer men
Heated Rivalry is set within the popular but hyper-masculine space of a men’s professional sporting league.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
State control of historical memory is a classic hallmark of authoritarian regimes, just FYI.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“As I see glimpses of Low’s home before & after the fires, I again feel as if I’m standing in a liminal space, a remembrance but also a reminder.” www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st... #LAFires Hard not to feel emotional after see'g this powerful #VRfilm last night @ the Music Center's Innovation Social.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“The astonishing thing is not that Los Angeles burns but that so much of its development has enhanced rather than blunted the threat from fire,” Stephen Pyne. @dwallacewells.bsky.social in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o... #LAFires #AmWest
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Opinion | Which City Burns Next?
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“And yet the simultaneous disappearance of my written and familial archive has spurred me to make new marks, to trace the absence of an archive turned to ashes, to write the disaster in order to begin again,” Vanessa Holyoak. #LAFires
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge, Arroyo Seco Freeway & the City Hall fountain as depicted in AppleTV’s “Shrinking” Rose Parade float. #Floatfest #Pasadena
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Soap actor Anthony Geary (RIP!) once sat next to me in a crowded waiting room at the Jiffy Lube in Silver Lake. #generalhospital #AnthonyGeary
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I hate flying, but I love flying into Los Angeles. #aerialphoto
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Saw this statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald as we walked through St. Paul's Rice Park yesterday, which happened to be the 85th anniversary of his death. The Great Gatsby author died in #WestHollywood on Dec 21, 1940 (www.westhollywoodhistory.org/playground-t...). #FScottFitzgerald #StPaulMN
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Getting into the holiday spirit at the Creekside Supper Club in #Minneapolis. 🎅🏽🎄🧑🏽‍🎄
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“Living here has given me a 'long view' of my #suburban life. Other writers have chosen differently & made a rich literature out of American itchiness to move on to bigger/brighter places. I've contributed to a minor literature of hang'g around to see what happens next." www.lapl.org/collections-...
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Interview With an Author: D.J. Waldie
D.J. Waldie is a historian of Los Angeles, a memoirist, and a translator. He is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (1995), Where Are We Now: Notes from Los Angeles (2005), Becoming Los Angeles...
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"Regular observers of copyright law’s favorite holiday know the drill: on Jan 1, 2026, a new crop of creative works from 1930 (along with sound recordings from 1925) will enter the #publicdomain in the United States—ready to be remixed, recycled, or repurposed..." copyrightlately.com/public-domai...
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Public Domain Day 2026 Is Coming: Here's What to Know
On January 1, 2026, works from 1930—including Nancy Drew, early Betty Boop, and The Maltese Falcon—hit the U.S. public domain. Here’s what it all means.
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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The City of Industry is finalizing arrangements to get started building the first phase of a planned 10-mile long bike path. Initial 1.5 mile phase will be along Valley Blvd. la.streetsblog.org/2025/12/11/c...
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City of Industry Working Towards 10-mile Bike Path - Streetsblog Los Angeles
The project will begin where it’s needed most – Valley Boulevard.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The literary Christmas tree in the @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social’s historic rotunda. #LosAngeles #LibrarySky
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
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ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📣 TONIGHT! @thewaroncars.bsky.social is coming to LA! I'm joining them onstage for a live show with @streetsforall.org to promote their new book. 🌧️ WE MUST SHOW THESE NEW YORKERS THAT A LITTLE RAIN DOES NOT SCARE LA AWAY! 🎟️ Tickets are available here: www.dynastytypewriter.com/calendar-squ...
A bright yellow flyer for the War on Cars event presented by Streets for All with the multimodal icon logo up top: Book Event with hosts authors Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear. There are photos of Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear shown with the book Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile which shows a traffic signal with vines growing over it.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A clip from the lovely #SingingIntheRain number during the Lineage Performing Arts Center’s “Broadway Gamble Ramble” production at the historic Gamble House on Friday night. gamblehouse.org/mec-events/b... #HouseMuseums #MusicalTheatre #LAThtr #TheatreSky #Pasadena
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Active San Gabriel Valley @activesgv.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Help name the future Puente Hills Regional Park. Your idea could shape the identity of this new park! ENGLISH: tinyurl.com/2eyh7ump SPANISH: tinyurl.com/yx43kmsh
Promotional poster titled 'From Landfill to Landmark' featuring aerial before and after images of Puente Hills Landfill transformed into a public park. Text invites suggestions for a new park name.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“The #HollywoodBlacklist was a literal death for some, like the Black actor Canada Lee who played the noble doomed ex-champ in ‘Body & Soul’ [1947]…By May 1952, #CanadaLee was alone & penniless. He died of a heart attack at age 45." From "Red Hollywood" -> @kanopy.com: www.kanopy.com/en/product/r...
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A couple of pix from Saturday's opening reception for "Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective," an exhibit at the Vincent Price Art Museum. #DíaDeLosMuertos #LosAngeles
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I’m a fan of #Ciclavia all year long, but I especially appreciate it during the #spookyseason. 👻 #losangeles
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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Women's History Illuminated
Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"The physical landscape of Los Angeles also provides inspiration for #PatrickMartinez, whose large-scale sculptural painting 'Battle of the City on Fire' (2025) pulls from the city’s vernacular architecture, signage, and murals," @mattstromberg.bsky.social. hyperallergic.com/1046894/five...
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"At 48.5 miles, the A Line is already the longest light rail line in the world. With the new extension, it will be 57.6 miles long - extending from #Pomona through #Pasadena and #DTLA to #LongBeachCA." @streetsblogla.bsky.social: la.streetsblog.org/2025/07/24/m... #LosAngeles #transit
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Metro A Line Extension to Pomona Will Open September 19 - Streetsblog Los Angeles
Nine new miles of light rail, four new stations - Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, and Pomona - extending the world's longest light rail line
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Excited to add a new tap card to my small @metrolosangeles.bsky.social tap card collection. 🚃😊🚌 #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This Puente Hills Regional Park is a big deal! Kudos to Hilda Solis for shepherding this project. Looking forward to the new park opening!
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“The island of imagination won out over terrestrial reality and resulted in some of the most beautiful #maps ever produced," @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Maps featuring #California as an island -> exhibits.stanford.edu/david-rumsey... #CaliforniaAdmissionDay
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Caltech Seismological Laboratory @caltechseismo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
M3.5 10km N of #LaVerne, CA, #SouthernCalifornia #Earthquake confirmed valid. Updated analysis coming soon @ buff.ly/YnlVPfk And make sure if you felt it that you fill out the DYFI page on the USGS! buff.ly/wXQMPcu
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Wonderful night at the #GoetheInstitut in Los Angeles celebrating the puppet world of El Triste & La Smiley, characters created by LA puppeteer Cain Carias. Blown away by all the creativity on display -- the puppets, their customized outfits & all the art work from folks inspired by his #puppetry.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“In 2016, leaders of 14 #Mayan communities joined Mexican conservationists to formulate a plan. Inspired by the #CaminodeSantiago in Spain, they landed on the idea of a long-distance #trekking route, stringing together ancient trails the villagers used to travel.” www.sierraclub.org/sierra/how-m...
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How Mayan Communities Created Mexico’s First Long-Distance Trail
These residents blended conservation and recreation to help keep their culture and region alive
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"Los Angeles can feel impenetrable. Even if you are a native and know it like the back of your hand. It also changes in a blink; your map keeps shifting. You must keep recalibrating, searching for what still feels like yours," @lynellgeorge.bsky.social. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/map-to-liter...
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My Map to a Literary Life in Los Angeles | L.A.’s Literary Public Square
Making Community in Bookshops, Cafes, and Bootleg Backroom Venues
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Felt that earthquake out here in the east San Gabriel Valley!
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“He joked that his medium is smog, and his #artist assistant is the city of Los Angeles itself.” “I want the sculpture to collect data in the way that my body or my family or my neighbors’ bodies collect data by how they are breathing in the debris,” Carlos Agredano. www.artnews.com/art-news/art...
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Carlos Agredano Is Documenting the Harmful Effects of LA’s Pollution
LA-based artist Carlos Agredano recently exhibited his 'FUME' sculpture, documenting LA's pollution, at the Los Angeles Nomadic Art Division.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
My first time hearing #BohemianRhapsody on the organ…and not just any organ. This is the Spreckels Organ in San Diego’s #BalboaPark built for the Panama-CA Exposition in 1915. With 5,017 pipes, the #SpreckelsOrgan is said to be the largest fully-outdoor organ in the world. #organmusic #SanDiego
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In the past five minutes, just happened to read two articles that both reference the book by #HeatherMcGhee titled “The Sum Of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together." #SumofUs #LosAngeles www.latimes.com/entertainmen... nonprofitquarterly.org/my-street-ve...
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“An archive of throwaways gets new life when presented as a natural history composed of cultural artifacts. Absorbing works built from archives are becoming increasingly prominent in the art world.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #archival #artworld
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Review: Guadalupe Rosales crafts an analog Wayback Machine for a vibrant show at Palm Springs Art Museum
Los Angeles artist Guadalupe Rosales reconfigures a dazzling archive of her hometown in the 1990s. It's a show that should catapult her to prominence.
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
That was some intense thunder here in the east #SGV! ⚡️🌩️⚡️ #losangeles
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Victoria Bernal @victoriabernal.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Felt that jolt of an earthquake here in the east SGV.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
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