Last year, when everything was closed FORT: LA was a godsend. The Friends of Residential Architecture: Los Angeles regularly provides free monthly self-guided architecture tours and they were the perfect pandemic activity. In fact, just about this time last year I headed on their Witch […]
I love my fair share of Unauthorized Musical Parodies but as luck would have it, I couldn’t attend the latest show at Rockwell Table & Stage. Luckily my good pal Mary, of Along Comes Mary, attended on my behalf and got all the scoop! The […]
It’s no secret I love ice cream. I love it so much that there are certain places I must stop at whenever I’m near them. If I’m in Bixby Knolls I have to stop at Long Beach Creamery. If I’m in Culver City Coolhaus is […]
It was the winter of 1990 and I was a bored preteen in Northern Indiana. One evening my mom took me to the twin cinemas at the mall and I settled down with my popcorn and red vines to watch a new release – Home […]
Word to the wise. When you park in a random lot make sure you don’t leave room for someone to park directly behind you. That way you won’t be stuck for two hours shivering in the cold hoping the owner of that dang Pathfinder would […]
I have a thing for landmark restaurants. You know the kind. They’ve been in business for ages, have signature menu items and often look just as they did when they opened. The Apple Pan, Philippe’s, Tom Bergin’s, Canters…I love them all. Long on my list […]
