I’ve been to my fair share of places around the world, and it surprises me when I say Death Valley is my favorite place on earth. Since my first visit in the winter of 2002, I’ve been back at least once a year — sometimes twice. If you’re so inclined you can download a PDF …
The downtown Brooks Brothers store is closing, reportedly due to unrealized plans to relocate to a new space in the long-delayed Grand Avenue project. Most will mourn the end of that branch of the upscale clothier’s 71-year-old Los Angeles tradition, and normally I would too. But this time it’s a bit personal. So instead I …
I do these walks amazed that people actually join me. Still, when it got a couple minutes to 10 a.m. and I was the only one standing by the fountain at the corner of Hoover and Jefferson, I endured a mix of disppointment and relief. The former because no one loves to throw a party …
I have this little weekly ritual wherein on my way to work Friday morning’s, I stop at the supermarket nearest my office building, lock my bike up to the rim-wrecker bike rack by its front door, go inside, and purchase a bag of cookies that I then take with me to the office and put …
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A couple weeks ago I read an article in an issue of the LA Times that was thankfully without any ads for gas-powered leafblowers, and it detailed the L.A. County Museum of Natural History’s plans to enlist residents of the city to undertake a “backyard lizard census.” With a “Woo!” of surprise from Susan in …
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For the reason of “Just For The Helluvit” I added up my annual bike mileage totals beginning from January 1, 2007 — when I first vowed to log every ride — to last night’s commute home from work, and the number turned out to be another distance milestone crossed: 2007: 3,102.5000 2008: 6,608.1700 2009: 6,741.6930 …
It’s been going on four freaking months since the intersection of 4th Street and Muirfield in Hancock Park was torn up something nasty and then left in a condition that might not be noticeable to anyone speeding over it in a Lexus or Range Rover, but to anyone on two wheels who’s had no choice …
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