Downtown Dining: The Gorbals
I have many people – and things? – to thank for this night. Ilan Hall and the Gorbals, for hooking it up with his delicious bacon-wrapped balls. I’m talking about the matzo balls. Don’t get nasty with me. Didn’t try the balls myself – my boyfriend was there – but heard good things from the...
Downtown Discovery: The Case of the Mystery GQ Wall
Not knowing exactly where this wall was in downtown has been bothering me immensely. Because I KNOW I’ve seen it before. BF and I have even spent a few minutes driving around downtown in hopes of spotting it. Little Tokyo… Grand Ave… nothing. And then on the way back home late Friday night, I saw...
Downtown Dining: Babycakes & Bingo Nights
I never have to leave downtown for the best cupcakes, what with Big Man Bakes and Babycakes both in the neighborhood. We stopped by Babycakes last night for a cupcake only to come home with five more. Four I won from their Tuesday Bingo Nights! Every win gets you two cupcakes. That means I won...
Type Spotting: Another City is Possible
Stumbled across these when we were poking around Farmlab the last time. - Shot by BF and Artful Dodger -
Downtown Discovery: Goats on Angel’s Knoll
Was super excited to hear that the goats were coming back to munch on the weeds at Angel’s Knoll. I caught them on the tail-end – har har – of their work week here: these pictures were shot after they were moved to the area right below Angel’s Flight. And some Blackberry snaps on Angel’s...
Downtown Dining: Clifton’s Cafeteria
This is a picture of Ray Harryhausen speaking at my college, when I was still just a wide-eyed art school kid in the Bay Area. (Okay, tired-eyed. That school kicked my ass. Because I actually worked my ass off.) Ray Harryhausen, THE father of stop-motion animation. As in, he’s legendary. Of course, being that we were...
LOVE: The beach, then back to the ‘burbs wedding
I love me a good wedding. And I better, because I’ve got a couple more to go to this summer. This first one’s going to be hard to top. Perfectly sunny day for a wedding overlooking Santa Monica Beach, and then a moonlit garden reception in the hometown we all grew up in. Did I...
DTLA Love: Eclipse Connection
I know you don’t have to ask if I’ve watched Eclipse already. The Riley character gets a noteworthy nod from me – it was the first time in a Twilight movie that I went, Oh, someone that is actually believable as a vampire, in a scary, but not cheesy, and kind of hot way. Right...