T on January 31st, 2010

(Warning – Spoiler Alert!  Read on at your own risk)
From the moment you begin contemplating the name, you realize that the Museum of Jurassic Technology is not going to be your ordinary natural history museum.  Jurassic Technology?! How narrow a focus can you get?  And wait a minute – technology in the Jurassic period?  Were [...]

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T on January 31st, 2010

Last night I attended the LA A Cappella Festival. The seeds were sown last Thanksgiving, when friend J played a recording by LA a cappella group Sonos on a road trip.  Actually, they must have been planted many years before, when I learned to love a cappella singing in high school chorus. I continued loving [...]

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T on January 30th, 2010

When I review the 18-month history of my blog, there seems to be a definite pattern: architecture, the arts, hiking – and food. While I’m hardly a restaurant critic, it’s fair to say that I’ve enjoyed visiting some of LA’s varied dining establishments. It’s not just for the food – many of them offer a [...]

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When I moved to Southern California, Jerry Dunphy was anchoring KCAL news, and you couldn’t help but notice his distinctive intro, “From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening.”  Say what you will about LA, but Southern California’s remarkable climate and geography make for a combination that is occasionally [...]

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T on January 16th, 2010

If there’s a better way to start a weekend, I sure can’t think of it. Last night I went with friends to see the Troubadour Theater Company’s latest production, Frosty the Snow Manilow.  I didn’t want it to ever end.
Maybe it was the fact that I’d had a stressful day. Maybe it was the incredible [...]

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T on January 9th, 2010

Once I got it into my head that I had to try out the “musical road”, the next step was to figure out how I was going to make the trip. Since it lies 70 miles away from LA, Lancaster is a long way to drive just to try something and turn around.
Originally I thought [...]

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