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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
