T on August 21st, 2011

There’s a cool little wine store on Melrose near Highland known as domaineLA. It’s the brainchild of Jill Bernheimer, who in addition to being a Eph, also does fun things with wine. I don’t get there as often as I’d like, but I keep tabs on what’s happening there via the store’s facebook page.  Jill’s [...]

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T on August 21st, 2011

I have a new guilty pleasure. I’ve been meaning to check out Mad Men for some time now.  And now you can watch all 4 seasons on Netflix streaming, so I find myself transported several times each night to 1960s Manhattan.  Just as with Dexter, the advantage of having waited so long to get into [...]

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T on August 14th, 2011

Maybe it was sheer luck. Maybe it was fate. Whatever the force was that caused me to stumble across the website of LARail.com, I am grateful to it. For it introduced me to the Santa Barbara Vino Train. I knew I had to experience it when I read about it. And when I saw availability [...]

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T on August 13th, 2011

Born July 16, 1911, John Lautner would have turned 100 this year. To commemorate the occasion, the MAK Center teamed with the John Lautner Foundation to create a tour of some of his great homes in the LA area. I know from experience that the homes that MAK features are among the most interesting and [...]

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