Escape to a French-inspired hideaway blocks from the beach
by The Culver Hotel has always appeared to be misplaced somehow. It’s tall and brick and obviously built a long time ago–in 1924 to be exact. …
Category: Beach Cities
Best chowder in L.A. is floating on a barge in the Los Angeles Harbor
For decades the chowder served at Neptune’s Net has drawn brawny bikers and jeans-clad movie stars out to Malibu for Sunday morning chowder at the …
The launch of Insight Mars lander seen from Pasadena
I watched the live stream on the NASA website until the actual launch at 4:05 a.m. and then rushed out to my balcony armed with …
Searching for Santa at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica
After an hour and a half ride across L.A. on the Metro I disembarked at the end of the Expo Line in Santa Monica, fully …
Kayaking, sailing, paddleboarding…oh, it’s too hot for all that!
When the weather forecast indicated that it was going to be over 100F this weekend, I escaped to Long Beach where it was supposed to …
Cycling to the beach, painting a bus, playing an ecello at CicLAvia Culver City
I didn’t ride in this CicLAvia, but took the Expo Metro Line out to Culver City, one of the hubs for the event. The next …
Who built the Santa Barbara Mission Church? Why the Chumash natives, of course. (Not the Franciscan friars.)
I fell into a very surprising conversation with a young-ish woman in the bookstore of the Santa Barbara Mission, as I was photographing some of …
A thread of weirdness runs through flower shows including the Orchid Show in Santa Barbara
Over the years I’ve been to flower shows occasionally and have always found them to be like Victorian Curiosity Cabinets–full of both amazing beauty and …
Kite festival at Redondo Beach was a family affair on a sunny warm Sunday
Most of the kites at the Redondo Beach Kite Festival were small ones. It was obvious that Dad had gone to the local kite store …
Oil prices down. Oil prices up. Where does all that oily stuff come from?
Over the last year [2014-2015] we’ve all seen oil prices plunge and — thank goodness–gas prices plummet, too. Now gas prices, at least here in …