Holiday Mode: UniqueLA
I am in full-on holiday mode. All I want to do these days is shop, bake, eat, knit, and drink cocktails. UniqueLA satisfied all of my seasonal cravings. Watch my video below to see what I came home with:
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Some Thoughts on Occupy LA
Los Angeles suffers from a dearth of green space. Occupy LA was evicted, and the lawn around City Hall is now a wasteland of dirt and debris. Surfaces have been tagged with graffiti, and according to NBC, some of the debris is contaminated with urine …
Messy Thursdays
I hated every second of it, the yoga class I took this morning at the Hollywood YMCA. It was only my second of the entire year, and the last one, nearly eight months ago, was all rest and relaxation. The instructor of this morning’s class, …
Autumn in LA
The air is different here. The leaves on the deciduous trees have changed color, and the temperatures are seasonably cool. Still, though, it’s different. Sixty-two degrees comes with a scent of warmth, comforting rays upon the face, instead of the nibbling chill of East Coast …
Los Angeles Metro Regional Connector
I am a fan of public transportation, but particularly of public transportation that works. For it to work, it needs to be efficient, timely, and expansive – that is, it needs to cover the majority of a city, so that folks of all demographics, from …
The Last Morning September 11 Had No Meaning
“They jumped. I saw them jump, and fall, all that way. They jumped,” the woman next to me said, her eyes frozen in stare, her face stone cold. All I could do was listen, as we rode up the island on the 1 train. She …
A Lazy Sunday Leads Me to the Griffith Park Trail Half Marathon
On Sundays, I have time, and with this time, I walk. Sometimes my walks take me into the sinuous hills of Beachwood, sometimes into the sun-baked paths of Griffith Park. Sometimes my walks turn into runs, as I join the motivated, life-affirming achievers that chase …
The People of Hollywood, Part II: The Schizophrenic of Gramercy Place
“Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood!” A week or two after we moved in to our neighborhood, my husband and I both became conscious of a young woman who lived in the building across the street from ours. She couldn’t have gone unnoticed. She looked about twenty-five years …
Summer in Traffic
I live on the East Side, but I work on the West Side. When I moved to Los Angeles, I found this scenario unthinkable. I’d found a place in Hollywood, and while I looked for work, I looked solely east of La Cienega. If I …
The City Observed: Thrillist’s Punch Crawl – (Los Angeles Roars On)
During the week of Zooey Deschanel and Pat Morrison’s war of words over Downtown LA, two opportunities arose to experience the wonders of the metropolitan center of the city. The first was the Thrillist Bols Genever Punch Crawl on Wednesday night, and the second was …