When the rains sweep clean the L.A. Basin, hiking is in order. Here are three worthy places to explore.
Admit it – you’re perfectly happy not to be living back East with all those dreadful snowstorms. For many, the single …
Feel the Beat at Independent Music Stores
What is it about music stores that simultaneously make our heart swell like a crescendo, while soothing our souls? Perhaps it’s this heady combination: rows of glistening instruments, piles of sheet music, and the sounds of guitarists noodling out …
Bring Your Mod Squad to LA Modern Homes: Part 3
Hollyhock House
Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright built seven private homes in Los Angeles. Hollyhock House, constructed from 1919–21 and recently restored and reopened to the public, was his first. It was commissioned by iconoclastic heiress Aline Barnsdall, a feminist, …
Bring Your Mod Squad to LA Modern Homes: Part 2
Eames House
Located on a scenic oceanfront bluff in Pacific Palisades, the Eames House was the family home of Charles and Ray Eames, celebrated for their groundbreaking, often playful contributions to furniture and industrial design, architecture, films, exhibitions, and even …
Bring your Mod Squad to LA Modern Homes: Part 1
Schindler House
Nestled behind a thick wall of bamboo on Kings Road in West Hollywood, the Schindler House was designed by architect and Viennese émigré Rudolph Schindler and is considered one of the world’s first modern houses. You approach …
Trapeze School on the Santa Monica Pier
What do you do with a group of multi-aged cousins from cold climates who are eager for sun and fun during a visit to sunny Los Angeles? Send them to trapeze school, of course! We took six cousins – ranging …
XMass Through the Gift Shop
Do you have some problems to solve on your gift list? We sure do — the kids who have everything, grandma who says she doesn’t want any more “things,” and babysitters and teachers who deserve something better than a candle. …
Sand and Skate: Winter in Santa Monica
Here’s an “only in LA” adventure that is custom made for the holidays: dining with your toes in the sand before heading to an ice-skating adventure, all within a few blocks of each other. Welcome to winter in Santa Monica!…
Beach City Heaven: Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo Beaches
The three Beach Cities in the South Bay are bustling, unpretentious havens of ocean adoration. Locals seem to have drifted into town for love of the sea and have stayed on for decades, abiding by it’s rhythms and managing their …
