Or maybe it doesn’t, but getting all of the home-buying stuff in order has certainly kept us busy. We’re somewhere in the midst of it all right now, closer to the end than to the beginning, but can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel yet. Or maybe we can see it, but […]

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Was it just a week ago that we looked at the condo again, pretty certain we were going to make an offer for it? Yes, it was – and the next day, Sunday, we went for a hike in Glendale, went back and forth again over who liked what and why, and generally felt like […]

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Today was a jam-packed, thirteen-hour extravaganza of stuff, that’s about the only way to put it. We started with one of the last remaining walks in our Walking L.A. book, and one of the shortest, as well, a half-mile stroll around Leimert Park Village, a little business district about six miles south of us. We […]

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I didn’t got to a movie last night, for the first time in a week, marking the end of my seven nights of moviegoing (sounds like a good idea for a holiday) around Los Angeles. Here’s the lineup, again: Revolutionary Road at the Goldwyn Theater Wendy and Lucy at the Laemmle Music Hall Gran Torino […]

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After celebrating a belated New Year’s Eve last night, now that Aimee and I are both in the same place, we woke up this morning resolved to tackle our hikes with gusto again, having lagged a bit with travel, house-hunting, and holidays in recent months. After discovering, reporting, filing, and otherwise dealing with a smashed […]

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The New Beverly Cinema Tell No One and A Girl Cut in Two Saturday, 1/3/09, 2:50 pm Price: $4 (one out of 8 punches on a punch card I bought from the owner of the New Beverly, Sherman Torgan, in 2006; he passed away in 2007) Concessions: I bought some Raisinets (now advertised with “Fruit […]

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Aimee arrived last night (minus her bag, unfortunately, which didn’t arrive until it was delivered by an American Airlines employee this morning) and we were eager to get back into the swing of our weekly walks and hikes. We headed out to the Hollywood Bowl for one of the few remaining walks in Walking L.A., […]

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After last night’s movie, I had dinner at the Apple Pan, a 60 year-old L.A. landmark, where I was served my tuna melt (off the menu, thank you very much), root beer in a conical paper cup inside a metal stand, and apple pie a la mode by the gentleman who has worked behind the […]

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The Landmark Theatre The Wrestler Friday, 1/2/09, 5:10 pm Price: $13 ($12 + $1 online ticket purchase surcharge) Concessions: Nothing – no time, plus I was saving room for the Apple Pan afterwards. Audience: A surprisingly full 200+ in theater 12, one of the upstairs screens that seats 250. Trailers/advertising: The International, He’s Just Not […]

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After catching It’s a Wonderful Life at the Cinematheque last night, I spent a few minutes wandering Hollywood Boulevard, not usually my favorite place but an interesting scene last night as the whole neighborhood was covered in a nice fog. And the Joker waits to cross the street:See all of the photos here.

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American Cinematheque at the Egyptian It’s a Wonderful Life Thursday, 1/1/09, 7:30 pm Price: Free with my badge. Concessions: Just some Red Vines, which I am making my way through. Audience: Approximately 100 or so in this 600+ seat theater. Trailers/advertising: Just one ad for KCRW, the one with the headphones with hundreds of vine-like […]

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Only in L.A., indeed.

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