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We woke up this morning expecting two feet of drifting snow, thanks to the non-stop doomsayers on the local news, but in the end, the storm didn’t bring quite as much as we thought it might, and the chaos it created seemed to be at a minimum. Whether or not we’ll get out of Logan […]

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Back in 2003, when we lived in Boston, we enjoyed a snowstorm or two, and today, we’re enjoying another good old-fashioned Stormageddon™. And by enjoying, I mean marveling at the ST7RM CENTER Doppler radar coverage and hyperbole and driving school closures and poor meteorologists stuck out in grocery store parking lots reporting live. We had […]

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A few months ago, I picked up a copy of Los Angeles Magazine featuring a piece on the “small towns” of Los Angeles, which we thought would make good destinations for day trips while I’m on leave. For our first trip, at the end of November, we visited Calabasas, where we wandered the farmers’ market […]

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Part of the reason for taking advantage of California’s paternity leave again at this point in the year was so we could take Grace home for the holidays to each of our homes. We won’t be doing this every year, but we thought it would be nice to do it once. We started off with […]

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It’s that time of year again… We got the gingerbread house going yesterday, and ended up with a nice, understated approach that didn’t have any significant construction disasters (except for the the mistake of using multi-colored candy balls on the roof line, which required tweezers to remove and be replaced with red and green only). […]

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Now that my East coast trip is in the rear view mirror, here’s a quick recap of the end of the D.C. leg and my week in Philadelphia: On my last morning in town, I visited the National Building Museum, having almost left D.C. before remembering the Lego exhibit going on there. The last visit […]

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The Air and Space Museum was always my favorite of the Smithsonian museums, and since the Udvar-Hazy Center, located near Dulles Airport, opened a few year ago, I’ve wanted to pay a visit. It’s always tempting you when you land there, but it’s never quite convenient enough for a visit. This time Scott had his […]

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When I’m traveling, I usually try to milk a day for all it’s worth, going from one thing to the next without much of a break, until I collapse in a pile of exhausted accomplishment at the end of the day. It’s how I operate, and it’s tempered by Aimee’s presence when we’re traveling together, […]

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It’s been a busy few days in Washington, D.C. for me. I arrived Wednesday afternoon, went for a run around the Mall, and had Ethiopian with my friend Sloan from high school, whom I haven’t seen in about ten years. On Thursday morning, I made my way to the White House for a tour, which […]

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Every once in awhile, we stop and ask ourselves what we did before Grace came along; it usually involves being what now seems like lazy or self-centered, or just busy doing baby-unfriendly things. I don’t know where blogging fits in there; we haven’t really done as much to write about, and I also have no […]

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Movie Week 2010 was a multiplex-heavy event, in part because I covered most of the independent cinemas in Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009 and also because, having not been to the movies for a few months, I hadn’t seen anything that had come out all summer, most of which was still in the theaters. […]

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AMC Century City 15 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Saturday, 9/25/10, 11:00 am Price: $7, their discounted “A.M. Cinema” price. Concessions: None Audience: 75-100 people, probably, which seemed pretty good for a Saturday morning. Trailers/advertising: The terrible “AMC First Look” ad/trailer package was going when I came in, with ads for TV shows, movies, Coke, […]

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American Cinematheque at the Aero Theater Manhattan Friday, 9/24/10, 7:30 pm Price: free with my badge. Concessions: None Audience: 150? 200? The theater was mostly full, not unusual at the Aero, but always pleasantly surprising to me. Trailers/advertising: No trailers, but one of those hyperactive KCRW ads that the Cinematheque always shows at its two […]

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Pacific Culver 12 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Thursday, 9/23/10, 7:05 pm Price: $11.75, and free meter parking on a nearby street. Concessions: None Audience: 8 or so in a small theater, maybe 75 seats Trailers/advertising: Trailers for My Soul to Take, Skyline, Jackass 3D, and It’s Kind of a Funny Story. Projection: 35mm platter, […]

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