We began exploring Los Angeles through the book Walking L.A.: 36 Walking Tours Exploring Stairways, Streets and Buildings You Never Knew Existed back in late 2006, hoping to tackle all 36 walks over the next year or so. It has taken us a little longer than that; we’ve moved twice, the book has come out […]

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So, a quick recap of the last five weeks, more for the future us than for anyone else, because we end up using the blog to jar our deficiently attentive, distracted brains when we can’t remember what we’ve done. So, I call on Flickr, our credit card statements, Google Maps, and Google Calendar to help […]

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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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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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We started our four-day weekend (five-day for Aimee, actually) with a Walking L.A. walk, which we hadn’t done in a long time. This one was not far from us, in Wilshire Center and Koreatown, starting at the Wiltern. I’d never really noticed how green it is.I bought this shirt awhile ago, commemorating the 30th anniversary […]

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…and August will be over in a flash. We got back from a nice trip to Anchorage on Sunday night, which ended with a twenty-minute conversation with Wilco’s guitarist, Nels Cline, as we waited for our delayed flight at the (soon to be renamed?) Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. He was really nice and friendly, […]

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In between our trips hither and yon, we’ve been trying to make the most of our weekends, so instead of a screening on Friday night, we headed to the new-ish Father’s Office in Culver City, completely packed as usual, for dinner and drinks. We lucked out despite the free-for-all seating policy and managed to nab […]

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We had a bit of a shortened weekend, as I was at a film preservation conference at work all day Friday and all day Saturday, but we made the most of it, with a nice dinner out at Barefoot Restaurant on Saturday night and an afternoon walk in Beachwood Canyon on Sunday. And I thought […]

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Walking L.A. led us to another gem of a neighborhood today, this time in the hills near the Hollywood Bowl, overlooking Hollywood Boulevard. Whitley Heights, once home to Hollywood royalty like Valentino, Chaplin, and Garland, was severed in half by the construction of the 101 Freeway in the mid-’40s, and was recently granted protection as […]

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Yesterday we took a (very) brief walk around Laurel Canyon – rather, around the grocery store and past the house where Jim Morrison once lived. We were meant to walk up the Prospect steps and back down the hill on the other side, but the steps were blocked and overgrown at the top, so we […]

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Noticing that a number of the walks in Walking L.A. are under a mile long and don’t really justify an entire trip, we decided to tackle a group of westside walks this morning, four in all, from Santa Monica to Culver City. We started in Santa Monica, in an area of the community I’d never […]

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It’s been a pretty steamy weekend here, with temperatures in the mid-90s, a little early for summer heat, but what can you do? I guess we could be in Anchorage, which just got two feet of snow yesterday… We got up early Saturday morning to avoid the heat and headed out on a hike, or […]

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We got more done this morning before noon than usually happens in an entire weekend: rose at 5:00, out the door to Agoura Hills at 5:30, in time for a 7:00 am half marathon. It was a great race, about half on pavement and half on trails, with a couple of nasty uphills and some […]

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We spent the bulk of the weekend getting our deck ready, by finally assembling the (Vietnamese) Adirondack chairs, and by buying and building a grill and a table, so we are now officially prepared for a summer of barbeque and lounging on the deck while sipping mojitos, or something. Saturday, we took a

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