Spring seems like it’s on its way this weekend, as it got pretty warm out, but everything’s relative, I guess. Our weekend started with a little after-work drink with folks from work at the Bowery – love that baked mac and cheese there – and then a screening of Lars and the Real Girl, which […]

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A quick rundown of the weekend, as we’re already into another busy week and I can’t seem to keep up: first, dinner at Simon LA as part of Dine LA week, which made the pricey restaurant somewhat more affordable, and made for a nice evening out. Saturday morning we walked around Castellammare (Walking L.A. tour […]

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It was an inside/outside weekend, with nomination screenings mixed in with some L.A. sightseeing and restaurant-going. We found the one moment of sunshine in each day of the weekend to do our outside activities: a hike in Caballero Canyon on Saturday morning, which was a nice little hour-long stroll through some rolling hills with a […]

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We took advantage of the return of the sunny weekend with a couple of outdoor adventures this weekend, first in the heretofore unknown Franklin Canyon, a great hiking spot nestled between Studio City and Beverly Hills. We missed the Faery Hunt that was going on while we were there, but we did enjoy a two-hour […]

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Looks like they’re getting closer to being finished at LACMA – driving down Wilshire lately, I noticed row after row of lampposts begind the fence, and wondered if they were being set up before being deployed throughout the campus. Of course not; it’s an installation, of a work called “Urban Light” by Chris Burden. I […]

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So there’s NoHo in New York (thought it’s a bit of a pretender and was apparently invented in the late ’80s by a “cabal of real estate developers,” according to Wikipedia), and then there’s the Noho I know, lovely Northampton, Massachusetts – and now there’s our local NoHo, North Hollywood. We took another Walking L.A. […]

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Aimee gave me a book of hikes in the L.A. area, and as part of my four-letter resolutions (read more, hike more, draw more), we took our first of the hikes on New Year’s Day. It was a good one to start on, because it doesn’t really qualify as a hike, but is more along […]

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We arrived back in L.A. last night after an uneventful flight in from Boston; I finished the last two episodes of “State of Play,” which was a lot of fun, but I’m sure won’t translate that well into Russell Crowe/Ben Affleck-ese next year. We had a really great time hanging out with Aimee’s family for […]

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With my last “easy” weekend of running until, well, August, we took advantage of the gorgeous, sunny day on Sunday to do a little exploring downtown. We’d been to the Disney Concert Hall and MOCA before, and Aimee had recently been to the Cathedral on a field trip, but the walking tour we took tied […]

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This past weekend, Aimee and I took another L.A. walking tour, this time around Miracle Mile, and met Michael halfway through for lunch ($12 worth of meat) at Pampas, the Brazilian churrascaria place in the Farmer’s Market at the Grove. We also took our “This American Life Live” poster to get framed, and ran some […]

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Things are looking up: our umpteenth plumber appointment brought a breakthrough, and on Friday morning, I took a real, working shower, complete with hot water. Turns out our shower head wasn’t allowing the level of water pressure required to make the hot water heater kick in. We chose a new shower head, and that was […]

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This weekend, we tried out another walking tour from our Walking L.A. book (it had been a few months since our last one), this time in Lower Beachwood Canyon in Hollywood. The walk was really pleasant and wound its way around the narrow streets, past houses of vaguely Mediterranean design, plus a few outlying castles […]

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We spent day two of the four-day weekend on another walking your, this time of Larchmont Village, which was very enjoyable. It was less activity-filled than yesterday’s, but brought us by a lot of interesting houses and through some neighborhoods we’d never have otherwise seen. More photos here.

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I found out on Thursday that I still had my ‘floating holiday’ for 2006 left to use, and only one day left in which to use it, so I took today off to spend with Aimee, who returned from Boston last night. We started with breakfast at Eat Well on Beverly, a place Aimee runs […]

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