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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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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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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