Spent Friday celebrating Dave’s birth into this world. We hardly ever venture down to Santa Monica Boulevard to eat so I thought it would be a nice change to venture over to Baby Blues BBQ. Their Memphis-style ribs fall right off the bone and there are plenty of sauces to choose from. Dave couldn’t get [...]

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Sometimes things can get a little too heavy in my chest. It’s easy to fall into a daily routine and sometimes you’ve just got to shake things up a bit. Don’t you ever get that feeling? Typically this is something I remedy with a bit of retail therapy, a trip to the nail salon or [...]

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Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Picasso, Raphael – who knew The Norton Simon Museum housed the works of these master artists? It’s easy to overlook this gem when The Getty, LACMA and MOCA tower over this quaint museum in Los Angeles. It’s small, cozy, intimate. Words not typically used when describing the atmosphere of a museum. [...]

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Small Gift L.A. is part pop-up carnival, part shopping mecca and really is cuteness in a box – in the shape of an airplane hangar. That certainly says something considering that Sanrio makes its megadollars by selling small trinkets and here there’s enough to do and buy that fills a space large enough to fit [...]

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What a weekend! I ate so much good food and got some much needed relaxation while catching up with old friends. Odd to think that just a week ago I was in Vienna. {Protein scramble at Hugo’s Restaurant in Studio City} {Trek through garden at Greystone Park in Beverly Hills} {Lounging in Greystone’s front lawn} [...]

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I had one of those delicious Saturdays where good food, good friends and a little exploring aligned for a delicious afternoon. The boyfriend and I met up with some of our friends at Wurstkuche where I had the tastiest sausage sandwich in my life.  I ordered the Filipino Maharlika, sweet pork sausage with natural seasonings [...]

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Thought I’d share a few images I took of  some jaw-dropping street art I came across while out having lunch with some friends on Saturday. It was hard to miss a giant octopus overtaking a fiery sunken ship or the apocalyptic scene of dark invaders or, my favorite, the grotesque and yet cute gang of [...]

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{image by amongtheseclouds via Flickr} Thanks to my boyfriend, within the last couple years I’ve come to appreciate the dark whimsical world of Tim Burton’s films. The man’s got style! I got re-acquainted with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, of all places, in a Hollywood cemetery last summer. Then a couple weeks ago we loaded up [...]

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