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Green Gardens without water?
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Sitting at The Talking Stick on Ocean Park Boulevard, after my volunteering gig at KCRW, an e-mail pops up. It’s an invitation to the second annual Green Gardens Tour-Santa Monica coming up later this month. Last year, I participated in the first garden tour. My favorite garden felt like a secret, lush garden — a vacation far from the city. I can’t wait to go again to see what I’ll experience and learn this time.
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THE IMBIBER
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Q: Why did God invent Guinness?
A: So that the Irish would never rule the world!
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Mothers and daughters share some down time at library’s spa day
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My 12-year-olds and I were among the lucky mothers and daughters to attend the first ever “Mother Daughter Spa Day” Feb. 4 at the New Main Library. The moment I saw the notice in the library’s calendar I signed up, and it’s good I did because there was a waiting list to get in.
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Where are all the kudos for gay actors playing the straight roles?
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As we head toward the Academy Awards ceremony in March and the momentum continues to grow for “Brokeback Mountain,” I keep thinking about the gay and lesbian actors who have convincingly played roles of heterosexual men and woman in TV and film.
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THE IMBIBER
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Usually, it isn’t difficult for your Imbiber to predict the future when I’m out drinking beer, since my nights on the town almost always involve some sort of ugly altercation outside a bar followed the next day by the nagging thought that I was somehow responsible.
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THE IMBIBER
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The Imbiber put in a call earlier this week to a representative from Diageo, parent company of Guinness and Bailey’s Original Irish Cream, two of the three ingredients used to make that most leg-wobbling of grog shop concoctions, the Car Bomb.
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THE IMBIBER
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Well, America, here we are, six full years into the George W. Bush Presidency and I, for one, couldn’t be happier with the direction this country is headed.
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