Today is the first day of fall. There are officially 100 days left in calendar year 2009. This means that any day now there will be Christmas music streaming from the open doorways of the stores on the Third Street Promenade and the pervasive smells of cinnamon, pine and cloves will be wafting over
Good fences make good neighbors is a time worn phrase. Taken literally, it doesn’t make much sense. Why would something that keeps people apart make them good neighbors? It’s counterintuitive.
For most of us, Labor Day means the end of the summer, time to pack up the barbecue and the pool toys, put the tiki lamps in storage and break out the fall decorations.
It’s the end of the summer season. Seriously. We are at the last two weeks before summer is unofficially over and we begin the speed trials to Christmas.
Saturday I was meeting some friends for lunch on the Third Street Promenade and I took the wrong exit from the freeway. Instead of the Fifth Street exit, I took Lincoln Boulevard.
This past Memorial Day I was at a men’s retreat in the Malibu mountains. It’s 320 gay men running around the forest, well, decorating it really. There are all kinds of arts and crafts events, inner emotional workshops, classes on how to get to know your inner child, and of course with 320 gay men, t
Summer is in full swing, the tourists are here and far from their home, but some things just don’t change. I was walking through the lobby of the Loews Hotel on Ocean Avenue, and passed a family from France, mother, father, daughter and teenage boy.
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things is a concept that was put forth by science fiction writer and philosopher Douglas Adams in his now six part trilogy that started with the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Summer is in full swing and with it the urge to be outside. Many people these days are unemployed and get to be outside, but for those who are still employed and have the fantasy of quitting their job and being their own boss, this is a rough time of year.
This past Fourth of July we had yet another wonderful community event, put on by a devoted group of locals led by Lori Nafshun, the Ocean Park Association’s events chair, and a horde of helpful heroines and heroes.
Burgers, BBQs and beer — these are the hallmarks of the upcoming Fourth of July celebration. This year as we honor our freedoms and occasionally remember the ones who fought for them, let’s keep in mind the value of those freedoms.
This past weekend hundreds of people celebrated Juneteenth at Virginia Avenue Park, which is a commemoration of the June 19, 1865 arrival of Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that became effective Jan.
