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Birthday dinner – Firenze Osteria
We’ve eaten at quite a few Osteria in Italy – those eateries are typically high quality but offer a more limited menu than restaurants; we’ve usually had great success eating at osterias. And Firenze Osteria is no exception! Here is the description from their flyer: A stone’s throw from Universal Studios, Firenze Osteria is setting […]
June 26th, 2010 by alephnaught
Pasadena
We decided to head to Pasadena on Saturday, so we dropped Iggy at doggy daycare (he loves it there, he runs with the other pups and comes home and sleeps like a log) and drove out to Pasadena. We started with my goal for the trip – I wanted to see the Hiroshige print show […]
June 6th, 2010 by alephnaught
Metldown, Farmer’s Market and Venice Beach + @thegeo & @sinburned & @judemanchu
Today is Nathan’s last day on this visit; he had arranged for us to meet up with @sinburned and @judemanchu at Meltdown, a famous comic book store in LA (in west Hollywood). We shopped and talked, and then headed over to the Farmer’s Market for lunch; we all ended up eating from the Singapore’s Banana […]
June 5th, 2010 by alephnaught
Little Tokyo
Today I took Nathan down to Little Tokyo so he could shop the anime shops and spend some time with an on-line friend of his that tests games for a living. I took two videos with my iPhone – the first of a cool sculpture I found in the entry way of a building: And […]
June 3rd, 2010 by alephnaught
Lip Service
Nathan wanted to check out a clothing store that specializes in custom and steampunk clothing called Lip Service. It took over an hour to drive there, but it was worth it – they make the clothes there, and they have some really great designs!
May 29th, 2010 by alephnaught
May 13th, 2010 by alephnaught
Aviva’s birthday!
We decided to go out for dinner; Aviva wanted to try a seafood restaurant in Calabasas called Kings. The food was very good; the decor was similar to family-style seafood places in Chicago, but the food was much better. Aviva had king crab legs and I had a steelhead filet with a dry rub – […]
May 1st, 2010 by alephnaught
Pictures from Earth Day in Santa Monica and shopping in Venice, CA
Many pictures taken during the Earth Day celebration on the Promenade in Santa Monica and a trip shopping in Venice, CA.
April 20th, 2010 by alephnaught
Universal City
I noticed via TripIt that a former colleague from LaSalle Bank was coming to town for a week on business, so we arranged to have dinner. We ate at Karl Strauss Brewery – the beer was wonderful and the food was also quite good; I had their mac and cheese with meats – extremem comfort […]
April 11th, 2010 by alephnaught
Pictures from West Hollywood and Lookout Mountain
We decided to play hookie on Saturday afternoon and shopped around West Hollywood. On the way home we saw Lookout Mountain, which was a big hippie spot in the ’60s and has some great lookouts, so we drove up it part way; we got to a narrow section and had to back out to let […]
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July 3rd, 2010 by alephnaught