One thing I missed most during the pandemic was the ability to go see live music. One of my favorite things about Los Angeles is the amount of great venues to see music, both outdoor and in. And 2025 was a good one for me in terms of concertgoing. The way it usually works with me and Lynn is that if it's a show that has seats, she'll be in , and if it's standing only then I'll go alone or with a friend. That system worked out well this year, and these were the most transcende

As a daily bikerider in car-centric Los Angeles, I've become quite used to being the odd person out. At least most drivers are pretty friendly to cyclists here though (hahaha, jk, can you imagine?) But once every three months or so, like magic, Ciclavia takes over a different part of the city and suddently there are tens of thousands of other bikeriders joining me on gloriously car-free streets. It's like a glimpse of a better urban way to operate, if only for a day. The eve

Three hours north of San Francisco is a town that I've visited twice now, but am still not convinced that it actually exists. Jutting out from redwood forests into the rugged Northern California coast is a town filled with quaint victorian houses and storefronts from the 1850's. As legend has it, the first white settlers discovered it after their shipwreck stranded them in this beautiful spot full of huge trees that were ripe for logging. Migration followed from Maine, Norwa