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To Summit Up – Part 4: Playing Lost and Found on Baldy

by Kerry Lambert October 23, 2015

Kerry Lambert’s continuing quest to hike California’s “six-pack” continues this week as she heads to Mount Baldy for another grueling adventure. TS Summit #3:  Mt. San Antonio, a.k.a. “Mt. Baldy” Elevation:  10,064 feet,  4000 feet elevation gain, 13.6 miles (from Manker Flats to summit and back) There was an unspoken agreement that my husband and […]

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Where I Stand: Back to the Future’s Hill Valley – 30 Years Later

by Nate "Chops" Johnson October 21, 2015

Today if you didn’t know is 10/21/2015 – the infamous date foretold on the dash of time-traveling Delorean in Back to the Future. So to celebrate, Nate Johnson and Mitchell Kohen revisit the actual locations in and around Los Angeles where the classic film was shot, for a fascinating look behind the scenes. TS With […]

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The Last Song Janis Ever Sang

by Nate "Chops" Johnson October 1, 2015

Forty-five years ago today, on October 1st, 1970, Janis Joplin, widely considered the world’s first female superstar of rock, stepped into Studio 1 at Sunset Sound studios in Hollywood to record the song “Mercedes Benz”. Stripped of instruments and using only her vocals, the song would become a hallmark of her career and personal rock […]

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Weird Science – Grows Up

by Nate "Chops" Johnson June 11, 2015

I was in my hometown of Nashville recently visiting family, and since my “body clock” is two hours behind theirs and I stay up later, one of the first things I do when I walk in the house is scour the tv listings and record shows or movies that I want to watch once the […]

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To Summit Up: Part 3 – Cucamonga

by Kerry Lambert April 10, 2015

CUCAMONGA PEAK Via Icehouse Canyon summit: 8,859 feet, 14 miles, 4300 ft. elevation gain “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” —Shakespeare We were determined not to repeat our late arrival at Mt. Wilson, where we drove into a full lot at 6 a.m. Fool us once. So we arrived, pumped and ready, at the […]

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CicLAvia in the Valley – Shall We?

by Dan O'Day McClellan March 23, 2015

Andy Mangialino contributed to this article. CicLAvia, the premiere Los Angeles cycling event, rode into the Valley yesterday. This is the 12th installment of CicLAvia, which has thus far focused on routes on the south side of the Hollywood Hills, including routes downtown as well as along Wilshire Blvd. But yesterday the San Fernando Valley […]

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No Pants Day LA, 2014

by Dan O'Day McClellan January 15, 2014

It was No Pants Day in LA this past Sunday, actually all over the globe. What began in NY 11 years ago as an event started by a group called Instant Improv, No Pants Day has grown to thousands of men and woman strutting around the world, riding the metro with no pants.

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To Summit Up

by Kerry Lambert October 16, 2013

Part 1 of a 7-part series. Part One: Before the Trailhead I didn’t know exactly why I wanted to climb a mountain when I first announced my intentions to my husband. I’d always loved the outdoors, but I wasn’t an avid hiker, and I had never backpacked through the wilderness. The previous year I had […]

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LA – Land of the Open Bar

by Dan O'Day McClellan August 9, 2013

My role as a, ahem, journalist, affords me access to a plethora of open bar events here in Los Angeles. The premiere of a movie or TV show, a special magazine issue, a modeling agency launch, a band releasing an album, on and on and on, one after the other, a cavalcade of free booze, smiling, […]

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Me and Ron Jeremy

by Dan O'Day McClellan February 7, 2013

Legendary porn actor Ron Jeremy, aka “The Hedgehog,” has been in the news lately after suffering a heart aneurism from which he is currently recovering at Cedars-Sinai Hospital.  A former substitute teacher from New York, Ron Jeremy got into the porn business after his girlfriend sent his picture to Playgirl magazine in the late 70’s.  And […]

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No Pants Day LA

by Dan O'Day McClellan January 19, 2013

Dan O’Day McClellan takes us along for the Los Angeles Metro’s yearly “No Pants Day.” No pants day on the Metro. Last year I remember thinking, why would anyone want to go on the Metro without pants? This year, I wanted to find out. I arrived at 1:30pm at the North Hollywood (NoHo) Red Line […]

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