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Let’s Drive Around a Volcano in Iceland … Shall We?

by Jay Hood May 6, 2015

Iceland. We spent most of our time around Reykjavik. There were countless highlights on the tourist checklist, most centered in proximity to the capital city. We saw waterfalls, thermal pools and whales. In the end, it was a spur of the moment drive that ended up being the coolest thing we did. One day, toward […]

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King of the Surf Guitar – Dick Dale Turns 78

by Tony Shea May 4, 2015

About ten years ago, I saw Dick Dale and Carlos Santana (ranked #74 and #20 respectively in Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Guitar Players) on back to back nights in Los Angeles. I attended both shows with the girl who was eventually to become my wife, but at the time we had just […]

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Let’s Go to the Whitney, Shall We?

by Tony Shea May 4, 2015

Spring is in full effect in New York and to celebrate the Whitney threw a block party with free admission to the museum’s new digs.

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Daniel Day-Lewis Day

by Tony Shea April 29, 2015

Daniel Day-Lewis turns 58 today. Born and raised in London to parents of Anglo-Irish and Jewish descent, Day-Lewis is the only person to win the Best Actor Oscar three times, making a case as the finest actor ever in the process. DDL, as I  like to call him, has carefully selected his roles throughout his […]

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BeFILM Opens with Amazing Slate of Films

by Tony Shea April 22, 2015

BeFILM, the underground film festival, opened last night in New York with a slate of amazing films. Now in it’s 12th year, the festival showcases the best short films in animation, documentary, experimental, narrative and 3D Stereoscopic categories. Festival Founder and Director Laurence Asseraf and Program Director Dimitris Athos carved through some 800 entries to […]

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Jack Attack – The 9 Best Films of Jack Nicholson

by Tony Shea April 22, 2015

Jack Nicholson turns 78 today. One of the greatest method actors of all time, Jack has been a sheer force of personality for more than fifty years so far. To celebrate his birthday I’ve assembled my list of his 9 best films.

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Earth Day – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

by Tony Shea April 22, 2015

The fact that Earth Day coincides with J. Robert Oppenheimer’s birthday is perhaps no coincidence. Along with Enrico Fermi, Oppenheimer developed the first prototype nuclear weapon that was detonated in the “Trinity” test in Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Upon seeing the colossal column of fire and resultant mushroom cloud, Oppenheimer quoted […]

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Let’s Ride Bikes Until We Are Insensible, Shall We?

by Benji Kozuch April 18, 2015

STATISTICS: Mileage: 87.5 Riding time: 8:46:48 Total time: 10:01:32 Temp: 67-75 F Number of clouds: 0 Number of mechanicals: 0 I caught wind that my friends were planning to do an 80-90 mile mountain biking loop in the foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains, about 30 miles southwest of Tucson. The loop was clockwise, and consisted of jeep roads […]

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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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Let’s Go to the Easter Bonnet Festival NYC – Shall We? [PHOTOS]

by Tony Shea April 5, 2015

In my role as professional tourist I’m willing to do anything once. And so today I headed out with the family in tow over to 47th St. and 5th Ave for the annual “Easter Bonnet Festival”…

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Country-Punk Legend Mike Ness Turns 52

by Tony Shea April 3, 2015

Mike Ness, frontman and lead guitarist for SoCal punkers Social Distortion, turns 52 today. For 37 years now Ness has been belting it out with his unmistakably ragged voice, becoming one of America’s greatest purveyors of rock and roll along the way. Part Johnny Cash and part Joey Ramone, Ness is a country-punk pioneer who […]

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The Ten Best AC/DC Songs

by Tony Shea March 31, 2015

The truly great Angus Young turns 60 today. Listed by Rolling Stone as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time, Young has been the primo ax-man for Aussie rockers AC/DC for more than forty years, clad perpetually in his schoolboy outfit and throwing down a series of legendary riffs that have penetrated the collective unconscious.

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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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