January 15, 1913 California native Lloyd Bridges was born in San Leandro, California. He would later attend UCLA and finally achieve world wide success appearing in more than 150 films.
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Dana Andrews was a key Hollywood star throughout the 1940s. Shining as a romantic lead in many dramatic films, Andrews worked with many top actresses of the day. Though he appeared in several notable films, he is most celebrated for offering some of the many moving performances in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
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In just a few days, the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars. The mission will include the search for signs of ancient life, experiment with converting Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen and even gathering rock and soil samples to be retrieved on a future Mars mission. This impressively ambitious rover also carries a little helicopter by the name of “Ingenuity.” Sometime after touching down in Jezero Crater, the rover will deploy Ingenuity to attempt the first powered test flight on another world. Read on to learn about another special passenger who’s also on board.
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On the last Sunday of each year, the Southern California Horseless Carriage Club has a much-anticipated meeting and drive around Pasadena, San Marino, and environs.
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Can you imagine travelling 5,000 miles for a date? A chance ‘hook-up?’
Luckily for we humans, that’s not the norm. It is for the Gray whale.
It’s migration season. Every year from mid-December thru late April, Gray whales make a 10,000-mile round trip from their Artic feeding grounds south to the lagoons of Baja Mexico. It is one of the longest migrations of any mammal. And we get to see it right in our backyard! Sometime calves are born along the way and are carefully guided by their very protective moms to the waters of Baja.
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As the Chef in my family I make dinner every night. Jim oversees beverages and the other night he surprised me with something special.
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Stories you tell yourself influence what you think and do.
In fact, everything you think is a story you accept or create. Your narrative also reveals to others who you are and what they hear from your sweet lips determines how they react to you.
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Why do we get such stunning sunsets? It turns out that we live in one of the best places in the world to experience these wonders!
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Holiday shopping in Southern California can be the ultimate luxury experience depending on the areas you choose to explore and visit. Shopping is the ultimate hobby for many Californians, and it is considered by some to be an art form.
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There are so many fads and confusion when it comes to diet and nutrition these days. As a personal chef and caterer, I am always faced with the challenge of creating delicious offerings for varying dietary needs.
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At Thanksgiving time (or any time), many of life’s most joyous occasions occur around the table. Family and friends gather, food is prepared or purchased, and everlasting memories are made. With the tone properly set and the elements painstakingly in place, all that is remaining is how to properly navigate your way around the table and elegantly bring the food into your mouth.
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If you are ready to thrive use my two big A’s formula: Awaken and Attitude.
1. AWAKEN
The awake you knows from experience that what you think and say can bring you up or throw you down. Suggestions you give yourself are self-hypnosis that becomes your reality. If you tell yourself, “I feel yucky,” that’s exactly how you feel. If you tell yourself "I feel better and better and best” your positive affirmation becomes real.
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There comes a point in each of our lives where we can start checking off major milestones and accomplishments. When that happens, say when people either obtain a position they’ve been jockeying to hold for many years, or they reach a level of personal wealth or perhaps even just an anniversary to commemorate a milestone, we often tend to reward ourselves with the fruits of our labor. Many people opt for vacations, expensive wine or other status symbols, but some people opt to commemorate their achievements with a piece of custom jewelry.
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MADE IN CALIFORNIA: The California-Born Burger Joints, Diners, Fast Food &
Restaurants that Changed America
By George Geary
Forward by Chris Nichols, senior editor at Los Angeles magazine
Prospect Park Books/An Imprint of Turner Publishing
August 2021/Hardcover/$40.00
ISBN: 978-1-945551-91-8 / Ebook ISBN: 9781945551925
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Studies underscore mechanisms that evoke happiness. When you get down to it, in engineering terms, you are like a thermostat, a “bio-energetic cybernetic feedback unit.” Your reactions excite your inner alchemist to cascade hormones and biochemistry throughout your system.
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I think about my father every now and again. I will hear one of his favorite songs in an elevator or see something that would have made my dad laugh and I smile. He died 10 years ago of emphysema – from smoking. Here, alone, treading water at night in the dark off the California coast, waiting for the dive boat to pick me up, makes me think about a lot of very odd things. The dive boat is late and I bob up and down offshore watching the lights of Redondo Beach appear as I crest a wave and then disappear as I drop into a trough. In the solitude I think of sharks, drowning, and my dad. I try and focus on my dad.
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See’s Candies and Rombauer Vineyards – what’s a more iconic pairing than a delicious California chocolate and wine? To celebrate National Wine Day, the two California companies came together to share delicious pairings
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