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Category Archives: Los Angeles

Mimi Madness

Links to the restaurants I talk about below:

Vibrato
West
Michael’s
Dukes
Chez Mimi


On the rare occasions my wife Deborah and I have a date — with four kids between the ages of nine and thirteen, we’re lucky to get out once every three or four months — we tend to go places that we know will be good. If [...]

L.A. on Horseback

A couple of my kids had been wanting to go horseback riding for some time. I did a bit of research, and we settled on Los Angeles Horseback Riding in Topanga Canyon. We rode for two hours, mainly along a fire road in the Santa Monica Mountains. Thanks to McCall (our guide) and to Souvenir, [...]

King-Harbor Falls Between a Rock and a Hard Place

What do you do if a hospital provides such murderously bad service that you have to shut it down, but provides services so necessary to a community that you can’t shut it down? If that hospital sits in a low-income area of Los Angeles, you pull the plug.
This is one of the reasons the health [...]