Running on fumes

I'm SO AWAKE and well-versed on the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles right now! :)

Just finished writing some neighborhood council and CRA/LA reports for The Neighborhood News' October/November edition.

lush

Oreana Winery in Santa Barbara has Cupcake + Wine Pairing Saturdays!

I can only vouch for their normal tasting on Labor Day Monday but I highly recommend it.

Lists

Officially crossing the following off the NATGEO list below (as posted at the highly recommended L.A. County Fair's Wine Marketplace):

1. Handel's Homemade Ice Cream, US
2. Dr. Bob's handcrafted ice cream, CA (CPP!!)
3. Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream, Massachusetts
4. Berthillon, Paris (Droool)
5. Bim Bom *yet another reason to visit Cuba*
6. Coppella *yet another reason to visit Cuba*
7. Cold Stone Creamery, US
8. Crescent Ridge Dairy, Massachusetts
9. Vivoli Gelato, Florence
10. Haagen Daaz, U.S.

Train Riders: Expect Delays

Click here to check out my article for The Neighborhood News here

It only takes a quick glance down Exposition Boulevard to know the Expo Light Rail line is coming. But completion dates and final plans remain unclear and many of the details of the $862 million Phase 1 remain murky. Its estimated opening date has been pushed back for at least 50 weeks from May 2010 into late 2011

Looking Into A Murky Crystal Ball

"Rather than train journalists to dismiss their own experiences, what if we trained them to use those experiences to help them explain the news to their audience? Allow their humanity to shape their journalism?"

Excellent article. Please check it out - "Look At Me!"

Lawyer Returns to Practice, Finding Much Has Changed (Excerpt)

By Carla Pineda
Daily Journal Staff Writer

D. Stephen Antion left private practice
10 years ago for an in-house
job at Ridgestone Corp., the Los Angeles
investment group. He recently
returned to private practice to help
Katten Muchin Rosenman grow its
corporate business in Los Angeles.
What he found is a different world
than the one he left. Billing rates have
skyrocketed and the city’s key clients
have changed...

Slice of Life (and cake) : Mid-February