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Intrepid Road Trips: Willett Creek Hot Springs
First step: get to Ojai. Let's back up -- the first step, for me, when I decided to join some friends on a 20-mile round-trip trek to the amazing Willet Creek Hot Springs in the Sespe Wilderness, was...
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Petting Sloths At The Wildlife Learning Center: A Guide To Happiness
Photo courtesy of Makaela TrussellAmerica, you've been having a piece-of-shit week. I mean, really. You've got swarthy assholes with giant eyebrows blowing up marathon runners in Boston. You've got a...
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The World Has Ended. Let's Party.
I'm not one to resort to hyperbole, but the party I'm throwing on Saturday night is going to be the greatest thing ever to happen to anyone in America. Let me break it down for you. It's called...
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A Treasure Trove of Tacos
To call Mondo Taco a "hidden gem" would be cliché -- unless it's the type of gem those Disney dwarfs are always mining, where the facets have all been perfectly cut and polished before ever being...
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Pretty 'Vacancy'
No Vacancy is my new favorite bar in LA, and I say this without ever having gone to one of their tightrope-walking events. A little backstory on this place: it's the brainchild of Jonnie and Mark...
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The Secret Opera Happening In Union Station
What a difference interactivity makes. Take, for example, opera. I'm not an opera guy. I'm still going through what a friend of mine calls "the womp-womp" stage of musical taste, where the sound of a...
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Intrepid Road Trips: THE INTEGRATRON
"This one-of-a-kind 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, all wood dome was designed to be an electrostatic generator for the purpose of rejuvenation and time travel." --Actual quote from the Integratron...
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Arby's Is Dead, and Top Round Has Peed On Its Corpse
OK -- I know that title doesn't necessarily make you say "Hmm, I sure could go for some lunch right now", but hear me out. The western US is in a roast beef crisis. Snatch your average citizen off the...
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The 20 Most Beautiful Places In Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a city that hides its beauty. You've gotta be willing to seek it out. But when you uncover those little hidden pockets of splendor, it's a reminder that you live in one of the most...
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Behold The Majesty Of Newport Tan Cang's Spicy Lobster
I'd been hearing the rumors for years: "The best thing you will ever eat is the fried spicy lobster at Newport Tan Cang." I'd also been deeply hesitant about checking it out, because Newport Tan Cang...
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