Tantra restaurant in Silver Lake is where my Indian friends go to enjoy the flavors of their homeland- when they don't feel like cooking themselves. I had to see what they are constantly raving about so my husband and  more...

Hokusai Restaurant is Japanese cuisine with a French flair.  They have the freshest fish in Los Angeles, and are one of the only restaurants that serves Blue Fin Tuna.  This is caught in Japan and flown to L.A.  more...

For a fun and inexpensive Girls Night Out take the Metro Gold Line to China Towna and have dinner at yang Chow, then walk over to The Mountain Bar for a nightcap and some dancing.  This is a quick get away for women  more...

Sadly, my travel plans don’t include Paris this summer. I could be wistful and melancholy, filled with aching. I often am this time of year. It’s nostalgia for a long ago summer trip to the City of Light. It was  more...

I’ve recently added a new word to my vocabulary- “Gastropub.” Right there, in that one term, you have a combination of two of my favorite things; Gastronomy, and the British Public House- or Pub. Gastronomy  more...

Everybody knows, the best part of back to school is the shopping- not for the ‘back to school' clothes for the kids, but the ‘drop the kids off at school and look great' clothes for the moms. 

Elite Fitness Bootcamp in Arcadia, CA is a 6 week program that will get your booty bootylicious fast...  It is powered by CrossFit and there is a Fit Kids program so that kids can get exercise while their parents do.  more...