One of the things I thought very weird when I first moved to LA was that locals seem to pronounce their neighborhood names incorrectly. How so? Well, as you might already know, many of Los Angeles’ neighborhoods are named by Spanish settlers which means that those neighborhood names should be as close to the Spanish [...]
I’ve been riding my bike in LA a lot lately and the one thing that nobody ever talks about concerning cycling in LA is the amount of hills this city has. They are more common than I initially thought and while probably not as numerous as San Francisco or Seattle, the hills here are brutal. [...]
Lots of good places here!
I remember Cool Hunting making a ton of neat videos for the 99U conference last year. This year, it looks like they did the same thing. Here’s one with Souther California coffee roaster Superba Coffee who knows quite a bit about how to roast and make coffee.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. I think I’ve been really stressed living here in LA and I realized that two things that really calm me down more than anything else is reading an actual paper book (no e-books) and riding my bike. And yes, this even trumps the calming effects of the [...]
