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More Dog!
‘ Finally I am back online – with another Dog post. I swear, I was about ready to throw my stupid computer off the lanai I was so annoyed with the internet problems. LOL With getting bumped off the internet constantly, I literally think I have spent about three hours trying to complete this post.…
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Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Pasadena – One of Joel McHale’s Favorite Hangouts
‘ As I have mentioned quite a few times before on my blog, this stalker absolutely loves herself some Joel McHale. So when I saw that the cutie The Soup host/Community star had been interviewed about some of his favorite SoCal haunts in the August 2011 “The Best of LA” issue of Los Angeles Magazine,…
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Cooking by JLo!
‘ Two weeks ago, while in Pasadena, my boyfriend I happened to walk by Madre’”‘”‘s, the restaurant owned by Miss Jennifer Lopez. Madre’”‘”‘s, which opened up in 2002, serves up Latin food inspired by JLo’”‘”‘s grandmother’”‘”‘s recipes – food she ate when she was still just Jenny from the Block. When you step inside Madre’”‘”‘s,…
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My Guide to L.A. – Bars
‘ When I lived in L.A., one of my favorite things to do was grab a drink with the Grim Cheaper at a different bar every Saturday night. I loved discovering, cocktail in hand, the myriad of fabulous lounges the city has to offer, many of them historic. That being said, I am in no…
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The Possible Interior of O’Hara’s Pub from “Bad Santa”
‘ As I mentioned in last Tuesday’s post, thanks to fellow stalker Owen, of the When Write Is Wrong blog, I am fairly certain that I have managed to find the bar that was used as the interior of O’Hara’s Pub in the 2003 comedy Bad Santa. When Owen heard about my quest to track…
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The Otto Kahn and James Burden Mansions from “A Perfect Murder”
‘ For someone who is so well-versed in all things movie-related, I know very little about Old Hollywood – a fact my mom often admonishes me for. Case in point – though A Perfect Murder has long been a favorite thriller, I have never seen Dial M for Murder, the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece from…
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Red Studios Hollywood – aka Kinograph Studios from “The Artist”
‘ In early March, my friend Tony, the fellow stalker who has the amazeballs On Location in Los Angeles Flickr photostream, wrote a comment on my post about the duplex where George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) lived in The Artist alerting me to a blog named Silent Locations. The blog, which is authored by business lawyer/film…
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New Interview with “Occidental” Magazine
‘ Be sure to check out a recent interview I did with Occidental magazine about the filming of Clueless. There’s even a locations quiz at the end! You can read The Clueless Guide to Occidental College here and The Ultimate Guide to Clueless Movie Locations in Los Angeles here (Part II is here), both of which…
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The Miramonte Resort & Spa in Indian Wells
‘ One Palm-Springs-area hotel that I have long wanted to vacation at – not because it is a filming location, but because it is just simply beautiful – is the Miramonte Resort & Spa in Indian Wells. The Grim Cheaper and I ate dinner at the resort once upon a time many years back and…
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Golden Gate Fields from “Metro” – And a Special Fundraising Event for the Alzheimer’s Association
‘ My BFF since the age of 9, Natalie, will be hosting a charity event in honor of her grandfather, Ed Lingsch, on June 14th in the San Francisco area. Ed passed away just shy of his 98th birthday on November 12th, 2011 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Nat worked for Ed’s real…