A random selection from the site

  • The Brass Monkey Bar from “Bad Santa”

    The Brass Monkey Bar from “Bad Santa”

    ‘ Another Christmas-themed location that I stalked recently was the Brass Elephant bar – the Monrovia-area watering hole that stood in for the similarly-named “Brass Monkey” bar where Sue (aka Lauren Graham) worked in my least-favorite holiday movie of all time, 2003’s Bad Santa.  Fellow stalker Chas, from the It’sFilmedThere website, had tracked down the…

  • Eveleigh Restaurant from “Gossip Girl”

    Eveleigh Restaurant from “Gossip Girl”

    ‘ Fellow stalker Geoff, from the 90210Locations website, emailed me a few weeks back to let me know that he had tracked down the open-air-patio-ed restaurant where Serena van der Woodsen (aka Blake Lively) and Charlie Rhodes (aka Kaylee DeFer) ate lunch in the Season 4 episode of Gossip Girl titled “Beauty and the Feast”. …

  • Killarney Market from Michael Buble’s “Haven’t Met You Yet” Video

    Killarney Market from Michael Buble’s “Haven’t Met You Yet” Video

    ‘ Now don’t laugh, but the primary reason behind the Grim Cheaper’s and my trip up to the Pacific Northwest this past weekend was so that I could stalk the spot where Michael Buble filmed the music video for his hit song “Haven’t Met You Yet” – Killarney Market in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Sure, we…

  • Atlas Sausage from “Surviving Christmas”

    Atlas Sausage from “Surviving Christmas”

    ‘ My blog is likely to be light on content over the next month, as I have quite a few trips and excursions planned.  As such, I figured there was no time like the present to begin my Christmas-themed postings.  So here goes.  (I also have a very exciting non-Christmas-related article hitting the blog next…

  • TomTom from “Vanderpump Rules”

    TomTom from “Vanderpump Rules”

    ‘ The Instagram world was set on fire (well, my Instagram world, at least) Wednesday night when the cast of Vanderpump Rules, along with other Bravolebrities and reality TV stars, began posting photos of the DailyMail.com & DailyMailTV Summer Party which took place at TomTom, the highly anticipated new bar venture by husband and wife…

  • Haunted Hollywood Tour Takes a Detour to SF!

    Haunted Hollywood Tour Takes a Detour to SF!

    ‘ When I was in high school my good friend Dana and I were absolutely obsessed with a real life haunted house located close to where we lived. Every Friday afternoon like clockwork the two of us would make an after-school pilgrimage to the abandoned house known as the Carolands Mansion before stopping by a…

  • Courteney Cox’s Former Home

    Courteney Cox’s Former Home

    ‘ In honor of the recent sale of Courteney Cox’”‘”‘s John Lautner designed Malibu home, I thought I’”‘”‘d do a little stalking of a house she lived in way back in the day. During the first two seasons of , Courteney Cox lived in a charming little house in Santa Monica, located just a few…

  • L.A. Bound

    L.A. Bound

    ‘ It has been said that you can’t go home again, but the Grim Cheaper and I are doing just that this weekend by heading out to Los Angeles for a couple of days.  I have an appointment at the Pasadena Blo-Out Lounge, a coffee date with Marci from Lula Mae, all sorts of fun…

  • “The Entertainment Capital of L.A.”

    “The Entertainment Capital of L.A.”

    ‘ This weekend, for my birthday, my boyfriend surprised me with a day at Universal Studios Hollywood, which according to the entrance sign, is the “Entertainment Capital of L.A.” and is now just as expensive to visit as Disneyland – $70 per day! I must say that while I had a FABULOUS time on the…

  • Charlie Rich’s Former Palm Springs Estate

    Charlie Rich’s Former Palm Springs Estate

    ‘ Another location that Jennifer Grant spoke fondly of in Good Stuff, the memoir about her late father, actor Cary Grant, was the Palm Springs estate belonging to Cary’s good friend, Las Vegas Dunes Hotel owner Charlie “Kewpie” Rich.  Many weekends of Jennifer’s childhood were spent at “Uncle Charlie’s” lush, four-acre Coachella Valley oasis, which…