A random selection from the site

  • Kristin Cavallari’s Beach House from “The Hills”

    Kristin Cavallari’s Beach House from “The Hills”

    ‘ Just down the street from Jennifer Aniston’s former beach house, which I blogged about on Friday, is the residence that Kristin Cavallari called home during this past season of fave reality show The Hills.  So, since we were already in the area a couple of weeks ago, I just had to drag fellow stalker…

  • Latest “L.A.” Mag Post – A Guide to “Pawnee” Locales in Los Angeles

    Latest “L.A.” Mag Post – A Guide to “Pawnee” Locales in Los Angeles

    ‘ I am so excited for today’s Los Angeles magazine post, in which I compiled a guide to 21 memorable locations featured on the show Parks and Recreation.  You can check it out here.  My articles typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours. ‘

  • Thornton’s Mansion from “Back to School”

    Thornton’s Mansion from “Back to School”

    ‘ Even though I am a definite child of the ‘80s, for whatever reason I had never seen the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield classic Back to School until late last year.  I wound up loving the flick and immediately started researching its locations.  I covered a few of them in a September post for Los Angeles…

  • Johnson Lake in Pasadena from “Celebrity Rehab”

    Johnson Lake in Pasadena from “Celebrity Rehab”

    ‘ A couple of weeks ago, while trying to track down the lake house belonging to Donna Meagle (Retta) in the Season 4 episode of Parks and Recreation titled “Sweet Sixteen”, I discovered that there was a lake in Pasadena and just about fell right off my chair! Having lived in the area – as…

  • The “George Lopez” House

    The “George Lopez” House

    ‘ The Grim Cheaper and I watch a LOT of television – something I’ve mentioned many times on this blog.  Somehow we still miss quite a few shows, though, like George Lopez which ran on ABC from 2002 to 2007.  Nonetheless, when a fellow stalker named Jonathan emailed me back in 2016 to let me…

  • Helen Twelvetrees’ House

    Helen Twelvetrees’ House

    ‘ A couple of weeks ago I picked up a book that is quickly shaping up to be my new stalking tome.  It’”‘”‘s called Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten and it features photographs and addresses of over 350 celebrity homes, most of them from the Golden Age of Hollywood.  I have never really been much into the…

  • The “Little Miss Sunshine” Motel

    The “Little Miss Sunshine” Motel

    ‘ Another Little Miss Sunshine locale that I desperately wanted to stalk was the supposed Arizona motel where the Hoover family – Olive (Abigail Breslin), Richard (Greg Kinnear), Sheryl (Toni Collette), Dwayne (Paul Dano), Grandpa Edwin (Alan Arkin), and Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell) – stayed mid-way through their road trip from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach…

  • Caffe’ Opera – aka Dog Years Diner from “American Pie”

    Caffe’ Opera – aka Dog Years Diner from “American Pie”

    ‘ Shortly after selling their house a few months back, my parents moved into an apartment building in Old Town Monrovia.  Since that time, they have become regular patrons of their new favorite restaurant, Caffe’ Opera – the very spot that stood in for Dog Years Diner, the supposed Grand Rapids, Michigan-area hangout of Jim…

  • Happy Halloween!

    ‘ I would like to wish all of my fellow stalkers a very Happy Halloween!  The Grim Cheaper and I were away all weekend celebrating the holiday with one of our best friends in San Diego, so I do not have a new post for today, unfortunately.  And my grandma is currently in town visiting…

  • The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

    The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

    ‘ One of my favorite places in all of Hollywood is the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located right on Hollywood Boulevard. The Roosevelt has had a long and storied history in Hollywood and is even said to be haunted by a few of its former residents. Once you step inside the hotel’”‘”‘s beautiful Moorish lobby,…