A random selection from the site

  • Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

    ‘ I will be taking today off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but will be back on Wednesday with a whole new locale!  I hope everyone has a safe holiday. ‘

  • Carlotta’s House from “Hail, Caesar!”

    Carlotta’s House from “Hail, Caesar!”

    ‘ Today’s locale involves something I’ve never come across in all my years of stalking!  Last June, a reader named Molly posted a comment on my Challenge Lindsay page asking for some help in tracking down the house where Carlotta Valdez (Veronica Osorio) lived in the 2016 Coen Brothers comedy Hail, Caesar!  She mentioned that…

  • New “L.A.” Mag Post – About “Tangerine”

    New “L.A.” Mag Post – About “Tangerine”

    ‘ Be sure to read today’s post for L.A.mag.com, about the new movie Tangerine.  My articles typically get published in the late morning/early afternoon hours. ‘

  • Taking a Day Off!

    Taking a Day Off!

    ‘ The Grim Cheaper and I spent the past weekend visiting my parents in Palm Springs, so I, unfortunately, did not have time to write a new blog post for today.  But I did run into actor Jeremy London while at The Living Desert on Sunday, which was a total thrill!  He was incredibly nice and not…

  • The Convenience Store from “Can’t Hardly Wait”

    The Convenience Store from “Can’t Hardly Wait”

    ‘ My buddy, fellow stalker Owen of the When Write Is Wrong blog, is a huge Jennifer Love Hewitt fan.  Like huge.  He is also a fan of filming locations and, over the years, has managed to track down the vast majority of locales featured in his fave JLH movie, 1998’s Can’t Hardly Wait.  One…

  • The Mansion from “The Beverly Hillbillies” Movie

    The Mansion from “The Beverly Hillbillies” Movie

    ‘ Last week, I received an email from a fellow stalker named Chris who wanted to know if I had any information on the mansion where the Clampett family – Jed (Jim Varney), Jethro Bodine (Diedrich Bader), Elly May (Erika Eleniak), and Granny (Cloris Leachman) – lived in the 1993 movie The Beverly Hillbillies.  Well,…

  • Tilly’s House from “Flaked”

    Tilly’s House from “Flaked”

    ‘ I never thought I’d say I’m in love with a gate, but here we are.  Back in March 2016, my Los Angeles magazine editor assigned me a piece chronicling the locations from the then-new Netflix series Flaked.  I got to work researching right away and one spot immediately stood out among the rest –…

  • Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant from “Black Widow”

    Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant from “Black Widow”

    ‘ Sorry to have been a bit M.I.A. lately – my personal life has been rather hectic.  This week will be a little light on columns, too, as both of my parents have doctor appointments in L.A. that I have to take them, too.  So please bear with me.    And now, on with the…

  • The Never Been Kissed High School

    The Never Been Kissed High School

    ‘ Yesterday, I dragged my mom out to a location I have been meaning to stalk for years now – the school that stood in for South Glen High School in the 1999 romantic comedy Never Been Kissed.   In actuality, though, the school where filming took place wasn’”‘”‘t a high school at all, but a huge middle school…

  • The Salton Sea

    The Salton Sea

    ‘ About fifty miles southeast of Palm Springs lies the Salton Sea, a former resort destination that I had wanted to stalk ever since seeing Troy Paiva’s haunting images of the place on his website Lost America.  Due to the fact that it is largely abandoned and hence lacking in public restrooms, I hesitated making…