A random selection from the site

  • The Mills View House from “Picket Fences”

    The Mills View House from “Picket Fences”

    ‘ Well, my fellow stalkers, it is finally that time of year again, the month I look forward to all year long – October!  With it comes fall leaves, cooler temperatures, and my favorite holiday of them all, Halloween.  And you know what that means – I will once again be devoting the entire month…

  • The “Hangover” House

    The “Hangover” House

    ‘ A few weeks ago, Mike, from MovieShotsLA, called me up to let me know that he was on the hunt for the main house used in fave movie The Hangover.  The two of us both had a pretty good inkling that the residence was located somewhere in the Pasadena area, we just weren’t sure…

  • Bistro de la Gare from “Modern Family”

    Bistro de la Gare from “Modern Family”

    ‘ This past Sunday morning, while grabbing some coffee with my parents and the Grim Cheaper at my new fave coffee house, Kaldi’s, my mom asked me if I happened to remember what day it was.  Looking at her with what I’m sure was a completely blank expression on my face, I told her that…

  • “The Hogan Family” House

    “The Hogan Family” House

    ‘ One Pasadena area filming location that I had long assumed was well-known in the stalking community was the home where the Hogan family lived in the 1986 television sitcom Valerie, aka Valerie’s Family, aka The Hogan Family.  So, the other day when I happened to point out the location to Mike, from MovieShotsLA, while…

  • The Cravens Estate from “Commander in Chief”

    The Cravens Estate from “Commander in Chief”

    ‘ As I mentioned a few weeks back, because of my love for Matt Lanter, the Grim Cheaper and I recently purchased and sat down to watch the first – and only – season of the short-lived television series Commander in Chief, on which the cutie actor portrayed the role of First Son Horace Calloway.…

  • Citizens Bank Building from “The Sting”

    Citizens Bank Building from “The Sting”

    ‘ Upon landing my new gig writing for Los Angeles magazine’s CityThink blog, I comprised a list of iconic SoCal locales to spotlight in my weekly column, one of which was the Santa Monica Pier Carousel from 1973’s The Sting.  The only problem was that I had never actually seen The Sting.  Neither had the…

  • Vincent Price in Thriller

    Vincent Price in Thriller

    ‘ At the risk of this site dwelling far too excessively on the recent sad passing of pop star Michael Jackson, I just had to write one more blog post about him.  Or, rather, about his legendary music video Thriller and one of its main filming locations. I received an email last night with the above photograph…

  • The Hills Update!

    The Hills Update!

    ‘ On tonight’”‘”‘s episode of The Hills, Lauren, Lo, and Audrina move into their new Hollywood digs. I stalked this location a while back and thought I’”‘”‘d re-post LC’”‘”‘s new address. You can read the full post

  • A Mental Health Day!

    A Mental Health Day!

    ‘ After my dad’s two recent surgeries, driving back and forth to the desert twice to be there during both of them, and the many stresses that came along with all of that, this past Friday I decided that I needed a mental health day.  So I got a mani/peni and did some major retail-style…

  • The Derby Restaurant from “Step Brothers”

    The Derby Restaurant from “Step Brothers”

    ‘ During a recent visit to Los Angeles, the Grim Cheaper and I stayed at an Arcadia hotel that just so happened to be located right across the street from a nine-decades old eatery that I had always wanted to stalk – The Derby Restaurant, which was featured in the 2008 comedy Step Brothers.  As…