We all need a little vaca, even from the city we love and adore. For when the inspiration hits, LaLaScoop offers you some travel spots and tips to “Jet Away” too. Just make sure you come back!
Travelers, take heart, your world keeps getting a little smaller. Last year, American Airlines began nonstop service from LAX to Australia, and this year, it is expanding to include daily flights to New Zealand. To celebrate the new bond between L.A. and Auckland, the iPic theater in Westwood recently played host to a celebration of the island nation that stood in for Middle Earth in … Continue reading Check New Zealand off Your Bucket List
This article was previously posted on Resident Magazine. We can’t think of a better place in America to be for July 4 but Malibu. Like the Hamptons of the west coast without the New York prep and glitz, plan to leave early for the BU before traffic ensues on the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway). Stumble upon endless beachfront parties with fireworks shooting from the water … Continue reading Celebrate America in Malibu this July 4
Adulting is hard work. There’s a reason we turn to sites like this to guide us to the next Happy Hour, resort spa and bottomless mimosa brunch. Many Californians are forced into a life of labor, toiling sometimes as much as five days a week. Some have traded slumber to produce children, a hedge against poverty and loneliness in old age. And there are so, … Continue reading Escape LA: Carlsbad
Sometimes it is the little things that help you survive a road trip or multiple planes or living out of a hotel. Besides Pete Yorn’s latest album playing off my laptop in my hotel rooms for over a month and nice little soaps and throwaway toothbrushes, often it is travel gear and gadgets that help you get through the perils of transportation via planes, trains, … Continue reading Travel Gear Favorites
ESCAPE LA: LORETO, MEXICO’S HIDDEN OASIS Posted first on WeSaidGoTravel.com Off the Sea of Cortez lies a very special place, one that is quite hard to find in a world where once such spots of natural beauty are discovered they quickly become tourist meccas with little peace in site. But Villa del Palmar at the Islands of Loreto just south of Loreto, Mexico along with the pristine islands … Continue reading Escape LA: Loreto, Mexico’s Hidden Oasis
Find Pleasure in Las Vegas Sin City is way more than just gambling and lap dances, but the world’s playground has some of the best entertainment, pampering, and restaurants in America. After living in Las Vegas recently for 20 days, I’ve combed the land to help you rev up your experience in this nonstop action packed desert city. Caution: Everything on the Vegas strip is … Continue reading LA Escape: Find Pleasure in Sin City
Los Angeles City Guide Resident Magazine By Melissa Curtin Los Angeles has always been a haven where the rest of the country looks to for fresh and new. This creative city is constantly in motion with hip and happening new hotspots. Many chefs have upped the ante with new twists to make sure your taste buds never get bored. With an ever growing diverse food … Continue reading Los Angeles City Guide: Favorite Spots to Dine and Unwind
Coachella trends have been piling on year after year. Initially, boho style with fringe, flower crowns, and flash tattoos were essentials for the first festival of the season, but much is changing. Although LA Fashion Week could never hold a candle to New York Fashion Week, some say that Coachella fashion got it right for trends, coining it the better Fashion week for the west … Continue reading Coachella Festival Trends to Stay!
Fur trappers from the other side of the globe established a trading colony along its ever-flowing waters as the 19th century dawned, giving rise to its name: The Russian River. They were followed by migrants from Italy and France who settled in the lush valleys and brought with them a tradition of winemaking. And today, Sonoma County is home to a 130-year-old wine culture and … Continue reading Sonoma Wine Road: A Taste of Past and Future
There are a lot of people who have forgotten that the restaurant business is supposed to be fun. Chris Himmel is not one of them. The chef-turned-restaurateur recently completed a cross-country RV tour in which he and his chefs popped up in cities across America to give the locals a little taste of his brand of farm-to-table flair. The antepenultimate stop on the Boston-to-Brawley journey … Continue reading Road Warrior Chefs Hit L.A.
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