Ughhhhh! We came so close! Charlie and I made it all the way to November. Per our New Year’s resolution, we’ve been trying out a new restaurant together each month…
The ingenuity of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven lies chiefly in how the novel weaves together its characters’ seemingly intertwined destinies, setting readers up to anticipate a climatic reveal…
Beetle House offers nine signature cocktails that were created perhaps more to captivate the eye than to please the palate. In fact, a couple of these cocktails are chilled with…
Notwithstanding the truly menacing Chucky running around the place wielding a razor, for me, the scariest thing about that evening was the food. I don’t mean that it tasted horrible;…
You don’t go to Beetle House on Hollywood Blvd. for the food. Yes, they serve entrées along with the entertainment, but you go mainly because you love Tim Burton’s films…
Fall is probably my favorite season, and this was a perfect fall day—it was sunny, but there was a cool, almost chilly, breeze blowing through yellowing trees, an unmistakable sign…
Although I dislike “day-drinking,” I thought it might be rude to claim a spot at the bar without ordering any of the bartenders’ concoctions, particularly at a restaurant that calls…
Brunch enthusiasts may be excited to learn that Foothill’s brunch menu lists 25 selections. I personally would’ve appreciated a couple more vegetarian options, but I’m biased, of course; to be…
Even an affluent and vibrant city like Pasadena cannot avoid the occasional stretch of a somewhat shabby and ineffably lonesome thoroughfare. On one such insipid road hides a dining gem—if…
At 33, my aesthetician has apparently never traveled outside of the U.S. Every time I see him, while he gives me a beauty treatment, I give him a carpe diem…