Every time I visit Boyle Heights, I fall in love with the neighborhood a little bit more. I’ve visited several times lately, first to research a piece for Singular Magazine, and then to research a piece for the Los Angeles Times. The Metro Gold Line Extension (“La Linea de Oro“) is poised to open there [...]

In Fallbrook, a storybook hamlet in northern San Diego county, the avocado is king. The annual Avocado Festival — honoring the area’s signature crop — was the impetus for a neighborhood piece I wrote that just published in the Los Angeles Times.  Held this year on April 19, the festival promises mounds of guacamole and [...]

Usually St. Patrick’s Day is not on the top of my list of favorite holidays. I don’t tend to go in for that sort of pub madness. But reporting on St. Patrick’s Day happenings on Main Street in Santa Monica for the Los Angeles Times got me in the mood for some Irish grub and [...]