Downtown style, East Hermosa prices [restaurant review]

When it comes to food and culture, Aviation Boulevard has always been mainly a way to get from one place to another rather than a destination. I remember being sad when the Either/Or bookstore moved there, because I foresaw that it wouldn’t go well. Even a business with that much goodwill couldn’t break the curse.  […]

The Waste Less Shop: an antidote to plastic pollution in Manhattan Beach

  Stephanie Cochrane’s head was in the clouds. She was alone, backpacking north through the Sagarmāthā Valley in Nepal, on a 13-day trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and at the very beginning of a three-month journey through nine of the wildest and most beautiful countries on Earth.  She’d flown in the previous day […]