The Little Oliva is a charmer in Rolling Hills
Talk to a commercial realtor about evaluating a restaurant space and you’ll always hear something about curb appeal. Is it located on a street with at least moderate foot traffic, so people who aren’t looking for it will still discover it? Does the exterior have distinctive features that would catch the eye, so people notice […]
Coach Taylor, the South Bay’s Junior Lifeguard Coach
Generations of Peninsula kids owe their Junior Lifeguard experience to Coach Taylor by Garth Meyer Ken Taylor started coaching swimmers as an assistant for the women’s swim team at El Camino College in 1973. Half a century later, he’s still coaching. “I was out of a job for maybe an hour, in 1996, when […]
“Swan Song” – An end and a beginning [MOVIE REVIEW]
Karen Kain was the much beloved and lauded prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Canada. She followed up her dancing career by becoming its Artistic Director. Announcing her retirement, she was determined that she would not go gentle into that good night, by declaring that her last act would also be a first. She […]
TRAVEL: Up, Up and Away on a Hot Air Balloon in Temecula
One thing you’re unlikely to ever do in the South Bay Bubble is fly over the area on a hot air balloon. For that, you’ll need to leave here, and visit Palm Springs, the Napa Valley or Temecula locally. Recently I spent two days in Temecula, a small town of 100,000 people about halfway between […]