Thanks a Million, PhotowalksTV fans

It happened this week: I was attending the WPPI convention in Las Vegas, a meeting of wedding and portrait photographers, when I received an e-mail from VidIQ, a YouTube analytics tool. “Congratulations, you reached 1,000,000 views.” Or, let’s put it this way: After five years (first episode posted 3/26/2018) of beating the drum for PhotowalksTV, my travel…

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TRAVEL: Backroads Florida gem, Safety Harbor

If you’re like me, you’ve heard of Tampa, Florida and other West Coast beach towns like Clearwater and St. Pete, but Safety Harbor hasn’t made your radar. I stumbled onto it when I went to Florida on business recently, near Tampa, and got invited to lunch on Main Street in this cute, tiny town of…

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Wind cracks Manhattan Beach Tree; falls on apartment and truck

The strong winds of Wednesday night, February 22 caused a huge tree in Manhattan Beach’s Tree Section to crack and fall over portions of an apartment building and parked truck.  The tree lives on the backside of the Pacific Lanai apartment building, at 777 Pacific, and the accident occurred on the 1100 block of Laurel.…

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Travel: San Francisco’s remote Angel Island

Just 6.2 miles from the Ferry Building in San Francisco is another world, far from crime, thefts, murder, traffic, congestion, homeless issues and all the other ills of urban life in the city. Try a tiny island that can be explored in a 5.5 mile loop on foot or bike, with just 12 full people…

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MB Rabbi blasts Super Bowl for Kanye song in halftime show

Rabbi Joshua Kalev, the rabbi for Manhattan Beach’s Congregation Tikvat Jacob, has called out Super Bowl organizers and singer Rihanna for featuring a song by controversial rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West during the halftime show.  “Kanye continues to spew antisemitic statements in almost every interview,” wrote Kalev in a note to his congregants.…

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TRAVEL: Four Iconic San Diego Beach towns

Just like the South Bay’s Redondo/Hermosa/Manhattan Beach trio of beach cities, each unique and different from each other, California’s second largest city, San Diego, has four distinct beach cities as well, all worth exploring.  For the latest episode of #PhotowalksTV, I brought my iPhone 14 Pro Max to San Diego to explore life outside of…

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Hermosan wants owls to not be disturbed by city

Hermosa Beach resident Izumi Brandvold has been back and forth with the city of Hermosa Beach for months about trimming trees in front of her home. The city wants the leaves cut back, but she doesn’t and she had a good reason.   A nesting pair of barn owls owls live peaceably in the tree, and…

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Travel: The winter magic of Palm Desert

“Wilderness. The word itself is music.” ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Winter in the California desert is the best time to leave the South Bay bubble and visit. Warm weather, the colors, wide open spaces, blooming flowers, snow-capped mountains—does it get any better than this? Palm Springs is the poster child for the California desert,…

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