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Chris Erskine: Palm Springs Family Trip Follows the Tiki Trail
PALM SPRINGS — So we’re doing a tiki crawl in this dusty, grassless prairie two hours from Los Angeles. In summer, it’s like living...
Chris Erskine: Looking for One Last Love Story
A chef has recommended on social media that, if the butter is too cold to spread, you grate it over the roll or piece...
Chris Erskine: Parents Live for Homecomings
Home. Celebrate him home, as Kenny Loggins once sang.When my son gets home for spring break, his sheets will smell like leftover Moo Shu...
Chris Erskine: When Life Hands You Dandelions …
Most poetry doesn’t send me — I’m more into limericks and fight songs. But every once in a while, poetry stirs a bit of...
Chris Erskine: Pasta, Gin and Joni Mitchell
In a recent episode, we established two things: 1) that pasta was essentially bourbon and 2) that Dr. Seuss should have been Surgeon General,...
Chris Erskine: Troubled Angels, Aching Hearts
What still amazes me was how quickly the Highway Patrol confirmed my son’s death on that gloomy March morning six years ago.You know, you...
Chris Erskine: Why We Live Where We Live
We reside in one of those surrealist L.A. suburbs that hugs the hillsides, the sidewalks always a little damp in spring. It’s considered a...
Chris Erskine: California: Lovely, Yet Edible
I read so slowly that I might have some disorder, kind of odd when you consider my ideal day is having a stack of...
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HMRI Appoints Three New Board Members
Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI), a leading biomedical research organization in Southern California with a 70-year track record of scientific impact, announced it added...
Local Restaurateurs Launch Taco/Social With ‘Unconventional Tacos’
Taco/Social, a casual dining spot with inventive, “freeform tacos” and a broad selection of tequila-based cocktails and owned by a contingent of Pasadena-area restaurateurs,...