The controversial Adventure Pass, which for nearly a decade has triggered theories both rational and conspiratorial from opponents, will not be required in the Los Padres National Forest this Saturday, November 11, in honor of Veterans Day.
With the weather the way it is, get yourself outside! Here are a few suggestions.
Levi Michaels gives The Information a spin, and finds it to be reminscent of the L.A. artist’s Mellow Gold years.
As a rule, the lifecycle of Isla Vista bands parallel the parties that serve as their most frequent gigs. No matter how raucous the party, an empty keg means the partygoers will be shuffling off to the next destination. In a similar way, scads of Isla Vista-spawned bands have flourished in the area’s party-hungry, venue-rich atmosphere, then all but vanished when, after four years, graduation sends the band’s fan base-if not the members themselves-in different directions. It’s a dilemma that’s cursed many bands with short, glorious lives and abrupt ends.
Akebia quinata is a semi-woody vine that climbs by twining around a support. Almost anything can serve as that support. Mine took advantage not only of the ornamental frame I gave it, but went on to clamber over the wall and wrap itself around an old holly bush. I had forgotten the advice of Sunset’s Western Garden Book to “keep [it] under control.”
I’m going to tell you a secret, but you have to promise it won’t leave this page. Because it’s kind of gross, and sure to damage my standing among the more hygienic members of society: I don’t floss. I just don’t. And I’m tired of apologizing for it.
Probably my favorite cookbook (though it spends more time than on my bedside table than my kitchen counter) is Modern Priscilla Cookbook. Printed in 1924, it includes “1,000 recipes tested and proved at the Priscilla proving plant.”
At the Easton Gallery. Shows through November 26.
There is a certain implicit painterly code among plein air practitioners. It states, in effect, “I was standing in front of this as I painted it. Although you can see the brushwork at times, I have striven to capture the light just as it fell on my subject, just as it would have fallen onto your retina if you had been standing where I stood.” In her show Visions, now at the Easton Gallery through November 26, Phoebe Brunner shows that although she is familiar with this code, and even fluent in it, she is happiest violating it.
It proved portentous that Jeff DelaCruz commenced his studies at Brooks Institute of Photography on September 11, 2001. As he made his way to class on his first day, he learned of the attack on the World Trade Center. Though the event occurred on the other side of the country, it would soon redirect the course of his life.
BEAUTIFUL BIRDS: With a crimson bill, whisker-like white plume, and bright yellow “gape wattle” under each eye, this newly acquired Inca
