For today’s Sit Back Saturday ongoing series, we try to bring you this past week’s stories that we found interesting. Los Angeles based writers, bloggers, and websites–daily, and weekly–create content that’s irrelevant, timeless, unique, and contains information not usually included in your daily newspapers. For want of a better description, it’s a weekly [...]

The birth of a business can come in many forms. I wanted to ask the owners of Esotouric a few questions about how their business started, where their ideas come from, and what their plans are for the future–plus, a few interesting tidbits about the team of brilliant and creative entrepreneurs who are the owners [...]

Los Angeles is a city chock full of surprises and hidden treasures, but residents here don’t often associate it with a romantic getaway. But that’s a myth which no longer applies. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner on February 14, why not spend a romantic weekend away from the hustle and bustle of life here [...]

When the words "haircut" and "beer" are in the same sentence, for reasons that escape me, people tend to react with a bit of skepticism. At the Old Glory Barbershop, skepticism is so yesterday. This establishment is not only cool and hip–it’s the way things should be more like–despite our cookie-cutter corporate world of box [...]

So you want a Ferrari? Welcome to the club. But you can’t afford a Ferrari. I’m in that club, too. So what to do? These days, there are so many choices – from so many manufacturers – that it’s virtually impossible not to wind up with a sports car that fits your needs and your [...]

Happy New Year from Travelin’ Local. It seems like yesterday when New Year’s Eve brought in the new century, and here we are starting a new decade. I hope this New Year’s brings everything good for you, your family, and friends. To help you with your New Year’s Goals for 2010, here’s some New Year’s quotes worth [...]

What a cliche–palm trees and a gift wrapped building is quintessential Los Angeles. But that’s indeed, Christmas Day here in the City of Angels. Anyway, we have a lot to be thankful for: First, this is the conclusion of our first year of publishing Travelin’ Local, and from the bottom of my heart, I want to [...]

Having lived on the East Coast, unfortunately I too, have had to endure my fair share of abuse from its weather. From snarled traffic, closed schools, and freezing cold temperatures, I know how bad it can get. I also grew up in Ohio—where it gets very cold in the winter. Images unfold, just thinking about [...]

After a long and hard rainy week, yesterday the sky was picture perfect. Indeed, it was one of the clearest days I’ve seen in Los Angeles for a very long time. Due to this extraordinary circumstance and happenchance, I felt compelled to document just how far one could see toward the horizon here—47 miles to [...]

It’s amazing what a little lot of rain will do for—and—to LA. Yesterday, it rained all day. Its intensity, frequency, and duration varied, but at times the downpour was ferocious. People living here think neither the rain, nor cold weather bad weather should be permanently exported to the East Coast; and and all areas in [...]

If the weather forecasts are to be believed—yes, they’ve gotten better over the years– Los Angeles is due to have a quite a few rain showers; and overall, a wet weekend. Travelin’ Local’s mission is to write about, and focus our stories on the positive side of things, so we’ve prepared a list of fun things [...]

Although Monday’s clouds didn’t bring as much rain as originally forecast, it was enough to severely disrupt traffic which of course, caused delays and plenty of accidents. Surprisingly, Mount Wilson had snow, as the LAist’s showed a beautiful shot of its snow-ridden Observatory. Historic Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical research facility located in the [...]