
I’m a transplant to Los Angeles. Far from a native, I spent a decade wandering through the mid-west. Finding nothing but corn fields in tornado alley, I moved East, didn’t find much there either. Always entranced with the idea of moving West, it finally happened 19 years into my life. Meandering through the cityscape of [...]

From the LA Times article:
William “Bill” Binder, who for years ran Philippe’s, the Los Angeles eating institution famous for its sawdust-covered floors and trademark French dip sandwiches, has died. He was 94.
Binder, who retired in 1985, died Jan. 28 of natural causes at a care facility in Pasadena, said his son John, who runs Philippe’s with [...]

I don’t believe in recaps, nobody cares what happened, people instead like to focus on the future and what is about to happen… Right? So with that I will tell you all about last year.
It’s mid January and there’s a tornado warning for South Los Angeles.
The fun part is that now when you tell people [...]