Aug
9
A nice place in Nogales
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Should you ever find the need to go over the border into Mexico at the Nogales, Arizona crossing let me suggest this: Best Western Sonora Inn & Suites. The place is brand new and a total non-smoking facility. A great work out room, incredible pool and the rooms…
The rooms are as nice as […]
Jul
17
On the road again already to Seattle
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Well it did not last long, that being sleeping in my own bed…I am in Seattle on assignment and all is going well. The City of Seattle is everything that Europe is not, like clean! This place is really nice, and the views are just spectacular, lots of open water and blue skies. […]
Jul
12
American Gladiators Invade Rome
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The flight from Copenhagen to Rome was great, the airport was easy and the people polite. SAS airlines was wondeful, we flew “coach plus”…it was comfortable and the crew accommodating. The “plus” gave us a breakfast of cheese, liverwurst, bread, yogurt, orange juice and a hard boiled egg half. Yum! Not […]
Jul
6
Air Canacrap
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Flying commercially in today’s world has to be one of the most frustrating experiences that any traveler can encounter. Upon my arrival at LAX I was wondering had I done everything right so as not to have to throw my stuff away in the trash. I remember the early days of not being allowed […]
Jul
5
Well we decide to take a train from Zurich to Copenhagen, ahhhh romantic right? Rrrrright….the staff at the main station were total jerks, I have other words but I want this to get read. My boys had to use the restroom, the Broon Hilda wanted 1/2 a franc if they were going […]
Apr
28
La Dolce Vita in Palm Springs
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Well as I often do I found myself in Palm Springs and loving it. My good friends Frank and Elaine McClain have a spectacular home here in Palm Springs and it is one of the nicest I have been in. The place is just perfect! I have helped Frank just a little I am […]
Jan
29
Danger ahead in Garbageville
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Flying anyplace today is tough, go to the airport and get jerked around by some TSA employees who just could never cut it as real cops and now you get to deal with them as they go about protecting the flying public, not fun. So sometimes the boys ,the dogs and I head […]
Jan
12
Mulberry Street Pizza - My LA Fave
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Pizza Pizza Pizza, is there a perfect pizza? Well I have to admit, in California it is hit and miss. That miserable joint on Lankershim that I critiqued several months ago, Angelina’s aka YUK, has closed. It is going to become a Thai restaurant, file that one under who cares. […]
Dec
11
Peppone’s pricey old school Italian
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Peppone Ristorante, Brentwood,California was the meeting place of the week, not bad for an evening of laughs and entertainment with Michael Trope, Christian Nazarian and of course me, John Nazarian. We had a nice table in a little room off the bar and it is in fact a little old New Yorkish……not in a […]
Nov
27
Just as the seasons change and summer leaves and fall begins and as we prepare for the Thanksgiving Day holiday..Chickie’s Bail Bonds throws one hell of a “High Brow” Gala. She does this every year. Chickie Leventhal, Mitch and Karen throw this party every year with a different theme and it has […]
Sep
24
Once again I visited Santa Barbara, I had to go down and see my friend Elizabeth Vogt, Esquire. Her secretary Wendy made all of our plans for the morning and was to have lunch with us. Too bad for me and for Wendy she is getting ready to participate in some marathon and was eating […]
Sep
20
My son Jonathan and I were “home alone” and seeing that my oven is no longer in the kitchen (it went to oven heaven), we had a small issue, what to eat? Well here we go again, trying out the local eateries.
I have driven by Victorio’s in North Hollywood hundreds of […]
Jul
7
This Fourth of July weekend I was out of town on an assignment that will take me a several more days to crack, but I have a hook in deep in my “target.” And I think he is beginning to feel my presence or at least I hope.
I had to get down to Palm Springs […]
Jul
5
Melvyn’s: not if you have a pulse
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This story is nothing a good Cat D-9 could not fix (that is a real big bulldozer). One of my friends lost a companion of hers recently and wanted to return to the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs for “old time’s sake” (I have stayed at the Ingleside Inn a few times in the past, […]
May
23
Pizza Per Tutti!
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Always looking for a place to grab some good pizza to take home, and at all cost avoid those mass-produced joints — not easy. But I found Pizza Per Tutti, owned and operated by Marcello. He is in the kitchen making pizza, salads, and sandwiches. I ordered a Vegetarian Pizza and the […]