Author Archives: Val

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

17th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival Oxnard, California Herb likes spicy food, but isn’t much into dancing; his girlfriend Rosemary likes Latin music and goes out cutting the rug every chance she gets. Is there any chance for this relationship? You … Continue reading

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Where The Streets Have No Name

LA Street Food Fest The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California In terms of U.S. cities, L. A. has one of the largest street food cultures, made popular by the ubiquitous taco trucks and expanded by the somewhat recent gourmet food truck … Continue reading

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Crying All The Way To The Bank

The Liberace Museum Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada is a monument to excess, a flamboyant, gaudy, over-the-top adult Disneyland. It is for this reason that the Liberace Museum is perfectly at home there, a palace in the desert built … Continue reading

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Paul Is Dead

Live octopus Korea Octopus Paul has been eerily accurate in predicting the World Cup winners; his cousins in fish tanks throughout Korea would do well to develop enhanced psychic abilities or they could end up segmented and writhing on a … Continue reading

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All We Are Saying Is Give Pizza Chance

Pizza Italy and the world Although we have a tendency to think of pizza as a modern fast food phenomenon, it has been with us for centuries (if not millennia). Although other ancient cultures have had some sort of pizza-like … Continue reading

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