Posted in Green on 10. Mar, 2010
Green Garden fans, the 2010 Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase is coming up April 25th! The FREE, self-guided tour of green gardens in our neighborhood is now in its 2nd year, and let me tell you, there are some spectacular gardens to see! I highly recommend it, not only because my garden is on the [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 07. Mar, 2010
Today my guest was Tara Settembre, a Mar Vista resident whose blog is When Tara Met Blog, which is awesome and I recommend checking it out. She bought a loaf of bread and some honey, and she got a sandwich from Earl’s Gourmet Grub (the grilled gouda), which looked delicious and she said she enjoyed [...]
Posted in Business Profile on 05. Mar, 2010
The Venice Grind is our Mar Vista coffee house default. It’s the perfect spot to meet with friends and hang out over coffee, and of course, since there’s free Open Mar Vista Wi-Fi, it’s a great spot to sit and work, too. And now the Venice Grind has made some subtle changes that are making [...]
A fire on February 23rd at 3712 Meier Street left a home badly damaged and a family in chaos, and you can help. The Estigarrivia-Albertini family were awoken in the night by the fire and had trouble escaping the flames because the bars on one room’s windows were bolted in place and in another room [...]
Posted in Family Fun on 02. Mar, 2010
Click to play: “Mar Vista’s Gone Green”
An original song by Mar Vista’s own Didi Pop!
Green Green Green Green
Mar Vista’s gone green
I’ll tell you what I mean
We’re teaching kids the dream
You gotta love Mar Vista
We got a lot of class
We’re putting in drought resistant plants
And taking out the grass
We shop the farmers market
For flowers, honey and [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 28. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is Kathy Owens and she’s making a cheese plate from Lelio & Sons Cheese. Kathy’s showing off her cheese plate with Chris Masson of the Cheese Booth. She’s got cranberry-cinnamon goat cheese, parmigiano-reggiano, stilton with apricot, havarti with dill, smoked gouda, jarlsberg, danish blue, and garlic and herb chevre. She’s going to serve [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 27. Feb, 2010
2 years documenting Mar Vista, as of today. Thank you, loyal readers and occasional fans! Here’s to a great 3rd year and beyond!
Posted in Weekend Plans on 26. Feb, 2010
That crazy El Nino year we’re in is threatening rain for Saturday 2/27, so Opening Day for North Venice Little League has been switched to Sunday, 2/28 at 10am. Be there or be square. Chili Fries will be going like hotcakes.
