While recalling his remarkable yet erratic life in music, Sly Stone admits he occasionally had to depend on the recollections of others because his own memory wasn't always reliable.
Roquebrune Cap Martin is adjacent to Menton, a Riviera town on the border with Italy. It too has an old town, a maze of twisty alleys, as well as the imposing basilica of Saint Michael. David visited all, as well as the city’s market, my favorite. The old town of Menton David was...
During his 24 years of service in the U.S. Navy Ken Leff of Rotunda West began his service in 1969 in little ships and ended it in battleships and aircraft carriers in the ’90s. He spent almost 2½ decades sailing the world and protecting the peace for all of us. Keep reading 01...
More monkeys, iguanas, a rare lizard, all kind of birds, a deer – I saw them all on the grounds of the Posada Jungle Hotel adjacent to Manuel Antonio park where I spent four nights. This was better than a guided safari, and at my doorstep. The beach near the hotel was fabulous, f...
You are going to notice a heavy focus on the gastronomic scene of the area. Food is one of the main draws of Little Tokyo. Keep in mind this is the largest of the official Japantowns in the United States (the other Japantowns are located in San Francisco and San Jose). Los Angeles ...
might best be described as the kind of house you’d imagine Seven Dwarves or some happy Hobbits heading home to at the end of a hard day of work. I see them all over Carmel (not the hobbits, the houses) but have never really thought about examining the parts that make up the whole...
open a second Canlis in Honolulu, then another in Portland, then in San Francisco. Legend has it that Canlis wanted no more “expansion,” so he showed up drunk at a Hilton board meeting, and the horrified board pulled the plug on plans to put a Canlis in every new Hilton in the ...
”About On the Blue Cruises, Inc.:Over the last 20 years, On the Blue Cruises, Inc. has become a leader in music cruise charter innovation, having produced some of the world’s greatest floating fan festivals (including On the Blue Cruise, Monsters of Rock Cruise, Cruise to the Edge, ...
The first in the trilogy will be closest to traditional Fragments of a Dream. It’s called Faith in the Dream, 1874-1875. July 11-12, 2025 July 18-19, 2025 July 25-26, 2025 Family Festival held in Walnut Grove City Park on pageant Saturdays, July 12, 19, and 27, 2025. The ...
San Jose is 1,172 metres above sea level and thankfully, after some very hot days on the coast, it was much cooler. This sprawling city surrounded by forest covered mountains is home to more than 2 million people, 40% of the country’s population. Earlier in our trip we had commented...