Every year, on Memorial Day weekend, a great mob of mules and their packers, riders and trainers converge on the small town of Bishop, California, in the Eastern Sierras for an event called Mule Days. For us, the Mule Days celebration and Memorial Weekend marks the end of our bouldering season – it’s time to [...]
The Venice Oceanarium is organizing a Grunion party tonight at 11 pm at the Venice Breakwater (head to the end of Windward Avenue). Grunions are sardine-sized fish found only off the coast of California and Baja California. During grunion season, which peaks from March – June, grunions arrive at beaches en masse, 2 to [...]
Always inspirational – check out the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour this weekend at the John Adams Middle School in Santa Monica. Details on tickets and films here. The festival starts at 7 PM on Saturday and Sunday nights (March 20, 21). If you need even more inspiration, head to the finish line of [...]
This weekend, Santa Monica will be hosting two photo events: Photo LA (The 19th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition) and Review LA. Photo LA will be held in the Santa Monica Civic Center, open to the public from Friday, January 15 – Sunday January 17. Review LA, a photographers networking event, will be [...]
Every year the Venice Oceanarium holds a reading of Moby Dick, on the beach. It takes two days.
Every year, I look forward to the world tour of the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The tour features the best movies from the festival in Banff. Topics range from impossible feats of rock and ice climbing, radical kayaking descents of unexplored rivers, quixotic quests, larger than life mountain men and women, and my favorite–surprising cultural [...]
Holiday street festival on Abbot Kinney, eco-gift fair in Santa Monica, sample sales, free food and the Venice Canal Holiday boat parade of 2008! I’m staying in town this weekend. For Venice locals, plan your weekend with Yo! Venice!, one of my favorite… and useful blogs.
A good time was had by all.
If you like pickles, this is one event you don’t want to miss! It’s a festival called “Slow Food Nation” in San Francisco (where else?) on August 29 to September 1. According to the SFN website, the festival “is dedicated to creating a framework for deeper environmental connection to our food and aims to inspire [...]
Calling all boulderers… There’s nothing better than an outdoor comp! Escape the plastic for sandstone boulders and a natural crashpad of pine needles on the weekend of September 6. Details are at pinemountaincomp.com.
