Flickr Shot by Sosidesc The big weekend is coming up: Labor Day Weekend, the end of summer. Le sigh. Wanna get out of town without having to deal with airline hassles or freeway gridlock on your last beautiful weekend? Have you thought about taking a train? The one time I took AmTrak (and I’ve been meaning to take…
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Hipcooks.com: Culinary School Made Simple
I used to love cooking, baking and entertaining but ever since I fell out of love with my kitchen, I stopped cooking altogether. Fortunately, my foodie friend Julie turned me onto Hipcooks.com. Her friend Monika teaches cooking classes out of her loft in the Brewery district. There she’ll school an intimate number of students in…
Crush Party at Gainey Vineyard: Those Grapes Are Asking For It
A couple of months ago my friend Beth’s wine class organized a field trip to Gainey and Firestone Wineries in Santa Ynez Valley. Surprisingly, I didn’t like The Bachelor’s winery so much but loved the Gainey wines. After buying many bottles, we found out that Gainey throws a crush party every year to celebrate the harvest and…
My Blog Addiction: A Year in the Making
I can’t believe it but it’s officially the year anniversary of Caroline on Crack! And I wanted to thank you for reading this here blog and for telling your friends about it, too. Hope it inspired many crazy, fun nights out in L.A. And I’m grateful to LA Times, Gridskipper, LAist, blogging.la, LA.COMfidential and the many others for…
Soundtrack for L.A. Living: Running Through Sprinklers
Flickr Shot by Today is a good day What: Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” Who: Those dying from the heat who have access to a grassy lawn and sprinklers. When/Where: The Valley, the Inland Empire, suburbia front lawns everywhere or city streets with an open fire hydrant during this scorcher…
Places I’ll Never Show My Face in Again: Tokyo Delve’s
The last time I went to North Hollywood’s Tokyo Delve’s was eons ago (when I was just crack-free “Caroline”) and in all honesty I hated it. It was frat-boy obnoxious and the servers made me stand up on my chair and do the chicken dance when all I really wanted to do was eat my…
Bonjour, Bastille Day! Santa Barbara French Festival
“Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?” “La plume de ma tante!” “Vous etes une super nana.” OK, even after five years of high school French, that’s pretty much all the French I know. But I can still appreciate a good time en francais. This Bastille Day weekend, Santa Barbara is throwing the largest French celebration…
Mahalo, S&S for the Freaky Tiki Bday Luau
Last night’s birthday tiki party at Saints & Sinners was a huge hit. And I totally want to thank S&S for making it all happen since I forgot to thank them when I had the mic last night for my big Trader Vic Mai Tai giveaway. Carol, the pink-tressed temptress/bartender, was a doll helping with…
From the Road: Karaoke & Christ Don't Mix
First off: Yay! I’m coming home! Finally! Second off, I just got back from my worst karaoke experience EVER! And no, it’s not that I got booed off the stage for attempting Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.” It was bizarro Hamburger Mary’s in downtown Sacramento. Totally different from WeHo’s Mary in that instead…
From the Road: The Sylvia Beach Hotel
 When my friend suggested the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon (named after the founder of the famous Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare & Co.), I was skeptical. “It’s a hotel for book lovers,” she said with cheer. “Um, OK.” “Yeah, there are cats and books in every room and board games and a group dinner.”…
