This Side of Paradise

I strongly recommend visiting The Hungtington’s current exhibit, This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. Go before it ends on September 15, 2008! I think if you have a Bank of America card, you get a discount (at least that is what I saw happen to a fellow patron). The photos definitely encourage thoughts about what has changed and what will remain the same in this crazy city. If you never do get a chance to see the exhibit, there is a book you can buy, which I am pretty sure includes the majority, if not all, the pictures found in the exhibit. It would be a great coffee table book.

I also recommend checking out the Conservatory while you are there, which includes four separate and distinct environments to walk around in: Tropical Forest Rotunda, Cloud Forest, Carnivorous Plant Bog, and Field Lab. (My favorite is the Tropical Forest Rotunda).

My boyfriend and I hung out in Pasadena after leaving the Huntington. Is it just me or is 21 Choices not offering as many flavor choices as they used to? Not only were there only 5 flavors instead of 6, 4 of the flavors are very simple such as chocolate, vanilla, a nonfat fruit, and the tart. This leaves room for just one crazy fun recipe instead of several. Oh well, they get points for using organic fruits.

After Pasadena, we went Downtown to MacArthur Park for a free Kung Fu Theater show at the Levitt Pavilion. We did not realize until we were already there that the targeted audience was children and not adults. It was amusing though, but sitting on the ground for so long was not.