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Katie ClaryLiving Editor Los Liones Canyon provides a strange interface between city and wildland. Located on bluffs adjacent to Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Pacific Palisades, you’ll see Beverly Hills socialites hill-climbing next to scruffy athletes. You never know who you might see on this rollercoaster trail — I once caught Seinfeld’s Michael Richard (character Cosmo … [Read more...] about Climb uphill in Los Liones Canyon for views and reflection

Tracy Domingo Assistant Living Editor Kelia Tardiff Imagine for a moment a world where everyone is loved, everyone has a Coffee Bean beverage in hand, everyone is sportsmanlike, every girl is a daughter of a king and every trial is seen merely as a chance to excel. This world you are imagining is the ever-optimistic world that Kelia Tardiff lives in everyday. Tardiff, 21, … [Read more...] about Face in the crowd: Kelia Tardiff

Ginna NguyenStaff Writer Adam and Eve did it. According to all the statues, apparently David did it. And for this article, I’m encouraging you to do it too: get naked. In today’s culture it is a tragedy that the human body — something so magnificently created — has been objectified, sexualized and dehumanized in so many ways. There is no more beautiful creation than the person … [Read more...] about Get naked and feel truly free

Ginna NguyenStaff Writer I’ve got a drummer. My very own musician. He is barefoot in the sand, shaggy-haired, hot body... yeah, that’s a nice drummer. He smiles at me as he plays out my rhythm on his drum. I don’t know his name. Perhaps he is a man I have yet to meet. Perhaps he is my best friend. Perhaps my drummer is God, composing the beats of my life.  Bum bum ba dum … [Read more...] about Dance to the beat of the bongo

Katie ClaryLiving Editor We Malibu-dwellers sometimes forget that the space to explore “through the canyon” is much bigger than our narrow strip of beach and mountain. Taking that to heart, this week’s trail requires a trek inland, to Agoura Hills. Cheeseboro Canyon is a national recreation area nestled between quiet neighborhoods in Old Agoura. Horse farms border the parkland … [Read more...] about Cheeseboro Canyon is worth the drive for friendly foothills