New Video Reveals The 2014 Color Of The Year

With special guests, E.G. Daily (actress, singer) and Lori Ann Robinson (Emmy Nominated Costume Designer and Wardrobe Consultant). Join us at the Fresh Produce Clothing Boutique in Pasadena, California for a frank chat and fashion advice on how to incorporate the color of the year into your wardrobe!

Butterflies At Sunset

Photo from a ride up the escalator in Neiman Marcus at the Westfield Topanga Mall.

Floss Silk Trees In Bloom

Whether you call them Floss Silk Trees, Silk Floss Trees or Ceiba Speciosa - They are in bloom all over Southern California right now.

These trees are in bloom all around town. If you take a second look, you'll notice the trunk is covered with thorny protrusions giving the bright green sapling a prehistoric look. You can't tell from this photo, but the next time you notice a tree full of crazy pink blossoms, you'll remember to take a peak at the trunk. Like other fine things in life, the trunk mellows with age. The bright green yields to a tone of grey and the protrusions, once threatening and menacing looking melt into the mature surface of the trunk. I'm not sure what that says about aging, but I also read earlier today that certain jelly fish are actually biological immortal. I'm going with that.

Opening Night: Artist's Reception, September 6th

Currently on exhibit at Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825 in West Hollywood: Original works by Encino, Fine Artist, Warren Keating. The show entitled Every Step You Take reflects the artist's ongoing exploration of people in motion viewed from above. Many of the subjects were captured on film in Paris and transported through time and space, translated into Keating's vision of pixel-impressionism.

Other works on display at the gallery include the new body of work; Play Nice by artist Jodi Bonassi and Pop Uber Alles, an all-media exploration of Pop Art juried by Timothy Potts, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The gallery is located on La Cienega in West Hollywood. More info: http://www.laaa.org/pop/index.html

New Restaurant Opening Next Month

Highly anticipated Farm to Table cuisine coming to Ventura Blvd. in October. Have you seen the store front going in near the Whole Foods in Tarzana? Let's meet up for some good eats and a glass of (eco-friendly, organic) wine. You'd never know it, if you didn't hear in advance.

Serving everything from grass fed beef to Vegetarian, Vegan and Gluten Free, this offering from some former MacDonald's exec's comes just in the nick of time. Forks over knives and priced to please!

New Flagship CPK Offers Signature Cocktails

Stop by the new CPK at the Westfield Topanga Mall and check out the bar they've built in front of their restaurant - downstairs from the food court. They've come up with 8 new California cocktails with ingredients like avocado, smashed blueberries and cactus fruit. They are all delicious! Try the Route 1 or one of their Cracked Pepper Margaritas - especially tasty!

Read about their new menu:
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New Salvation Army Donation Center

Across from the park - between the 76 station and The Stand - there's a new Salvation Army Donation Center where the old Christian Science Reading Room used to be.