Photo credit: Envato Remember those skull-and-crossbones style warnings printed on record sleeves that ominously warned that “home taping is killing music”? If only they could have foreseen the digital grim reaper that’s descended on physical media over the last decade or so. Streaming still hasn’t taken enough of a shape for us to reliably know for sure where it&...

• calendar_month September 8, 2024
• category Entertainment, Misc.
• post 2024, Entertainment, family fun, Los Angeles, Misc., Orange County

The TASTE for LOS AL returns to The Shops at Rossmoor for its 23rd annual food and wine tasting fundraising event Saturday, October 12, 2024.  Behind Home Goods. The event will take place from 6-10 PM. 21 years and older. The event, which is the largest fundraiser for activities at Los Alamitos High School, is now also the largest single day food and wine tasting eve...

• calendar_month September 26, 2024
• category Community
• post 2024, Bike Friendly Community, California, Community, Entertainment, Janie Bruce, Los Alamitos, LOS ALAMITOS HIGH SCHOOL, Orange County, Pumpkin Fall, Rossmoor, Seal Beach, Taste For Los Al

The TASTE for LOS AL returns to The Shops at Rossmoor for its 23rd annual food and wine tasting fundraising event Saturday, October 12, 2024.  Behind Home Goods. The event will take place from 6-10 PM. 21 years and older. The event, which is the largest fundraiser for activities at Los Alamitos High School, is now also the largest single day food and wine tasting eve...

• calendar_month October 3, 2024
• category Community
• post 2024, Bike Friendly Community, Community, Entertainment, Janie Bruce, Los Alamitos, LOS ALAMITOS HIGH SCHOOL, Rossmoor, Seal Beach, Taste For Los Al, The TASTE for LOS AL

HOLIDAY HOME TOUR 2024 An annual tradition for more than 30 years, the Holiday Home Tour usually kicks off the festive winter season on the first Sunday of December with tours of beautifully decorated, remodeled homes; a tea room, a gift basket raffle, entertainment, and more.   ** All net proceeds go to fund the charities we support and to student scholarships. The next Holida...

• calendar_month October 20, 2024
• category Community, JANIE BRUCE
• post 11331 Kensington Rd Rossmoor, 2024, Bike Friendly Community, charities, Christmas, Community, Entertainment, families, Family Pets, fun celebration, Holiday Home Tour, Holiday Season, Home Decor, Home Design, Janie Bruce, Los Alamitos, Orange County, Rossmoor, Rossmoor / Los Alamitos, Rossmoor Woman's Club, RWC, Seal Beach

The Seal Beach Sun (formally known as the Journal) has been The Local Paper since April 1967.  This keeps neighbors and local residents up to date on what's going on with local businesses, new restaurants, residents and fun and cool events. The famous car show is coming soon with the live music bands on Main Street for the family to enjoy while taking a stroll down th...

• calendar_month October 27, 2024
• category Community, Local news
• post 2024, 2025, Beaches, Bike Friendly Community, Community, Entertainment, family fun, Family Pets, Janie Bruce, Local attractions, Local News, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Seal Beach

The Elegantly Haunted Queen Mary Keeps Legends Alive in Long Beach Featured image credit: Russ Allison Loar The Queen Mary has quite the reputation. No, we don’t mean a disgraced monarch. We’re talking about the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary permanently moored in the Port of Long Beach. You know, the allegedly haunted Queen Mary? She ferried the world’s ultra-...

• calendar_month November 1, 2024
• category Local news
• post 2024, Entertainment, Local attractions, Local News, Long Beach, Los Angeles County

Featured image credit: Hermann Luyken Cirque du Soleil has become such a fixture of the Las Vegas experience that it’s hard to recall that the first permanent venture was a major risk. Up until then, the expectations of Las Vegas nightlife were drastically different. While most will agree that Siegfried and Roy did the heavy lifting of the Vegas entertainment revolution,...

• calendar_month November 17, 2024
• category Entertainment, Misc.
• post 2024, Entertainment, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Attractions, Las Vegas Events, Misc., Tips

The Tradition continues...Rossmoor Winter Festival at Rush Park.  Santa | Snow | Music | Food a winter wonderland for the community.  Saturday, December 14th, 2024. 4-9PM | 3001 Blume Ave. Rossmoor.  Free Admission.  Treat yourself to food, a fresh coffee or hot cocoa and enjoy fun in the snow area. Next, take a ride down one of the two sled hills and enjoy the music...

• calendar_month November 24, 2024
• category Community
• post 2024, 2025, Bike Friendly Community, Christmas, Community, Cypress, Entertainment, family fun, Festivals, Holiday, Holiday Season, Huntington Beach, Janie Bruce, Janie_Holiday_Event_Rossmoor, Long Beach, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Rossmoor Festivals, Seal Beach

The area is known for its small town feel, family and pet friendly parks, bike friendly community, jogging, walking, and outdoor activities.  The area is home to many parks, biking, walking to local shopping and restaurants, outdoor festivals, Waterfront Aquarium of the Pacific touch tanks and shark lagoon, is a public aquarium on a 5-acre site on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach....

• calendar_month November 26, 2024
• category Community, Misc.
• post 2024, 2025, Bike Friendly Community, Community, Entertainment, family fun, Family Pets, Long Beach

Christmas comes but once a year (to the disappointment of many children and relief of many bank accounts)… but there is one remote corner of the Los Angeles-adjacent Skyforest where that’s not quite true. Since the early 1950s, Angelenos have recognized that Christmas is a daily event at Santa’s Village Lake Arrowhead.   The Early Success of Santa’s Village Lake...

• calendar_month December 15, 2024
• category Entertainment, Local Attractions
• post 11331 Kensington Rd Rossmoor, Christmas, Entertainment, Local attractions, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino