By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
Descanso Gardens
Linda Ballou in the Descanso Rose Garden. All...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
If you’re not a devoted follower of Chinese astrology, you...
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By Linda Ballou for the NABBW
This current day view of Malibu shot from Serra Retreat is certainly not the view the...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
NOTE to READERS: Last month Linda offered NABBW readers a...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
Hello friends! It’s my hope that today’s article will be a...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
A panoramic vista view of Big Sur from Highway 1. Linda Ballou...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
Overview of the Willamette River as viewed from Corvallis. Photo...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
Scene from the Adobe Arcade in downtown Ojai. Photo by Ranee...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
Now is the time to plan your summer holiday. Here are some tips...
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By Linda Ballou, NABBW’s Adventure Travel Associate
Bandelier National Park protects over 33,000 acres of ruggedly...
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I need to give you a little bit of background about how we do things around these parts. I’m privileged because the site I write for allows me to...
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Over time, audiences have been trained to regard franchises a certain way. The understanding is that everything is connected, and a plot point or...
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I’m fond, perhaps too much, of saying that two things can be true at the same time. The first thing is that attempting to reboot a long-dormant...
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I’ve seen enough American movies to know what they look and feel like. Odds are you’re the same way. Whether you’ve seen an A24 horror film, an...
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Independent film exists because studios exist. Show business, particularly these days, has an almost sociopathic focus on the “business” side....
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Perhaps more than any other genre, crime films are my jam. Everyone who’s into film has that one genre they prefer just a bit more than the others....
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As recently as 2019,* an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal trotted out that hoary old chestnut about women in the military. You’ve heard this...
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Imagine you’re a filmmaker. You have an idea. It feels like a good one, a very good one. You start writing, and after multiple screenplay drafts,...
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Is Pixar the greatest animation studio in the history of film? Possibly. It can certainly compete with Disney, its quasi-parent, along with the...
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There’s an old belief that all little boys go dino-mad for a minute. I have no idea if that’s accurate, but I do know I was no exception. Back...
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The first time I saw Top Gun, I hated it. As a wee lad, I remember seeing it in a packed theater in 1986. I remember the whooshing of the jets, the...
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There aren’t many fictional characters that have as many character facets as Batman. You could go in a number of different directions beyond horror...
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There's really no good excuse this time.
Joe Rogan is releasing apology videos this week like DJ Khaled releases mixes, although they're far less entertaining, and his latest is really not very...
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Welcome to the column for all carbon-based life-forms.
If you breathe oxygen, this is for you.
And if you live on a planet, especially Earth, well, then, you’ve come to the right...
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It’s Monday, and it’s time once again for The Video You Deserve.
Now, the past several videos we’ve featured have all been vintage stuff from the ‘80s, which, arguably, is the golden age...
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Mondays can be rough.
And so, every Monday, we give you a music video. A fun, funny music video. Something that’ll make you smile, make you laugh, make you reminisce, and make you realize that...
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It’s Monday.
Yeah.
We feel you.
And so, every Monday, we give you a music video. A fun, funny music video. Something that’ll make you smile, make you laugh, make you reminisce, and make...
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