Tag: Monica

Ultimate Halal Food Guide for Southern California (Los Angeles, Irvine, Anaheim, Santa Monica + more)

Big Al’s  Halal pizzeria with unique pizzas, fire wings, amazing beef brisket, and homemade sauces. Selected as Yelp’s Top 100 places to eat in the U.S. in 2015 and 2018. Seating is limited and it often gets really crowded. It’s 100% worth the wait though. ...

Speaking of the Santa Monica Mountains

The Temescal Canyon Trail, which Claire called Temescula, Pieter called Temescal, and I called a hike, was not made for children, or dogs. Here my own etymological wilderness is stretched and dried. Where it’s hard to imagine water, it’s hard to imagine growth before death. There was ...