#61: Beer, Adventure, & Tony Bennett
Last week was actually #60 not 59. Sorry for the mistake:
Hey Friends!
The original idea for this newsletter was to look for things that were mishegoss. If you didn't know, Mishegoss is Yiddish for mad, crazy, insane, and a few other choice words.
Over time, we switched to lifestyle since there were more exciting things to discover around our State.
So here we are, a semi-lifestyle newsletter trying to find its place in the newsletter world.
I think we're doing okay, but there is always room for improvement.
Right now, I'm thinking of more posts on places to start rather than see or a combination of places to stay, see, and dine.
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I Left My Heart in San Francisco, The Great Tony Bennett: What’s Below is Well Deserved. IMHO. Quick story. A few years before my Mom passed away in 2000 I took her to a Tony Bennett concert in Boston. My Uncle through his connections not only got us take seats and backstage passes, but an invite to a private afterwards with Tony Bennett as the host. It was a great time and I was able to grant my wish and my Mom’s of meeting Tony.
San Francisco just unveiled its fourth special cable car
by Jillian D’Onfro, SF Gate
San Francisco just unveiled a new cable car dedicated to someone known for singing the city’s most famous love letter. As of Wednesday morning, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” singer Tony Bennett will now have a commemorative cable car that makes its way up and down California Street.
For our Beer aficionados…
CicLAvia teams up with Los Angeles Ale Works ahead of its 2024 season
by Richard Guzman, LA. Daily News
CicLAvia is once again closing streets to cars and opening them to cyclists and pedestrians as it launches its 2024 season starting Sunday, Feb. 25.
And after strolling or biking through carless roads, participants can throw back a cold one too because CicLAvia has teamed up with a local brewery to create its own beer for the season.
“There’s nothing better than a beer after a bike ride,” said Andrew Fowler, an avid cyclist and co-founder of Los Angeles Ale Works, which has brewed a beer named “seek-la-VEE-ah.”
Are the Kids Driving You Nuts About Traveling? Here’s an Idea.
10 Family-Friendly Museums for All Ages
by Visit California.com Team
There’s a certain magic to museums: Where else can you become an astronaut for a day, build race car prototypes, and walk with dinosaurs? California’s myriad family-friendly museums have multigenerational appeal and encourage hands-on exploration that brings history, science, and art to life. Listed from north to south, here are 10 institutions across the Golden State that are great for all ages.
1. California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento
All aboard! Highlighting the importance of rail lines in the Golden State’s history, Sacramento’s California State Railroad Museum collection includes 19 steam locomotives dating back to 1865 and other restored stock such as a refrigerator car for hauling California’s agricultural bounty and a Union Pacific caboose. After walking through a fine-dining car complete with 1940s-era china, visitors can ride the rails on the Sacramento Southern Railroad. From April through September, the 50-minute excursion also offers a scenic view of the Sacramento River.
We Love a Little Adventure, Especially Where It’s Least Expected.
A hidden staircase on the California coast leads to a heart-wrenching urban legend
by Andrew Chamings, SF Gate
Somewhere between the mansions of Bel Air and the ravines of Topanga Canyon, the view from the crest of the dusty fire road where I started my trek into Rustic Canyon was as cinematic as it gets. Behind me the dense oak valleys dropped down to the Pacific shore, sparkling in the distance. Above, multimillion-dollar homes peeked over the treeline.
I was looking for an unmarked staircase that led to an abandoned bunker, where Nazis once held out waiting for Hitler to conquer America — or so the story goes.
When the Cheesecake Factory is More Than a Cheesecake Factory
California's weirdest Cheesecake Factory table is an odd obsession
by Karen Palmer, SF Gate
No, if said suitor wanted to really impress me, a professional food writer for more than 20 years, I would implore them to book the most romantic table in all of Los Angeles: the glassed-in Cheesecake Factory nook that overlooks the lobby of a movie theater at The Grove.
That answer might surprise you because, yes, it’s a chain restaurant in a mall. But it’s a chain restaurant in LA’s best-known outdoor mall, which has to count for a little bit more.