Hi Friends!   It's been a while. I haven't posted stories here for quite some time because Blogtown was created to tell stories abo...

Blogtown is twelve years old today, and I just wanted to acknowledge that. It has been a privilege and an honor to tell the stories of Venic...

What. TEN YEARS has gone by since I posted my first Blogtown story back on September 9, 2009! It's hard to believe ... but here we ar...

Happy New Year 2019! Well, I'm back in Venice and it's kind of hard to tell the difference between here and Minnesota. Cold and rain...

Today is "Giving Tuesday", when you get hit up for your end of the year charitable donations. As all of the holiday frenzy begins ...

Back to school! Back to business! And that means we're shifting into high gear with 90291: VENICE UNZIPPED. Everyone is coming back from...

I was out for a stroll the other day, and though I've walked by a zillion times, I never really noticed this little house ... probably b...

I was in the desert over the weekend, and when I turned my phone back on there was a message showing that a friend of mine had altered the A...

WHOA. I just realized that Blogtown turned seven years old today! That's an awful lot of stories (807 so far, to be exact), and I...

I finally got the chance to see Venice legend Maureen Cotter's one woman show at Beyond Baroque on Saturday night, and now I know why it...

I got to see Mason Jennings again on Friday night in a church in Koreatown. I've seen him play many times, both out here and in Minneso...

I can't believe that five years have already gone by since I launched Blogtown on 9/9/09! There's been so many stories to tell, so m...

Please PLEASE excuse the delay in sharing some good Venice stories ... life has been crrrazy lately, and I've gotten a little behind. Pl...

I dug the Free Venice Beachhead from the day I moved here. An entirely volunteer operation, it has been in existence since 1968, celebrating...

Well, life has been a little frenetic lately, and I've been completely low on time to tell the massive volume of stories that are to be ...

Do you know who Leo Kottke is? I'm always amazed at how many people don't. He is perhaps the best 12 string guitar player in the wo...

Well, with all the fun and life happening in and around Venice lately, I didn't realize until after the fact that ol' Blogtown is a ...