When it’s scorching hot in the city of Angeles, sometimes there is nothing better than taking a nice walk in the woods next to a cool lake. Lakes in Los Angeles? Why yes, probably more than you think. They’re free and easy, and a perfect place to clear your head and get away from the city and industry madness. Echo Park Lake Recently reopened after a $45-million renovation, this 29-acre Echo Park treasure(which began as a drinking water reservoir in the 1860’s) has been transformed from a seedy, run-down legend into a beautiful, eco-friendly marvel. A new playground, refurbished pathways…
Author: Hadley Meares
Hadley Meares
After finishing college in her native South, Hadley traveled cross country, got chased by a man with a gun, and settled in Los Angeles. Her fiction has been published in the Santa Monica Review and the Southern Indiana Review and her she writes for several online publications, including KCET’s Departures. As a pretty cool day job she is currently the lovely Amy Poehler’s stand-in on the show Parks and Recreation. She is also a frequent featured performer at the legendary Dresden (fulfilling her long held wish to be a lounge singer).
New York, Chicago, Boston- eat your hearts out. In the sprawl of Los Angeles, our really fantastic area museums are often overlooked. But LA’s repositories of art and culture are great places to renew, recharge and get out of yourself. Don’t worry if you don’t know much about art, aren’t a big fan of “old” things, or conversely don’t jive with modern works. If you go with an open mind, I promise 90% of you will find something that makes you laugh, makes you cry or maybe even pisses you off. And luckily most of our museums boast beautiful outdoor…
Sometimes when I look at back at my 20’s it seems to be a big blur. A blur of black box theaters, open mic nights, auditions in white rooms, endless trips to Argentum and countless unanswered calls to my agents. When I wasn’t in acting class I was rehearsing, when I wasn’t on a low-budget set I was on a soundstage trying to get my SAG card. Once I got my SAG card it was the cattle calls, the networking, the constant gym battle to lose just ten more pounds. In the past couple years things have stabilized- I got…