Authentic southern Italian thin-crust pizzas. My favorite is the scrumptious Santo Stefano.

A gem video rental store in South Pasadena.

place to chill

Salton Sea is not technically LA, but is a by-product of its history and my first-choice escape from the city: one of the world's largest inland seas and lowest spots on earth, a man-made lake in the midst of the Colorado desert, a resort area in the twenties turned in one of the worst ecological disaster of the past century.

My favorite place to brainstorm over breakfast.