First Canada has to beat us to the punch by celebrating their Thanksgiving an entire month before ours. Now their "nation's birthday" is three days before ours? Like that's a coincidence. Way to steal our thunder, neighbor to the north. Today is officially Canada Day, so everyone don your tuques, crack open a Labatt's and let's down some poutine and butter tarts! It's time to party! And to start things off, here is our tribute......

One of my favorite food writers, Jeffrey Steingarten, once did an elaborate and methodical taste test of several different varieties of tap and bottled water. After much research and even more adjectives, he came to the shocking conclusion that New York tap water was most pleasing to the palate. And now Los Angeles tap water has every right to brag as well: it won the award for best municipal water at the 18th annual......

The majestic California sea lion. I like this photo because the sea lions are so interested in Watt's kayak. They are almost posing. Just imagine the sea lions as drunk sorority girls, and this photo could be on any Myspace page. I was just reading about sea lions on Wikipedia and I came across this curious fact, "Non-breeding populations live as far north as British Columbia." Non-breeding populations? Of course, they could be protecting......

Claiming that the entire airport was not closed, FAA officials announced this evening that LAX experienced a power outage that caused international backups. According to the LA Times, at 5:30pm the world's fifth-busiest airport had to go on generator power because of unknown causes, immediately effecting flights in and out of our city. Power was later restored after 7pm. One flight from San Jose to Southern California turned around shortly after takeoff and returned......

LA has 22 Sister Cities * Athens, Greece * Auckland, New Zealand * Berlin, Germany * Bordeaux, France * Busan, South Korea * Eilat, Israel * Giza, Egypt * Guangzhou, People's Republic of China * Jakarta, Indonesia * Kaunas, Lithuania * Lusaka, Zambia * Makati City, Philippines * Mexico City, Mexico * Melbourne, Australia * Moscow, Russia * Mumbai, India * Nagoya, Japan * St. Petersburg, Russia * Salvador, Brazil * Split, Croatia *......

Well, okay, we didn't really eat the whole city. But we did spend an extended long weekend there recently, and wanted to pass along some of our most delicious dining experiences. For those of you who make the trek to "Hollywood North" regularly, this may come in handy. For anyone else, it may just make you hungry. No trip to Vancouver is complete (for us, at least) without hitting the Spot. The White Spot,......