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Where to golf in the SCV
Golf is big in the Santa Clarita Valley, and whether your backyard overlooks a sand trap or you're a lifetime member of a country club or you "know a guy" or you just ante up on weekends at a public course, beautiful, challenging facilities await you locally. You can play 18 or nine, drive 'em at the range or practice your putting, then cool off at the watering hole and have the wife pop over ...
Annual Citrus Classic Balloon Festival takes flight in Santa Paula
Starting tonight at 5 p.m., with the Friday evening Balloon Glow, followed by the sunset dinner, and continuing through tomorrow evening at 10 p.m., the 2010 Citrus Classic Balloon Festival will bring color, music, food and family fun to Santa Paula and surrounds. There will be beer tasting, wine tasting, food and craft vendors, kids activities, tethered balloon rides, soccer clinics, car shows, a 5K Run and mass balloon ascensions to thrill and delight. From ...
Get a dash of splash at the water park
The heat is on and cool water is calling. But why not combine the wet with some wild at one of the SoCal water parks? Within a two hour drive of the SCV there are four of these big-time venues. You can lazily float away the day, ride man-made waves or shoot down any number of dizzying drops in chutes, tubes and dark tunnels. There is something for every age group at every park, so ...
Beachin' in Ventura: The coolest local beaches
Enough with the extended June gloom, already. It's mid-July, we're finally broiling in the summer's first major heat wave, and anyplace wet looks pretty good right now. The city pools are nice, but boring; Hurricane Harbor requires a chunk of cash and a dose of patience. A favorite local alternative is the beach, and by local, I mean a straight shot west on Highway 126 to Ventura, where pristine, tar ball-free, relatively unpopulated sands and ...
King Kong
Get ready to rumble! If attending a "celebrity death match" between King Kong and T-Rex is your idea of a perfect day at the theme park, then Universal Studios Hollywood has a new attraction made for you. Guests who board the behind-the-scenes Universal Studios Tour trams can now experience King Kong, "the eighth wonder of the world," in 360 3-D. Triple Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson ("Lord of the Rings" film trilogy) collaborated on the ...
Fun on the Fourth
So, OK, the Fourth of July comes on a Sunday this year. But don't let that hold you back. The concerts and fireworks displays are all pretty much over by 9:30 p.m., so you can still get enough sleep before Monday - and many of you are fortunate enough to have Monday off, anyway. Even better, the events earlier in the day, such as a pancake breakfast, parades and pre-fireworks hanging out by the water, ...
Summer outdoor concerts in the SCV
Why go over the hill and through the ringer to enjoy outdoor concerts this summer? As always, we've got a bunch right here in the SCV - and best of all they're free! From the Lexus of Valencia Jazz and Blues concert series, which is already underway on Friday nights on Town Center Drive, to the Concerts in the Park series, which kicks off on Saturday, July 10 at Central Park, to Tuesday evenings at ...
Favorite SCV Restaurants
Last week Escape took a look at the newer restaurants in the SCV, and this week we take a look at established restaurants that have become favorites with local diners. Great food, good prices, terrific service and friendly atmosphere are the hallmarks of these businesses, which makes sense, as they couldn't survive in these economic times without these qualities. While you may have your own favorites, here are the ones we're aware of. Backwoods Inn ...
The Santa Clarita Valley's newest restaurants
People need to eat, and, apparently, people in the SCV need to eat out. Or someone thinks so, anyway, because new restaurants are popping up around every corner in town. Some of these are reincarnations of previous establishments and others are tempting us for the very first time. Some of them offer fine dining and others barely offer space for one family to sit. You have everything from wings and tacos to upscale tapas and ...
Summer movie madness
Though it isn't anything official, calendar-wise, the Memorial Day weekend began the "summer" in the minds of moviegoers. And June, July and August will bring us, hopefully, the kinds of films that will make the summer special. On tap are romances, comedies, horror films, spy thrillers and toy stories, some of which might one day become classics - and then you can say you were there when they first opened. Hollywood heroes are expanding their ...
Memorial Day Weekend in the SCV
Though gas prices aren't, at the moment, through the roof, spending money may be through the floor for most people. And if your budget is insisting you keep it close to the SCV this long weekend, you'll be pleased to know there is no lack of good times you can enjoy locally. For the true holiday observance, Monday morning will feature our valley's own tribute to fallen veterans at Eternal Valley Memorial Park. But, beyond ...
Hidden places ... secret spaces
We rush here and there, children to get to school, appointments to keep, a boss to make happy. We're in such a hurry in our daily lives we often forget to take in the amazing spaces and places that surround us in the Santa Clarita Valley. There are wonderful secret spaces and hidden places throughout the SCV, which can offer a chance for an extended chance to "get away" - or a mere moment's respite. ...
Topanga Banjo, Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival
It was 1961 when the Banjo Pickers and Open Fiddling Contest was created by Margot Slocum and Peg Benpe as a fund raiser for the Santa Monica Friends Meeting House. At that first "festival" there were 26 banjo pickers, five fiddlers, four judges and more than 500 in attendance. Over the years the festival has been held at various locations, but since 1990 it has found a home at the Paramount Ranch - still close ...
California Strawberry Festival comes to Oxnard
The 27th annual California Strawberry Festival comes to Oxnard this Saturday and Sunday, with delicious food, 200-plus arts and crafts booths, Strawberryland for Kids, the Strawberry Promenade, gooey contests and headline entertainment on two stages. This will be a weekend of sweet family entertainment. Food Chocolate-dipped, powdered, shortcaked and even atop pizza, strawberries abound as desserts, main courses and even in thirst-quenching smoothies, champagne and beer. There are more than 40 food booths to choose ...
Placerita Canyon Nature Center: Where the wild things are
"It's about educating people on the natural environment, and here we emphasize the interface between people and the natural open spaces. We want to take the roughness off the "urban edge," said Frank Hoffman. As acting regional park superintendent I, Hoffman orchestrates the goings-on at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center in Placerita Canyon, where, for 38 years, SCV residents and anyone else who visits have been meeting and learning to appreciate the wild animals and ...
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