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It was Wednesday morning, 9:46am when I woke up to a series of texts, “I’m here.” “I’m outside” “Ok, you’re sleeping, so I’ll be over...

Throughout my preteens, I used to look forward to the end of Summer. I mostly loved feeling the crisp on-coming Fall air, and looked forward...

I’m slapping away at my keyboard from the corner of Café Bassam in San Diego – a random coffee shop I found on Yelp after searching...

Step One: Actually Going Out  I have a confession: I haven’t explored Los Angeles nearly as much as I’d like to. Whether it was due to...

One afternoon while exploring a new corner of Downtown, I stopped into Starbucks to get my tall Americano (the cheaper version of a latte). You...

“Jo, does this look familiar?” I ask. “Yep, just keep going straight” she responds, as we trek higher and higher into the steep, winding streets...

If you’ve ever watched our Snapchat (@damonandjo), you might have noticed that I’m not exactly the MVP of the snap-o-sphere. I, Joanna Franco, admit that...

Yesterday, I had this realization that the reason I love Los Angeles is because it’s a big city filled with nature. Ok, highways and shopping...

When our best friend Dominique arrived from New York for the first time ever in LA, we knew we had to show her the ropes of...

For the visitor wanting to experience the Los Angeles of the locals (on the East side at least) and skip out on the more tourist-heavy...

Are you cool? Ok, so you’d probably like Silver Lake. Squished between two other cool hangouts Echo Park and Los Feliz, the neighborhood of Silver Lake...

Most people fear moving like the plague for obvious reasons; like how that Ikea couch is way too damn heavy and poorly built to relocate...