It’s Tuesday, so-called “Taco Tuesday” to be precise. Beaming at everyone with a Californian sunshine smile, a young “dude” with a white cap and the gestures of a 1920’s hotel bellboy is handing out samples. I’m in a hurry …
Category Archives: City Life
Livings in Los Angeles. Whole Foods and the Terror of Me. Now!
Posted by Frances Livings
on October 31, 2016
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Are You Smelling the Roses?
Posted by Frances Livings
on September 20, 2016
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Like almost every morning, I took the dogs to the park for a good, over an hour walk. While they were enthusiastically hunting and chasing squirrels, I discovered this beautiful clean and completely intact pine cone. I thought of …
Livings in Los Angeles. Closet Stories – The Hollywood Uniform
Posted by Frances Livings
on October 27, 2013
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It’s true. Most transplants here in Los Angeles are quite obsessed with detecting and pointing out how different things are. I belong to them. One of the things that struck me immediately on my first visit to L.A. in 2006 …
Fishnet Stockings and Lonely Tissues Boxes. The Reeperbahn in Hamburg and Candy’s Caravan
Posted by Frances Livings
on September 28, 2011
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My single ‘Candy’s Caravan’ was released in December 2010 (Moontraxx) and since then, one of the most interesting bits of feedback I have received is that listeners seem to really connect with the character Candy. In retrospect, it’s interesting to …
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