Having recently travelled to Las Vegas, this post is part of my series on kosher options in Las Vegas (July 2014). The first restaurant on our trip that we visited was a new restaurant (and our first time there), Nina’s Café. Located in...
Today is 17 Tammuz on the Jewish calendar and, as such, it is a fast day (although only sunrise to sundown). In fact, it is a fast day from Talmudic times. The next fast day on the calendar is 9...
There are multiple coffee shops on the Las Vegas Strip where one can get one’s caffeine fix, so why am I writing about the locations of one particular coffee shop? No, it’s not because Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is...
Last month, I went with my family to check out the Anaheim Packing District, which had just opened up only two weekends before. In addition to being open for business, being a Sunday, the Anaheim Packing District was holding their...
{Previously: Part I: Main Stage & App} As had transpired at the first two TribeFests, there was a service project opportunity at TribeFest 2014. Now, this was not something in which everybody necessarily participated (in fact, I know people who used...
Last month, a fellow blogger came to me and said he had received a device with which he had been struggling to operate, so I happily volunteered to try it out (and, of course, write about it). The device, in...
Two weeks ago, I got to attend an event where the Mayor-Elect of Long Beach, Robert Garcia – who will be installed next week – spoke. Garcia will not only be the first Latino mayor of Long Beach, but also...
[Cross-posted from Star Wars Maven] StarWars.com, the official website for Star Wars, underwent a new design that came out the other day. It is very nice-looking and, as Lillian Skye writes for Star Wars Underworld, is “a sleek and futuristic...
Coming off their fifth annual such event, Long Beach Comic Expo has announced that it will be bigger than it has ever been. Not only that, it will also be moving to earlier in the year – the 2014 event...
Welcome to “Matters of Interest”, a new blog for a wide variety of topics. Founded by me, Drew Kaplan, I am hoping to provide posts on a daily basis during the week (M-F) covering a range of topics that are...
