Take a breather at Pat’s Topanga Grill
A pleasant place to have breakfast or lunch is waiting up Topanga Canyon toward the beach called Pat’s Topanga Grill. Only five minutes from Ventura Boulevard, the eatery is open as early as 7 a.m. You will see the beautiful scenery of the San Fernando Valley on the path too a rustic retreat.
The restaurant walls are lined with pictures...
Sylvia the Warrior
Rufio Vasquez our favorite biker comes from a Chicano background of tough love.
His mother, Sylvia Vasquez was diagnosed with Cancer when Rufio was only 6 years old.
“I lived my entire life not knowing if I would have a mother” he said.
According to Rufio he grew up in an environment where he had to be a strong young man. Growing...
Shooting for fun
Welcome back fellow bloggers and readers.
This week two fellow classmates/photographers and I met up with Emelyne. Finally we had our photo shoot scheduled after weeks of us being too busy, we decided to meet at the Pierce College Farm. Once there we noticed how vast the farm really was. The land seemed to stretch on and on. We got...
And now ladies and gentlemen, for my next feature story!
After a long summer spent filling my passport with long awaited stamps and working at my favorite store K.Sp. *wink* it is time to get back in the journalistic saddle. With the Bull Magazine‘s theme set on “Culture/Subculture” a great many ideas for possible stories were thrown around the newsroom like colored powder on Holi Day in India. Now although I am...
Reaching Great Heights
There is a societal expectation of what we are supposed to look like and what is “normal.” But what if, since before birth, a person’s appearance has been genetically set? Dwarfism is an inherited genetic deviation. This gene can cause a person to be of short stature with shorter limbs. One in every 10,000 births will be diagnosed with...
Signature brots at Dog Haus
Tucked away with a strip of stores adjacent to the Topanga Mall is Dog Haus: The Absolute Wurst. This latest installment in the San Fernando Valley is the brainchild of partners Hagop Giragossian, Quasim Riaz, and Andre Vener. Its open glass front façade and cheeky name draw in hungry customers.
The deceivingly large restaurant could be compared to walking into...
Bronson Oliveira
There is a new face in the coaching department at Los Angeles Pierce College. Bronson Oliveira, from Culver City, has arrived at Pierce. He will be the Assistant Coach for the Men’s Volleyball program. He played volleyball at Ohio State University and played the libero position.
Oliverira coached volleyball at Calabasa High School for both the boys and girls program,...
Willkommen Freunde!: Fun Facts and Tips when touring Germany!
As many of my dashing readers know, my siblings and I are the latest editions to a long line of proud Germans. With Krieger and Venable on my mothers side and Stover, Heinreich, and Backovic on my fathers side it is impossible for anyone not to know our Deutsch roots. However with that said, many people who aren’t “In...
Rufio the Warrior
Jose Juan Vasquez, also known as Rufio, is 26-year-old former Marine who came back from war and found himself inspired by the freedom of motorcycle culture. Inspired by bikers, Rufio plans on creating a motorcycle museum.
Video by Giuliana Orlandoni
Home of the Free
The story is all too frequent. Natasha Perez, Irma and their mother Yrma wanted to leave a country filled with political unrest, hoping to find serenity, the proverbial “gold paved streets” and the freedom of living the American Dream.
Like many of these stories, that path to U.S. citizenship has been filled with trials and tribulations.
Yrma is half-Italian and half-Venezuelan,...