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Read More	HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! EVERYWHERE, USA! (07/02/2009 History in Los Angeles) Happy 4th of July! Everywhere, USA! Friday, July 3, 2009 I just love the fact that we celebrate the birth of the good ‘ol USA by exploding colorful things made in China! Don’t YOU!!! What are your 4th of July traditions??? Here’s to Chinese fireworks, the USA’s 233rd Birthday and YOU! ......
Read More	THE CHERRY ORCHARD IS RIPE FOR THE PICKING @ THE WILL GEER THEATRICUM BOTANICUM (07/01/2009 12:53:47 PM Entertainment Review in San Fernando Valley) A Southern family struggles to retain their beloved ancestral property in a bold new adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. Scribes Heidi Helen Davis and Ellen Geer set the play in 1970’s Charlottesville, VA, a small Southern city still festering deep wounds from the events of the civil rights movement. The play is a beautiful mix of comedy and drama. Chekhov wove a thought-provoking tale, but Davis and Geer add a new texture. The titular cherry orchard has been in the Randolph clan ......
Read More	MONKEY MADNESS - A MIXED BAG OF BANANAS @ THE POWERHOUSE THEATRE (07/01/2009 12:28:55 PM Entertainment Review in Santa Monica) Monkey Boy (Randy Thompson) is fed up with life in the forest and goes on a quest to become human in Daisuke Tsuji’s Monkey Madness. Simultaneously, a human girl (Olivia Choate) is disgusted by human society and wants to become a monkey. When the human girl meets the monkey boy, fur and feces begins to fly, literally and figuratively. Monkey Boy wants more out of life than eating bananas and mating. His father (Fedel Gomez) thinks he’s gay, but it’s worse than that, he’s species curious. He ......
Read More	THIS WEEK IN L.A. (06/29/2009 Things To Do in Los Angeles) Fourth of July FIREWORKS! ...this weekend in L.A. FREE FIREWORKS: the LA Coliseum, Hansen Dam, Marina Del Rey and Cabrillo Beach are some of the larger free events on July 4th. Plus there are many smaller community events and plenty of other traditional large venues to go to for your annual Independence Day fireworks fix. You'll find some of them below and the rest on this year's Eye Spy LA Fireworks page. The Hollywood Bowl will have fireworks Thursday through Saturday at their annual Firework ......
Read More	FARRAGUT NORTH - A THRILLING RIDE @ THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE (06/26/2009 09:23:09 AM Entertainment Review in West LA) Professional mud slinger Steve Bellamy (Chris Pine, Star Trek) plays a dangerous game of politics, but the crafty spin doctor may have finally met his match in the West Coast premiere of Beau Willimon’s Farragut North. Bellamy is the Democratic wunderkind, the communications director for a rising presidential candidate. He reports to Paul Zara (Chris Noth, Sex in the City). Zara, a long time political operative, knows the ins and outs of the game. Both men are working to get their man Morris e ......
Read More	CARVED IN STONE - A LITTLE SLICE OF GAY HEAVEN @ THEATRE ASYLUM (06/25/2009 Entertainment Review in Hollywood) A young writer, Gryphon Tott (Levi Damione) finds himself in a room with long dead literary luminaries, Quentin Crisp (Leon Acord), Oscar Wilde (Jesse Merlin), Tennessee Williams (Curt Bonnem) and Truman Capote (Kevin Remington) in Jeffrey Hartgraves other-worldly comedy, Carved in Stone. The last thing Tott remembers is waiting for a Subway train, but he ends up in the well appointed unliving room with the famous gay icons. Tott must contend with his death. He also learns that in his death, he ......
Read More	THE END IN KODACHROME, SOMEWHERE, USA, 1969 (06/25/2009 History in Los Angeles) Broken twigs cleverly placed on a lawn spell out what happened to our beloved Kodachrome this week. Yes, the fine folks at Kodak, in Rochester, NY, announced that the granddaddy and gold standard of all color film has been discontinued. The last roll of Kodachrome film has left the building. It is the end of yet another Americana icon. Kodachrome first hit the shelves in 1935 in the form of 16mm movie film. 35mm slide film and 8mm “home” movie film came a year later. Ironically it was two mus ......
Read More	COMING HOME @ THE FOUNTAIN THEATRE (06/23/2009 Entertainment Review in Hollywood) Veronica Jonkers (Deidrie Henry), with her little boy in tow, returns to the Karoo region of South Africa in West Coast premiere of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home. It’s a physical and spiritual journey for the prodigal daughter, weary from the sad events of her life. When she arrives at the ramshackle cottage, a Hokkie in South African parlance, she remembers her fond childhood growing up there, neatly parsing out just enough information about her life to make the audience fall in love with her. ......
Read More	SUMMER OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE (06/22/2009 Entertainment in Los Angeles) Summer entertainment in L.A. is all about the experience and not so much about the money. If you've got a cooler, a blanket, some friends and a picnic, you'll find plenty of free and low cost outdoor entertainment all over town. OUTDOOR CONCERTS: The Hollywood Bowl is perhaps the quintessential summer concert experience and they have some great entertainment lined up this year. Spend the big bucks if you really care about the performance - the performers are only specks in the distance if you s ......
Read More	FACING EAST @ INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE (06/17/2009 Entertainment Review in Long Beach) If playwright Carol Lynn Pearson changes one mind on the subject of gays in the Mormon church, Facing East could be considered a triumph. In this three-hander, Mormons Ruth (Terry Davis) and Alex (Christian Lebano) mourn the suicide of their gay son Andrew at his open grave. Ruth is a staunch believer in the Latter Day Saints, but her husband is being to question his beliefs. Soon, Marcus (Daniel Kash), Andrew’s lover, arrives to pay his respects. All hell breaks loose. Ruth and many people of ......
Read More	SUMPTUOUS SETTINGS, GORGEOUS TRAGEDY - LA TRAVIATA TRIUMPHS AT LA OPERA (06/11/2009 Entertainment Review in Downtown LA) The sensual glory of La Traviata, a perfect “date” opera, is heightened by programming it to follow the austerity and experiments of a new Die Walkure, Wagner’s story where marriage equates with doom, in a production in which the orchestra was muted and obscured from view with a black tarp. In Traviata by contrast, love consummated by marriage is the unquestioned goal, and nothing is muted. The florid gardens, the paneled room, and the carmine party with gypsy and Spanish dancers are the bac ......
Read More	TAKE YOUR FRIENDS, ROMANS AND COUNTRYMEN TO JULIUS CAESAR (06/10/2009 Entertainment Review in San Fernando Valley) There’s a toga party in Topanga Canyon and everyone is invited when the Theatricum Botanicum presents William Shakespeare’s political tragedy, Julius Caesar. When Julius Caesar (Carl Palmer) is heralded as the divine leader of Rome, his former allies Marcus Brutus (Mike Peebler) and Caius Cassius (Melora Marshall) conspire against him. Brutus wrestles with his conscience. He doesn’t hate Caesar, but he isn’t ready to give up on democracy. Brutus becomes one of the head conspirators. Soon, s ......
Read More	"GODSPELL" - WAY MORE FUN THAN CHURCH (06/08/2009 Entertainment Review in San Fernando Valley) Halleluiah! It’s the gospel according to Stephen Schwartz at the Knightsbridge Theatre in the slightly updated version of Godspell. A rockin’ sexy Jesus (Sterling Sulieman), with the aid of John the Baptist (Rene Guerrero), appears to his new disciples, Zach, Kelly, Jason, Maria, Talo, Cloie, Tracy, and Jenny (Yes, they sound more like multi-ethnic Mouseketeers than disciples, but whatever) to preach the word of God. They act out parables from the bible with music, corny jokes and slapstick. ......
Read More	PREVIEW - BALLET HISPANICO AT THE AHMANSON JUNE 5-7 (06/05/2009 Entertainment Review in Downtown LA) On the eve of its 40th anniversary, Ballet Hispanico arrives at the Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles for the first time in its illustrious career, just in time before founder and artistic director Tina Ramirez steps down.� Since 1970 Ramirez has grown her cultural institution to world-acclaim, producing over 95 works across three continents and pleasing the senses of millions. Fusing Modern, Ballet and Latino Traditional Dances together the New York based company strives to create contempor ......
Read More	THE “FOLKS” AND THE FURY, PASADENA, CA, 1964 (06/05/2009 History in Pasadena) “Folks” is hand written on this slide. Do these “folks” realize they left their camera on the hood of their car? The camera is the Argus Seventy Five, mass-produced in Ann Arbor, Michigan between 1953 and 1958. The car is a 1961 Plymouth Fury. Flaring, wrap around front fenders make this the one of the most spectacular designs ever to roll off a Plymouth assembly line. After five years of Plymouths sporting stylish tailfins the ‘61 model year is the first without. But the fashionable front ......
Read More	CYMBELINE - WILL GEER THEATRE’S SUMMER SEASON HAS JUST BEGUN AND IT’S OFF TO A ROUSING START! (06/02/2009 Entertainment Review in San Fernando Valley) Nestled in the forest of Topanga Canyon, the sprites and wood nymphs (Ellen Geer and company) of the Theatricum Botanicum are at it again, this time, reinvigorating William Shakespeare’s rarely performed romantic tale, Cymbeline. Cymbeline is a giant jigsaw where, at the end of the play, each character pops in the missing piece of the puzzle to create the whole, somewhat convoluted, picture. Shakespeare pulls out all of the stops for this show; women dressing as men (shades of As You Like It), ......
Read More	AS FAR AS AN EVENING OF COMPELLING THEATRE GOES, HALF OF PLENTY IS MORE THAN ENOUGH (05/27/2009 Entertainment Review in Midtown LA) A suburban couple is embroiled in the machinations of the local neighborhood watch group in Lisa Dillman’s play, Half of Plenty. Holly Tindall (Carolyn Palmer) is an overwrought and overworked housewife caring for her ailing father-in-law, Jack (Robert Mandan), and holding down a job transcribing medical records. She and her husband, Marty (John Pollono) are struggling to make ends meet in their generic suburban housing development. Their lives change dramatically when Hector (Ron Bottitta) an ......
Read More	OREO BILLBOARD, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1955 (05/27/2009 History in Los Angeles) An enormous package of Oreo cookies jumping out of a TV, two giant little girls and white-lined red letters, spelling out what is short for National Biscuit Company, simply dwarf a sideswiped 1940 Dodge. The giant little girls are properly dressed alike for TV viewing in matching puffed sleeved blouses and powder blue hair bows. One controls the TV while the other controls the Oreos. They are both about to take a bite out of the Americana sweet treat sensation they are suggesting we switch to. ......
Read More	EYE SPY LA HEADS TO THE STREETS FOR THE 2009 L.A. MARATHON (05/26/2009 Event in Los Angeles) The Eye Spy LA Mile 8 street team ran out to the street practically pre-dawn in their jammies to catch the Bike Tour as it passed by (the bikes started at 5am). Then later they caught the elite women, elite men, wheel chairs and the regular folks running for fun as they passed mile 8 on Martin Luther King blvd. I headed straight for the finish via the subway and talked to spectators and runners at the Finish Line Festival (at a more reasonable hour). Thanks to the mile 8 Eye Spy LA street team ......
Read More	NIGHTS OF NOIR - AN INTERESTING MIX OF HARD-BOILED FUN (05/25/2009 Entertainment Review in Midtown LA) It was a dark night in the City of Angels, and things were hopping down at the old Attic Theatre. There was a dame. There’s always a dame. The dame in question was Kasey Wilson AKA Honey Ima Home and the night was Nights of Noir, written and directed by Wilson. Nights of Noir is comprised of two one act plays, Marked for Love and Of Dicks and Dames, both film noir spoofs featuring the perils of Bolt (Scott Gerard), a private dick looking for action. This bogus Bogart takes on some questionable ......
Read More	THE HERETIC MYSTERIES - AN ENGAGING TALE ABOUT RELIGION, INJUSTICE, LOVE AND HATE AT THE POWERHOUSE THEATRE (05/21/2009 Entertainment Review in Santa Monica) Bishop Jacques Fournier (Isaac Wade) probes the dark secrets of Montaillou, a small mountain village in the Pyrenees, in David Bridel’s new work, The Heretic Mysteries. In 1308, Fournier launched an extensive inquisition in Montaillou, arresting the entire village. The Pyrenees region of France was one of the last bastions of the Albigensian heresy, a group of gnostic christians who rejected many of the Catholic traditions. This heresy was punishable by death, but Fournier promises a kinder an ......
Read More	ART IS WAR IN BINGO WITH THE INDIANS (05/18/2009 Entertainment Review in Midtown LA) Theatre is a wild and dangerous place, and art is war in Adam Rapp’s Bingo with the Indians. Three theatre misfits hole up in a run down motel, going over the details of their diabolical plan to steal bingo money to mount their latest production. Yes. You read that right. They plan to steal bingo money to mount a theatrical production. It’s a crazy plan and Bingo is its name-o. The trio of ne’er do wells include, Stash (Patrick Flanagan), a psychopathic drug user and allegedly talented actor ......
Read More	KOOZA AT THE SANTA MONICA PIER (05/12/2009 Things To Do in Santa Monica) Cirque du Soleil's Kooza is coming to Santa Monica this October to celebrate their 25th anniversary and the Santa Monica Pier's Centennial. Eye Spy LA went to the Santa Monica pier for a preview. Among the luminaries at this event: Serge Roy, Kooza Director of Creation; Ken Genser, the Mayor of Santa Monica (now crowned king); The Trickster (Mike Tyus); the King (Gordon White); the Court Clown (Christian Fitzharris); Duo Unicycle (Diana Aleshchenko and Yuri Shavra); and the army (Ganjuur Boldba ......
Read More	NATIONAL TRAIN DAY AT UNION STATION (05/10/2009 Things To Do in Downtown LA) May 9th was National Train Day and L.A.'s historic Union Station opened up to local "trainiacs" to celebrate riding the rails. Union Station was the last of the "Grand" railway stations built in the U.S. and its construction in the 1930's resulted in the relocation of Chinatown to its present site. A few years ago, it was primarily a quiet museum like place, but with the renewed interest in train transportation Amtrak, Metrolink, and the addition of the Metro Red Line and Gold Line stations, it ......
Read More	OLIVE HEADQUARTERS, SANTA CLARA VALLEY, CA, 1962 (05/08/2009 History in Los Angeles) A hot summer sun cooks the breeze as it blows over rolling hills into the valley. Power lines and the proud poles that place them follow the leisure country road on both sides leading to and from Olive Headquarters. It sounds so official! If those lipstick red soft drink logos mounted to this county produce stand don’t attract passing motorists the multi color pennants will. They caught the eye of a brown bag-toting mother of two. Her blouse matches the pennants perfectly. How polite of her to ......
Read More	GLOBES & ROSES IN EXPOSITION PARK (05/07/2009 Things To Do in Downtown LA) Cool Globes has arrived in Los Angeles to encourage individuals, businesses and governments to adopt simple solutions to fight global warming. A selection of original globes from the Chicago exhibit, as well as new globes designed by local artists and schoolchildren were on display at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. from May 24 to October 13, 2008 and at Crissy Field in San Francisco from August 5 to October 13, 2008. Cool Globes was also on display in San Diego from Octobe ......
Read More	MAYDAY AT THE GUMBALL 3000 IN SANTA MONICA (05/02/2009 Things To Do in Santa Monica) This year's Gumball 3000 Rally goes coast to coast from L.A. to Miami. Eye Spy LA headed to the Santa Monica Pier to watch the cars and drivers arrive at the start. They'll start their engines at 1pm on Saturday and head down Ocean Ave. to begin the week long cross country drive. First stop is Las Vegas, then Santa Fe, Dallas and New Orleans before heading to the finish in Miami 7 days later. Richard Rawlings drove all the way from Texas in a great big ol' green vintage Chevy Caprice to partici ......
Read More	BALLET PRELJOCAJ’S LES 4 SAISONS: LOS ANGELES PREMIERE AT UCLA LIVE’S ROYCE HALL MAY 1-2 (05/01/2009 Entertainment Review in West LA) Inspired by the ‘bursting forth, exaltation, suspension and vibration’ of the weather’s changes, French-born Albanian choreographer Angelin Preljocaj tackles Antonio Vivaldi’s iconic music masterpiece “The Four Seasons.” Aptly titled Les 4 Saisons, Ballet Preljocaj dances the passion and depth of Vivaldi’s deep score, shifting between magical worlds of color, light and textural landscapes that provoke ideas about the world. The choreography, layered with contemporary ballet vocabulary, g ......
Read More	THE ACCOMPLICES MARKS AN IMPORTANT AND SHAMEFUL MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. (04/30/2009 Entertainment Review in West LA) Peter Bergson (Steven Schub) shines a light on a dark corridor of American intolerance during World War II in Bernard Weinraub’s The Accomplices. In the late 1930’s, Adolph Hitler was marching across Europe systematically destroying the Jews (along with Gypsies, homosexuals, the handicapped, and whatever group he deemed unfit in his Aryan insanity). Meanwhile, America turned its back on the downtrodden and refused to let in the fleeing refugees. Bergson AKA Hillel Kook (he changed his name to ......
Read More	JUSTIN TANNER'S VOICE LESSONS - EXCEEDINGLY FUNNY, INDECENT, AND EXPERTLY PERFORMED (04/27/2009 Entertainment Review in Hollywood) Justin Tanner has a following. And for good reasons. His Plays are exceedingly funny, indecent, and expertly performed. The audience at Voice Lessons could be heard commenting on other Tanner shows they have seen over the years. And, they compare, as people do, Voice Lessons to those shows past. Not in terms of quality, but outrageousness, which is of course why one goes. Voice Lessons expands the Tanner oeuvre by actor humiliation for our cringing hysteria. The short and stout Tanner regular M ......
Read More	SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION VALUES SHINE A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE IMPERFECTIONS OF THE SEAFARER AT THE GEFFEN (04/27/2009 Entertainment Review in West LA) James “Sharky” Harkin (Andrew Connolly) is having a hell of a time in Conor McPerson’s The Seafarer. It’s Christmas Eve in Dublin and Sharky’s brother Richard (John Mahoney), who was recently blinded in a freak accident while intoxicated, invites several of the lads over to play poker. Apparently, it’s an Irish holiday tradition to play cards and get bombed out of your mind. There’s a lot of talk about alcohol. Everyone is either about to drink, abstaining from drink or already drunk. Ri ......
Read More	"THE INTERNATIONALISTS" IS LIKE GETTING A MIX TAPE FROM A LOVER (04/26/2009 Entertainment Review in Downtown LA) Maybe it’s the location, a warehouse in the ass end of Los Angeles, but you can almost hear Mickey Rooney turn to Judy Garland, punch the air and exclaim, “Hey, Judy! Let’s put on a show!” In downtown Los Angeles, the Poor Dog Group passionately takes on the Space Race in the absurdist comedy, The Internationalists. When Sputnik was launched in the 50’s, the Space Race exploded. The Internationalists is a frenetic commentary on America and its push to win the aforementioned race, while the ......
Read More	BACHARACH’S BACK: AMERICAN IDOLS PERFORM THE MASTER'S BEST (04/25/2009 Entertainment Review in Hollywood) This show is a breathless, intermission-free joyful blast through the canon that leaves the audience doubly impressed with the power and the stamina of the performers, as well as the clever recreations of the songs. The performers have different styles, so everyone in the audience can have a favorite. The songs of Burt Bacharach sung in Dionne Warwick’s unadorned style over Bacharach’s sophisticated arrangements were marvels of storytelling in song, modulated, melodious, and catchy. The uptow ......
Read More	DOOMSDAY KISS @ THE BOOTLEG THEATRE (04/19/2009 Entertainment Review in Los Angeles) How will the world end, by fire, famine or flood? It’s a question the Repo Division (a disparate contingent of playwrights) posit in Doomsday Kiss, a collection of short plays about humanity’s final days. In Sharon Yablon’s You Might Be Waking Up, an office manager (Hank Bunker), a sex starved woman (Tina Van Berckelaer), an aging hippie (Mickey Swanson) and a West Hollywood twink (Shaughn Buchholz) come together at an office building at the end of the world. Bunker’s comic turn as Kurt, th ......
Read More	INSIDE PRIVATE LIVES (04/18/2009 Entertainment Review in Pasadena) If You Could Meet Anyone From History . . . There’s a remarkable show that has grown from a single NoHo workshop performance to what will be the 100th performance on May 3, 2009 after popular and critical success in LA, Edinburgh, and New York. A group of actors each studies up on a famous historical person, and for fifteen minutes or so takes up that persona in a small theater where the audience gets to interact, question, debate, and partake of a conversation that otherwise you would have to ......
Read More	SUBURBAN SHOOTING, CALIFORNIA COAST, 1959 (04/17/2009 History in Los Angeles) A lone gunboy takes aim from the tailgate of a 1958 Plymouth Sport Suburban station wagon. His stance is sure and his aim is studied as he stares down the barrel of a toy rifle. He is dressed to kill in a smart striped knit tee tucked into indigo denim blue jeans held up with suspenders. Rubber-soled sneakers complete the ensemble. This is a timeless Americana classic little boy look of the highest order. His shooting vehicle is space age all the way. The dashing stainless side trim and warm gr ......
Read More	PERSHING SQUARE GUIDE - HISTORIC DOWNTOWN L.A. (04/01/2009 Fun Things To Do in Downtown LA) A GREAT PLACE TO WALK AROUND AND EXPLORE. Visit Grand Central Market, The Bradbury Building, historic movie palaces along Broadway, the Jewelry District, Gallery Row and the Old Bank District, the Biltmore Hotel, Central Library and the Bunker Hill Steps. Pershing Square borders the old and the new downtown. It is just a block or so down the hill from Bunker Hill and on the edge of Historic Downtown in the opposite direction. Pershing Square has seasonal programs including summer concerts and w ......
Read More	PHOTOGRAPH 51 - WORTH A LOOK @ THE FOUNTAIN THEATRE (03/23/2009 Entertainment Review in Hollywood) British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin (Aria Alpert) discovers the secrets of life in Anna Ziegler’s compelling drama Photograph 51. In science, every discovery is controversial. There are varying opinions, but it is widely believed that Franklin’s breakthroughs in photographing nucleic acid led James Watson (Ian Gould) and Francis Crick (Kerby Joe Grubb) to determine the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, the very building blocks of life itself. Franklin i ......
Read More	MULHOLLAND SCENIC PARKWAY (02/23/2009 Things To Do in Los Angeles) A scenic drive along Mulholland Drive was one of the things I recommended to do on Valentine's Day this year. Cupid must have shot Mother Nature with a love arrow, because it turned out to be a beautiful day in an otherwise dreary weekend. We started at the Stone Canyon Overlook east of the 405 and continued to the eastern most Hollywood Bowl Overlook just west of the 101. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy maintains the overlooks along the Mulholland Scenic Parkway. Some of the overlooks a ......	Mulholland Drive Video
Read More	PLACES TO GO (01/28/2009 Things To Do in Downtown LA) Explore Union Station, El Pueblo & Olvera Street, Figueroa, South Park and more. Downtown L.A. is an endlessly fasinating place to explore and it is easy to get to and get around thanks to improvements in public transportation over the last several years. You can get there via Metro Rail (Red, Blue, Gold and Purple all go there) and then get around on DASH (Note: DASH runs different routes week days and weekends) for 25 cents per ride. Even driving and parking there isn't too bad on a Sunday or ......
Read More	HISTORIC EATERIES (11/20/2008 Dining Out Reviews in Downtown LA) These dining spots have been popular for more than a few years. So, which one is the oldest - Clifton's Cafeteria, Philippe The Original or The Original Pantry Cafe? The quiz is now closed and the answer is: 53% of those who took the quiz got it right - Philippe The Original (est. 1908) celebrated their 100th anniversary this year and they're still serving 9 cent coffee with their famous French Dip sandwiches. The remaining Clifton's Cafeteria downtown opened its doors in 1935. The Original Pan ......
Read More	PLACES TO GO WHEN YOU CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TO DO (11/19/2008 Local Destinations in Los Angeles) Where is your favorite place to walk around and people watch? You voted in our recent poll and here are the results. Venice Beach and Santa Monica tied for top votes at 30% each. Pasadena was a distant 3rd at 13%, followed by Hollywood at 11%, Downtown at 9% and 3rd & Fairfax (The Grove/Farmers Market) with 6%. These are all great places to go when you aren't sure what you want to do. Each of these destinations offer multiple options for recreation, dining and entertainment. VENICE Bike, skate, ......