Dining, Arts & Entertainment

In 2010, élite Magazine kicked off their very own Elite Ultimate Awards, honoring our very own in Santa Clarita.  We are asking readers, once again, to nominate the best of the best, The Ultimate.

Child & Family Center is pleased to invite you to its 25th Silver Anniversary Taste of the Town on Sunday, May 5 from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.  It’s easy to understand why Child & Family Center’s Taste of the Town has been voted “Best Charity Event in the SCV” three years in a row by a poll of local residents. Featuring more than 40 of Santa Clarita’s best restaurants, caterers, and wine and beer purveyors, all offering samples of their finest in the beautiful garden setting of Mann Biomedical Park, it’s always an incredibly good time for everyone.

Bring the whole family Saturday March 2 as the Santa Clarita Track Club and Bridgeport Marketplace celebrate Mardi Gras Madness at Bridgeport Marketplace in Santa Clarita!  
All proceeds from the Mardi Gras Madness 5K, Mini Madness 1K, and Mega Madness events benefit Students Off And Running (SOAR), a program that provides a fully supported LA Marathon training experience to youth in need living in the Santa Clarita Valley at no cost to student participants or their families.  

Last month I touched on the pseudo-mavens who proclaim (inadvertently or not) to set the ‘standards’ by which every food imaginable is to be judged as ‘correct’ in only the form and taste they deem proper and acceptable.  And if we don’t agree with them, then apparently we have no idea what we’re talking about. Right.  Citing pizza and steak as examples…I pointed out some geographical observations that always lead to major differences of opinion regarding those two culinary staples.

Now that the holidays are behind us, Santa Clarita residents are doing their best to start the year off right.  But it may not mean that they have to sacrifice convenience and great taste...at least not at Wendy’s.  Men’s Health Magazine recently announced Wendy’s as the number one quick-service restaurant for healthy options.  They found that relative to other burger joints, Wendy’s has many more options on the menu falling below 400 calories.

Life again is beginning a new year and 2013 is going to be full of new experiences. To begin with, every day our world is filled with “images.”  Yes, images are everywhere.  In one city block, in any city the shapes, forms and colors of what we see in that one block are huge.  What is an image?  Images are shapes of anything we see.  It can be a building, street, trees, people, stores, cars, animals, signs, houses, boats, churches, birds, statues, lakes and any object we see in the modern world. 

When we look back over the years, the thing we remember most are those special times spent with ones we love.  Vacations, family gatherings and special dinners top the list.

Valentine’s Day will be here in less than a month and with it will come an opportunity to create special memories with your special someone.  Persia Restaurant would like to help you make this Valentine’s Day one you’ll never forget.

Tickets for the 20th annual Cowboy Festival, presented by Logix, are now on sale for this one-of-a-kind, multi-day lineup designed for Western enthusiasts of all ages.  The Cowboy Festival will take place April 18 through 21 at Melody Ranch™ Motion Picture Studio and other venues throughout Santa Clarita.

Santa Clarita’s rich Western heritage takes center stage each year at the Cowboy festival through music, poetry, cowboy gear, food and storytelling. 

The City of Santa Clarita hosted a Welcome Week celebration for area residents to learn more about services and programs available at the new Canyon Country Community Center.
Community members were invited to learn about all the amenities the Center has to offer, explore the new facility, meet staff members, obtain membership, register for classes and programs, and participate in the community tile art project sponsored by Saugus High School.  Additional free family fun activities were provided, giving community members a chance to try the XerPro Activity Wall, play Wii video games, participate in various arts and crafts, and more.

Now that we made it thru 2012, without the Mayan calendar ending it for us, we can now look forward to a great 2013.  

So lets talk about the headline.  To start with, yours truly is a nice guy, and more often than not, I end up finishing last.  Most women want that bad boy image, even if it’s just for show.  Now some women that I have dated in the past, were in an abusive relationship before dating me.  This could have been physical, or mental abuse.  They would tell me what a nice guy I am, which meant the kiss of death to me.  After a month or two, they would always go back to that relationship.  Why?  That’s the million-dollar question, and there could be so many reasons.

The City of Santa Clarita reported that calendar year 2012 (January 2012 through December 2012) was a record-breaking year for filming.  The Santa Clarita Film Office recorded 919 film days and 362 permits issued for the 2012 calendar year, representing a two percent increase in film days compared to the City’s previous record year in 2011, which saw 901 film days and 359 permits.
Location filming contributed significantly to the local economy in 2012 with an economic impact of $21,707,000 to local businesses as a result of local production spending, representing a 12 percent increase from 2011 when the estimated economic impact was $19,363,000.

The journal of medicinal studies has recently claimed that the intake of supplements with tea extracts help increase the mental alertness and helps with improving memory. Researchers have conducted different taste on teas and found some minerals (L-theanine) that are beneficial for body, ensuring that the green tea extracts do enhance the cognitive performance. The pure herbal beverage contains useful supplements which helps speed up the mental faculties and make body refreshing and healthy.

As we start the New Year, we at Chick-fil-A wanted to take the time to share our appreciation of the community of Santa Clarita and express how blessed we are.  It’s hard to believe that 2012 has already passed, and it has certainly been a year to remember. 

Mark your calendar!  The Celebrate Life Festival is coming February 2 and 3.  Presented by the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce and produced by High Impact! Event Resources, the two day event is totally free to the public.  The festival will be held at 25300 Rye Canyon Rd., at Avenue  Scott,  just a half mile south of Newhall Ranch Rd.,  where Copperhill becomes Rye Canyon Rd.   The festivities run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Life has a way of rapidly spinning into one colossal twister.  A twister of obligations and deadlines spinning faster than we can track.  We bend and move, we adjust and accommodate to be the best we can without forgetting or faulting.

I recently had the opportunity to go to my son’s school, for a back to school night.  Now a lot of you have done the same thing.  Sometimes you go year after year.  While I was there seeing the classrooms and teachers, I kept running into the same parent going to some of the same classrooms.

Simple and delicious.  Unique and affordable.  High quality foods and full of flavor. Once you try Rustic Eatery, you will be addicted.  While owner Min Han has already made his name in this valley with the popular Fish Tail Grill in Valencia, he is now pleased to present the delicious flavors at Rustic Eatery, a truly perfect place to casually dine and enjoy a good meal.  

I’m always fascinated when I hear some self-proclaimed experts aggrandize their own purported expertise regarding a particular food and they, in so many words, lay unspoken claim to being the culinary cognoscente…the unassailable arbiter whose final decree puts the rest of us on notice that what we like…what pleases our personal palates, apparently matters little.  After all…they know so much more than us about that particular food.  Or do they?