The folks at Omni Hotels realize that many of you are still hungering for an Apple iPhone, and they have two cool ways to feed you this week. First, each hotel location will be giving away a brand spanking new iPhone, and there is no purchase necessary. All you have to do to be entered in the sweepstakes is to get yourself down to our local Omni Hotel, which is located Downtown in California Plaza,... more ›

Snow-Line Orchard and their apple crops are part of the Oak Glen enclave of farms and stands open to the public northeast of Los Angeles, home to other facilities like Mr. Law's Apple Stand, Moms Country Orchard, and Riley's Log Cabin Farm (which offers a pick-your-own apples service, much like our own childhood experience up in the Great White North). And speaking of things northern, to the north of us in Camino is the Apple Hill collective of growers, boasting dozens of local growers who produce a number of commercial as well as local apple varieties. For example, the Mother Lode Orchard has Paula Red apples from late July to September, McIintosh and Gala in late August, Golden Delicious in mid-September, Red Delicious, Empire, and Granny Smith in late September, as well as Braeburn, Stayman Winesap, Rome, Fuji, and Liberty in mid October. Over at Abel's Apple Acres you'll find crops of the Arkansas Black, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Red Rome. All of their apples are ideal for eating raw, the Fuji, Granny Smith, Red Rome and Golden Delicious great for cooking and pies, and the Red Delicious not good for cooking or baking with. more ›