Barbarella Fokos

Barbarella was discovered in 2004 when Reader elves happened along her blog, Barbarella’s Pillow Talk. She has been writing her column, Diary of a Diva and Your Week and Welcome To It every week ever since. Why the name diva? It’s the best thing we could come up with for a dominant woman, control-freak, and socialite who loves to tell it like it is, even though we all know she’s overcompensating for her inherent nerdiness. Barb continues to blog and posts pics on her personal web site, divabarbarella.com.

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Squirrelik the Red

Dad thought I was kidding when I warned him that I wouldn’t be able to restrain myself if he lured that squirrel any closer. “David says I have a Snow White complex, but he doesn’t ...

A good man has died

"Did you hear about Graham?” I shook my head and smiled because I imagined some hilarious Graham-shenanigan story was forthcoming. My friend’s face was somber as she reported, “He’s in the hospital. He was in ...

Desert DINKs

David held a tight grip on his phone as he snapped photos out the window of our speeding Mini. “How can it be 95 degrees down here when there’s snow on top of that hill?” ...

Such a Bee

"You’re such a bee,” David said. “Why? What did I do?” “No, no, not that kind of bee! The bug kind,” David clarified, as if that made things any clearer. There were lots of ways ...

Sips and snaps at Lion's Share

Craft cocktails and exotic fare for hunters of all things hip

I may have waited over a year to check out the Lion's Share, but I'm certainly making up for lost ...

Don't judge a restaurant by its name

Roy Yamaguchi's Pacific Rim Cuisine surprises and delights

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the medical industry from my sister Jane, who works for a massive pharmaceutical ...

Food Garden cultivates Baja Med cuisine

New food court in Tijuana hand-picks vendors to help their businesses grow

Declared as the "first of its kind created in Mexico," Food Garden Gastronomic District opened just three weeks ago in ...

Bistrot l'Escargot in Tijuana

South African chef makes fine French cuisine in Mexico

Baja Med is the cool, edgy sibling of the slow food movement, and it's reserved specifically for the foodie frontier ...

Marine Room: The restaurant that time forgot

Fine dining tradition keeps on keeping on for the better part of a century in La Jolla

The Marine Room doesn't try to keep up with the new kids. This 70-year-old restaurant sees no need to trade ...

Princess Project San Diego

Runway event kicks off 5th season of giving to underprivileged girls

Since 2007, the Princess Project San Diego has been "dressing and accessorizing financially-challenged high school girls for their proms." I ...

Butterfly Jungle, the Video

Butterfly Jungle opened March 16 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. As I mentioned in my previous post about ...

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