Hunting For What’s Happening

When I started this column, one of my first topics was to find the best pizza parlor in Merced. It ended up a tie between Little Oven Pizza and Pizza Villa. This week I’m asking for your help in finding the best Taco Truck. Yes, there are brick and mortar Mexican restaurants with great tacos, but for this week, I’m not including them.…

We are in the GREEN tier! That means we can toss the masks, go buy gas for less than $2 per gallon and head for Fresno for a flight to London! … Not.…

We’re free! My wife and I both have received two doses of COVID-19, thanks to local volunteer, Dr. Tiwa. We can toss the masks, pop in the car, and go…

What are your 2020 resolutions? Save more money? Exercise more? Lose weight? Get organized? I believe those are in the top 5 every year, year after year. Well, how about “Get out more?” See what the Merced area has to offer. This would be a perfect month to start. Of note on Jan. 17, 7 p.m.  – the Merced Theatre presents the…

There’s always so many things to do in Merced. Often, there are just too many choices. Do we want to go to a concert? A play? A charity fundraiser? Combine two…

Mexico is not just beautiful vacation beaches, luxury resorts, culinary delights and friendly people. Nor is it just rural poverty, government…

Let’s try a quiz. Hold up your hand if you know these names: Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey. Hand still up? Lower it if you can’t name one song that each made famous. Yes, these are the “golden oldies” of the big band era – back in the 1940s and ’50s. Tomorrow, June 21, right here in Merced at the…

We don’t always stay in town. Sometimes we like to go somewhere else. We even like to travel to exotic far-away places. The good news is that it is…

Written in 1785, William Cowper's poem, “The Task, stated that, “Variety is the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” That’s certainly true…

Second of two parts If so, you need to make lots of decisions.  There are many choices for destinations, cruise lines, ship sizes, cabin types and travel to and from the ship.  One would think that popular destinations with short cruising seasons, such as Alaska, would be hard to book.  After all, the Alaska season is just the late spring to…