My Valley Pass, the San Fernando Valley’s #1 Visitors’ Guide, shares with us their top five destinations in the San Fernando Valley. The My Valley Pass team, led by Oscar Urrutia, strives to make the San Fernando Valley a destination spot through organizing various events such as Movies On Location, and tours like The San Fernando Film Tour, The San
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In today’s Meet The (818) Interview, I chat with Claudia Chaverra, owner of Your CBD Store Northridge. She was featured in the #818bossbabes series last March because of how she turned a life-altering tragedy into her motivation to help her community. In 2017, after surviving the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, Claudia developed PTSD. Several attempts
Read moreCoach Cat, owner and CEO of Cat’s Club Fitness in Sherman Oaks, is no stranger to adversity. Being honorably discharged from the US Army in the late 90s was a devastating blow to what she thought was her destiny. Despite this tragedy, she found a way to survive and carve a new path for herself. “I was homeless, abusing drugs
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Meet the EXA Band, one of the best live music bands in the 818! The band was brought together in March 2014 by Ricky Molina, an 818 local who’s played and toured with multiple bands in the Los Angeles Area. Seven years later, the EXA band is still playing around the San Fernando Valley. “Everything started, thanks to your friend,
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Longtime friends and former roommates, Jonathan Andrade and Derek Lee Ramsey, are the co-creators of Brews with Masters, a YouTube channel featuring local breweries in and around the San Fernando Valley. While writing as a sports journalist for The Acorn Newspapers, a weekly newspaper in Ventura County, the idea of creating a craft beer channel was already brewing in the
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Jojo Aguilar is a Production Designer, Art Director, and Concept Designer who has worked in the entertainment industry for close to 30 years. He started right out of high school at Hana- Barbera at 1988 as a character designer. Feeling he needed more formal education, he left to the Philippines to study Commercial Arts at the University of Santo Tomas.
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Compiled by Jonathan Andrade and Derek Lee Ramsey, co-creators of Brews With Masters. Father’s Day is upon us! Celebrate with pints in hand. With everything fully re-opened, local craft beer fans can flock to the tasting rooms of the microbreweries in the (818), where they’re churning out some of the best brews in all of So Cal. We’ve compiled a
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Sometimes, you make plans and life has a way of putting you on a different path. The origins of Cookies by Joe is a testament to that. Joana Turcios, owner of Cookies by Joe, didn’t start baking cookies off the bat(ter). She went to culinary school with the hopes of becoming a chef but soon realized she loved baking and
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Today’s Meet The (818) interview highlights photographer, filmmaker, Burbank kid, and founder of Pisano Pictures, Johnny Brillantes. Recently featured in Voyage LA, this San Fernando Valley local uses his unique brand of humor and perspective to create films and recreate movie/tv scenes with a twist. His Quarantine Scene series, created during the pandemic, bring not just his creativity and directorial
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Meet Patrick Ballesteros, artist, illustrator, teacher, and owner of Patrick Ballesteros Art Shop. Some of his art work is displayed and available for purchase at The Perky Nerd in Burbank where he was the featured artist in a couple of their art shows and even curated the Sweethearts, BFFS, and Bromance Art Show in February of 2017. In this episode
Read moreHector Perez-Roman, host, co-creator, and Executive Producer of Valley Views, a local radio talk show featuring uplifting stories of people, organizations, businesses, and social movements with a positive impact on the San Fernando Valley and beyond. Airing every Sunday at 10am on 101.5 FM KROJ, Valley Views has had over 50 episodes with over 120 guests. I asked Hector for
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Today’s Meet The (818) interview features 818 local and CSUN alumni, Jonathan Andrade, owner of Cans With Wicks. During the pandemic, Jonathan decided to try his hand at making candles with recycled beer cans as holders. What an awesome way to promote local breweries at the same time trying out a new skill! We chat about his love for beer,
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