Cara Clinton
Cara Clinton is a writer, editor and copywriter based in Southern California. Her work has included magazine articles, blogs, website content and creative marketing campaigns for a wide range of publications and corporate clients including SELF, Woman’s Wear Daily, Successful Meetings and the social networking community ASMALLWORLD.net. Among the topics she has covered are travel, entertainment, fine dining, real estate and fashion.
Cara has degrees in magazine journalism and psychology from Syracuse University. When she’s not writing, she’s likely exploring, playing tennis, running in scenic San Diego, discovering new restaurants (and perfecting her own culinary skills) or visiting family and friends in New York. You can read more about her and her writing at www.caraclinton.com.
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LA Local: A Tale of Six Neighborhoods
Sunset Boulevard, Rodeo Drive, the Hollywood Hills—it’s all quite glamorous. It’s also your typical LA story. As a new resident of Southern California, I owed it to myself to dig a bit deeper. What I discovered is that the real stars of Los Angeles are the many vibrant neighborhoods it boasts beyond Tinseltown.
The Langham Huntington is just nine miles north of downtown Los Angeles, but it seems worlds away from the concrete and congestion of the city. Its out-of-the-way location at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, in one of Pasadena’s most beautiful residential neighborhoods, makes it ideal for peaceful getaways.
There’s something wonderfully peculiar about Jsix restaurant in Downtown San Diego. It borders two distinct areas, the trendy East Village and the historic Gaslamp Quarter. Its décor includes a backlit bar, flower castings on the ceiling and fezzes on the dining room wall. The menu spotlights coastal California cuisine – with a French twist. It’s all just eclectic enough to appeal to a wide range of tourists and locals alike.