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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Wow, and a pretty spectacular drunk driving wreck at that—flipping his SUV and hitting several parked cars.

An SUV on its roof and the front end of an unrecognizable parked car.

Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Update: Our baby sister—playing chat catchup as she boards a flight in Reykjavik—also has a completely different perceived memory of our sister’s 1988 Maxima. What looks so mundane to us now really did seem much sportier to us in the late ‘80s haha.

Also was that supposed to be a
maxima? Because that did not
look like the car [redacted]
zipped around in!

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Appreciating that Entertainment seems to have retooled its headline approach to something that’s appropriate when 4 of 5 pictured actors are dead. Not ‘Where are they now?’

Entertainment
News+
What happened to the cast
of 'Three's Company'? See
what became of the beloved
sitcom's stars

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Memory can be a funny thing. Talking cars in the family chat and a Nissan Maxima GL our aunt drove in the mid-80s came up. Back then—before Infiniti and Lexus—the Maxima and the Cressida were Japan’s version of fancy. She’d actually traded in a Seville and no […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

It's funny because yours did look
sportier but not a whole lot in
retrospect

It looks so different in my
memory!

I think it DID seem different in
the context of the time haha

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Yeah, no. I only clicked on a recipe. But understandable since this has only been an acknowledged worst practice for decades now.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Probably my only usual stop in Soho (this app REALLY wants to correct it to newyorky SoHo) is for tartare at Bob Bob Ricard. Where you can press a button for champagne.

A gold plaque with the text "PRESS FOR CHAMPAGNE" sits on a black and gold surface next to a blue card.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I mean Soho isn’t such a stretch. I decided when I was seven or eight that St James’s was IT for me—and Mayfair as a backup.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Soho isn’t a regular haunt when I’m in London but it could be—one hell of a happy hour.

THREE SHEETS
Three Sheets in Soho
REBECCA DICKSON
Making a reservation is recommended
if you want to sit at the bar. Open every
day from 4pm, Three Sheets offers
three complimentary British oysters
with any martini or glass of
champagne until 6pm (weekdays).

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A lot of the Stahl House mystique is down to Julius Shulman’s iconic photography.

A famous black and white photo shows a couple women seated in a glass-walled living room cantilevered over a cliff with the twinkling city lights of LA in the background.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Could it be that people spending $20 million price (though cut from $25 million!) don’t want a smallish two-bedroom house that wasn’t designed for rich people? The Stahl House was part of a case study program exploring innovative residential design for the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

News Spotlight
It's L.A.'s most iconic home. Why
can't it find a buyer?

An article about and photo of the Stahl House on the Hollywood Hills

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Feels so on-brand that the Tesla Roadster is in no way a roadster.

The Roadster is a sports coupe with forward angled gullwing doors

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I dig that the photos of Zach and Samantha Bryan at their New York townhouse for an Architectural Digest story seem to have had a theme like what if we found old random candids in someone's scrapbook.

Musician Zach Bryan and his wife Samantha at the
dining table in their New York City town house.

Bryan serenades his wife Samantha with a guitar
gifted to him by Bruce Springsteen. Fashion styling
by Andrea King Lacey.

Bryan at the piano next to a floor lamp by Tito
Agnoli.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

That Vuitton (?) argyle scarf is something else. I kinda want to introduce him to the Parisian knot.

LAS VEGAS
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Betting
Las Vegas gambler
pleads guilty to
charges in
basketball betting
scandals
Shane Hennen, center, leaves Brooklyn federal court,
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki
Iwamura)

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Is it just me or does a newer 2 Series BMW look like a generic 2010s econobox everywhere but its grille?

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

And then some have just been obvious favorites forever. This was in HEAVY rotation on a local radio station one Cape Cod summer. Just checked and it must’ve been 1981. Which makes sense because it was the same summer after Lennon was murdered and I remember the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

George Harrison Somewhere In England
All Those Years Ago (2004
George Harrison

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Those reminders—like a random generated playlist—that your phone is paying more attention than you ever remember to think it is.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I use WhatsApp only for a few international friends—mostly in London, all 40s/50s guys—and chuckling that their demos seem to be driving recommended follows.

Find channels to follow

Chelsea FC
5M followers
Stickers
615K followers
Manchester United
16.3M followers
F1
7.1M followers

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Figured out there’s a pretty reliable conversion rate for my pacing while I’m on the phone: one hour equals one mile

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

WSJ article keeps referring to this as a ‘$2 million pool’ at a baseball player’s Oklahoma spread and I just don’t see it. Unless those are gold bricks in the retaining wall.

A large house with a two-tiered swimming pool and patio surrounded by a grassy lawn and trees under a sunset sky.

An aerial view of the same pool at night, this time lighted, with a full-size baseball diamond in the background.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Googling the Fray trying to remember when they were and how’s this for the randomness of my life? I’ve actually been to Wroclaw. (Pronounce it like vroat—rhyming with boat and kinda rolling the r—suave.) It was while wondering around their cathedral—in the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Events
Oct
23
Waco, TX
Fri 8:00 PM
Oct
27
Wroctaw, Poland
Tue 7:00 PM
from $51
Oct
28
Berlin, Germany
Wed 6:30 PM
from $58

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

David Geffen slowly assembled a large compound at Carbon Beach in Malibu and famously did everything he could to prevent public access through the pathway to its left here. This was all lost in the fires a few years ago—but after he’d sold it.

Something like five waterfront lots have a main house, lots of lawn, a pool and guest houses.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Emerald Bay is fairly unique in California for its effectively private beach. All coastline in the state is legally public up to the high-tide line. But between gates, guards and the enclosed shape of its cove, access is more hassle than it’s worth for […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Just one incident and not necessarily related to the battering Orange County’s coast has taken as El Niño revs up. But this crack below the Coast Highway—between Crystal Cove and Emerald Bay—is an example of how Laguna’s waterfront houses could be vulnerable […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Los Angeles Cimes
CALIFORNIA
Pacific Coast Highway
partially closed in Orange
County after crack appears
in hillside
A weekend of high surf and stormy
weather has battered the Southern
California coastline. This week, a
crack appeared below Pacific Coast
Highway in Laguna Beach,
prompting a partial closure.
By Fedor Zarkhin
Staff Writer
Oct. 14, 2026 8:09 AM PT
A portion of Pacific Coast Highway in
Orange County is closed after a crack
appeared in the hillside below the road,
prompting closer inspection from
officials after last weekend's storms and
high surf.

An aerial map of Pacific Coast Highway between southern Newport Beach and northern Emerald Bay.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Coded GOP in multiple ways but especially ‘politics last’—which of course always means politics first.

District E First. Politics Last. I'm Listening!
MANNY KESS
FOR COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT E
Paid for by Manny for Nevada

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This is such bullshit—priming the pump of absolution for anyone who blindly supports awful leaders. (Sounds weirdly topical, don’t it?) Even when she herself—as a young college student—could see the obvious scam.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

From the Wall Street Journal—its author a college student when she drove to Heritage USA intending to do a hit piece on the Bakkers. The funny thing to me is that I’d in no way characterize someone who makes REPENT NOW highway signs as quiet preachers.

I never wrote the exposé. Others uncovered
the fraud that got Bakker sentenced to 45
years in prison, a term later reduced to eight
years and then five. I learned a lesson about
prejudging and wrote instead about a moun-
tain sign maker I had met on a previous drive
through Appalachia. He crafted highway
messages reading "Jesus Loves You" and
"Repent Now.' No ticket sales. No TV audi-
ence. Just a quiet preacher sharing the
Gospel's messages with strangers-including
a student on a journey in her Mamaw's old
car.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Really not joking that I always keep some chilled bubbly at the ready to immediately toast whatever natural cause finally takes Trump. I used to keep a good champagne on hand, because that’s what I get as a rule, but then thought nah he’s prosecco at best.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Hahaha the funny thing about Calabasas becoming Celebrityville is that in the late ‘70s we moved out there from Brentwood *very briefly* and it was actually Kris and Bob Kardashian coming to dinner that helped me seven-year-old me understand what a SIBERIA we […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

C
alabasas would be ripe territory for
a certain kind of writer. The iconog-
raphy is all there - the freeways
and gas stations, the parched red hills teem-
ing with rattlesnakes. You could easily imag-
ine them taking notes, out there in the middle
of nowhere but so close to somewhere, trying
to discern how this particular hub of car deal-
erships and office parks became the new cen-
ter of popular culture.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The remnants of Rachel definitely cooled us off a bit.

AVERAGES
-19°
from average
daily high
Today
Average
H:64°
H:83°

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

One of my favorite Eve Babitz fun facts is that—for decades—she drove a 1968 VW Beetle given to her by Steve Martin when they were dating in the early ‘70s. But seriously it’s fun fact after fun fact with her. Endlessly fascinating. Including the time she posed […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Chef’s kiss final line in a story about a parent’s complaint that the GOP’s candidate for Nevada District 1—Carrie Buck—and House Speaker Mike Johnson were violating tax code by campaigning at a charter school.

Sherlock, Pinecrest's treasurer, says parents
of affected students were notified and given
the opportunity to opt out.
However, a student who posted a video on
social media noting "most Sloan Canyon
Students aren't MAGA," told the Current that
parents were not notified until after the
event.
After visiting classrooms, Buck and Johnson
"held a media availability focused on Trump's
new Education Freedom Tax Credit and
Buck's three-decade career in Nevada
educationiạ the Nevada Globe reported.
The school "regularly welcomes elected
officials from both parties to campus because
we want our students to see firsthand how
our government works, not just read about it
in a textbook," Sherlock told the Current.
He declined to provide the names of other
elected officials who have visited the
campus.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

It has always seemed painfully on-the-nose that the most MAGA town in southern Nevada rhymes with Trump.

Further west, Pahrump received
roughly 1.5 inches of rainfall as
storms passed over the Nye County
town on Sunday, according to
weather service data.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The inevitable tangent on a tangent, thinking of Ronstadt in the ‘70s, that whole LA vibe and era. Is putting Eve Babitz on your radar if she’s not already there. She designed album covers and shot this photo of Ronstadt for the Heart Like a Wheel inner sleeve […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Cover: SLOW DAYS,
FAST COMPANY
THE WORLD, THE
FLESH, AND L.A.
EVE BABITZ
INTRODUCTION BY
MATTHEW SPECKTOR

A black and white photo of Ronstadt with shoulder-length dark hair and bangs sitting cross-legged on a patterned blanket, holding a bouquet of dried flowers.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Just by way of example—you’re not generally allowed to sit in any chairs on a tour, but at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, there was a long presentation in a theater space. And I was trying to convey how uncomfortably low the benches were by photographing the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

While appreciating Frank Lloyd Wright’s genius, I’ve also always felt that he was—fundamentally—a sadist. Not just an awful person who treated his clients badly but an architect who seemed to want them to be uncomfortable. As visually appealing as, say […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Sue, 78, and Gary, 81, aren't just finicky landlords
- they're fastidious stewards of an architectural
gem. Multiple times a week, they hand over the
keys to the William and Mary Palmer House,
designed in the late 1940s by Frank Lloyd Wright,
the legendary architect and pioneer of "organic
architecture," the idea that homes and buildings
should exist in harmony with the natural
environment. Built of cypress and brick, the three-
bedroom home features an equilateral triangle
motif, with hexagonal beds and interior walls that
meet at 60 and 120 degrees.
Frank Lloyd Wright's William and Mary Palmer House in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. (Mark Hertzberg)

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The desert novelty of a shirt that’s wet because you’re walking home in a drizzle rather than 105-degree heat.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

This makes me sad—one of those situations where you hoped it wasn’t what it could be but of course that’s what it was. One of my biggest thrills in a dozen years on Twitter was the moment—in line for Mr Toad at Disneyland—that I got an alert Crystal had followed me. Fastest follow-back ever haha.

Crystal Harris says
she was 'absolutely
brainwashed' while
living at Playboy
Mansion with Hugh
Hefner
The model and the *Playboy" founder
were married from 2012 until his death in
2017, after which she began to share
disturbing accounts of life inside the
mansion.
By Ryan Coleman
Updated on October 10, 2026
Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris in Las Vegas in
2010 PHOTO: Denise Truscello/Wirelmage

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The Pageant of the Masters venue is just a few blocks inland. Like a lot of stuff on ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT that seemed too kooky to be true, elaborate tableaux vivants are a real thing that've happened every summer for almost a century.

George Michael Bluth as Adam but wearing denim shorts à la his never-nude uncle Tobias.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

These swells at Main Beach in Laguna are bananas. That raised, undulating boardwalk is usually at the back of the beach—not the shoreline. And just the start of El Niño, yikes.

DEERE
Tropical storm-induced waves and high tides flood Main Beach
Park, where a back-ho digs out a berm at the boardwalk in
Laguna Beach on Friday. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer)

City crews watch as heavy equipment digs out a berm at the
boardwalk at Main Beach Park in downtown Laguna Beach on
Friday. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer)

Beach-goers watch a back-ho dig out a berm at the boardwalk
at Main Beach Park in downtown Laguna Beach on Friday. (Don
Leach / Staff Photographer)

An aerial photo of Main Beach shows the usual placement of the boardwalk

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

And then a perfect sentence from the BBC encapsulating the omni-remedial nature of Trump's intellect.

Last year, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere explained to Trump
it was an independent committee based in Norway, not the Norwegian
government, which decides who will receive the prize.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

All the Republicans on Balboa Island -- a short ferry ride away -- who vote like climate change is a hoax nevertheless raised their seawall several years ago. The new darker section of concrete is still visible.

The seawall next to the boardwalk looking across the harbor to the Balboa Pavilion as described.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

WOW this flooding just happened on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. I lived several blocks east of this during the 97-98 El Niño in an old 1920s bungalow built smack on the sand and was so concerned about this that I moved all the books from bottom […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Sky5 was over massive flooding on the Balboa Peninsula in'/Newport Beachy Calif. due to high tides on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (KTLA)

Aerial map surrounding Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

My nephew is always making me laugh. He made labels for his oenophile father so my sister wouldn't keep inadvertently opening Very Expensive Bottles when she only wanted something red with a weeknight dinner while he was out of town.

Three bottle have looped labels around their necks reading: Drink with Ease, If You Have To and Do Not Drink

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I can spot it at a hundred paces, the hallmark of a very British freelance writer type: An endless churn of personal essays with some kind of trending-topic hook. I can practically hear the pitch machine always running in their heads as they go about daily life […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

THE COS TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES
My teen son's
'ancestral eating' habit
is costing me £300 a
month
Her 17 year-old's diet consists of raw milk,
oysters, grass-fed beef — but is this expensive
health fad worth the cost?

I was diagnosed with
ADHD aged 47 - this
Swedish retreat made m...
1 week ago
Georgina Fuller
The i Paper

What it's really like on the
Cotswolds school run:
Kamikaze nannies in 4x4...
4 weeks ago
Georgina Fuller
Daily Mail

40 years ago, I missed
out on the trip of lifetime.
This is how I recreated it
1 month ago
Georgina Fuller
HELLO! Magazine

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A story about Katie Miller as MAGA Washington’s hostess extraordinaire. And I looooove this—private entertainment is something of a necessity for that vile crowd. And how boring it must be that it’s always the same people.

"It's almost the whole Cabinet,"
one regular guest of the Millers'
tells Vanity Fair. "Sometimes we
joke: 'Do we need a designated
survivor for this one?''
Yet there is a distinct difference between Katie
and the hostesses of yore. Whereas her
forebears used dinner parties as a sterling
silver route to power, friends of the Millers
who spoke with Vanity Fair say she started
hosting at home to avoid the hostility they say
greets high-visibility Trump officials out in
town. "They need to do something to blow off
steam because they're not welcome in public,"
says one. "They can't go to any venue without
being assaulted. They have to do this stuff in
Camelot."

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Christ, now I'm in the mood for THE chopped salad -- by which I mean the original at La Scala in Beverly Hills -- which is perfection no one copies properly even though it's very straightforward.

Insalata & Panini
LA SCALA CHOP SALAD HALF 15.95 FULL 17.95
LETTUCE, SALAMI, MOZZARELLA CHEESE, MARINATED GARBANZO BEANS WITH LEON DRESSING

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The True Food bankruptcy doesn't really affect me because it's nowhere I ever choose -- and it seems the one at Caesars isn't closing -- but I will say I'm always happy to go when it's the sort of restaurant someone prefers because I like their chopped salad […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

CHOPPED SALAD
organic mixed greens & romaine blend, aged
white cheddar, farro, medjool dates, jicama,
organic apples, raisins, almonds, champagne
vinaigrette
(15g protein | 640 cal)
VEG

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I’ve lived in Beverly Hills on and off since I was a little kid—most recently most of the 2010s—and stay subscribed to texts because a lot of them amuse me. Like this one that just arrived. Phew!

Today 10:47 AM
There is NO current emergency
in the City of Beverly Hills. The
City of Beverly H... https://.
evb.gg/n#26kkkpsxjut/OmujlpNa
or
Reply with YES to confirm
receipt.

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