To this day, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. still remembers the heartbreak he experienced when football was taken away from him. The Long Beach native, best known as Snoop Dogg, says athletics are a solution to the violence and gang problem confronting the community. It’s appropriate that now the father of three brings football back to his neighborhood with the Snoop Youth Football League that empowers a new generation of inner city children to achieve their dreams.Read More >>

Let’s take a road trip together around California’s fifth largest city and see how easily we can keep ourselves entertained in a locality once referred to as “Iowa by the sea”. It so happens I was born in Sioux City, Iowa, so you can trust me when I say that the cornhuskers don’t have half the nightlife or a quarter of the goings-on we have here in our town, a town as famous for the Queen Mary as for Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz. Read More >>

We’ve all been there. Out of the blue summer rolls around and it’s time once more to shed the layers of clothing and hit the beach and the outdoors in style. For some, that means working out harder and longer and paying closer attention to the body and nutrition. For others, it’s time to relax at the spa and get their skin in tip-top shape in order achieve that healthy summer glow.Read More >>

So you have a space that you have considered redoing. You have asked yourself, where do I start? The thought of deciding where or what to start with when redoing a room can easily discourage us from taking on the smallest decorating task. This is especially true when a single decorating mistake can ruin a room and send your budget through the roof. Tackling a home decorating project can be very intimidating! But set your mind at ease: avoiding errors is as easy as knowing six basic layers of decorating. It’s actually much easier than you might think! Whatever area of your home you decide to decorate, incorporate the following “design layers” and make your decorating project a cinch.Read More >>