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Tonight in Granada Hills: More Kogi Korean tacos of love. And sliders, and burritos, and desserts! Kogi's Verde truck will once again come to the great white north, bringing their special Korean-Meximelts from 10:30p.m. to-1:00 a.m. They'll be parked on Chatsworth, just East of Zelzah, on the south side of the street -- but they'll be easy to spot, because of the long line. Here's my super-secret Kogi tip: to minimize your wait time, you've either got to get in line a half hour early, or one hour late, because everyone seems to get in line at 10:30, and if you do the same, you'll wind up standing around for an hour. Get there at 11:30, and you'll only be in line for about 20 or 30 minutes. Less standing, more eating!

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Today is International Walk To School Day! I'm thrilled that there's an event that celebrates and encourages the simple act of walking to school, but dismayed that we even need such a thing. I wish we were still in the days in which walking to school was an unremarkable act. Unfortunately, we are currently in an age of media-stoked paranoia, and even in towns with crime rates as low as Granada Hills', we still have parents who believe that it is "too dangerous" to allow their children to walk anywhere. People, it's not like we live in Kuwait. Of course, this belief creates a self-fulfilling prophecy; because more people believe walking is dangerous, they drive their children to school, creating greater traffic around schools, making conditions more dangerous. Here's hoping the next generation will embrace walking; it's healthy, it's green, it fosters independence, and children who've had some moderate exercise in the morning come to school w...

Molly Ringwald is in Granada Hills RIGHT NOW. Her series, "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager" is shooting at Kennedy High School this week. It's a closed set, so since I couldn't get photos, this painting of Molly by artist Dave MacDowell will have to do.

No comprehensive coverage, no pithy commentary, no insightful analysis, no penetrating, in-depth interview could ever even come close to capturing the spirit, the essence, and the zeitgeist of the Granada Hills Street Faire as simply and elegantly as this footage does. So rather than summarizing the event with words, I offer instead this video of a guy boogieing down to the infectious, can't-make-your-feet-sit-still sounds of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." Like the sign says: Taste for yourself. I'm led to wonder: is this person simply uncoordinated, or is he just introducing us all to a completely new and heretofore unseen paradigm of coordination, one that we mere mortals don't yet understand? Granada Hills, we finally have our own Technoviking . Big thanks to nitrous-hoarding Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council member Jerry Askew for this mind-blowing footage.

Oct 13 - NASA Scientist Speaker Dr. Muthu Jeganathan 6:30 PM NASA Scientist, Dr. Muthu Jeganathan, discusses his research on searching for extra-solar planets with slides, NASA's newly-launched Kepler satellite and projects helping to improve Earth's environment. Oct 21 - Book Club 1:30 PM Librarian led discussion of MaryAnn Shaffer's Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society . Oct 22 - Book Club 6:15 PM CSUN's Professor Sefton leads a discussion of His Excellency: George Washington written by Joseph Ellis Oct 28 - Ghost Hunting 6:30 PM Southern California Paranormal Research Society presents "Investigating Haunted Places". Learn how a team of investigators use their talents and scientific equipment to collect data on haunted sites and basic ghost hunting. Show your support for quality local journalism by advertising with GigaGranadaHills. Thank you.

Out with the old... And in with the new! You know you want one! Stop by the Granada Hills Street Fair on Saturday, and tell 'em the Granada Hills Street Fairy sent you!