Chris DiChiaro and Robby Schnall have a leg up on the neighborhood competition before they even open their shop for the day: Because Woods Grove opens at 10 am (an hour earlier than anything else around), it’s often the de facto shop of its kind for greeting cards and last-minute gifts. If we were looking […]

What do you do when you’ve already engineered rides for Disneyland, designed “Man Caves” for HGTV, produced films and created interiors and sets for residential and commercial clients (like Emmy Squared)? If you’re John Marsala and Becka Citron, you take the aforementioned combined resume and open Modern Anthology, a menswear lifestyle boutique located over on […]

“What’s great about the Center For Fiction,” Bookshop Director Benjamin Rybeck told us, “is it is a cultural hub and gathering place for the neighborhood. A ‘third place,’ if you will.” The third place, as Rybeck is referring, is the social environment separate from home or work, and researchers say it is incredibly important for […]