Arcadia’s Best is dedicated to showcasing the best of Arcadia through videos, news and information celebrating all the city has to offer to residents of all ages and interests.

Arcadia's Best includes the best people, places, activities, businesses, and new developments with tips on shopping and recommendations and ratings of the best restaurants, stores, services and more.

We encourage you to submit videos, photos, and listings of your group activities, as well as ideas and suggestions (info@arcadiasbest.com). Become a contributor (http://www.arcadiasbest.com/contributor).

The web site www.arcadiasbest.com was conceptualized and is operated by Scott Hettrick, a native Philadelphian who moved his family from Missouri to Arcadia in 1991.

                                                                                                              

Hettrick has only recently had the opportunity to more fully discover and enjoy the many unique pleasures and treasures of the city, from its colorful history to its myriad activities and delightful people.

 

The site was designed and is maintained by David Phillips of North Hollywood.

Arcadia's Best features an ever-expanding original soundtrack of music produced for the site primarily by Don Bodin of Endocrinemusic (www.endocrinemusic.com), including the original Arcadia's Best Theme that plays automatically on the home page, as well as music accompanying many of the videos.

 

With this site, Scott, who serves on the Board of Directors for the Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, and Arcadia Historical Society, is sort of returning to his days in the early 1980s as the program director for his local cable system in Independence, Mo., historic hometown of President Harry S Truman (whom he walked alongside to school many mornings in the 1970s), where he enjoyed producing TV programs about the people and the town in which he lived.

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Meanwhile, Scott's "day job" is media consulting as an industry expert on retainer with multiple Hollywood studios and electronics companies, including Disney, Fox, Sony, and Panasonic. That work includes writing blogs, putting together magazines, doing on-camera and written interviews with filmmakers and entertainment executives and hosting media events such as last year's Pirates of the Caribbean Blu-ray Disc launch event with filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer (www.HollywoodInHiDef.com). It also includes being interviewed about the industry on network news shows, including a segment with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes in December 2006, and being a point person in segments about Blu-ray high-definition discs on how-to shows such as TLC's 2007 holiday gift-buying episode of Designing Spaces.

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Prior to consulting, Scott spent 20 years covering the business and consumer sides of the entertainment industry as a reporter and editor for Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. During that time he created the annual DVD Exclusive Awards show that he produced with Dick Clark Productions for the FX network.

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He also recently produced his first feature film, “Soup of the Day,” which generated more than 9 million views during its initial run in summer 2006 as an Internet serial before being released on DVD in 2007.

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Scott’s wife Betty is an employee of the Arcadia School District and is also a private tutor and volunteers with the Assistance League of Arcadia. Their two daughters, Chelsea and Brittany, graduated from Arcadia High School in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Chelsea has established her own career in the entertainment industry in the publicity arena for network TV shows and was recently married and is now living in Valley Glen. Brittany moved back ner family in Missouri and is a 5th grade teacher in Blue Springs.