Beverly Hills Hotel

At the Prism Awards, Hollywood Honors Accurate Portrayals of Mental illness

Hollywood has a checkered history of covering mental health and substance abuse, reaching bottom with Nightmare on Elm Street. A young Johnny Depp played the killer as a schizophrenic, imprinting that image of mental illness on millions. To counteract such stigma, the Entertainment Industry Counci ... More >>

5 Great L.A. Restaurants for Lunch When The Boss is Paying

It's rare, but sometimes the planets align and your chakras are glowing (or whatever), and your boss steps out of her office and asks you where you'd like to go eat for lunch. Maybe she really screwed something up and she knows it, so she'd like to make it up to you with a mea culpa and an appetizer ... More >>

Beverly Hills' Most Bizarre Crimes, From a Nude, Sunbathing Pilot to an Acid-Throwing Bridezilla

Beverly Hills is a city built on the Hollywood dream: Make it in the industry and you, too, can live in the giant mansions, eat at the finest restaurants and shop in the exquisite stores of the elite. So it's only fitting that the tiny town in the middle of Los Angeles is also filled with some of t ... More >>

Woman Driver Dies in Hearse Parked Next to Beverly Hills Hotel

In one of the odder death stories we've come across, the female driver of a hearse was found dead behind the wheel today next to the famed Beverly Hills Hotel, police tell the Weekly. Cops say they got the call of a body slumped over the steering wheel of a car in the 900 block of North Crescent Dr ... More >>

John Travolta Is a Gay Massage Fiend, Lawsuit Claims

Updated at the bottom: Maybe it was all just a bad dream. The first guy has withdrawn his suit. First posted at 1:54 p.m. Monday, May 7. When a Los Angeles man wrote a book that claimed John Travolta was a well-known cruiser of gay massage spas in town, we were a bit doubtful. First, why didn't o ... More >>

A $100 Cocktail: The Beverly Hills Hotel Turns 100 Years Old

One of L.A.'s most recognizable grand dames turns 100 on Saturday May 12 and marks the occasion with a $100 commemorative cocktail and movie star themed cocktail list. 10 special "These Walls are Talking" cocktails, available at the hotel's off-lobby Bar Nineteen12 and the Polo Lounge, salute the Be ... More >>

WP24's New Dessert Menu: Sneak Peak

Known more for its unabashed luxury, its vertigo-inducing views of downtown L.A., its "tiny, crunchy triangles of the best shrimp toast you have ever had," WP24 has always had a secret weapon: its desserts. Though they didn't garner a ton of attention, the desserts under former pastry chef (and To ... More >>

Q & A With Aidan Demarest: Neat, Kate Mantilini, Guest Bartending The Bottom Line

Caroline on CrackAidan Demarest with his award-winning Mai Tai at the Spare Room.​ Barman Aidan Demarest has managed some of the best cocktail bars in town, opening up downtown's whiskey bar Seven Grand and the Hollywood Roosevelt's bowling alley/lounge Spare Room, while also introducing a uni ... More >>

Worst Press Conference Ever: Jacksons Announce Tribute Concert in Friggin' Wales

Ben Westhoff​"Reminder to photographers: If you get out of your seat, you'll get kicked out," warned the flack at the Beverly Hills Hotel, shortly before the arrival of five Jacksons and three white guys, there to announce the details of the big Michael Jackson tribute concert. Only, they rea ... More >>

Kate and Wills Do Los Angeles: The Royal Itinerary

As if the July 4 forecast wasn't hot enough!​Might as well just get this out of the way now. You either want to follow the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, formerly known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, around L.A. like creepy red-coat sympathizers (the weekend after Independence Day, no l ... More >>

Live Review: Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman

Guy Maddin, by Guy Maddin​ WHO: Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman WHERE: Ford Amphitheateer WHEN: 6/25/11 Just to recap the slightly complicated scenario, Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar BergmaN, as presented at Ford Amphitheater on Saturday evening, was a staged read-through of a pla ... More >>

Beverly Hills Hotel Sued For Alleged Sexual Harassment, Racial Discrimination (A Hotel Lawyer Says The Claim is B.S.)

dorchestercollection.comAlberto Del Hoyo.​Two women and three men who worked at the Beverly Hills Hotel are suing the storied venue for sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, and wage violations. The juiciest parts of the suit, filed in L.A. Superior Court yesterday, allege ... More >>

For Your Consideration: Beverly Hills Hotel's 10 Best Picture-Themed Cocktails A Recipe

Beverly Hills HotelFrom left to right: the Sleepyhead, Woody to the Rescue, Status Update.​ In honor of the films nominated for Best Picture Oscars, the Beverly Hills Hotel's Beverage Manager Anthony Santiago and Beverage Supervisor Robert Rouleau have created an Oscar-themed cocktail menu at ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in Buildings Designed by Significant Los Angeles Architects

J. RitzThe eastern portion of Morgan, Walls & Clements' Chapman Market on 6th Street.​ We'd love to linger over a classic breakfast combo and endless cups of coffee at John Lautner's 1949 Googie Coffee Shop, since it was the actual place whose name defined a genre. And then enjoy the cannello ... More >>

The Pick-Up Artist

The heel's guide to L.A. tail: 1974's America's Best Pick Up Spots!

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. America's Best Pick Up Spots! Author:Eric Weber & M. Rob Frazier Date: 1974 Publisher: Eric Weber Press, Tenafl ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Released Early From Rehab: Reality Show Rumors Abound

​The door had barely shut behind actress Lindsay Lohan as she was released from rehab at UCLA Tuesday and rumors were already flying about the possibility that she would appear on ABC's Dancing With The Stars or VH1's Celebrity Rehab. Lohan got out early after serving 23 days of her 90-day ma ... More >>

Q & A With Pan Am Room's Norman Fierros: Hairdressing, Life in Phoenix & The Lure of Airplanes

If you've flown into Santa Monica Airport (literally, figuratively) hungry for dinner anytime recently, you're aware that The Hump, the infamous restaurant above Typhoon, is no more. In its place, owner Brian Vidor has remodeled the upstairs space into the Pan Am Room. The reworked restaurant gets i ... More >>

Two Republican Party Officials Fired Over L.A. Club Outing

An image from Voyeur's website.​Two Republican National Committee officials were fired over the weekend for their part in approving a nearly $2,000 outing at West Hollywood club Voyeur, known for its edgy, sexual theme. The heads of RNC finance director Rob Bickhart and his deputy, Debbie Le ... More >>

Young Republicans Gone Wild In L.A: Staffer Fired For Bondage Club Visit

voyeur7969.comAn image from Voyeur's website.​This is a fun game to play, and some of you probably called it: When an entire political party's leadership took heat for approving lavish expenses that included private jet travel, top-flight luxury hotels and a trip to a bondage-themed club in We ... More >>

Republicans Go Bondage Clubbing In L.A. On Party Dime

RNC chairman Michael Steele.​The Republican National Committee came under fire Monday after reports revealed that it spent nearly $2,000 for entertainment at sexually charged West Hollywood club Voyeur, not to mention chairman Michael Steele's $9,099 spent at the Beverly Hills Hotel and anothe ... More >>

The Producer’s Brain: Sir Cameron Mackintosh and His Midas Touch

BFF: Van Morrison, Astral Weeks Live, and LA Weekly

Kevin Scanlon​We'll say this upfront: LA Weekly's influence on legendary soul/blues/country/rock singer Van Morrison's life has been negligible, to say the least. We're a lowly free newspaper that enjoys his music and has much respect for his art, and his decisions. Which is why it gives us no ... More >>

Dita Von Teese On Cocktailing, Modern Burlesque in the U.S. And Her Show At Avalon Tonight

From old downtown theatres to dives to dance clubs, LA continues to be a bonanza of burlesque. Big or small, demure or trashy, themed and prop-filled or bodaciously bare, seems like there's always a gaggle strutting -and stripping off- their stuff somewhere in town, and has been ever since The Velve ... More >>

Finding Mom's Inner Schoolgirl: Royal Mom Mother's Day Brunch at Royal/T

Royal/T: Gallery, shop, museum, cafe, party space, Superflat extravaganza all in one.Not every mom will be comfortable with mild exposure to Japanese fetish culture, but we know some moms who'd be into it. For them, we recommend Culver City's "Japanese-inspired maid café" Royal/T for your special S ... More >>

"Man Bites World" Writer Running Out of Cuisines, Asks Mr. Gold

Is it the end of the world?

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks at the Hollywood Bowl, Night One: Set List for a Stunning Evening

photo by Kevin Scanlon Sell the rest of your portfolio. Forgo fancy dinners for the rest of November. Break your lame date and call your soul mate. Do what you have to do, I swear, to get a ticket to tonight's Van Morrison show at the Hollywood Bowl. If you at all have ever been moved by a Morriso ... More >>

Best Cobb Salad: The Polo Lounge

Michelle Obama's Night Out in L.A.: Malia and Sasha Meet the Jonas Brothers

Dream come true for Malia, and indirect reference to Sarah Palin from Michelle, who says her husband is "not afraid of smart people."

Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio

Heeling ailing soles

The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope. L.A.'s Best Band Was Love.

The more things change . . .

Seeking Refuge

An accountant’s case sheds light on a troubled L.A. center

George Gershwin Lived Here

And Beverly Hills just let the place be torn down

You Only Go Around Once

Thoroughly Postmodern Lily

On how to survive bar mitzvah season

Here’s What Happened, Sweetheart

How Sideways co-star Thomas Haden Church grew himself a 10-foot face

Dark Shadows

Expert Advice: Places and Spaces

When home just isn’t big enough

Party Resources

The Unimportance of Being Camejo

Earnest and well-spoken, the Green Party’s returning gubernatorial candidate is sure to stay clear of the media’s glare

No Room for the Inn

The fight over a vacant lot in South L.A., where many rooms rent by the hour

Mapping Andy

Threads to the Social Order

Edited by Kateri Butler

Wake Me Up in Four Years

A case for a strong Republican Party

Readings: Laughing With Wen Ho Lee

The Mandalay Connection

Immaculate Contraception

Forever Fabulous

Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn

Day of a Locust

Dick Nixon takes on the Pink Lady

Wrap It Up