Marie Antoinette

Gatsby Is Sometimes Great But Not Always Good

Here Are Ten More Fake Bob Dylan Quotes

Last week it was revealed that New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jonah Lehrer made up a few Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. "It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you have something to say," Lehrer fake quotes Dylan about the writing o ... More >>

David Bowie and a dog named Felix

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Alien at MOCA

The artists on this week's list have endearing idiosyncrasies: James Lee Byars' obsession with the perfect atmosphere, Cai Guo-Qiang's spiritual pyromania and Dasha Sishkin's perverse approach to glamour. 5. Clothing-optional fantasies If Shel Silverstein, who brought the same twisted humor to his ... More >>

Pre-Golden Globe Pampering Noshes: But Not for You

Let us make clear from the outset that you, Common Person, cannot go. This event is only for celebrities and their hangers-on (aka "plus ones"). Members of the hoi polloi, the riff raff, the masses or the Occupy Movement best not show up. Nine Zero One Salon in West Hollywood is hosting a two-day ( ... More >>

Miguel Gutierrez's Heavens What Have I Done: Dancer Sings Opera, Insults Plato and Dresses Like Marie Antoinette in L.A. Debut

Ian DouglasMiguel Gutierrez, ready to go.​ Dancer-choreographer Miguel Gutierrez strode into the Palm Court Ballroom at the Alexandria Hotel Friday night looking ever-so-much like a grad student in jeans, sweater and backpack -- except that his face was a messy mask of white clown makeup and f ... More >>

Loafin': Top 5 Bakery Breads

Amy ScattergoodChallah-in-process at Stoneground.​ "Don't fill up on bread," a few million parents have warned, seated around a trattoria table, a basket of steaming slices and a cup of olive oil at its center. Their children have never listened, and it's no wonder. Bread is a much better fo ... More >>

Let Them Eat Cupcakes: Elizabeth Tobias' Cupcake Installation Art

Jennifer DozierElizabeth Tobias in downtown L.A.​ When Marie Antoinette was told that the people of France were starving, she supposedly responded, "Let them eat cake." Now, thanks to Los Angeles-based performance artist Elizabeth Tobias, the Queen of France's oft-quoted phrase has yet another ... More >>

Dodger Dog

Frank McCourt's Wife Is Only the Latest to Get the Raw End of a Deal

For Sale: £2 million Wine Cooler

Think Bartles & Jaymes meets Ozzy Osbourne. Or maybe Mikhail Prokhorov. This enormous silver wine cooler will be up for auction at Sotheby's in July, and is expected to sell for between £1.5 million and £2 million. The cooler was commissioned by the third Lord Raby in 1706, and was designed by Ph ... More >>

Phoenix Frontman Scores Sweetie Sofia Coppola's New 'Ferraris and Los Angeles' Flick

The Freewheelin' Thomas & Sofia​Phoenix's frontman Thomas Mars is domestic-partnered to OG hipster director Sofia Coppola. Sofia is about to release a new movie, Somewhere, where she most certainly downscaled the period-piece ambitions of Marie Antoinette. Mars, riding high on a wave of critic ... More >>

Eight Great Reasons Why Goth Clubs Are the Only Place to Spend Halloween

Check out more photos in Erin Broadley's "Grimm Fairytale Ball" slideshow. Some photos are NSFW. Erin Broadley​You can pack thousands of scantily clad party people into a theater and give them Deadmau5 and Justice, but no mega-party can compare to goth clubs during this spookiest of holiday ... More >>

Brunch at The Bazaar: A New Chef de Cuisine, Liquid Nitrogen Clouds, José Andrés and Power Tools

Brunch at The Bazaar has always been fun, a playful procession of wacky dishes and foaming drinks in a setting that looks rather like a cross between Monty Python and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Last week, José Andrés himself was in his fun-house, which considerably upped the rah-rah factor. ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

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Bastille Day & Marie Antoinette-Inspired Gift Guide: Shop Til Your Head Drops

Happy Bastille Day! Are we back to shopping yet? If you're into stimulating the economy--and the Dauphine could have used that excuse had it been available to her at the time--here are some Antoinette-inspired items (from Etsy and other internet environs) for your consideration. The storming of the ... More >>

Nickel Diner: Heart Attack and Main

Not your father's diner but it still might kill you.

LA People 2009: Style Alchemist — Mandy Ma

By day, she's a chemical engineer at a "skincare CSI," by night she's a fashion arbiter, blogger and lonely clown

The 10 Best Dishes of 2008

Hot dogs and hominy, blowfish and a fine cup of joe

Over the Weekend: Japanese Masquerade at Rococo Rendezvous, L.A. Weekly 30th Anniversary Party at Grammy Museum, Alexandra Gibson's Erotic Photography at La Luz De Jesus

Every weekend in December is a reason to celebrate. Like a ticking time bomb until New Year's Eve, our Fridays and Saturdays become increasingly packed with holiday parties, special events and general year end jackassery. This weekend was no exception and we found ourselves at a masquerade ball, an ... More >>

Marie Antoinettes and Other Rococo Craziness at Royal/T

Click on the photos for the Rococo Rendezvous slideshow. So I went to Rococo Rendezvous at the maid cafe Royal/T in Culver City a couple nights ago. There was a lot of this action going on. The whole Rococo thing is a subset of the multi-faceted Japanese cosplay subculture, in which girls and girly ... More >>

Tabloid Takeover: L.A. Fashion Week's Celebrity Overdose

Is there a designer in the house?

Ozzy Sells Out

Bat heads going cheap? Osbourne Collection estate sale

Gallery Listings

For the week of November 16 - 22

The Family That Primps Together...

Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

A Severed Head Awakes

Reanimating Marie Antoinette

Off With Her Manolo Blahniks!

Sofia Coppola’s fashionably slight Marie Antoinette

Inner Sanctum Mysteries The Complete Movie Collection

Waisted

The corset and the art of Exquisite Restraint

Let Them Eat Film

Tales of wars and misguided youth dominate Cannes 2006

Apocalypto

Darko director’s Cannes premiere is prophetic in all the wrong ways

Halloween Boo-gie Nights

East Riverdance

The Michael Ritchie era opens at the Ahmanson

The Sinking of the President

Bush and the Democrats need to catch up on their reading

My Parents’ Bachelor Pad

Living high on the Golden Mile

Hollywood Reporters and Gatsby Envy

Why do journalists lust after the trappings of Tinseltown?

Lit Up and Emotional

Liar Liar, House on Fire

The beauty and perils of making stuff up

Letters

Recovery Program

Demon Seed

Can the Exorcist save us from genetically modified foods, or is it another freak in disguise?

Letters

News From Up North

What the City of Smog can learn from the City of Light

French for Dummies

Hilary does Versailles

Sex, Success and Joyce Carol Oates

A visit with Judith Krantz

Just Flu in from Moscow

(And, boy, are my lungs tired)

Artificial Intelligentsia

Five eggheads anticipate the computer