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All the Clothes in This West Hollywood Store Cost 2 Dollars. So Dive Into the Pile...

See also: *At This West Hollywood Fashion Library, the Prada Dress You Rent Could Save Your Life Nothing at the 2 Dollar Clothing store in West Hollywood costs more than $2. Not the new Marc Jacobs or DKNY tops, not the BCBG skirt or the Michael Kors boots, not the Gucci, Miu Miu, Armani or Jimmy Ch ... More >>

At This West Hollywood Fashion Library, the Prada Dress You Rent Could Save Your Life

To its founder, Los Angeles' first fashion library is less a closet than a medicine cabinet. Shaye McKenney started the Fashion Athenaeum last year in a small square of donated gallery space on Fairfax Avenue in West Hollywood. In her view, the Jimmy Choo heels and Dolce & Gabbana military jacke ... More >>

Invasion of the Beauty Bloggers

Erika Brechtel's kid is only 3 years old, but she knows the perils of being raised by a fashion blogger. "Mom, put your iPad down," she'll say. Or rather, scream: "Mom! Put! Your! iPad! Down!" Brechtel, 38, is a mom, homeowner and full-time graphic designer married to "a workaholic architect husban ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out 2011: A Ferris Wheel on Rodeo Drive, Annie Flanders at Bar Marmont

Patrick Range McDonaldMannequins at Prada in Beverly Hills​Fashion's Night Out 2011 came to the Los Angeles area last night, with retail stores open later than usual and lots of champagne flowing for shoppers and invited guests. In Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive was blocked off to car traffic and ... More >>

The Night a Duran Duran Show Got the David Lynch Treatment in LA: Live Review

Lina Lecaro From left: Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, Simon Lebon and DD's newest member? ​Few bands have placed as much emphasis on the visual package as Duran Duran. Their good looks, sense of style and glossy, often provocative videos made them innovators during MTV's heyday, a time when the be ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Singles Cruise,The Next Fairy Tale, 'Til Death Do Us Part

Also, The Young Man From Atlanta, Oh, Momma and Obama and more

Stage Raw: Groundlings Singles Cruise

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE ​Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>

The Road To Singapore: Silverton, Batali and Bastianach Open Mozzas in Southeast Asia Pictures!

Far, far away in an island country known as Singapore, on the second floor of the 800,000 sq. ft. luxury mall known as Marina Bay Sands (a new Southeast Asian offshoot of the Rat Pack's old hangout of choice, The Las Vegas Sands), sits Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza. To the naked eye they are so e ... More >>

Happy Hour: Miru 8691 in Beverly Hills

K. Robbins​ The place: Miru 8691, 9162 W Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills (310-777-8378) The hours: Daily, 5-9:30pm The deals: From the website, "Drive off town to search for cheap eats or put your self out on the street with food truck or Drive back to Beverly Hills and enjoy 16 oz Sapporo for ... More >>

Hennessy or Cristal?: Top Ten Booze-Pimping Rap Lyrics

Jay-Z gazes upon the glory of BevMo!​It's a top ten of the hip-hop verses we all know and love, that promote the liquor we've all loved but can't remember (because of how much we loved it). 10. In a very special Snoop Dogg track called "Stoplight," Snoop educates the layman on the proper way ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Crazy On the Outside, Daybreakers, Leap Year

Also, Bitch Slap, Youth in Revolt and more

LA People 2009: Vujachick — Sasha Watch Blogger Emily Ho

The mild-mannered librarian discovered her inner Laker through her obsession with Sasha Vujacic

Girl Scouts Follow the Dough at Auntie Anne's Pretzels

Huckleberry Hounds: The Brunch Crush at Zoe Nathan's New Cafe

Even the governor waits his turn

Movie Reviews: Confessions of a Shopaholic, Friday the 13th, Gomorrah

Also, Fuel, Polanski: Unauthorized, and more

The Conga Room Debuts Downtown, and It's a Beautiful Thing

The first thing that becomes painfully obvious as I arrive last night for the grand opening of The Conga Room, another new space at the L.A. Live complex downtown, is that I'm woefully under-dressed. What was I thinking? This isn't the reopening of the Snorkle Room or the Loser Room, this is the fr ... More >>

Night Out: Man's Spiritual Journey Begins With Prada

Of man scents and caviar

L.A.'s Newest Gay Night Out: Tom Whitman's Cherry Pop

Opening of West Hollywood's "ridiculously fun" Saturday-night party at the Ultra Suede club

These New Puritans

"We do like to keep it quite elusive. I really like the aesthetics of terrorist videos - how grainy and far-off yet immediate they seem - there’s something about the fuzzy screen which let’s you add layers of meaning."

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Close to the Flames

Tehrangeles’ best kebabs

Joe Joe's World

The other day I got an email - a company called Joe Joe Productions is throwing a glittering bash at the Playboy Mansion on June 23. Boys get in so long as they're rich,  girls get in so long as they're hot. The Kandyland bash, which they're calling 'The MOST Outrageous Party of ... More >>

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

Best Pirated-Loot Spots

Thoroughly Modern Wilson

The latest from the Culver City school of foodbarcafe

Girls In Films

Last week at Cinespace, fashion blogger Diane Pernet and photographer Dino Dinco debuted the You Wear It Well fashion film festival, presenting an opportunity for L.A. fashionistas to see rarely screened films and get inside the minds behind the mode. It was a very haute affair for the City of Angel ... More >>

Milking It

It was my birthday this past weekend, and though the Leo in me usually takes a whole week to celebrate, this year I've got another birth on my mind- the one I'll be enduring when my little one comes in early November. Still, I had a hubby who wanted to spoil me and I just couldn't let the double wh ... More >>

Soy Good for You

The Maude Squad

Our tribute to Harold’s gal, the ultimate granny-chic icon

My Fashion Week Haute List

Between all the schmoozing and the boozing, the cruising and the perusing (someone stop me, please), it was near impossible to find the time to do any actual writing about fashion. Now that I've had a few days to process the peculiarly exhausting whirlwind that is LA Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios ... More >>

Out With the Old

Cashing in your clothes? What to bring, what to leave and what to expect . . .

Baccarat for Lovers

A Woman, a Man and a Table

Go! Go! Giant Robot!

Sex and the Steak House

Thoroughly Postmodern Lily

On how to survive bar mitzvah season

Trailer of Tears

It’s gonna be a long, not-so-hot summer movie season

Give PEACE^® a Chance

From Motown to Rimtown

The blinging of Los Angeles

Less Sugar, More Spice

Mean Girls, though entertaining, could be meaner

Sundance and the New Negro Cinema

It’s good for you

Goat for It

Edited by Kateri Butler

Surf Report: Billabong Threatens an International Incident

Drakes: The Enchanting Flatiron

Tee Time

Suit Yourself

Unplanned Obsolescence

Can Outfest remain proactive in a post-gay world?

Feel the Draft

We need a universal military call-up to start the real debate on this war

Total World Domination

The Power of the Purse

Wild Kingdom