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10 Best L.A. Boutiques That Won't Break the Bank

See also: *10 Best Vintage and Second-Hand Boutiques in L.A. *10 Best Women's Shoe Stores in Los Angeles *Top 10 Weirdest Stores in L.A. Finding the right women's clothing boutique means a lot of trial and error. Somewhere between the dingy storefronts packed with poorly-made clothing in sizes that ... More >>

Gatsby Is Sometimes Great But Not Always Good

In Reality Show L.A. Frock Stars, The Way We Wore's Owner Shares Her Vintage Fashion Secrets

See also: *L.A. Street Fashion: Larchmont Village *At This West Hollywood Fashion Library, the Prada Dress You Rent Could Save Your Life *Dita Von Teese: How She Became the Most Famous Stripper in America It's not every day a shop owner can greet burlesque start Dita von Teese like a friend and th ... More >>

Openly Gay Rapper Rob B Draws From Influences Far and Wide

On a recent cool Friday afternoon, 25-year-old Mexican-American, openly gay rapper Rob B sits in one of the many cafés peppering Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. He's tan and toned, a 6-foot-1 part-time model who has done everything from runway to hand modeling, and today he's fitted in al ... More >>

Elimination Night by Anonymous: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

West Hollywood's New Fur Ban Could Be a Model for the Nation. But Opponents Are Still Trying to Strike It Down

Joey and Anthony Hernandez, the T-Shirt Millionaires

Sift through the sale rack at your local Forever 21 mall store and you may come across a T-shirt with a picture of a girl staring into shards of a mirror. Retailing for $14.90, it is a seemingly edgy but ultimately innocuous shirt. It has no particular brand affiliation, no band or product or compan ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Boycott: It's On

America, the strange. As the middle class shrinks like wet sand under a hot sun, we continue to be fascinated by the good life. Are we living vicariously or holding on to that '80s pipe dream of upward mobility? Last month the Census Bureau reported that, by new measures, including spending power, ... More >>

The Bacon Alphabet: Pork Belly, Rendered in Old English Font

If you're the sort of old school person who loves calligraphy and vellum and has long sought to combine your somewhat Dickensian habit with bacon -- because bacon is our current sine qua non -- then you can now rest happy. Henry Hargreaves, a Prada model and photographer, has created the bacon alpha ... More >>

Beverly Hills Shoppers go For Tarty, Cheaper Fashions (Who Knew?)

Taste and place aren't always the same.​Beverly Hills is the luxury mecca of the United States and the epicenter of a larger-than-life if not mythic lifestyle seen on TV (Beverly Hillbillies, Beverly Hills 90210, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills ... ). So a recent tracking of shopping hab ... More >>

Chanel Snowboard, Surfboard, Football & Boomerang: Further Proof That Money Is Wasted On The Rich

Come on! Chanel surfboard? Chanel snowboard? Chanel football? Chanel dumbbells?! There's even a Chanel boomerang. (You better hope and pray that boomerang comes back when you throw it.) ​ ​ If you recall, artist Peter Gronquist did his version of a Chanel assault rifle or RPG or whate ... More >>

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

The End of Fashion Week as We Know It: Wailing Outside Lauren Conrad, the Dead Ferret Con and Other Scenes From L.A.'s Last Smashbox Catwalks

With IMG and Smashbox parting ways, L.A. Fashion Week's Culver City era comes to a close

Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses

L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death

Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio

Heeling ailing soles

Sunny and Mild: Getting to Know Our Fair-Weather Friends of Local News

Or, how Ted Turner saved Dallas Raines from network hell

Restaurants for Wine Lovers

Breaking Free: L.A. Wine Culture

Shattering the stereotypes

Where to Eat Now

Swathed

A designer-fabric store brings couture to your sewing machine

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

Where To Eat Now

Italian L.a.

The 20 Best

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

Iron Miner’s Daughter

Charlize Theron gets some respect from men

Armed and Languorous

Thoroughly Postmodern Lily

On how to survive bar mitzvah season

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week

Hollywood Satiricon

Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

Please, Sir, I Want Some Moore

Post cards from Cannes

Drifting Pretty

Nadine Toyoda and her girl racers

Material Girls

Love, Not Money

Indie Art Book Publisher Greybull Press Pursues Passion Over Profit

The 10 Most Influential Books of the Past Year

Sexy Beast

Mother Lode

Winona Forever

I'm Just a Three-Striking Old Softie

Naked

D’Angelo: It’s an “I” thing

A Real Bargain Hunter

Tightwad City

80% free, 20% cheap

Too Deep

Chaka Khan and Lauryn Hill