Rodeo Drive

Want to Feel Like a Celebrity? For $3,000, You Can Hire Adoring Fans

Nothing is what it seems on Rodeo Drive. On a spring day with a crisp breeze and a blue sky and clouds so perfectly fluffy they seem Photo­shopped, the famous British royal walking down the street isn't famous, or British, or royal. The beautiful girl on his arm isn't his lover. And the people b ... More >>

Beverly Hills Road Rage Has BMW Ram Bicyclist (VIDEO)

In Beverly Hills, they do everything big. Mansions are big. The retail prices on Rodeo Drive -- huge. The Mercedes-Benz G Class SUVs -- massive. So it's no wonder then, when road rage happens in the gilded city, it can be off the Richter scale:

Meet Me Down on Chi-Chi Street

From the Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: The Luau, a 1950's Tiki Bar in Beverly Hills

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. In recent years, the cocktail revolution has pushed bartenders and boozehounds online, to eBay and Alibris, searching out vin ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Arts & Culture Apps

"Past Present Future: Connect": Emily Counts

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sculptures of Fax Machines

This week, snarky performance artist Eleanor Antin remembers Stalin, Paul McCarthy pulls a chair out from under a fictional Natalie Wood and sculptor Emily Counts turns a fax machine mystical. 5. What's war got to do with it? In the trailer for their new exhibition and performance series, Arjun Ne ... More >>

Fuck Rodeo Drive: A People's Guide to Los Angeles is an L.A. Guidebook for the 99 Percent

Let the tour buses take the throngs to visit Marilyn Monroe's hand prints at Grauman's Chinese Theater or to press their noses up to the windows on Rodeo Drive and wander Beverly Hills like they're Julia Roberts. Despite what the entertainment industry would have you believe, the city of Los Angeles ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Is Planning Insane, Captain Planet-Esque 'Four Winds' Protest for May Day

With their powers combined, "cars and bikes, occupiers and unions, community orgs and organic communities" will be descending upon the downtown L.A. financial district from all sides this May Day. May 1 is a traditional day of action for labor unions, so Occupy Los Angeles (and their fellow bankste ... More >>

Day Without A Mexican is Finally Here, California

You thought A Day Without A Mexican was just a movie. But more and more, the wildest dreams of anti-illegal-immigration activists are coming true. California's population growth is coming to a halt, says a new USC study (PDF), and much of that is the result of decreasing immigration. At the same ... More >>

Jayne Amelia Larson Wanted to Work in Hollywood -- But Instead Became a Chauffer for Saudi Royalty

Jayne Amelia Larson is a Jersey girl who made it to Harvard. But she may have gotten her greatest education from her job as a chauffeur.Larson's 16-hour days behind the wheel were spent driving royalty of every variety: Cross-dressing movie stars. Coked-up rock stars. Spoiled Beverly Hills brats. An ... More >>

Carrie Fisher

1914 Cyclone Motorcycle Worth $1 Million Taken in Bel Air Home Invasion

When you have $1 million worth of vehicle, try to make sure no one's tailing you. The owner of a million-dollar, one-of-a-kind, 1914 twin-cylinder Cyclone motorcycle thinks that crooks might have followed him home after its showing at the annual, open-to-the-public Beverly Hills Concours D'Elegance ... More >>

Ron Paul's Beverly Hills Street Art Removed

Ron Paul, the ultra-right candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, didn't get too much time in the sun here on the ultra-left coast. Well, at least a pop-art poster of his likeness didn't. Though some of his libertarian views might be sympatico with the feelings of the rich of Beverly ... 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 >>

Joe Francis: Girl Fighter Extraordinaire

Normally we would fear being sued by the lawyer-wielding stud behind the Girls Gone Wild video juggernaut for calling him "girl fighter extraordinaire." But in this case there doesn't seem to be any question about it. Joe Francis got down with a girl following a fender bender in Beverly Hills today ... More >>

Cut: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

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 >>

Five Fiercest Frocks From Fashion's Night Out 2011

Lina Lecaro Brow-raising looks at the Phillip Lim store​ The annual eve of retail raging called Fashion's Night Out 2011 took place all around the world last night. New York always seems to have the most cohesive FNO and be the most happening hub (with major designer events and parties attract ... More >>

Nannies, Babysitters, Housekeepers Could See -- Gasp! -- Minimum Wage Under Proposed Law: Beverly Hills Newspaper Incensed

costumestore.com​A bill that would give "domestic workers" such as nannies the same wage and break rights as pretty much everyone else is moving swiftly through Sacramento. And some of the rich folks who take advantage of those employees don't appear to be too happy about it. AB 889 from ul ... More >>

Bomb Scare in Beverly Hills: Aspiring Screenwriter Delivers Unwanted Script to Agent via Mysterious Briefcase

One man's swan song is another man's terrorism.​Best bomb scare ever. A beautified block's worth of Rodeo Drive offices and boutiques went into all-out panic mode this morning -- evacuated by Beverly Hills police on notice of a mysterious briefcase in the area. The package had been dropped o ... More >>

Spaceghostpurrp Ft. Speak: "Way Back," Or What We're Listening To Instead of "Otis"

Spaceghostpurrp and Speak​While you were running back Jay Z and Kanye's impossibly out-of-touch single "Otis" last weekend, Spaceghostpurrp and Speak were recording in Miami's Poe Boy studios. While you were recalling Jigga and 'Ye's humble roots, two of today's realest rising rappers were t ... More >>

Mito Aviles and ChadMichael Morrisette of CM Squared Designs: Mannequin Men

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Carvel 90210 (Day 16)

It has to be the most déclassé shop on Rodeo Drive, but there it is, amid David Yurman tennis bracelets and Christian Dior handbags, buried in the parking structure of an office building dedicated to aesthetic self-improvement and expensive housewares: Carvel.

Could Hosni Mubarak End Up in L.A? He Reportedly Owns Property in Beverly Hills

Hosni of Beverly Hills?​Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down Friday after weeks of unrest on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. The question for us is, could he come to L.A? Mubarak is widely reported to own property on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills -- and somewhere on that ... More >>

1,440 Bodies Of Indigent, Poor To Be Buried In Boyle Heights Mass Grave

Ted SoquiA photo from today's mass burial.​Updated with photos by Ted Soqui. First posted at 7:05 a.m. Contemporary L.A. County is home to Rodeo Drive, more than its share of billionaires, and some of the priciest real estate in the world. But a Dickensian scene will unfold Wednesday when L. ... More >>

L.A. Marathon Changes 'Stadium To The Sea' Route To Include Chinatown, Little Tokyo

Ghost TheoryBack in the day, hardcore L.A. Marathoners took to the 6th Street Bridge​The ever-glammer L.A. Marathon just keeps on picking up new tourist-friendly detours. Last year, it snubbed the downtown-centric route it had modified only slightly over many years, instead directing runners t ... More >>

Nightranger: Outta-Sight Night

Oh, To Eat in England

Or as near as Los Angeles will allow

Ask Mr. Gold: Oh, To Eat in England; or as Near as Los Angeles Will Allow

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I was married in Great Britain, and every year around my anniversary I crave good old-fashioned British cuisine. I'm talking a nice Yorkshire pudding or beef Wellington, and a really good trifle. Where in L.A. can I go to eat British food ... More >>

L.A. Ranks Surprisingly Low Among Nation's Biggest Spending Cities

​Last week we told you how Los Angeles wasn't really a big city when it comes to the size of certain anatomical parts. Now comes word that Angelenos aren't really big spenders either. Despite the region being home to Rodeo Drive, the biggest Porsche-buying market in the nation and a large if ... More >>

Bar210's Marcel Vigneron: Bringing Sexy to Beverly Hills' Nightclub Scene

After-hours hot spots are the norm for Hollywood, both of the classic and WeHo varieties. But...Beverly Hills? Since when did the home of Rodeo Drive, Spago and the glittering Golden Globes become L.A.'s newest after-dark club scene? Ever since DNA (Diabolical Nightlife Associates) - one of Las Ve ... More >>

L.A.'s Gap Between Rich And Poor Widening

​Los Angeles County. Home of The Hills, Rodeo Drive, and arguably the most exotic and high-end cars in the world. California has more billionaires than any other place on earth besides the rest of the United States. And we'd gamble that most of them live in SoCal. L.A. is also a place with a h ... More >>

American Tea Room Opens Full Service Tea Bar: Let them Eat Earl Grey Petits Fours

American Tea Room in Beverly Hills is a high end retailer of organic and non-organic teas, accessories and accoutrements, a spot where you can mosey on in after shopping (or window shopping) on Rodeo Drive, after grabbing a bite to eat with the posh 90210 crowd at Enoteca Drago across the street. Si ... More >>

Mayor V. Bows To The Westside As He Dedicates Eastside Rail

Eastside son Antonio Villaraigosa beamed Saturday as he helped to dedicate the Metro Gold Line extension train that runs from downtown to East Los Angeles. Free rides are being offered Sunday to celebrate the opening and to lure the bus-riding masses. And while a vast majority of county transit user ... More >>

Carrie Fisher -- Dirty or Clean?

Celebuspeak: My Neighborhood is a Hybrid, Driving the Westside and Beyond!

BY HAL SPARKS When I'm not on a stand-up tour of the country, thrilling people in the Bible Belt with my razor sharp wit and polysyllabic dissections of pop culture and socio-political shenanigans, I live in Los Angeles. I have loved here, I have lost here... I shot Dude, Where's My Car?, Spider- ... More >>

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Around here, we call it street-level multiculturalism.

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