Caroline Ryder

I've Got Your Number

Caroline Ryder
I have a confession — I sat next to L.A. artist Gary Baseman at dinner Saturday night and had no clue who he was. He mentioned his Emmys and BAFTAs, and I still didn’t catch on — I mean, in L.A., if you don’t have an Emmy, then what the......
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We Do, Too!

Caroline Ryder
From locating a gay-friendly rabbi to finding a smokin’ tuxeda for you and your wife-to-be, planning a same-sex wedding can present many hurdles not found in the hetero world. Where to hold the ceremony, for a start. “We had to find some place really private because we don’t want any......
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Art Brut – Considering another Trip to LA

Caroline Ryder
I love Art Brut as though they were my own children. This band has it all - the wit, the hair, the affable cockney charm...they also have tickets and boarding passes for a plane back to the US, following their brilliant show at Spaceland last year. According to their publicist,......
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Strap-a-licious

Caroline Ryder
Anyone watch The L Word on Sunday night? I have just three words for you - Rosanna Arquette, Shane the Hairdresser, and a strap-on. OK that's more than three words. More like three concepts, which go together delightfully. When did television get this good? (PS: Re-runs all week, boys and......
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Beds That Follow You Around

Caroline Ryder
Hell yeah! Sleeping bags that you can walk around in. We like these. You need never buy a bed again because your bed will follow you wherever you go. According to the blurb The Selk'bag is "a sleeping bag system which looks like a giant full body uni-garment. Stand without......
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Fun in the Sun

Caroline Ryder
This is what I woke up to this morning. In my inbox, in between press releases about Josh Homme's new side project called 5:15 (how many side projects can a man have? ritalin anyone?) and something about a Culver City art 'manutailer' (personally I prefer the traditional "a manufacturer who......
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Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

Caroline Ryder
So I finally got round to seeing Brokeback Mountain, on Sunday at the movie theatre on Vermont in Los Feliz. I went with two girlfriends, one of whom has two real-life gay cowboy uncles living in the mountains in Colorado, so she was especially excited to see this movie. Unfortunately,......
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A Christmas Caroline

Caroline Ryder
This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, had other plans in store... 24 hours before my Christmas Eve flight was due to depart, I wandered in to a......

Tequila At Sunrise

Caroline Ryder
Photos by Caroline RyderI don’t normally start drinking when the sun rises. After all, only alcoholics and insomniacs need a tall one — and not the caffeinated kind — first thing in the morning. I’m neither alcoholic nor insomniac, but I do have the holiday blues, that awful seasonal gloom......