Caroline Ryder

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The Return of The Watch

Caroline Ryder
I know, I know - ever since God invented cell phones that can tell the time, no-one wears watches anymore. Watches are annoying. You have to put them on. And take them off. They get scratched. They steam up in the shower. And remember watch-related tan marks back in the......

Kids Do the Darnedest Things

Caroline Ryder
It was inevitable that director Larry Clark would end up in Los Angeles — he’s almost as obsessed with youth as we are. The photographer and director moved to Santa Monica in 2003 after 25 years in New York, where he had made his name with the teen fuck fest......

This Just In

Caroline Ryder
Longtime journalists often like to reminisce about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hal Fishman was there when it was put up. The KTLA anchorman has been the bearer of bad (and occasionally good) news in L.A. since 1960, making him the longest-running news anchor in the history of television......

Bloody Bunnies

Caroline Ryder
People who live in the desert are not normal. They have names like Timber, Trippy and Jesika von Rabbit. They drive down roads called Kickapoo and Foxy Flats. They make art, take psychedelics and watch for UFOs in the sky (an entirely apropos activity, since Joshua Tree, while only two......
Amanda Scheer-Demme: Smoked out

She Loves the Nightlife

Caroline Ryder
Remember when the most interesting thing about the Roosevelt was the red sign on its roof? Then along came Amanda Scheer-Demme. Seemingly overnight, the nightlife entrepreneur transformed the hotel on Hollywood Boulevard into paparazzi heaven, creating bars like Teddy’s and the Tropicana, and filling them with celebutantes every night of......

The Maude Squad

Caroline Ryder
I met my granny for the first time in October 2004. She lives in São Paulo, Brazil, in a bullet-riddled cement block in a neighborhood called Wobbly Frog. And like all Brazilian women, she looked hot. She’s nearly 90 — yet there was something daring about her knee-length stripy wool......
Chic Sherlock (Photo by Ted Soqui)

Morphine Generation

Caroline Ryder
Morphine Generation designer Erik Hart must have felt all happy and warm inside when he saw Anthony Kiedis and über-producer Jimmy Boyle among the front-row faces at his first Smashbox runway show. Rock & roll is, after all, the raison d’être behind his fashion career. It was because of Hart’s......
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We Heart Denim…Honest

Caroline Ryder
I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even though denim and sportwear are LA's greatest exports - or at least most lucrative - how exciting can a pair of jeans get,......
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Amanda Demme – She Nice

Caroline Ryder
I just got back from interviewing Amanda Demme, the so-called Queen of LA Nightlife, and marketing brain behind 'hot' nightlife venues like Teddy's and Tropicana at the Roosevelt. If you go online and google her, you'll find a fair amount of press on Amanda, most of it bitchy gawker.com and......
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Boys Town – Not Safe for Girls?

Caroline Ryder
I've always thought of West Hollywood as a shiny, happy sort of place - but apparently Boys Town isn't always as fabulous as you'd think. I got an email this morning from a friend telling me that a 27-year-old woman was robbed, kidnapped and raped on February 21 by two......