Gendy Alimurung

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Best Museum Gift Shop: Huntington Library Bookstore & More

Gendy Alimurung
The happeningest place at any museum, aside from the courtyard coffee cart, is the gift shop. The one at MOCA in New York is almost as legendary as the museum itself. The shop at Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood has a stellar collection of whimsical toys and modern doodads, and......
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Best Bar With a Backup Plan: Cameo Bar at the Viceroy

Gendy Alimurung
Cameo Bar, inside the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica, is a swanky California seaside hotel’s take on a traditional English lounge, which is to say, laid-back enough that the pretty waitress will look the other way if you’re wearing flip-flops, yet classy enough to put even the most pretentious dandy......
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Urinary Tract Wallpaper

Gendy Alimurung
This wallpaper was designed by California-based artist Shannon Wright. It depicts "exuberantly healthy human urinary tracts." I like how the blood vessels seem to be clutching each other and dancing the tango. Link via CribCandy, via Shannon Wright's website, via the human body, via total and complete weirdness. Optimal place......
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Harry Potter-inspired Bands in NYC

Gendy Alimurung
Oh, how I wish I had a broomstick so I could fly out to Brooklyn to attend the first ever NYC Wizard Rock Festival (this weekend). You know, wrock out (get it "wrock"? Wizard rock?) with DJ Luna Lovegood, and Draco & The Malfoys, and The Whomping Willows, and The......
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L.A. Fashion Awards Not Happening This Year

Gendy Alimurung
The L.A. Fashion Awards are on hiatus until 2009. Why? Money. As in, not enough of it. Those are the awards that come at the end of Fashion Week. Co-founder Jen Uner told Apparel News “The L.A. Fashion Awards have tremendous support from the fashion community, but the business community......
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Sarah Palin's Office Decor & Her Bearskin Rug

Gendy Alimurung
This photo ran with a recent New York Times article on Palin and her "outsider charm." The image begs some questions about her interior decorating style. Are grizzly bears endangered? No. At least, not anymore. The National Wildlife Federation declared the grizzly population in the areas surrounding Yellowstone National Park......
In the land of the Gipper: Scenes from the Reagan Library; Credit: Courtesy Reagan Library

Absolutely Reagan Heaven: Westlake Village Inn

Gendy Alimurung
The Westlake Village Inn does brisk business with the traveling corporate contingent and is the epitome of the modestly sized, classily appointed boutique hotels that popped up in the late 1980s, a place you’d book for a minibreak with that sexy, pencil-skirted pharmaceutical rep you traded business cards with at......