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Nightranger

Lina Lecaro
Paper Dolls We’ve always felt that L.A. needed a sassy rag like Paper magazine, and last week we temporarily got our wish when the New York pub invaded town for a week of art, fashion, music and even fitness (aerobics classes, table-tennis tournaments) at a storefront at Melrose and La......
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Nightranger

Lina Lecaro
Oy vey, yo!Thanks to the dancehall flava of Hasidic hitmaker Matisyahu, not to mention kabbalah holla-back girl Madonna, it’s downright trendy to be in “the Tribe.” Still, as South Park’s Stan sang, “It’s Hard To Be a Jew on Christmas.” After we got hitched to one and converted from LAP......
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Class Honors

Lina Lecaro
Dear Class of ’05, Well, it’s been a year in the spotlight, with (some) drunken nights, and even a few stage fights, but it all led to new musical heights, didn’t it ? So glad I got to know you better this year. You are really cool and I’m sure......
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Nightranger

Lina Lecaro
Girls (and Boys) Together Outrageously Back when Pamela Des Barres was bedding and abetting rock stars like Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon, and chronicling it all for her book I’m With the Band, the “groupie” label was anything but derogatory. Unfortunately, the G-word is now associated more with......

Where the Balls Are

Lina Lecaro
Photos by Wild Don LewisFirst things first. I am not a bowling aficionado. In fact, some might say I suck. I don’t have good form, my fingers often get stuck in the holes (’cause I play with the lightest of balls, which I think are, uh, made for kids). I......
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We ♥ The Adored

Lina Lecaro
“We’re not punks, we’re not mods, we’re not new wavers — we’re just the Adored,” proclaims bristly headed singer Ryan George, sipping red wine and eating Chex mix in his West Hollywood living room last Friday night. His words might sound cocky, but George says them with a subdued, almost......
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Nightranger

Lina Lecaro
CRASHING SOUNDS Nightranger checked out the trendy new Las Palmas space Element last Friday — the club where Paris Hilton and her genius Greek boy-toy rammed into a truck ’cause he was driving with a jackass, uh, jacket, on his head. We weren’t there to catch another famous, fucked-up fender-bender,......
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Breakestra

Lina Lecaro
Photo by Jeff BenderWHAT: Beloved hip-hop/funk ensemble. KOOL IT, NOW: Though Breakestra pay homage to funk/soul/jazz greats such as the Meters, James Brown and Sly Stone, leader Miles Tackett cites (early, pre-“Celebration”) Kool and the Gang as his most inspirational funksters.IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR: Multi-instrumentalist Tackett, who started playing music......
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Nightranger

Lina Lecaro
Fashion fix Every trendy chick in town owns (or did own) the ubiquitous metallic purse — you know, the shiny gold-and-silver, crescent-shaped thing with the two large rings at the straps? (After Cameron Diaz and Paris Hilton were seen toting it in the tabloids, it was knocked off from here......