Linda Immediato

The elevator door opens to a syncopated ragtime melody, revealing period-correct outfits hanging on headless forms — a pouffy ’50s party dress, a ’40s housedress, a circa-1910 three-piece traveling suit that would have been worn by someone on the Titanic. Old advertisements and travel posters dot the walls, and a......

“That’s what that place is?” a friend’s voice rises with incredulity. “I drive by it all the time. I had no idea.” We’re talking about the orange building on Sunset, just east of Micheltorena, with the mirrored sign that says “Sweet Charity.” It’s kind of in Nowheresville, caught between the......

It’s 7 p.m., you’ve just gotten home from a long day at work and you warily eye the laptop that contains your unfinished short story or script. You wish you could find the motivation to finish; instead you turn on the television. What you need is the kind of push......

I first met Amanda Owen while she was styling background performers for the Gorillaz’ appearance with Madonna at this year’s Grammy Awards. She had dressed two very differently shaped girls — one slightly zaftig, one veering toward scrawny — in the same exact dress. Both girls looked great; the frock......

It doesn’t matter if it’s an elaborate stone grotto or just a battered 50-gallon oil drum — parties around a fire are always memorable. And even if you don’t have a backyard, you still have a lot of options. We looked into all kinds of fire pits — chimineas, outdoor......