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I Play Joan Rivers

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Yeah, it's that time again. Hollywood is all closed up, and hundred of movie fans have begun to line up outside the Kodak Theater, hoping to catch a glimpse of somebody, anybody. I wore a gown and waited for a half hour for Mr. Cobrasnake to accompany me on my......
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That's The Indie Spirit

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I woke up this morning with my cowboy boots on, laying face down fully clothed on my couch. I didn't even make it into my bedroom.You know you were at a good party when you wake up in your boots. I went to the Independent Spirit Awards party, hosted by......
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Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

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"I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. What Madonna wants. Madonna gets. But Madonna at Coachella? I don't even know what to think. I love Madonna, but... but... Coachella? I like to wear......

Hopes of Venice

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THE LAST BATCH OF EVICTION NOTICES won’t go out for at least another two months at Lincoln Place Garden Apartments in Venice. A mediator will be called in to deal with all of the parties involved in the dispute over the future of the remaining 53 households inhabited by elderly......
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Starstruck

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So I'm thinking about suing the city of Hollywood. I'm not kidding. The Hollywood Walk of Fame might be pretty to look at under the reflection of the boulevard's twinkling street lights (especially while inebriated), but whoever thought it'd be a good idea to make the glitter-specked sidewalk so silky-smooth......

to the Rescue . . . Not

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WE CHECKED IN WITH Bill Rosendahl’s fellow city council members to see what they had to say about the Lincoln Place debate, the lack of affordable housing in Los Angeles, and Bill himself. ED REYES, DISTRICT 1 “Not until Bill came aboard did we have this activism. He’s really forced......

The Miseducation of Bill Rosendahl

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DESPITE THE GORGEOUS DAY — the crisp air and the midday sun shining brightly — it felt like a funeral under the large oak where a few of the tenants of Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice had gathered. They held hands in a circle, silently watching the wind rake its......
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The Glamorous Life

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After my dinner debacle last week (see my last post) I was ready for a little plushness and pampering, and I got a lot of it with three Alexis Carrington-style days filled with diamonds and pearls, limos and lots 'o champagne. A burly Men In Black-looking bodyguard stood by the......
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Any Given Sunday

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It's friggin Sunday, I want to finish the book for my book club (Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Garcia-Marquez), I want to finish painting my living room, I want to eat ribs and drink beer, the last thing I want to do is go to Kitson on Robertson for......
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No No No…

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Maybe it was payback from the hater gods for being too happy and too much in love on Valentines Day, but the romantic dinner I  bragged about having with my hubby in my last post turned out to be the dinner date from hell. The space, Noe in the Omni......