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Let It Be miniskirt (Photos by Patrik Andersson)

You Wear it Well

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{mosimage} Not long ago, singer-songwriter Hanna Rochelle Schmieder — known simply as Hanna to most people — began writing lyrics on her jeans during a break from recording. “It suddenly dawned on me,” she says, “no one had ever marketed lyrics on clothes before.”Fueled by the idea, she set out......

Going Stag at Seven Grand

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Seven Grand is a manly man sort of place. The kind of bar that would pay a chick to sit in the window dressed in 1950s pinup garb, pretending to be a cigarette girl on an Esquire cover, but instead looking trapped like a June bug in a Mason jar,......
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Prayers, Doughnuts and Booze in the Drive-Thru Lane

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“Everybody comes in,” says Trish. “The most popular items are milk and cigarettes.” Some do all of their grocery shopping at the dairy. “Those are the people who keep us in business,” she says. “We’re the place to go if you don’t want to go to Vons and wait in......
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Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Loads of BBQ

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{mosimage} Stagecoach Country Music Festivalat the Empire Polo Fields, Indio, May 5-6One week after the three-day Coachella Music Festival, a new crowd descended upon the Empire Polo Fields, pushing baby strollers, wearing cowboy hats and carrying folding chairs. Everyone from baby to Grandma was there for the first ever Stagecoach......
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Adele Mildred

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{mosimage} You’ve probably seen Adele Mildred out on the town, maybe at a gallery opening or fashion show, probably in a 1940s dress with a tiny hat nestled into her thick black wavy locks. She looks like a young Elizabeth Taylor and is so put together you undoubtedly felt like......

Clint Catalyst

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Remember that guy who didn’t let you in at Club Cherry? The one who made you wait as he picked out all the fashionable people around you at Club Make-up? Maybe back in the day you were lucky enough to know Clint Catalyst, the Midwestern ex–meth head who came to......

Jeffree Star

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It’s 9 a.m. and I’ve rung the buzzer twice at Jeffree Star’s apartment in Valley Village. Did he forget I was coming, or is he fucking with me? I’m about to try his cell phone when the doorknob turns and the fuchsia-haired, rail-thin 21-year-old appears, rubbing the traces of last......
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Stagecoach Country Music Festival

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Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, May 5 and 6 One week after the three day Coachella Music Festival, a new crowd descended upon the Empire Polo Fields, pushing baby strollers, wearing cowboy hats, and carrying folding chairs. Everyone from the baby to grandma was there for the first ever Stagecoach Country......
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Where the Wave Broke

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Instead, it was the look-inside-yourself call to arms I heard at Arcade Fire that spoke to me. Like a good preacher, Butler got our attention first, then asked us to act. “Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is. Sleeping is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids”......
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Coachella: Sunday

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Coachella: Day Three 10:00 a.m. I can barely wake-up, I'm in complete denial that there's another full day to go. The press band and the ID bracelet that proves I'm over 21, have become like shackles. But somewhere in the exhausted recesses of my mind, the thought of seeing Willie......