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Coachella: Saturday

Lessons Learned Day One: Don't be a hero and fuck fashion. I'm in flip-flops. Fuck it, that half inch of high density foam is better than having to trod barefoot, through discarded food and spit, s I flippity-floppity my way to the main stage. 3:55 p.m. Regina Spektor, has all......
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Coachella: Friday

(Brief note regarding Lina's very complete Do and Don't list: I'd like to add one thing: DO bring your tickets! I overheard someone saying they got within a half hour of arriving here before realizing they forgot their tickets, they had to turn around to go all the way back......
Jeff Johnsen will get you wired. (Photos by LInda Immediato)

Buzz Cup

The news traveled fast. A fresh-faced artisanal coffee obsessive had arrived in Los Angeles and could be found, get this, at a motorcycle repair shop in Virgil Village. Friends had been talking about his coffee for weeks, so I went to check out the man behind the myth and the......
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Medical Drama House Gets Its Own T-Shirt

How great is the show House? Fuck Grey's Anatomy, that show is so lame, I feel bi-polar watching it— is it a farse comedy? a serious medical drama? It can't make up it's mind and just as we're supposed to be freaking out about some pandemic, we're thrust in to......
Redrum: Downstairs at the Mountain Bar

Bloody Cool

The Mountain Bar, with its crimson-soaked walls and lanterns that look like entrails swinging from the ceiling, at first seems like the post-bloodbath setting of some crazy ninja action, a scene from Kill Bill. Yet all around you, the crush of well-dressed people calmly sip cocktails in what used to......
Welcome to the dollhouse: American Girl Cafe (Courtesy American Girl)

In Hot Water

For centuries, tea has been steeped in ceremony and tradition across the globe. It’s a beverage that has formal rituals that go way beyond even the swishing and swirling and sniffing of wine. In Britain, the image of tea comes with doilies, little hand-painted roses on fine china cups, tiered......
The Eternal Embrace fall collection: Victorian-esque tops and ghost plaid jeans. (Photos by Theo Jemison/Cosa Nostra)

Sebelia's Fashion Fight Club

Way downtown, in a normally dark corner of the city occupied by vacant warehouses, loft spaces still in need of residents, and semi trucks on their way out of town, the sort of gorgeously fashionable crowd normally seen in Hollywood nightclubs jostled for position in the valet line along Santa......
Pimped-out record collection (Photo by Mark the Cobrasnake)

King Jeremy the Wicked

Greased lightning: Jeremy Scott flanked by the ’57 Chevy and record dressesPhotos by Garik Gyurjyan Makeup by Kimi Hair by Samantha RoeModels: Liberty Ross, One Model Management • Ruby Aldridge, NEXT modelsHollywood Hills, 2007 Jeremy Scott’s house is going off. The phone is ringing, packages are arriving, and right now......

Hot As Folk

Golden Girls: The Chapin Sisters match their stage outfits, a mix of new and collected vintage, by color. Here they are in their shiny phase. (Photos by Garik Gyurjyan   Hair and makeup by Samantha Roe) The Chapin Sisters stand onstage at Tangier in Los Feliz, each in a shimmering gold......

OK Go Dress Me

Photos by Garik Gyurjyan Hair and makeup by Samantha RoeWhat’s up their sleeve? Tim Nordwind (left, front), coat, Ted Baker; shirt, vest, slacks, Duncan Quinn; hat, Penguin. Damian Kulash (right, front) in Duncan Quinn. Andy Ross (left, rear), suit, Duncan Quinn; shirt, Ted Baker. Dan Konopka (right, rear), shirt, Ted......