Sophia Kercher

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Fox's Tail – Assistants March

Sophia Kercher
“Every place has a completely different personality, like, Sony is kinda angry, Fox is where all the really cool people hang out and Radford gets started at, literally, 5 am…” Stephen Scaia said last Wednesday. The Jericho writer was giving picketing pointers to Joshua Jackson (the dreamboat from Dawson’s Creek)......
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a Movable Feist

Sophia Kercher
Feist, Spoon Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12 A few years back, among hundreds of urbanite Canucks, I stumbled upon Leslie Feist illuminating the night at an intimate Canada Day celebration in Toronto. Now a top-of-the-charts razzle-dazzler, Feist established Monday that even in front of thousands at a dual theme-park/concert venue with......
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Product Placement – The Striker Gourmets

Sophia Kercher
Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite among strikers was a little cutie with a sign that read, "I'm little but I know how to share." She looked so tired from all that marching in the......
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Signing On: Massive WGA Strike at Fox Plaza

Sophia Kercher
Yesterday, one of NBC’s head writers marching on the picket gripped his high-tech cell phone and waved it in frustration. “Someone at NBC screwed with my Blackberry," the writer said, explaining that he hasn’t been able to e-mail anyone. “They messed everything up on my Blackberry—I can’t even use it......
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ELLEN'S GAY

Sophia Kercher
Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on......
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BRIAN LICHTENBERG

Sophia Kercher
There was something that made me feel sexy about the unveiling of Brian Lichtenberg’s Spring and Summer Collection at the Museum of Architecture and Design. The being in a lingerie store kind of sexy: with a mix of the accomplished and the young shining in everything from classic blacks to......

Brownout Is the New Black

Sophia Kercher
IN SAN FRANCISCO THIS FALL, brown is the new black. Or at least it will be if Lights Out San Francisco, calling for turning off all unnecessary electricity for an hour, leads to a successful, self-imposed brownout. Organizers hope the San Francisco sky will be lit only by emergency services,......

Best Place to Get Your Smooch On

Sophia Kercher
The inner-city serenity of Echo Park Lake — the quietness, the slowness, the shy lotus blooms — begs for disruption. And there’s one disturbance rightfully linked with the park: love. This is the place to seize a smooching partner and make out like a high-schooler. After all, the lake has......

Best Pit Stop in Purgatory

Sophia Kercher
Silver Lake’s Cha Cha Lounge looks like a collision between Mexico’s Day of the Dead and disco fever — could this be purgatory? The piña coladas taste like death, but the foosball tables and the photo booth make up for that — plus, we kick back with a beer, anyway......

Best Cocktail Dip

Sophia Kercher
While downtown burns, get even higher at the Standard Hotel’s Rooftop Bar — or cool off with a dip in the barside pool. You won’t risk drowning in its three-and-a-half-foot depths, but the view will take your breath away: It’s the top of the world, high-rises beaming back at you......