Steffie Nelson

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Flea's Bitten

Steffie Nelson
On Saturday night the Diane von Furstenberg store in West Hollywood hosted a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the non-profit music school founded by Red Hot Chili Pepper bassist  Flea in 2001. The 100 or so guests included musicians like Perry Farrell, fashionable folk wearing DVF, a smattering......
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Madonna Finds Xanadu

Steffie Nelson
Talk about hot wheels: look who channels ONJ in the new video for her song "Sorry." I guess that makes it official - roller disco is back, baby! Not that anyone needed to tell me: I've been waiting for this moment since I was ten. Looking at the photos posted......
The Dolls take a rare break from dodging boardwalk tourists.

Rollin' With the Homegirls

Steffie Nelson
In the late ’70s, everybody went to the roller rink. It was, especially for prepubescent girls like me, unimaginably crazysexycool: the music, the mirror balls, the satin shorts, the frozen pizza, the boys. The roller rink was a world of fantasy, and nothing captured the magic, if you will, more......

Got Balls?

Steffie Nelson
“So, did you get hit in the face with a ball yet?” one business-casual fellow asked another on the interminable line for drinks at Saturday night’s Nike-sponsored celebration of “the beautiful game,” soccer. Apparently that was proof that you were really there, dude. “There” was Electronic Arts, the video gaming......
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Got Balls?

Steffie Nelson
    "So, did you get hit in the face with a ball yet?" one business casual fellow asked another on the interminable line for drinks at last night's Nike-sponsored celebration of "the beautiful game," soccer. Apparently that was the proof that you were really there, dude. "There" was Electronic......
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El Dud

Steffie Nelson
    Quelle bummer! On Friday night I'd just enjoyed a lovely meal with a group of friends at the Sunset Junction French bistro Cafe Stella (I had the duck; I recommend it), and we were in high spirits, all set to continue the froggy revelry at El Cid, where......
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Vive Le Rock!

Steffie Nelson
Last summer, the members of New York City’s Nous Non Plus were still a kitschy fake French band called Les Sans Culottes (in honor of the pants-challenged revolutionaries who overthrew the Bastille), and they’d just axed their leader. Unfortunately, he was also a lawyer, and took them to court over......
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Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

Steffie Nelson
Put horror king Clive Barker in a room with some naked people and some body paint, and you've got an enraptured crowd of "art lovers" in your gallery. That was the offering at Bert Green Fine Art Thursday night when I finally checked out the Downtown Art Walk, a monthly......
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Chocolate-covered Snails and Other New Year's Delights

Steffie Nelson
Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell installation (aka the Golden Vortex) has lent an aura of majesty to Silverlake Boulevard, and in a real nod to Utopian ideals, the space is open to......
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A Tale of Two Top Hats

Steffie Nelson
I just got back from New York, New York, and since I spent much of my winter holiday hanging with my nieces Flora and Ava, twins aged 18 months, the biggest fashion trends on my radar were of the turtleneck onesie and snap-crotch corduroy pants variety (very chic, I thought;......