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Walk-ins Welcome

Steffie Nelson
Michael Andrews is not a rock star. He has 20 albums to his credit as a pop songsmith, film and TV composer, guitar and piano player, and record producer, and he and Gary Jules even charted a No. 1 U.K. hit with their cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World”......

Rooms With a View

Steffie Nelson
Photos by Zoe CrosherThere are 31 hotels and motels surrounding LAX, and artist Zoe Crosher has stayed in all of them — except one, the Royal Comfort Hotel, and that’s where we’re headed in her silver 1980 Mercedes at 10:30 on a Wednesday night. Since 2001, Crosher has been photographing......
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Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

Steffie Nelson
I ran into Tammie Brown at the John Water's Meet & Greet before the mustachioed director's Christmas show tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Tammie is a long-time Waters fan, and he told her he liked her curls. Ms. Brown helped me work my drag queeny open-mouthed smile and gave me......
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Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

Steffie Nelson
I ran into Tammie Brown at the John Water's Meet & Greet before the mustachioed director's Christmas show tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Tammie is a long-time Waters fan, and he told her he liked her curls. Ms. Brown helped me work my drag queeny open-mouthed smile and gave me......

Lock, Stock & Module

Steffie Nelson
Photos Fawn Art PhotographyFrench designer Jean Prouvé’s Tropical House, a prototype of prefabricated housing that remains on display in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum through the end of the year, was made to be easily transported on an airplane. When the lightweight steel-and-aluminum structure, originally installed in Brazzaville, Congo,......
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Charmed, I'm Sure

Steffie Nelson
    If you read my post about the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale then you know that I really didn't need to buy any more goodies. But there was one shiny golden bauble that this New Yorker-who-just-moved-to-L.A. simply could not resist: Maya Brenner's Bi-coastal necklace.     A California......
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Kyoto Decadence

Steffie Nelson
When it opens this weekend, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha will already be trailing a long stream of scandal: the Japanese community is up in arms because the three female leads are played by Chinese actresses (admittedly a bit perplexing), and a certain faction of militant Chinese......
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Love It To Death!

Steffie Nelson
    After four hours at this afternoon's Billion Dollar Babes media/celebrity preview sample sale, I felt a bit like the Babes' patron saint Alice Cooper (whose Billion Dollar Babies tour from 1973 is now on DVD) in this picture: fiendishly clutching my precious things, with big dark circles under......
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Stop Making Sense

Steffie Nelson
Last night I attended a party at my friend Zoe's teeny-tiny adorable Silver Lake cottage on a hill, which comfortably holds a maximum of maybe fifteen people, if all the rooms are utilized.  (Note: this word will be discussed at greater length; read on...) By midnight it was so crowded......