If You Don’t Want to Go All the Way Into the Heart of Hollywood, We Have a Great New Place
Step into the new Next Door Lounge and you’ll instantly be transported to the Hollywood of the 1920s– and you won’t have to go all the way into the epicenter and the heat of Hollywood to get a great club experience. The Next Door Lounge is entitled that way because it is right next door to the restaurant The Corner on Highland Avenue, just a few blocks south of Sunset Boulevard. The owner of The Corner, Ferris...
Wanna Lookie Like Sookie? Apply the New True Blood Cosmetics to Vamp Up Your Look
The limited edition Tarte True Blood Collection Tarte cosmetics is known as one of the most cutting-edge makeup companies around, and now it has a suite of products based upon some of the line’s tried and true favorites that are flying off store shelves. Remember when MAC Cosmetics had a limited edition line of products based on the Barbie doll—all pink and girly? This is the antithesis to that. Tarte just released a limited...
The Trafficpocalypse That Never Materialized: How Carmageddon Became Carmaheaven and Now Angelenos Want More
When you think of the last big, over-hyped anything in LA, there’s lots of competition. But when it came to the dreaded Carmageddon, a term coined by Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and usurped from a violent videogame of a few years back, the message got through. There were huge freeway signs. There were social media campaigns. There was endless news coverage on radio and television. You had to be living...
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen’s Sleeper Hit of the Summer
Much has been made of the fact that “Midnight in Paris” is Woody Allen’s most successful film in more than a quarter of a century, with a box office take of about $35 million to date, chugging away to surpass the $40 mil that “Hannah and her Sisters’ garnered in 1986. But forget those figures that have industry analysts standing up and taking notice – and just be happy that the movie is still playing at the box...
From Skid Row to Santa Barbara, The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge Charmed Us Royally
It only took a few moments in the presence of royalty to turn a room full of high-level entertainment executives, new media visionaries and venture capitalists into a giddy group falling all over themselves, taking photos and video of William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. One person likened the scene at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit at the Beverly Hilton to an audience of young girls at a Justin...