Wolfgang Puck Moves out, Adolfo Suaya’s Gastro Pub Moves In
Hollywood and Highland is not exactly known as a gastronomic destination, but that’s changing with the addition of the new Rolling Stone restaurant and bar, and now, Boho, which just made the move over from its previous location next to the ArcLight on Sunset. For those who remember Wolfgang Puck’s Vert, that’s the spot that Boho now occupies, right next to the Daily Grill on the fourth floor. One of my peeves with...
Unlikely Fans for NBC’s New Music Competition Show ‘The Voice’ Join Teams
Having never been a consistent fan of reality shows, reality competition shows or music competition shows like, um, the pop-culture dominant for a decade “American Idol,” we are surprisingly entranced with “The Voice,” which premiered to great hype on NBC. Having succumbed to some of that hype, our plan was to sample the first few minutes and then move on to other pursuits which would surely be more productive....
What to Get the Couple Who Has Everything: How About a Charitable Donation, Or Some Priceless Perfume?
You wouldn’t dare attend a wedding without sending a gift, but you’ve got to hand it to Prince William and Kate Middleton, whose nuptials on Friday will be attended by less than 2,000 people but watched by untold millions around the globe. The royal couple has requested that donations in honor of their matrimony be made into a fund that will support 26 charities in Commonwealth countries from Kenya to Canada, although...
Easy Breezy Beautiful Brows in a Box
Permit me to rave about a newly discovered product that is now an everyday essential. It’s the Anastasia Beverly Hills Beauty Express for Brows and Eyes — a pretty little palette that includes five brow stencils, a brush, brow wax, two shades of brow powder and two shades of under brow highlighter/eyeshadow. Anastasia Soare is the brow queen of Hollywood who counts a number of celebrities and VIPs as her clients, and if...
Would You Pay $30 to Rent a Movie–For Two Days? A Month Before Its DVD Release? Didn’t Think So.
Thursday was the first day of an experiment in home entertainment that is likely to fail, at least the pricing element of it. You probably know that box office receipts and sales and rentals of DVDs are way down—as much as 40%–so the movie studios are looking at other ways to maximize their profits. Some of them banded together with satellite provider DirecTV to launch premium video on demand. The first offering: the Adam...
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