A Taste of Something New and Different
Abandoned for nearly a decade, the historic Vogue Theater on Hollywood Boulevard– built in 1935– has come to new life as a performance-based dining and nightclub experience. Filled with oversized white beds, supperclub Los Angeles features memorable nights filled with music, food and performance art. There is no menu, but a four-course dinner will be created especially for you, with attention to any dietary preferences....
Gangster Truce Called on the Boardwalk
In HBO’s recently concluded first season of “Boardwalk Empire,” the characters and the milieu are haunting, an intermingled stew of real and fictional political and criminal personages– and innocents caught in their web– from a bygone era that still resonate today. If you didn’t know any differently, you could be excused for thinking that what was the second-to-last episode was the season finale, culminating as it did...
Ice, Ice Baby
It’s not Rockefeller Center, but it’s probably the most scenic outdoor skating rink in Southern California, with colorful designs painted by the same schoolchildren who did the lifeguard stations so beautifully this past summer. Put on your blades and hit up the colorful ICE in Santa Monica, after the Zamboni makes the 8,000 square foot rink nice and smooth. Ten bucks buys you admission and includes your skate rental. ...
Lladro’s Limited Edition Treasures
A piece of Lladró always makes a beautiful gift for the collector, and now the famed Spanish porcelain company has come out with a limited edition line of beautiful sculptures and other pieces for the home called Lladró Atelier. Under that umbrella, two new collections, Rococo Mirrors and The Parrot Party, were showcased at a flamenco-flavored cocktail event at the company’s Rodeo Drive location, an occasion special enough that...
Remembering Blake Edwards
The opportunity to have a lengthy sit-down with one of comedy’s master directors was something I couldn’t turn down. It was 2004, and Blake Edwards was about to receive an honorary Oscar–his first. In tribute to his recent passing, here’s a look back: Perhaps Julie Andrews has the best line on Blake Edwards, her husband of nearly 35 years. “He’s like Mel Brooks and so many writers of his era or genre. He pushes...
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