Treats at the Suites
The fun and festivities for the Golden Globes as always, started days before the trophies being awarded. First out of the gate, the Roger Neal Style Hollywood Ultimate Beauty Suite at L’Ermitage. Neal and his wife Lynn, veteran organizers of luxury awards events for 15 years, including the vaunted Stuart Weitzman shoe dinners for the Oscars, produced another winning suite that focused on beauty and pampering– along with an open...
Oh, Snap: It’s Photo LA!
From a self-portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe to Julius Shulman’s iconic architectural shots to an image of a young Jackie and John-John walking barefoot on the beach, you’ll find thousands of photographic treasures at the 20th anniversary edition of Photo LA. Taking place at the Santa Monica Civic, the exhibition encompasses works from more than 60 galleries and vendors, including some international exhibitors from Europe and the Far...
A Beautiful Show at the Met
There are just a few days left to see a magnificent show at the Met, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty. The California-born Baldessari is widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art– and is one of the most influential contemporary artists of the last half-century. This show (in the Cantor exhibition hall on the second floor) surveys his career and features 120 works of art, bringing together the full range of his innovative work...
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. ...