2nd Annual Renegade Craft Fair – Los Angeles
Have you been guilted into buying organic/sustainable/locally-made lately? If not, this serves as your friendly reminder to get on it!
The 2nd Annual Renegade Craft Fair will be in full swing July 24 and 25, from 11am – 7pm at the Los Angeles State Historic Park, and they’re hosting some of the coolest vendors known to [...]
Hannibal at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Berlin
Hannibal, one of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week’s few, if not only, menswear designers, presented their Spring/Summer 2010 collection “Silence” in the main tent on Friday. The collection was refined, modern, and classic, with few twists on the classics. Easy and livable fabrics marched down the runway in slim cuts and razor-sharp silhouettes. The palette was understated [...]
Fashion Week Kick-Off Party – Berlin
Berlin Fashion Week kicks off this week with an array of talented emerging and established designers as far as the eye can see. ProjektGalerie hosted the opening party at Hof 96 in Mitte, featuring a live fashion installation by up and coming Berlin designer Don’t Shoot The Messengers, a pop-up store chock full of the [...]
Revenge of the Mannequins in Santa Monica
Been seeing a lot of plastic people around Santa Monica lately (….well, more than usual…)? The Mannequin Collective is behind the posers, which have been placed around Santa Monica Place to draw attention to the opening of the new shopping and dining destination in the heart of Santa Monica, all while giving up to 100 [...]
Luxe Life Lives It Up
The Luxe Life Pink Carpet Beauty and Shopping Event took place last weekend at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. It was billed as a luxury mini-spa day, designed to give you all the spa treats usually reserved for celebrities. With the pass, you could indulge in two free spa treatments, ranging [...]
The Luxe Life is All About You!
For those Pamper Me Fabulous lovers, you’ve got a new shindig in town! Luxe Life is all about getting the best luxury beauty, fashion, and lifestyle brands together under one roof and throwing open the doors for you to experience all that a Luxe Life has to offer. Shop to your hearts’ content in designer [...]
LA Time Festival of Books
The LA Times 2010 Festival of Books is hosting their weekend book and book-lovers matchmaking fair this weekend at UCLA. Reconnect with that old media you forgot about ever since the dawn of your Facebook account! Your books miss you, and somewhere, deep down in your technologically-hardened heart, you miss them. Get down to the [...]
Pamper Me Fabulous, Daahhling
The Pamper Me Fabulous this weekend was a fun-filled, relaxing expo of health and beauty products, featuring everything from facial masks from Purigenex, massages from The Lounge Spa, hair treatments, and paraffin wax hand and foot treatments from Meltology (pictured below). Hands got special treatment from El Leon (pictured left). The Vibiana in downtown LA [...]
Buddha Bark Celebrity & Canine Style Lounge
The Buddha Bark Celebrity & Canine Style Lounge was THE place to go this past weekend for all the grooming needs for you and your pooch. Featuring tons of doggie-centric vendors and products, the Buddha Bark Celebrity & Canine Lounge was a great place to get massaged, shampooed, fed, and watered.
There was the Wizard of [...]
Real Talk 2009 Fashion Show!
Redrawn Arts is featured in the Real Talk 2009 Fashion Show in the upstairs loft of Wokano at the Long Beach Promenade. The comfortable corset is back, and the show will feature a handful of the Redrawn Arts traditional designs, as well as some brand-new, freshly made designs – Check out the Roped Back [...]
Pics from the NextAid Marrakesh House
Check out all the hot pics from the NextAid Benefit at the Marrakesh House. The pics only give a little taste of the Marrakesh House, so if you get a chance to go to one of their events to see the full ordeal, GO!
Meanwhile, NextAid has three great gift ideas, the proceeds of which benefit [...]
Pinky Rose Boutique is Hot!!!
There’s this great store, Pinky Rose Boutique, just east of Fairfax on Pico, that just popped on my radar in the last few months. The boutique is filled with luscious jewel-tones, shiny metals, glittery sparkles – enough to make girls of all ages swoon like the princesses they were when they were five. They’ve got [...]
Symbiotic Form For the Holidays!
There’s a new chunk of stores opening up in Downtown LA on Main & 7th, at 111 W 7th St. All the ground floors are barely bigger than a large walk-in closet, some are packed to the gills with stuff, others are more sparsely designed, giving a delicate, couture feel to their stores.
Symbiotic Form is [...]
Craft Riot!
Kick your holiday shopping into high gear at the Craft Riot Holiday Sale, featuring the best in local designers and crafters. Don’t just get the same old crap everyone else will be buying from Target, Best Buy, Macy’s, et. al. I mean really - what if you were to buy a sweater from Target to [...]
Arias With A Twist: Drag Diva Takes Redcat
“Arias with a Twist” is a whacked-out show that demands your attention by employing quick wit fused with extremely imaginative staging. This is all held together by the soaring song stylings of this demented (and very talented) singer.
Don’t Miss Any More of This!
If you’re looking for snazzy, one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts for cheap, start some pre-Black Friday shopping in Downtown LA at the FIDM Museum Store. For one week only (Nov. 16 – Nov. 22), the FIDM Museum Shop is offering store-wide 20% off, and 50% of selected specials. Shop online for 50% off selected items at www.fidmmuseumshop.org.
The [...]
HolloH <-> The Lynx Technique
MISTER NERVOUS recommends HolloH @ Hotel Cafe & The Lynx Technique @ Echo Curio
Bring on the deals and the diesels.
It’s hard to miss all the deals … EVERYWHERE. Now, BMW has joined the rest of ‘em offering to pay your first 2 payments on your lease/purchase on 2008 + 2009 models (1 series, 3 series, 5 series, 6 series, and X6). The big boys in Germany have not decided to extend the promotion, so [...]
Pumpkin Cupcakes
It’s the holiday season. Oh My!. I had the lucky chance to taste the Lenya’s Kitchen famous strawberry cupcakes at the BBQ festival a few months ago. These delightful little morsels are about as yummy as they come and, OH MAN, Pumkin is the best flavor. Unlike the giagantic Crumbs cupcakes these [...]
Start your engines: LA Auto Show Nov. 21-30
It seems last year’s show was just around the corner … but here we are again. And it’s not just with a new President-elect of course, the Los Angeles International Auto Show will serve as the platform for major auto manufacturers to unveil some of their latest goods … including Ford’s all-new 2010 Mustang. [...]
Heidi Klum @ The Grove Today
Heidi Klum celebrates / debuts / launches her new sexy makeup line at Victoria’s Secret. Today at The Grove from noon to 4pm, she’s teamed up with V.S. head makeup artist Linda Hay to give personalized makeovers. The goal is to convince women they can achieve supermodel looks with just 2 of Klum’s products from [...]
Get Ready … The Google Phone
Could we really not see this coming? I’m not a hardcore techie … but this does get my blood pumping, almost as much as my Ferrari post.
Set to officially launch in 21 major cities through T-Mobile, including LA, the “G1″ from Google will cost $179. It was unveiled today in New York. While following the [...]
Whole Foods Gentrifies Venice
Did I say gentrify? I meant “gives money to the surrounding businesses so they can look hip and sleek and match Whole Foods‘ exterior”. Which is neither here no there, the gentrification of Venice has been happening since people with a ton of money began thinking it was a cool place to live. And they’ve finally [...]
Entertainment & Sports Memorabilia Silent Auction Sept 4th
This event will be located Encino to raise money for The Alzheimer’s Association.
The buzz in L.A. today is all about the hot hot hot charity auction next weekend. Items up for bid include: Elvis Presley memorabilia; cartoon cells of Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Fred Flintstone; Al Pacino “Scarface” signed items; collectibles [...]
