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Shopping in Chinatown

Shopping in Chinatown I was looking for some last minute gifts for the holidays and Chinatown is perfect for some quirky and fun gifts, not to mention inexpensive. The main part of Chinatown is filled with gifts for tourists. But there are also some great stocking stuffers like good luck charms, bamboo calendars, and asian paper [...]

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Batman vs Hollywood Street Punk

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Chloe - Santa Monica

The bar at Chloe Chloe officially opens tonight and after last night I am officially (although secretly) excited* to go out on the West side. Located below Hotel Carmel, the bar is styled like a Paris lounge. The walls are covered with antique mirrors and custom woodwork, comfortable seating and low tables line the walls around [...]

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Osteria La Buca - Melrose/Hollywood

Osteria La Buca has finally opened its expanded dining area after years of cramming as many diners as they could into their tiny restaurant. I spent many nights frustrated, craving mamma’s homemade pasta, trying to get a table at the last minute. Well the restaurant now has additional seating, a decent sized bar area and [...]

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Apartment hunting on Youtube

I hope this trend continues. For those of you looking for an apt, seems like a number of landlords are beginning to post their rentals on YouTube. What a great way for renters to preview a property and rental managers to fill vacancies. I always thought this would be a great business, offering video tours [...]

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HoHotel Cafe - Hollywood

Greg Laswell, Photo by Autumn DeWilde Are you in the holiday mood yet? No? Well then it’s time to kick start that shit into gear with the ho-ho-tel Christmas 2007 at Hotel Cafe. Starting this Friday Dec 14, enjoy 3 days of holiday celebrations at one of Hollywood’s most intimate live music venues. Proceeds from this [...]

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Holiday Tamales

Mama at work, Photo by Anne Fishbein When most people think of the Holidays, you probably don’t think of tamales. I once dated a girl who’s family made them every year. I was amazed at all the work that went into them. It’s mainly a Hispanic tradition and being in the heart of LA you have [...]

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Get schooled on wine - Culver/Downtown

Taste at HD Buttercup Ian Blackburn is the resident wino on Indie 103.1. He’s on the morning show every Wed dishing out knowledge on wine and fermented grapes, the process of turning grapes to wine. See you’re learning already. He’s also got his own website called LearnAboutWine.com where he recommends wines, talks about wine parings and [...]

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High Five - Hollywood

You may have see the High Five montage via a Fw: Fw: Fw: from a friend. Now from the guys who brought you the original High Five video, along with other really funny video forwards like the Valtrax ad parody and Friday Night Fights… High Five Hollywood Video after the jump addthis_url [...]

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Busbys - Miracle Mile

Busbys on Wilshire I needed a place to watch football last week thanks to Time Warner not carrying the NFL network. So I settled on Busbys (east). I had never been there before and have been meaning to check it out. After the door guy gave me a look up and down, I was approved for [...]

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