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The Attic – Long Beach
2020 has produced one million different ways to break our hearts. For me, the shuttered mom and pop shops, boom, right for the jugular. So when word floats my way that a Long Beach legacy […]
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Hotel Cerro
We couldn’t be through. That transcendent thrill accessible only through tasting life beyond our bubble, no, I refused to believe that was another 2020 casualty. We could start small. We could go slow. Masked and […]
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Caravan Outpost
Ojai by Airstream: Introducing Caravan Outpost With all its nestled nooks and environmental endearments, Ojai has become so haute a hideaway it all but shies from its own allure. Which naturally only makes it more […]
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Gabi James
What happens when you marry the breeziness of the South Bay to the cuisine of Coastal France, a spike of Spanish influence, and the creative culinary instincts born of a California soul? The Gabriele Family […]
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Hotel Joaquin, Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach is one of those landscapes so lavish in topographic gifts, grounds gilded in glorious views and air scented with sea salt, it’s where Southern California can’t help but get a little braggy. A […]
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Jane Q, Los Angeles
Fame on the floor, stars in their eyes, and stores that should probably have an NC-17 rating, Hollywood has hustle that is hard to harness, often harder to hail, particularly for the local set. And […]
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The Hoxton, Downtown LA
A new lease of life has been given to the former Los Angeles Railway Building, a rather striking, 10-story Beaux Arts structure that was originally built in 1922 in Downtown Los Angeles, when the doors […]
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Conference Room – Playa Vista
I find LA innovation to be at its best when it invents the space we wish we were in, within circumstances we’re always in. I am still waiting on the fun flip on traffic. Until […]
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Delphine Eatery and Bar
Within the W Hollywood, beneath massive flanked ceiling fans, on muted blue Mediterranean tiled flooring, sits Delphine. A marble bar, a trio of tufted booths, a library on one wall, a wall of libations on […]
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Hock + Hoof
Dangles of white lights dip down a distressed brick wall. Floating mason jars suspend from above, doing something dazzling to the space between. And floor to ceiling subway tiles both contrast and complement the white […]