BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER

OK, people, I was totally off-the-ball on this one. I hadn’t been to Azaara at Beverly and Orlando until yesterday. The jewelry store houses all of designer Josef Arzili’s lines: the sterling silver and crystal CZ vintage line ($70-$200); the collection of 22kt gold-dipped sterling silver with precious or semi-precious stones ($100-$400); and Umlaut, a […]

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While I was running yesterday, I caught the doors to the former Paul Frank store at Crescent Heights and 3rd open. The place is a bunch of rubble at this point, but there was a group of four guys working on the place. One guy with some impressive calf tats, said the space is leased […]

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Right next to my fave neighborhood nail salon, Lanny Nails, and across the street from the lofts I blogged about sometime back, Joseph Walker boutique has opened at 8317 1/2 Beverly Boulevard. The shop, with its boudoir interior awash in robin’s egg blue, hails from the east from the faraway land of Eagle Rock. I […]

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Since I’m sure my earlier post speculating about what could be behind the red door on 3rd was keeping you up at night, you can rest assured that your neighborhood roving reporter - uh, that’s me, as I’ve started to refer to myself in the third person - has made like Helen Mirren a la […]

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Go-to vintage boutique Immoni on 3rd Street is shuttering by month’s end. When asked if he knew anything else, the dude manning the shop said, “That’s really all I know about it.” Great, very helpful. If you’re down in Long Beach, you can visit Immoni’s other store.

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