Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6—SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7
WHO: Electronic Waste Collection Event
WHAT: OK, not a sale, but a good event! Dispose of your old Computer Monitors, Television sets, PC Systems, Printers, Laptops, Copiers, Scanners, Fax Machines, Toner Cartridges, UPS & PDAs, Power Supplies, Main Frame Units, Networking Equipment, Mother Board Systems, VCR/VCD/DVD Players, Home Entertainment Systems, Landline and [...]

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Just read the W cover story on Rihanna. She’s only 21. Crazy. And what about the ‘Minx Money‘ nails she wore for the Grammys, customized and applied by celeb manicurist Kimmie Kyees? I can’t say much about her music, which has always seemed so young—she mentions this in the W article, that she’s trying to [...]

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Brought to you by the No Cookie Left Behind bakers, this Sunday, January 31 from 2pm-6pm at Scoops Gelato (712 North Heliotrope Drive), indulge and give via Cookies Without Borders: A Bake Sale for Haiti and fill up on matcha ginger scones to chocolate Guinness cake to salted caramel pudding and all the cupcakes you [...]

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Can we just stop for one moment and talk about Tanya Aguiñiga’s rope knot necklaces? Lilliam and I were totally transfixed when we first saw Aguiñiga’s work at Commune’s Community Shop pop up over the holidays—a mix of cool nautical bracelets, textural furniture pieces and colorful textiles that you want to wrap yourself up in, [...]

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Rendering of Casden condo and apartment project from Curbed LA
This Wednesday, January 27 at 6:30pm at 543 North Fairfax Avenue, the Mid City West Community Council Land Use Committee will hold a public meeting regarding the 300-unit Casden Properties project proposed for West 3rd Street and Ogden Drive, where the Ross Dress for Less currently [...]

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groupLA 2008 Project
— Text and photos by Christina von Messling
I was strolling over the LA Art show yesterday, and just wanted to share a few of the things I saw there that I especially liked: First off, there was the groupLA 2008 Project, initiated and directed by photographer Helen K Garber: she asked participating photographers [...]

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For those who, in fact, do want to keep up with the Kardashians, here’s a reality TV show to potentially star in just for you, brought to you by an unnamed “major cable network.” The Good Life is casting right in our neighborhood at Polkadots & Moonbeams at 8381 West 3rd Street this Friday, January [...]

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Images from Opening Ceremony
— Text by Christina von Messling
I was expecting a madhouse when approaching Opening Ceremony on Saturday for the opportunity to view and pre-order Alexander Wang’s spring/summer 2010 collection, with the designer himself being there to chat and shake hands with his loyal fans. But to my surprise it was moderately quiet when [...]

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Style Section LA reports that fash-forward LA brands Unholy Matrimony (designed by Brett Westfall) and Case Study (designed by Amir Gharavi who also owns Anastasia, “a Laguna Beach-based retail temple of avant-garde fashion”) are teaming up to open art/fashion boutique Case Study Unholy Matrimony at 138-140 N. La Brea Avenue, step from American [...]

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First off, we find from Franklin Avenue that Coffee Bean will be giving out free 12-ounce ‘Heritage drinks’ (Cafe Mocha, Sunrise Ice Blended, Berry’d Treasure Ice Blended) today from 4pm-7pm.
And, adding onto what we know so far, we hear from Eater LA that the former Food Court LA space at 8334 West 3rd Street—now [...]

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Get word from a B+S reader that there are three vacant seats—’Arts,’ ‘Renters’ and ‘Medical’—on the Mid-City West Community Council Board. Elections for each of the seats will be held tonight at a public meeting Tuesday, January 12 at 7pm in the main auditorium of the National Council of Jewish Women at 543 [...]

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Champs glasses from Rachel Zoe

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