Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

And scene. Borders at 330 South La Cienega Boulevard, just south of Coffee Bean on West 3rd Street, had its last day Saturday. Bummer. We’ll see what’s next for the big space.
» Shuttering Shop News—Borders Closing La Cienega Shop

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Bodhi Tree in the 1970s; Bodhi Tree in the 2000s
LA Weekly’s LA Daily blog brings word that Bodhi Tree Bookstore and spiritual center will be closing “in a year’s time.” Blame the closure on cheap online book prices and now easy access to “Books on Wicca and Astrology and Native American shamanism,” which were [...]

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I happily browsed Assouline’s just-opened West Coast flagship at 8475 Melrose Place yesterday, the signature deep red space meticulously stocked with the publishing house’s collection of fashion, architecture, culture, photography, food and spirits, and vintage books.
What’s even more exciting is that the book purveyor has partnered with Bastide (this is, I believe, the restaurant’s [...]

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I was very psyched a couple weeks ago to receive an advance copy of Eat: Los Angeles 2010, the Eat LA accompaniment and food guide edited by writer and publisher of Prospect Park Books Colleen Dunn Bates, along with a team of writers, journalists and bloggers. Covering 1,300-plus food spots (from restaurants and food [...]

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I finally met Franny, the shop cat at Skylight Books in Los Feliz. She almost looks a little menacing in this photo but she’s so dainty and is definitely open to customer petting. She was perched in the window, just taking in the the sun and love. While the husband and I were browsing, staff [...]

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Photos by Martha Adams; click to expand
— Text by Keri Pina
Celebrating Taschen’s latest release, Los Angeles: Portrait of a City, Fendi and Vanity Fair held an outdoor evening gala to raise money for the Los Angeles Conservancy at the iconic Crossroads of the World. The scene felt very Wes Anderson—affluent guests swelling the courtyard around [...]

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— Text and photos by Lilliam Rivera
On Sunday, I strolled over to the indie bookstore Family to catch Spike Jonze, director of Where the Wild Things Are, give a quick Q&A and sign his great behind-the-scenes book on the movie titled Heads On and We Shoot. At 4:30pm, I was expecting a madhouse but instead [...]

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Kiss My Bundt red velvet bundt, from Squid Ink
Turns out this Sunday, November 15 is National Bundt Day, which would mean nothing to me if I didn’t live in walking distance of Kiss My Bundt, just around the way at 8104 West 3rd Street. In honor of the ode to bundts, owner Chrysta Wilson will [...]

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Holiday pop-up shop Tesoro at 8383 West 3rd Street (the temporary brick and mortar for online shop Tesoro Tweak) opened its door this past Saturday as planned and will be around at least till January 15. Owner and home stylist Tara Riceberg says merch is definitely still incoming, but the shelves are beginning [...]

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If you haven’t noticed the ‘for lease’ sign on the Borders at 330 South La Cienega Boulevard, just south of West 3rd, here it is. A B+S reader pointed it out to me; it’s likely I’d walked beneath it a number of times without seeing it. So, what’s the deal? A staffer told me the [...]

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A snaking line finally let to Scott Schuman at the Beverly Center’s outside terrace; click to expand images
Let me preface this by saying, I’m glad I took the short walk over to the Beverly Center, put down my $25 at Traffic to buy the book (the supply was dwindling), and made my way to the [...]

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Lilliam Rivera and Scott Schuman; click to expand images
Turns out Scott Schuman’s book signing at Barneys Beverly Hills last night was incredibly mellow—the first of two events of the night for his photographic street style tome The Sartorialist (selections from his blog of the same name in paperback form with commentary), with a Beverly Center [...]

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