Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

Jay is not going away, from WSJ
— NBC Puts ‘Jay Leno’ Back Into Old Slot / WSJ
— Minorities Now the Majority in Cali for 18 and Under / LAist
— Prop. 8 trial to include unprecedented testimony / LAT
— Opening Ceremony And Levi’s To Collaborate / The Pipeline
— A native sensibility to Autry exhibition / LAT
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Blackberry and Monocle collab phone, from Josh Spear
— Local in Silver Lake is temporarily shuttered / Eater LA
— LA tween boutique Fashionologie closes / WWD
— More on Anzevino + Florence’s history, closing on West 3rd / CAN; previously
— Gwyneth Paltrow Will Never Answer for Her E-Crimes / Gawker
— Vintage Casey Johnson, unearthed / W Editors’ Blog
— Marijuana’s [...]

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Year in pictures from The Hundreds
— Mexico City moves to legalize same-sex marriage / LAT
— Kicks Sole Provider is closing Silver Lake location / Racked LA
— LAT hires another TV editor / LA Observed
— Small-business bankruptcies rise 81% in Cali / LAT
— It’s windy / LAT
— Gawker Losing West Coast Editor Richard Rushfield / Fishbowl LA
— Lovely [...]

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— Clare Vivier does a clutch for Target’s ‘Red Hot Shop’ launching Jan 1! / See Vivier
— Kiki de Montparnasse pop up at Mondrian Hotel / All the Rage
— The 11 Sexiest Editorials From 2009 / Refinery 29
— LAT’s Lakers Blog Loses Blogging Brothers to ESPNLA.com / Fishbowl LA
— LAX flight schedule back to normal [...]

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Wow! Love! Annie Costello Brown for YSL Edition 24, from Seen
— Win a trip from LA to Sydney via V Australia! / V Australia
— On the LAT online redesign / LA Observed
— Even Laguna Beach isn’t recession-proof / LAT
— Barneys warehouse sale at LA Convention Center has started / Racked LA
— Patrick Robinson Thinks Kanye [...]

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Thanks to writer extraordinaire Emili Vesilind for including B+S in her recent LA Times story, ‘Fashion world turns to bloggers to get the word out,’ an interesting read about the LA online landscape, which includes some of my favorite peeps (DailyCandy’s Crystal Meers and Society for Rational Dress designer Corinne Grassini, I’m looking at [...]

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The LAT neighborhood map of ‘Fairfax’; click to expand
The LAT unveiled its map of 87 neighborhoods today at www.latimes.com/mappingla and there’s already much discussion about inaccuracies in the story the paper published today to accompany the launch. The message being that the LAT doesn’t think it’s perfect, knows it can’t please everyone and is [...]

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