Bite of The Day: Pumped Up

May 13, 2008
Ara Shanlian Jr.

Your Own Personal Ethanol Station
Once you attain a certain stature in life, there are two things that no longer make sense—cheap liquor and expensive gas stations.
So there’s obvious appeal to the idea that you could turn cheap liquor into cheap gas in the time it takes you to down […]

Sophisticated Palate

May 14, 2008
Ara Shanlian Jr.

Wining and Dining, Mostly Wining

Your quest to enjoy good wine in under-explored locales has taken you from hideaways in Napa to parking garages in Beverly Hills.
But this may be your most unexpected stop yet: Glendale, where the city’s finest seven level wine storage facility unveils a sprawling […]

Bite of the Day: Best When Crumpled

Shirt Thing
Steven Alan Invades Robertson Boulevard

As a protector of our fair city, you consider it your duty to monitor the formation of all new empires.
So look alive as the new Steven Alan shop quietly invades Robertson Boulevard, the first of three L.A. outposts set to open in 2008.
You’ve likely seen […]

Bite of the Day: Faux Parc?

Branching Out
Hollywood’s Starlit Nightspot
 

Among the few concepts you’ve never truly understood: “Too much of a good thing.” Central, the equally decadent sister lounge to your […]

Wiki-Bite of the Day: White Japanese Lips

Ganguro , Gan is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women which peaked in popularity around the year 2000, but remains evident today. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo are the center of ganguro fashion.
Yamanba
 

Yamanba
Yamanba is a newer term often used to describe extreme practitioners of ganguro fashion. Yamanba feature darker tans […]

Bite of the Day: The “Pop Up” Store

Yester Gear
Sartorial Finds from Decades Past
 

Sinatra. Dean. Bond. Your […]

Mucho Besos for Mama Beso

Mama Beso
Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster Debut

We have all heard this story […]

Bite of the Day: Supper Gets A New Look @ Foxtails

Foxtails Whisper
New Supper Club in West Hollywood […]

Bite of the Day: Dressing On Front St.

Missing the Signs
Secret Store Under Sunset Boulevard
Occasionally, your quest for original attire takes you to some pretty strange places. Like a secret, signless store cloaked in the dark shadow of a dingy over is where you’ll find Front St., the just-opened shop from burgeoning label Endovanera.
Pronounced “end of an era”—so subversive, these fashion people—the line […]