Time for that annual stocking up on low-priced designer goods! Clean out your closets today so you can fill it up with new stuff from Barneys New York Warehouse Sale tomorrow. Enjoy 50-75% discounts off the original prices of designer clothing, shoes and accessories for the mens and the womens. Prada shoes, Diane Von Fursternberg…
Category Archives: Los Angeles
Liquid Kitty: Heartbreak and Cocktails Revisited
I can’t remember the last time I went to Liquid Kitty in West L.A. For me, it was a place of heartbreak and crying into my potent cocktails, that very dark and loud bar. Back during that time when a cosmopolitan was called a martini. The Kitty has been there for so many years that…
All You Wanted To Know About My Blogiversary at Bar Lubitsch Tomorrow
All right, so the free booze (Martin Miller’s Gin and Partida Tequila) has been confirmed, Leyna’s Kitchen cupcakes are being baked and the DJ is booked. Blogiversary party, here we come! Woo hoo! All I need to do now is get my hair did and amass the four guest lists I have out there. So…
Wokcano Santa Monica Grand Opening Party
Wokcano in Santa Monica (the fifth L.A. Wokcano restaurant) celebrated it’s grand opening with a huge party of complimentary specialty cocktails and passed appetizers. And of course we were there to check out the scene. Free drinks! Woo hoo! The new restaurant, located in the space formerly occupied by Akwa, is huge with two and…
Blogiversary Giveaway #5: La Bijou Belle Vintage Pendant Necklace
My talented friend Jeannine Denholm, who happens to have her own jewelry line, gave me a lovely hand-made vintage-esque piece to bestow on one lucky and fashionable crackhead during my blogiversary party. Whose ever lucky number (I’m going with tickets after all) I pull out of the hat will get this vintage white cameo wrapped…
My New Flirty Girly Lashes: Eyelash Extensions From Allen Pacheco
I decided to take the plunge into girldom by acquiring a set of eyelash extensions. “But that’s so 2005!” you’re probably saying. And I’d beg to differ. Actually I did already try them a couple of years ago with a friend’s longtime facialist who only charged $90 for a full set and did the procedure…
L.A. BBQ Festival: Vegetarians, Steer Clear of Santa Monica
When I went to the Big Apple BBQ Festival in New York last year, I wished and wished with all my might that we had something like that in Los Angeles. Fortunately, Dan Silberstein of CozmoDeck and DrinkEatPlay was thinking the same exact thing and was able to actually do something about it since putting…
Blogiversary Giveaway #3 and #4: Gift Certificates for Citizen Smith and La Cantina
The uber generous folks at La Cantina and Citizen Smith have given me awesome gift certificates to give away at my blogiversary party. That one lucky crackhead whose name I pull out of the hat during the shindig at Bar Lubitsch will get a gift certificate for Hollywood’s La Cantina, The Hills’ girls’ fave Mexican…
This Weekend: Eat, Drink and Fly for Less — If That's What You're Into
Sucks that rent day coincides with all these sales going on. Friday, August 1 Virgin Airways Airfare Sale They’re at it again with the uber cheap airfare: $79 one way to Seattle, $139 to NYC. In light of crazy-high gas prices, this is quite the deal. But book your flights before August 7 cuz that’s…
Reminder: My Blogiversary at Bar Lubitsch
I can’t believe it’s less than a week til my big blogiversary party. Free booze for two hours generously provided by the fine folks at Martin Miller’s Gin and Partida Tequila. Damian Windsor, my fave bartender from Gordon Ramsay at The London, created a special cocktail menu for the occasion which the Bar Lubitsch bartenders…
