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L.A. Intel: The Secret VIP Guides Disneyland doesn’t want you to know about

Trufflers, you don’t need to be 5 years old to plan a group trip to Disneyland! All you need are good-looking friends who won’t mess up your pictures and a little advice from us. Last week, a group of us more »

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LA Intel: Graffiti culture

If you are a true LA native and grew up here in the 80s or 90s, at some point you had a tag name, sagging pants and a can of spray paint. Pic – Harvard-Westlake-r behind American Rag on La more »

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LA Vocab: Carmageddon

How to speak Los Angeles: Carmageddon Carmageddon  is a fake problem perpetuated by the media and dumbbells living in L.A. Carmageddon is actually LA’s only free pass to exclude the mass influx of weekenders who come to shop, see and party. Streets more »

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L.A. Intel: How We Do the 4th in the Malibu Colony

For years, one of our neighbor in the Malibu Colony and former chairman of Univision, Jerry Perenchio, graciously hired major fireworks company Pyro Spectaculars to create one of the best offshore fireworks show in the world (and spent over $60,000 to more »

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L.A. Intel: How the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Movie Premieres Work at Disneyland

If you go to one premiere in your lifetime, let it be a Pirates premiere – these are the most epic premieres in existence and scoring a ticket can be hard if you are not in the ABC/Disney family. Basically, more »

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L.A. Vocab (No. #3): The Beverly Center

We all remember, regardless of age, when Clueless came out and everyone ran to Contempo Casuals and Rampage for all the new trends at cheap prices.  Well unfortunately, the Beverly Center has been in a slow decline to it’s death more »

LA Intel: Paparazzi


This is what it looks like when Kelly Osbourne leaves InterMix on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles.

If you are from L.A., you’ve become quite good at casually side-stepping a stamped of paparazzi backing down the street at lightning speed, while your out-of-town guest might become a causality of war. Either way, beware the paps on Robertson! As one of L.A.’s most notorious celeb stomping ground, they are even more dangerous here, and will trample you and anything in their way and spit it out destroyed – be it cones, parked cars, human beings or babies.  Continue reading


3: Rite Aid

If you have ever lived in Beverly Hills, you know that one basically lives there but dreads going there bc u will see 10 people from your life that u don’t want to want to see.

It’s quite the after-dinner spot for counter ice cream and it’s not uncommon to see Jessica Alba in black tie coming from a post premiere party just for the beloved late night snack.

For BH kids who grew up on the ice cream, they also grew up on the Rite Aid lines, a tradition founded by the lackadaisical management of Thrifty’s. Since we were 5 they haven’t figured out how to deal with the check out counters.

Locals still call it Thrifty.

Persian kids from Beverly hang out in the parking lot. As does the token homeless man.

Few dare venture to the underground parking — #terrifying.

Sometimes you are charged for parking, sometimes you are not.

What’s with all those people camped out at the blood pressure machine in back?

We really shouldn’t but everybody goes. And we will keep doing it. Because we have no choice.

Fact: Rite Aid won’t sell shaving cream in October.

Meander through the isles, check out cars in the parking lot, get some ice creme, and wait for your medications to to come up.

If you loose your friends, simple stand in from of this mirror.

Uh, by the way, this mirror was specifically installed to keep the kids from stealing markers and spray paint.

This is the shopping cart Rite Aid wants me to use.

 


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L.A. Intel: So, What Does the “Pink Card” Get You at the Beverly Hills hotel??

Last Thursday, my dad received his yearly summer-time present the Beverly Hills Hotel; gorgeous pink and green BH hotel towels from the pool. We also get salad bowls, filled with ‘McCarthy Salad’ in the actual bowl, twice a year. (Any good Beverly Hills native exactly what more »

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LA Intel: RIP Beverly Hills Hotel Tennis Courts (boo, Sultan of Brunei)

Is there anyone reading this with a 90210 zip code who hasn’t taken a lesson or made out on one of these two courts at some point in their lives? After a few too many in the Polo Lounge, who hasnt more »

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Awards Season: Paparazzi at The Ivy on Robertson during Oscar Weekend

  Oh how I looooove the Oscars! L.A. becomes a madhouse! Limos and armored SUVs fill every major Boulevard from Sunset to the beaches. Every hotel is sold out (Chateau gets sold out first, obvi). Every restaurant is impossible. There more »

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Personal Notes From The Annual Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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LA Real Estate: ‘Clueless Landmarks in L.A. – Remembering Brittany Murphy

Do any of these places look familiar to you?

LA Moment: My friends keep their own meat at restaurants


Last night I met Tyson Park at Robata-Ya on Sawtelle with his sister Kim and Saran Barnun. Everything was going great til Kim said something to the chef that made me spit out my miso … “can you use the meat we ‘brought’ last week?” Continue reading


Will We See David Faustino’s BALISTYX Reunion Party Soon? A Facebook Convo May Fan the Flames …

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