Grammy Award-winning music producer Randy Jackson has yet another hit on his hands with the 11th season of American Idol. On this month’s grand finale, the show’s only remaining original judge will name yet another winner alongside this season...
It’s melodramatic to say that a love song can change your life. But not for Sara Bareilles, the Venice resident whose jaunty piano anthem, 2007’s “Love Song,” triggered her rapid ascent from relative anonymity to platinum-...
According to Armella Stepan, the power of positive thinking works wonders in the bedroom. (Get your mind out of the gutter!) She means that inspirational words—breathe, relax, soothe, warm, calm—which are woven into her new, luxe, 300-thread-count...
Every Sunday at the W Hollywood Hotel, Brenna Whitaker’s jazz and rock standards are anything but basic. If you come to watch the neon cityscape dissipate into a sea of sepia glamour, you’ll be checking out the show that has drawn...
In many industries, “doing better” can be rather subjective. A chef’s new dish might taste better to some, less so to others. A fashion designer’s new line might dazzle critics, but flame out on the racks. At Ferrari,...
Bowing in the exclusive enclave of Bal Harbour, The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort (stregisbalharbour.com) is the much-buzzed-about new neighbor in South Florida’s well-heeled ’hood. This beacon of...
A BUTTERFLY EMERGES
Inside Southeast Asia’s last closed-off corner
To refer to a destination as a “land of contradictions” is in itself a cliché, one generally reserved for travel guidebooks. But in...
Ho Chi Minh City
Thirty-seven years after the end of the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh City is still evolving. Tradition versus modernity is a battle that wages on in emerging countries all over the world, but in the former...
Ask an actress to define comedy and be ready to hear an Aristotelian discourse, some Woody Allen-esque or Cowardian prose, or even a Shakespearean line of poetry. Ask Anna Faris to describe it, and you’ll get a personal story, one that inadvertently reflects...
Don’t even think about moving away from L.A. to become a fast-tracked CEO. The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business just opened its first-ever L.A.-based satellite executive MBA program in the...
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