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Randy’s L.A.
| May 15, 2012

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...

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A Modern Fairy Tale
Jeff Weiss | May 11, 2012

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-...

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Sleep Talking
Lesley Balla | May 4, 2012

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...

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The Old Soul
Jeff Weiss | April 27, 2012

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...

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Dancing With Horses
Nate Chapnick | April 24, 2012

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,...

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Luxury, Reinvented
Paul Rubio | April 20, 2012

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...

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Burmese Days
Heidi Mitchell | April 20, 2012

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...

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A Tale of Two Asias
Luis R. Rigual | April 20, 2012

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...

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Funny Girl
Andrew Myers | April 20, 2012

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...

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How to Succeed in Business
Erin Weinger | April 20, 2012

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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