This past week, my dear friend Bob and I went to Griffith Park in search of a little bit of holiday magic in the hillsides. We were looking for bright …
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A strobe of light dances off trees in the Santa Barbara mountains as the Egyptian Lover takes the decks. It’s the weekend before Halloween, high time for the freaks to …
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Many will laugh now, but in 2009, learning to pindrop was a young Angeleno’s rite of passage. Equipped with only an iPod, wired earphones through your crew neck and the …
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Where to order takeout in Los Angeles for Christmas Eve and Christmas
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThis Christmas Eve, slide into one of the wooden booths at chef-owner Keith Corbin’s sunlit restaurant in West Adams or order the restaurant’s signature California soul plates to complete your …
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We’re in the thick of the holiday shopping season, and U.S. residents are expected to shatter the spending record again this year. The National Retail Federation forecasts that 2025 will …
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Hollywood’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern’ gets it right
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWhen I first started playing “Dungeons & Dragons” as a tween, my friends christened me with a new good-natured nickname: gamer geek. While we could spend hours in front of …
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In the context of beverage pros, you might consider Jason Lee something of a spiritual counselor. He works with restaurants where the culinary viewpoints are exceptionally strong — Baroo, Pijja …
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I called it a piece of junk. But it was a Frank Gehry L.A. masterpiece
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe early 1980s Los Angeles of my childhood always felt like a place where you could brush against greatness and not even recognize it. Take the strange, faceless building at …
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I tried PRP and exosomes for sudden hair loss — here’s what happened
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesI’m standing outside my shower and I don’t want to go in. I’m not tired or in a rush, simply avoiding the reckoning of how much hair I’ll lose this …
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Vaginal Davis on growing up in L.A. and her MoMA PS1 exhibition
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesVaginal Creme Davis has long been a star. “I’ve always thought of myself as a success,” she said during a recent Zoom call, “a messy success.” A statuesque femme, way …