Dear Readers: It's this baby's first Christmas. We're delighted you've joined us; hope you've enjoyed what you've read; and look forward to more in ‘08. Our New Year's resolution is to become your daily resource for LA lifestyle, events and talk. We welcome your comments and feedback and we're giddy as kids on Christmas morning (yes, and Hannukah nights) when you share our links with friends. We wish you stressless shopping, warmest wishes and for now

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It’s been an awfully long time since transcendent American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola last left his Northern California vineyards and stepped behind the camera for a feature film. So long, in fact, that Bill Clinton had just started his second term in office and the holier-than-thou members of the Academy voted The English Patient as the Best Picture of the year. Disastrous combinations of debt and industry disillusionment caused this decade-long hiatus, but give Coppola a lot of credit

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Nothing to see here folks, keep your eye on the ocean. If you would have asked me where to eat in legendary Hollywood you'd have found me double fisting flares directing you west, west, west. A sad feeling, really. Unpatriotic, unproud. Pit stop at Joan's on Third, and westward ho. Keeps your arms and hands inside the vehicle.It is this lackluster redirect that has me downright giddy over Magnolia. Yes, the Magnolia that's about to celebrate it's two year anniversary. And

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This is the time of year when holiday cheer is contagious. It is a time of excitement, where everything seems to be illuminated. The lighting of candles for Chanukah, the Christmas lights twinkling all over town, and the entire world's a glow. Holiday parties, wearing sparkly clothes are de rigueur. This is the time you want to ‘look your best'. Like Madonna, you will be seen and in the scene. Everybody knows a ‘ great facial and some mistletoe' will make your holiday

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A couple weeks ago, I saw a trailer for Rambo.  That same week I rented Live Free or Die Hard.  And just now I read on Ain't It Cool News that Christian Bale is rumored to play John Conner in the next movie installment of The Terminator.  I'm not even going to admit my giddiness for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  While it's great to see the return of great action movies, who will pick up the baton as the next great action hero?  Not Stallone, Willis, or

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With Christmas a week away, there is a wintry land situated in the middle of Hollywood Blvd celebrating the spirit of the holiday season. Winter Wonderland runs every year during the month of December, and is a haven for families; particularly small children wishing to meet Santa Claus. Incepted in 1983, L. Ron Hubbard donated a 60-foot Christmas tree to represent his message, “On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.” In a city known for its anti-family

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Cheap sex? Holiday shopping? What brews raw, ribald and seemingly misplaced in the Art & Design section? Where are the aesthetics? Well, novelist and pacifist Christian anarchist Mr. Leo Tolstoy somehow found the time while scything through War and Peace to muse on this. In his essays "What is Art?" the crusty old Socialist offered that a ‘good' painting should include a few gleaners - you know, work by ‘Real People' who toil the land - backs bent with ‘honest

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You know what, Men's Health? You can kiss my ass! How dare you peel back the caloric curtain once a year and demolish my ignorantly blissful thoughts about what I’ve been consuming? Why create a list of the 20 Worst Foods in America? Is it simply to crush dreams and ruin lives? How do you sleep at night? And, as if your behavior wasn’t bad enough, now you’re talking smack about my culinary boyfriend, the Chipotle Chicken Burrito? That’s it! The gloves are coming off! Because no one bad

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