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Bravo, Gustavo
The One finally arrived in Los Angeles. After a months-long build-up, 28-year-old Venezuelan conducting sensation Gustavo Dudamel gave his first performance as the new musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Saturday night. I...
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- Los Angeles
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Whatever you do, don't ask her to bake a cupcake
Since 2004, Valerie Gordon has set a benchmark for the sweet life in Los Angeles with her very refined—and undeniably expensive—chocolates, caramels and petits fours. Think of them as Power Desserts: the $250 "Grand Tower"...
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- Los Angeles
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The Persian Conquest
Three decades ago, in the wake of the Islamic Revolution, entire
neighborhoods of Tehran’s moneyed Jewish community fled to Los Angeles.
Now, having amassed American-style fortunes and political clout, the
Persians of Beverly Hills are living the ultimate California dream.
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- Los Angeles,
- Sam Nazarian
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The Power Couple Behind L.A.'s Most Exclusive Schools
As the gatekeepers of Harvard-Westlake and Center for Early Education, Tom and Deedie Hudnut inspire awe and fear, even among the city's biggest big-wigs.
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- Hudnut,
- schools,
- Los Angeles
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Fresh advice: Eavesdropping at MOCA's auction preview
Everybody in the LA art world knows about the Museum of Contemporary Art's recent financial turmoil: the museum overspent its budget for the past few years until last fall it finally arrived at the brink...
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- Los Angeles,
- auction
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A Tale of Two Spas
On a recent trip to Southern California, I checked out two spas, one a hip, brand-spanking new spa, the other, a time-tested, Old-world style getaway. And I can't lie: at both places I had the...
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- Los Angeles,
- Spas,
- w staffers
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Four-Wheel Art Appreciation
Andy Warhol's painted car.A year ago, I walked into a black-tie party at the new Renzo Piano-designed entrance pavilion at the Los Angles County Museum of Art and thought to myself: this place looks exactly...
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- Andy Warhol,
- Los Angeles,
- Olafur Eliasson,
- Robert Rauschenberg
