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Articles in Palmy Days

'Those Damned Stripes!': Frocks for Mrs. Prufrock

In a city where grown women walk around in broad daylight with pink hearts and jaunty little mottoes  read more »

Sandra Tsing Loh Finds a New Home

March was a cruel month for monologists: first the sad Spalding Gray news; then word came that Sandr  read more »

L.A. Mating Cry: IMDb Me!

A 31-year-old male TV writer who lives in Silver Lake was sitting at the crowded, dingy 101 Coffee S  read more »

Fondue and Fabio: Gay Marriage in L.A.

The knowledge that same-sex couples were getting married en masse like so many Moonies up there in g  read more »

Grammy's a Snooze, But Clive Delivers

Of course the Grammys were a crushing disappointment; they always are.  read more »

Zooey at the Zoo: Sundance Report

Meet Zooey Deschanel, reluctant dauphine of the Sundance Film Festival!Ms.  read more »

The Book on Miss Delbanco: Ask Her Anything

"I have a minor phobia about the whole literary scene in New York," said the first-time novelist Fra  read more »

What's That Ringing? Also, J. Lo Gets Down

Angelenos like to get all creative and ostentatious with their cell-phone rings.  read more »

Starlets or Starlings, The Preening Continues …

A year of life in Los Angeles has yielded but a disappointing half-dozen celebrity sightings.  read more »

Hot Lady Chefs of L.A. Offer Up Killer Apps

For years, eating dinner in a restaurant has essentially been a three-act play.  read more »

Top Bargains for N.Y. Women? Try the Loehmann's in L.A. …

Though the discount department store Loehmann's long ago sprawled into chaindom, with 47 stores over  read more »

Is Hollywood's Lit Star Lost Between Didion and Collins?

Los Angeles author Bruce Wagner's new novel, Still Holding , the third in a trilogy that began with  read more »

The Fashionable Factor Boys; House for Sale (Koi Optional)

LOSANGELES-Davis and Dean Factor are the great-grandsons of cosmetics tycoon Max, and far more crisp  read more »