Top 5: Summer Essentials
The official start of summer is mere days away, are you ready? We know it’s been hard to nail down the seasonal spirit when mother nature had us reaching for an iced coffee one day and a wool blanket the … Read More
Oh, Betty!
Boop dupes and double trouble from twin directors Jen and Sylvia Soska. The must-see horror film of the summer, “American Mary” is an indie film from the Vancouver-based Goth team known as the Soska Sisters. But if there’s only one … Read More
Father’s Day in L.A.?
Shop for your groovy pop at this trio of ‘heritage’-leaning specialty menswear spots. 1. Mohawk General Store: The totally-awesome Silverlake haberdasher just opened Mohawk Man, and it’s just the kind of place that sartorial sons and fathers can bond on, … Read More
Double Shot
June brings a film and a book that will make you want to get hammered (responsibly). 1. “Hey Bartender”: An intoxicating documentary, which opens this week, featuring famous bartenders and drinkers talking the advent of the “crafts cocktail” movement. Hey, … Read More
Red Alert!
‘Trekkies,’ this one’s for you… Drink (like the fan-boy you are) to the success of the latest ‘Star Trek’ installment. Although here at Room 100 we think that we’ll just get the Mr. Spock vintage for the label and hide … Read More
Totally Tonalist
Thompson Beverly Hills opens new art show by Pamela Sztybel From June 20th through June 27th, the works of Pamela Sztybel will debut in a pop-up solo exhibition at Thompson Beverly Hills (9360 Wilshire Blvd.), sponsored by The Committee, the … Read More
Gentlemanly Summer Style
From JFK to (vintage) Jimmy Buffett, some breezy-classic looks, courtesy of some of our fave style icons, to take cues from when putting yourself not-so-effortlessly together during the hottest of months. We’re talking about Ernest and Errol, who never seemed … Read More
Release of the Week
Steve Martin teams with Edie Brickell for haunting banjo-fiddle outing, ‘Love Has Come for You.’ Wild-and-crazy-guy Steve Martin ramps up his game yet again on this new CD, which feels both modern and mountain. Former “New Bohemian” Edie Brickell’s lilting … Read More
Buzz Du Jour
Two new Manhattan bistros do the quiet opening thing; two other culinary classics near-biting the dust. We have high hopes for Matt Abramcyk and Serge Becker’s MaisonO, a new Japanese-style restaurant and downstairs karaoke bar in the old Kenmare space … Read More
Don’t Call Them the Three Stooges….
After all, they got their ‘stipple’ drawings in The Wall Street Journal. We just had to pick up from Gawker these portraits of three luminaries of modern culture, all of which ran in The Wall Street Journal rendered as those … Read More
C’mon in, the Water’s Fine!
Just in time for trashy summer ogling, ‘In the Spirit of the Hamptons,’ through the view of a ‘housewife.’ Go ahead, and mock us for suggesting this, but we really don’t mind its author, Kelly Bensimon, of “Housewives of New … Read More
‘Hey Bartender,’ Over Heah!
New documentary flips the shaker on the ‘craft’ cocktail movement. In the boozy-new documentary, “Hey Bartender: The Story of the Bartender in the Era of the Craft Cocktail,” famous drinkers, from both sides of the bar, saddle up to chat … Read More
Bonnaroo, who? The Treasure Island Music Festival is the Next Big-Little Thing
A bounty of awesome altie bands hitting the Bay stages–pre-plan accordingly. In its seventh year, San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival, held at the Bill Graham Civic, has a great line-up this fall, including Atoms For Peace, Beck, Animal Collective, … Read More
Top 5: 1920s Hollywood Glamour
Baz Luhrmann’s 3D extravaganza’d Great Gatsby premiered this month and has left us with more than a bit of nostalgia for days gone by. In honor of Hollywood Roosevelt being named one of the top ten Gatsby-esque hotels we’ve rounded … Read More
‘Make Me Your Makebish’
He dares you: For all the world’s a hand-held mirror, and all the men and women merely arrivistes–like cicadas–in the life-challenging canvas of gallerist Peter Makebish. Sit for him (clothing optional)… “The tree sloth. Where…in…Madagascar…is that TREE SLOTH? And those tranny hula … Read More
