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Entertainment Revival

With NBC unsure whether it would invest in another season of the low-rated but beloved high school football drama “Friday Night Lights”, Vice President of entertainment DirecTV– Eric Shanks proposed a strategy to re-ignite the series.
Eric joined Fox Sports in 1994 for the network’s inaugural season of NFL coverage. He also served on production crews [...]

Sonia Rykiel pour H&M

A stylish, spirited collection of lingerie and accessories.
In time for Christmas, Sonia Rykiel unveils a lingerie collection for H&M that embraces her signature chic and modern style. There are luxurious pieces in fluid velvet, silk and satin and separates come in Rykiel’s signature multi-stripes and rhinestones. Accessories such as brooches, hairbands, pillows and slippers complete [...]

Wet Lipped Girl, Gone GaGa?

The New York pop provocateur Lady Gaga will be showcasing her talents at the Grammy’s next month. In the categories of album, record and song. Rarely does a young star shine so bright– but it helps when she is bejeweled head to toe in sequins.
The 23-year-old is know for her elaborate costumes, and heavily themed [...]

Writer/director Michael Hoffman’s film explores the literary legend’s last year at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoys’ estate located 200 miles south of Moscow. Surrounded by his wife, daughter, and several followers of his philosophical and religious movement, Tolstoy struggles to find peace and reason amid a battle over the fate of his life’s work.

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Just For Kicks with The People’s Shoe

I had the pleasure of helping out at The People’s Shoe Just For Kicks charity event at the Los Angeles Mission on a recent Saturday afternoon.
Anton Brandt, founder of The People’s Shoe, put together a tremendously successful day of live music, free food, medical attention, side-walk-chalk-art, haircuts, and of course, free shoes, for the [...]

Or so Rupert Murdoch would have us believe when he cited– ”The future of journalism is more promising than ever, limited only by editors and producers unwilling to fight for their readers and viewers, or government using its heavy hand either to over-regulate or to subsidize.”
Murdoch the CEO of News Corp. and its many subsidiaries was [...]

Clean Air, Blue Walls & Dirty Sex

As the author George F. Burns once said- “I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty”. Although this is not the mantra of Santa Monica’s local authority, it does go some way to explaining the “clean” approach to business.
Santa Monica’s gas powered Big Blue Buses have rolled into their new environmentally [...]

Phillip Novoa debuted his imitable collection in the Spring of two-thousand and nine with 6 looks named Alina, Catherine, Elaine, Marsha, Maria, and Natalia. Constructed with the thoughtful inheritance and grace of contemporary Russia. Each design resembles a woman of great ethereal presence and soul.  Novoa NYC collection is moody in stature but delightful in emotion.
Phillip is an advocate [...]

Apocalypse Now: The Road

The Road begins by splicing together the nightmares of the past with the waking incubus of the present as Viggo Mortensens character leads his malnourished son a journey of survival in a world that has begun to crumble under the strain of a decayed society.

Cormac McCarthy’s pulitzer prize winning novel The Road was adapted for [...]