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☆ She Wrote the First Great Perimenopause Novel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Marie Solis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was not exactly urgent to get the rug, but the larger question the rug had to answer was urgent enough. She had recently moved out of the large home she shared with her husband and child in Silver Lake and into a small two-bedroom house behind her writing studio in Echo Park. We were just getting acquainted as she carefully merged on and off a series of highways in her blue Toyota Prius. There was going to be traffic — of course there would be traffic — and it began to dawn on us that this was going to be a long drive. In such close quarters, Ms. July suggested we might define the terms of our relationship more clearly.

Persons: Miranda Organizations: Facebook, Toyota, Irvine Locations: Irvine, Calif, Silver Lake, Echo

☆ In Los Angeles, a Hilltop Garden Party With a Tower of Crudités
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Jean Trinh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Southern California’s infamous Santa Ana winds were barreling through Los Angeles as Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson prepared to host a garden party to celebrate the May 7 release of their first cookbook, “Kismet.” But as seasoned chefs and restaurant owners — they opened their Middle Eastern-inflected East Hollywood restaurant, also called Kismet, in 2017 after bonding in the kitchen at Brooklyn’s Glasserie over a decade ago — the two women have plenty of practice keeping cool in stressful situations. “We were like, ‘It’s going to die down, it’s going to die down,’” said Hymanson, 37, of the gale. “And if it doesn’t, then we’ll figure it out.”Indeed, just before 5:30 p.m., when guests were set to arrive at the Echo Park hilltop home that Kramer, 38, shares with her partner, the comedian Emil DeRosa, 34, and their goldendoodle, Kevin, the gusts subsided and the gray skies gave way to a golden sunset. Suddenly, the garden — which features a winding pathway scented by jasmine bushes and herbs that leads down to a grove of loquat, fig and Blenheim apricot trees — felt like an ideal place for a celebration. Chase Valencia, 40, who co-owns Lasita, a modern Filipino restaurant in the city’s Chinatown, took in the setting, admitting, “I came to this dinner because I really wanted to check out her house!”

Persons: Sara Kramer, Sarah Hymanson, It’s, ’ ”, Hymanson, Kramer, Emil DeRosa, Kevin, Chase Valencia, “ Organizations: Southern, Hollywood Locations: Santa, Los Angeles, Echo

☆ A vegan restaurant is switching to serving meat, saying plant-based eating isn't enough to save the planet
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The restaurant will instead support regenerative farming practices — a move condemned by PETA. AdvertisementThe chef of a Los Angeles vegan restaurant announced that her restaurant is rebranding and transitioning to serving meat, dairy, and eggs. Renamed the Sage Regenerative Kitchen & Brewery, the restaurant will instead focus on supporting regenerative farming practices, Engelhart said in an Instagram video. AdvertisementEngelhart told the LA Times that she was being "vulnerable" in announcing the move, and that she had braced herself for the "vitriol" to come. She also told the LA Times that financial considerations influenced her decision, with the newspaper reporting that the restaurants had not been profitable since 2020.

Persons: —, Mollie Engelhart, Engelhart, William H, Schlesinger, pushback, Jayde Nicole, Hannah Weseloh, Englehart Organizations: PETA, Service, Brewery, Los Angeles Times, LA Times, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Locations: Los Angeles, Echo Park, Culver City, Pasadena, LA

☆ The seemingly AI-generated ads for 'Civil War,' A24's most expensive film, are laughable — especially if you're from Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

One image appears to show soldiers in a boat somewhere near Los Angeles pointing their guns at a giant swan. "These are AI images inspired by the movie," the source told the outlet. Promotion for the horror-comedy "Late Night with the Devil" has been bogged down by complaints that the filmmakers used AI. AdvertisementMarketing for "Civil War" has been controversial even beyond the use of AI, with some people criticizing it as misleading. The images A24 posted do not do that feeling — or the movie they're supposed to be promoting — justice.

Persons: —, Wilco, Cmon, zQSEUj9ecd — Alex Pope Organizations: Service, Business, Hollywood Reporter, Miami Locations: North America, America, Chicago, Marina City, York, Los Angeles, Echo, New York

☆ From a Floating Home in Portland to a Hilly Perch in Los Angeles. Which House Was Right?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And they missed their two adult children, who lived nearly 1,000 miles away, in Los Angeles. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]“It was a little bit terrifying, especially seeing things close in a few days for $100,000 or $200,000 more” than the asking price, said Ms. Banker, 70. But earlier this year, when a friend expressed interest in the floating house, the Bankers took it as a sign and decided to sell. After the parties reached an agreement for the house and the slip on the river, settling at $737,000, the Los Angeles hunt kicked into high gear. “When you think of Los Angeles, most people think, ‘Oh, highways and traffic,’ but it has these darling neighborhoods,” Ms. Banker said.

Persons: Dawn, Gary Banker, Hayden, ”, Banker, Ms, —, Maura Barraza, Barraza Organizations: Bankers, Pinnacle Estate Locations: Portland ,, Columbia, Los Angeles, Echo, Los, Portland

☆ What Your Mustache Says About You
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Shira Telushkin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

About six months ago, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, a screenwriter in Los Angeles, was shaving his beard when he reached the region between his nose and his upper lip and thought, What if I just stopped? “I was self-conscious, at first, because I hadn’t ever worn just a mustache,” he said. The mustache, capable of evoking everything from rugged masculinity to whimsical irony to earnest fatherly cheer, is enjoying one of its periodic renaissances. “I’ll be on the subway sometime, and I’ll look around and five other people in a 10-foot radius will have mustaches,” said Jimmy Brewer, 27, an actor in New York, who grew out his mustache while on vacation seven months ago. “I’ve always admired them on other people because it looks like people that wear them are more confident in themselves,” he said.

Persons: Micah Fitzerman, ”, “, “ I’ll, Jimmy Brewer, “ I’ve Locations: Los Angeles, Echo, New York

☆ A blogger who started off posting photos of LA's high-design homes on Instagram became a real-estate agent who turned his 99,000 followers into $200 million in sales last year
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He started a design-focused Instagram account, Take Sunset, that has almost 100,000 followers. Now he runs a team of agents named after the account that closed $200 million in deals in 2022. The couple still live in the house Kallick helped them purchase. He said the Instagram account still generates multiple leads — sometimes even from celebrities. Prospective buyers might reach out thinking they only want to see midcentury homes.

☆ $1.9 Million Homes in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The property is in Echo Park, a few blocks from a bustling stretch of Sunset Boulevard with nightclubs, coffee shops and vintage clothing boutiques. Echo Park Lake, where swan-shaped paddle boats can be rented by the hour, is less than a mile away. To the right is a sunny, windowed dining room that connects to a kitchen with wood cabinetry and stainless steel appliances. The kitchen is open to a spacious living room with glass doors that open to a wood deck. This space also has access to a laundry room and a powder room.

☆ Line Dancing Toward Euphoria
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Paul Mcadory | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On the night of April 17, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, many of them queer, packed into Georgia Room, a Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired nightclub at the Freehand Hotel in Manhattan. They were there to drink and dance, but they hadn’t paid $25 each to grind or freestyle. More than 300 people — some in cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats and biceps-exposing denim vests — turned out for the sold-out event. The evening’s draw was Stud Country, a queer line-dancing and two-step class and party that usually takes place in Los Angeles. There, the event draws regulars and curious newcomers every Monday and Thursday to Club Bahia, a Latin joint in Echo Park.

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