It's Your Patriotic Duty: Celebrate Repeal Day December 5th

~ “What America needs now is a drink.” ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt While the quote above may be more appropriate than ever, FDR said those words back in 1933, after 13 years of Prohibition were finally ended. From repealday.org: “On December 5th, 1933, Utah, the final state needed for a three quarters majority, ratified…

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Sipping the Summer During Sunday Supper

Sunday Suppers at Lucques have become an L.A. dining institution, a guaranteed splendid evening at any time of the year. This past Sunday, to kill some time while waiting for another Comme Ca Block Party to begin, I stopped by Lucques, not knowing it happened to be the 9th Annual All-American Rib Fest. (Lucques staff…

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The Strip Heats Up: Summer Cocktails at RH

~ Photos by Lena Watanabe Take the former “Riot Hyatt” on Sunset, throw in a $48M renovation by the New York firm Janson Goldstein, add the Hindi word for “personal service,” and what do you get? Why, the Andaz West Hollywood, of course. The bar at RH, the hotel’s signature restaurant, had been on my…

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