For the second month in a row, you’ve got to make the trip to Ventura, because the Rubicon Theatre has done it again! In February it was Tom Dugan as “Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal," and this month it’s a rambunctious, glorious-voiced cast of 23 singing and dancing in “Hello! My Baby.
I first met Christine Haynes, a Los Angeles-based fashion designer, when I took a sewing class from her. Haynes regularly teaches garment construction here in Santa Monica, and she’s an amazing teacher with an infectious laugh.
Tomorrow I turn the big 3-0, and this birthday has me thinking about how society deems certain fashion cut-off points. The big 3-0 is the biggest fashion cut-off point of all.
Blue jean baby Elizabeth Bae was raised by parents who both worked in the denim industry, so it’s of little surprise that she grew up to become the chief designer of Denim of Virtue, a luxury jeans brand.
An entire runway collection begins with a single pillowcase. Last week, I took an intro to sewing class, along with five other women, at the Urban Craft Center on Main Street.
School starts next week, and as a middle school teacher, I feel almost the same pressure to put together a back to school look as I did when I was a student.
The 1980s are back. There’s just no way around it. The tried and true advice is: If you wore a trend the first time it was in fashion, don’t wear it when it rears its ugly head and padded shoulders the next time.
sum*mer*ize: (verb) -rized, -rizing. To pare down to warm weather essentials <summerize your wardrobe> –sum’me*ri*za’tion (noun) “This gold looks fake, you know?” the Japanese-American woman in front of me, in line for the H&M dressing rooms, tells her friend.
Tiffany & Co. has come out with a collection of vintage-inspired, key charm necklaces. The keys are gold, silver, and platinum, with heads shaped like ovals, squares, trefoils, quatrefoils, and hearts.
In Santa Monica, the price of having your hair colored professionally can run anywhere from $55 for a root touch-up at Ocean Park Boulevard’s The Cut, to more than $220 for a full head of highlights with a blow dry at 10th Street’s Auburn.
The Urban Craft Center — hereafter referred to as the UCC — is hidden away in Edgemar, the Frank-Gehry-designed complex on Main Street. You would never know it was there unless you happened to get a cup of coffee at Peet’s, and strolled back to the patio to sit and read.
During Dehli’s Fashion Week last month, two of the child stars from “Slumdog Millionaire” (best picture of 2008) walked the runway. At the time, Rubina Ali (Latika) and Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail (Salim) were still living in the Mumbai slum where they were discovered by casting agents.
