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By MICHELLE WOO
It's customary for beautiful women in Hollywood to feel the need to prove how little they have done to become beautiful. They deny... More >>
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By CHARLES LAM
It's Sunday night, and the Lake Forest Buffalo Wild Wings is packed with people who are barely old enough to drink. Their eyes, many of them... More >>
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By JOSH DULANEY
Deep in an industrial complex on Costa Mesa's west side, small-business owners open warehouse doors, deliverymen hustle and workers bang away on... More >>
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By JOSH DULANEY
Todd Marinovich's first work of art was inspired by a movie his mother took him to when he was 6 years old: Jaws. When his kindergarten teacher... More >>
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By JOEL BEERS
It's not uncommon to see the name Shakespeare pop up on the schedules of many a theater during the summer. The epic scope and huge casts involved... More >>
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By MICHELLE WOO
I know, I know. Exercising is hard. Especially when it's not fun. And how can it be when you've been stuck on that elliptical machine for the... More >>
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As told to JOSH DULANEY
APPROACHING CELEBRITIES"I think it's totally cool when somebody comes up and expresses that you have affected them in any way. I get 'I lost... More >>
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By JOEL BEERS
This may be the first time in recorded history that the movie The Avengers and the play Frost/Nixon get double-billing in a sentence, but just as... More >>
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By MICHELLE WOO
I remember the first time I wore a Betsey Johnson ensemble. I was looking for a dress for a college formal, and when I walked into the designer's... More >>
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By STACY DAVIES
Now that I'm wading into my 40s, one of my favorite pastimes is to drone on and on about how much better everything was when I was a kid. It's... More >>
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By MICHELLE WOO
I first heard about Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling trilogy by British author E.L. James, while having lunch with my parents.
"I just... More >>
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By JOEL BEERS
There's something distinctly American about the road trip. Be it on a river (Huckleberry Finn), in a car (On the Road) or on foot (Into the... More >>
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By MICHELLE WOO
I nearly spit out my morning carrot juice when I read the news: Irvine is the most fashionable city in America. Not Manhattan, not LA, but... More >>
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By STACY DAVIES
Amanda DeMaio debuted Unrelenting Relaxation three years after our nation declared 1992 "The Year of the Woman," which was a response to the... More >>
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By MICHELLE WOO
"Organize the closet" has been on my New Year's resolution list since, oh, 1998, usually falling somewhere below "Stop saying 'seriously'" and... More >>