Lena Headley
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She has numerous tattoos, swears like a sailor and takes on “dark, weird stuff that makes other people say, ‘eww, I’d never do that.'” Welcome to the gutsy, no-regrets...
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American Designers
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There’s a democracy to clothes that favor modern shape and an edited palette. Wearable and stylish, they are neither flashy nor flash in the pan. Gugu Mbatha-Raw makes the...
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Indian Summer
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Dwell
Renowned for its iconic midcentury architecture and legendary celebrity habitués—Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Bob Hope, and Elizabeth Taylor among them—the Southern California desert, with its dry air and dramatic...
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Border Guard
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Los Angeles
With a new restaurant, a tequila brand, and a tamale museum in the works, John Sedlar might be Latin cuisine’s ultimate ambassador.
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Madeleine Stowe’s 3rd Act
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Nearly two decades ago, she abandoned an A-list movie career to live on a Texas ranch and raise her daughter. Today, Revenge star Stowe is the toast OF TV,...
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View Finder
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Dwell
Marjorie Rice, who worked for NBC News in London before moving to Los Angeles, tackled house hunting with a professional’s intensity. “I was look- ing at about 40 places...
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The Man with the Golden Touch
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Los Angeles
Phillip Seymour Hoffman has always been a character’s best friend, he makes us want to spend time with him – even when we don’t like them.
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Bringing it All Back Home
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Saveur.com
I don’t remember exactly what I ordered the first time I visited Lucques, the chef Suzanne Goin’s debut restaurant. (It was, after all, over a decade ago.) I do...
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Five Easy Species
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Hang with the big five _ lion, leopard, rhino, and buffalo – at Ulusaba. Richard Branson’s lavish new game reserve.
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Northern Comfort
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Storms, stars and a sensual spa are a few of our favorite things at Vancouver Island’s Wickaninnish Inn.
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Jamie Lee Curtis Shifting Gears
Ladies Home Journal
Ladies Home Journal
With grown kids, a 30-year marriage, and a career with a mind of its own, Curtis has found life’s sweet spot.
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A Geometric Desert Home in Phoenix
Dwell Magazine
Dwell Magazine
At the base of Echo Mountain in Phoenix, a geometric home by Wendell Burnette opens up to the surrounding desert landscape.
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Viola Davis
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
It’s still early, just after 11 a.m., and torrential downpours have kept the Santa Anita Park crowds at a minimum. Even the horses are bowing out; a loudspeaker announces...
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Welcome to Courteney Town
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It’s a place where divorce can be amicable, work is collaborative and friendships are lifelong. How Courteney Cox, the inspiring and grounded star of Cougar Town, cultivates closeness both...
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A Minimalist Duplex in Venice
Dwell Magazine
Dwell Magazine
Architect Don Dimster celebrates the concept of communal family space with a pair of homes in Venice, California, for himself and his brother.
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Mila Kunis
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
“I love the Big Blue!” sings Mila Kunis as the Dodgers saunter off the field and the Cincinnati Reds swallow another runless inning. Kunis isn’t just paying lip service....
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Lane Changer
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When a producer of the new documentary Half the Sky asked Diane Lane to help expose the abuse of women in Somaliland, she leapt at the chance. Here, the...
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Sitting Pretty
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Terrence Howard stars in a slew of new movies, has a surprise debut CD, and proves himself a polymath.
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Being Julia
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With a comic range that goes from slapstick to satire, Veep star Julia louis-Dreyfus is a pop-culture icon—anD she got there without sacrificing love or sanity. Here she talks...
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Jada
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Redbook
Jada Pinkett Smith knows that keeping the passion burning bright is essential to a strong marriage. but she also firmly …
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Grand Dame
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
She’s shown two faces of royalty, in The Queen and Elizabeth I, but Helen Mirren plays sensual, bawdy, crumbling, and stoic characters equally well, reminding audiences that there’s a...
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Kate Winslet
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Whether or not she finally gets her statuette, Kate Winslet has won over the most important audience: All of Us
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Knock Out
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Los Angeles
Chewitel Ejiofor gives the Holiday Inn an incredulous stare. “Why,” he asks, “are there no windows facing the ocean?” The hotel offers views of a parking structure and a...
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Love, Lust & What She Didn’t Wear
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Oscar winner Marisa Tomei plays a doting mom in the new movie Parental Guidance, but her roles have often required her to bare both flesh and soul. She talks...
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Love Your 20s, 30s, 40s
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Redbook
Who’d-a thunk that the movie world’s most iconic, and endearing, superficialite would grow up to be a one-woman vegan ambassador for the planet? Alicia Silverstone, Connie Britton and Ashlee...
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Meridith Baer, Home Stager
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Her screenwriting career fizzled. Then she lost her house. That was the start of Meridith Baer’s home-staging business.
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Up, Up, and Away
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Eight months pregnant with her second child, the Australian actress Rachel Griffiths decides to take a helicopter ride above Los Angeles. When we meet at the Hawthorne Airport lounge,...
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Kendall Conrad
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Mother of invention: When Kendall Conrad was pregnant with her first daughter, she knit nonstop. With daughter number two she turned to working with leather.
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The Prime of Dana Delany
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“I think you know everything as a child, and then sometimes it’s smooshed out of you,” Dana Delany says. “Since i was a kid, i’ve wanted to act.”
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Raquel Welch
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AARP VIVA
LA ropa y decoración con el estampado de leopardo insi- núan el lado sensual de Raquel Welch. Pero también es graciosa, emprendedora y una conservadora confesa.
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The Art of Living
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AARP
Even in med school, Allan Kornberg was troubled by the use of dogs in research labs. As a pediatrician, he refused to use kittens to teach intubation at the...
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Up For Air
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Los Angeles
Brendan Fraser’s been spending a lot of time in middle earth, battling 3-D dinosaurs and saving the world from angry mummies.
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In Your Face
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Ten-year-old, rapid-fire, celeb-loving, movie-marveling Access Hollywood still transfixes viewers with its relentless barrage of infotainment tidbits.
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You Can Go OM Again More Magazine
On Margot Dougherty’s previous visit, in the 8Os, Nicaragua was war torn and dangerous; now it’s a luxury vacation spot and a yoga destination for LA Westsiders.
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Divine Destinations
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Condé Nast Traveler
African spiritualism on Brazil’s colonial coast and other destinations where religion and culture are richly intertwined.
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The Big Question
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Condé Nast Traveler
The recent launch of Royal Caribbean’s 6,296-passenger Oasis of the Seas—the largest cruise ship afloat—has led many to ask, how big is too big?
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Planet Urth
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Shallom and Jilla Berkman opened their first Urth Caffé to make the world a better place—honest to God. Four locations later? Ka-ching!
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Abigail Breslin
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
What are the odds of being an Oscar nominee at age 10—sev- eral billion to one? That makes Abigail Breslin something of a natural wonder.
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Second Acts: Designing a New Life
Dwell Magazine
Dwell Magazine
Karina Gentinetta spent 13 years as a lawyer, but antiques were her true love. Now she’s turned her eye for quality into a business.
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The Lion’s Den
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Jeffrey Chodorow, the king of restaurant concepts, is tackling the new Hollywood with a monster of a place called Social.
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The Ivy League
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Known for their stars, paparazzi, and pottery, our popular twin restaurants are more about fame than food.
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Flour Power
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Craving bear claws or baklava? Macarons or macaroons? Sturdy rye or an ethereal challah? Here are L.A.’s top 20 bakeries.
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Your Next Vacay Could Save Your Life
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Condé Nast Traveler
Esther Sternberg needed a break. After spending months as a long-distance caregiver for her terminally ill mother, she developed…
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Purpose Driven
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Hollywood isn’t brimming with do- gooder producers. Maybe Jami Gertz and Stacey Lubliner’s first film, A Better Life, will inspire more.
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Return of the Paddle-Wheel Steamboat
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Condé Nast Traveler
The only overnight paddle-wheel steamboat in the United States (for now), the American Queen traverses the Mississippi as well as the Ohio…
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