The Musso & Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard. Photograph: Maddie Cordoba/WWD/Penske Media/Getty ImagesThe Musso & Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard. Photograph: Maddie Cordoba/WWD/Penske Media/Getty ImagesBars, pubs and clubsThe martinis might no longer be 50¢, but you can still party like it’s 1923 in a city where glamor never went out of style
If you want to party like it’s 1923, Los Angeles is the place to do it. Some of the city’s most fabled bars and restaurants have been in operation for a century or more; you can still drink a martini in Charlie Chaplin’s favorite leather-lined booth, eat dinner at Walt Disney’s chosen Scottish pub, or order tamales at the Mexican restaurant frequented by Anna May Wong. Read More...
Guillaume Lavilliers – Ancien ouvrier d’usine, passionné de boxe et aventurier, Bernard Lavilliers a fait des peines dans les prisons françaises et brésiliennes, a épousé un promoteur de tourisme culturel puis un sculpteur, et a fait son temps. Les techniques tordues d’un artiste reclus.L’artiste ne laisse personne indifférent.
Un ado gringalet… mais très bagarreur c’est ce qu’est Bernard Lavilliers :Fils d’un ouvrier d’usine d’armement et d’un enseignant, Bernard Lavilliers possède une force morale enviable. Read More...
BooksInterviewHeartstopper author Alice Oseman: ‘If you don’t have sex and romance, you feel like you haven’t achieved’Lucy KnightThe writer and illustrator on turning her ‘weird hobby’ into a bestselling YA series and Netflix hit, the importance of asexual representation and lessons from her fans on love bites
At 28, the author and illustrator Alice Oseman recently achieved what so many of her peers cannot: she bought a flat. But instead of giving up Netflix so she could save for a deposit, as Kirstie Allsopp notoriously recommended, she sold the streaming service the rights to her gay romance comic book series. Read More...
