There is an angry wind from the north that comes down the canyons of Los Angeles like flames from the nostrils of Beelzebub. The autumn wind from the Mohave is as hot as the devils breath and licks relentlessly at windows and doors pushing its sandy heat through any available…
…another re-post from last year while I recuperate, and a great book about an unsuspected side of Hollywood… Chandlerburr.com. Chandler Burr has written several books, two on perfume, one on the biological origins of sexuality, and a novel: You or Someone Like You. He also has been involved in a…
THE SCENE I bid you welcome to the most unsettling afternoon tea party in an English rose garden of which, I hazard, you will ever partake. An afternoon tea, in an English rose garden, unsettling? Why in the name of heaven how? Why? Well there’s a killer at the table…
Year after year she looks with serene beauty toward the horizon of eternity. She has been doing this for a while, long before the museum acquired her. In fact she has been facing oblivion peeking out from under that charming hat since 1782. She has hundreds, maybe thousands of tiny…
Please do go visit my friend, The Perfumed Dandy, an excerpt from one of his exquisite pieces of fiction, masquerading as a critique on scent is below. As is a portrait of Lady Diana Cooper, who among other things, starred in two silent films, and wrote tons of letters. Some…
The sweep of history, the allure of love, and the spark of humor – all in one package. This is what Lanier does so well. And, thank you Mr. Smith for introducing me to the magic. A re-post to delight on a Sunday morning. Je suis enchantée de faire votre…
1924, two ladies ride the steam shovel while Beachwood Canyon undergoes development: Now, when I used to hike with friends from back east I had a set route, across the canyon to Wolf’s Lair, then down the path behind it to Lake Hollywood and then out onto Mulholland’s dam where…
…They arrived at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at around eleven. The lobby was straight out of the fifties, walls and floor of stone, star burst chandeliers, and the ballroom, while it still maintained a sinuous two-tiered design like that of a cruise ship, was carpeted with some dreadful dark jewel…