Holy Crap, That’s A Lot of Pink: The Rise of the House of Barbie, Shanghai Flagship Store
Seriously, that’s a lot of Barbie. I didn’t know this existed until recently. It’s the Barbie Worldwide Flagship Store

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Enter the Labyrinth of Jareth: Where Faeries, Goblins and Steampunks Gather
View more photos in the Labyrinth of Jareth slideshow . Labyrinth of Jareth , the two-day masquerade ball now in its twelfth year, is no spectator sport. If you aren’t at least wearing a formal and mask, you won’t be allowed entrance, and you are better off dressing in full costume that at least loosely fit into the themes of “Venetian histories and Celtic faerie and goblin lore” ( steampunk being particularly popular this year)

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Stage Raw: Monty Python’s Spamalot
THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Monty Python’s Spamalot Photo by Joan Marcus Every Spam is Sacred Monty Python’s Spamalot BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Monty Python and the Holy Grail – the 1975 riff on Arthurian legend — is probably not the sharpest in comedians Eric Idle & Associates’ body of film work, compared to their later, blistering satire on Biblical lore contained in The Life of Brian (1979) – Brian being Jesus – and on existential quandaries in The Meaning of Life (1983).
Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin’s Review of Spamalot
THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Welcome to the new home of Stage Raw . For a short time, you can access Stage Raw archives at its former home (http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/stage-news) in L.A. Daily, but those archives are in the process of being moved over to this location.

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Staches, Glasses, and Scarves: Style at the Downtown Art Walk
Downtown’s Renaissance has been a work in progress for many years, but with the stylish crowds and high caliber art on display, last night’s Art Walk may have hinted that Downtown L.A. has finally come of age. Instead of rubber gloves and strip club fliers lining the streets (as in, let’s say, 2001), a diverse and fashion-forward cross-section of L.A.’s art hounds pounded the pavement

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Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin Misses His Second Deadline
THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Stage Raw is soon changing locations within the L.A. Weekly website

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Don’t Joke About Tauntaun Sleeping Bags: Star Wars Fanatics Get Pissed
Remember that Tauntaun sleeping bag that was supposedly for sale on Think Geek but wasn’t, because it was April Fools and they were only kidding? So many people wanted it and got angry that it wasn’t available.

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Don’t Joke About Tauntaun Sleeping Bags: Star Wars Fanatics Get Pissed
Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin Misses His First Deadline!
THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS BREAKING NEWS : The entire staff of Stage Raw was disappointed that Mr. Merkin missed the filing deadline for his first column: a review of Spamalot at the Ahmanson

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The Succulent Cat: Holly Vesecky’s Foliage-Covered Feline Makes Brides Happy and Chia Pets Jealous
Holly Vesecky is a floral stylist and sculptor based here in Los Angeles. In the time that I’ve known her, she’s done volcanos covered in flowers, a geodesic dome covered in flowers, and a re-creation of a Sam Francis painting in LACMA in flowers.

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The Succulent Cat: Holly Vesecky’s Foliage-Covered Feline Makes Brides Happy and Chia Pets Jealous