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A motorist ran afoul of the law this week when he used a sticker from a pound of teriyaki chicken wings he had purchased at Safeway to cover his license plate to avoid paying a freeway toll in Marin County, according to the California Highway Patrol. The tricky move was enough to ruffle some feathers… […]

Coleman became the third generation to run his family’s namesake camping equipment company in 1988, when he replaced his father, Robert Sheldon Coleman, as chairman. The following year, he attempted to take the company private but was outbid by financier Ronald Perelman, who acquired Coleman Co. in a $545-million deal. Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles […]

In July 1948, singer Nat “King” Cole and his new wife, Maria, were just beginning their lives together. The legendary crooner of standards including “The Christmas Song,” “Nature Boy,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Unforgettable” had spent the last decade of his young life on the road, and he was eager to settle down and start a […]

Now that some form of cannabis use is legal in 33 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and California’s era of legal adult-use weed is almost a year old (though it remains illegal under federal law), it’s easier than ever to find a little something special for the cannabis consumer on your nice list. […]

From top left, clockwise: The beach house on Malibu’s Carbon Beach, Daryl Katz and the Malibu home, a sleek modernist manse in Bel Air, and Brad Grey, Bruce Karsh and the Holmby Hills estate (Credit: Richard Meier & Partners Architect LLP, Wikimedia Commons, John Pawson, IMDB, and Zillow) In the world of Los Angeles high-end […]