An Irvine doctor suspected of prescribing opioids and other powerful narcotics to people without medical exams — including a man accused in a DUI crash that killed an off-duty Costa Mesa fire captain — was arrested Tuesday morning, authorities said. Dzung Ahn Pham, a 57-year-old Tustin resident… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: Koreatown landlord plans to convert new apartment building to condos
Genesis Asset Holdings’ building under construction earlier this year (Credit: Google maps and iStock) A Koreatown landlord wants to convert a multifamily building over to condominiums, in an apparent bid to take advantage of low inventory in the area. Genesis Asset Holding finished the four-story building at 901 S. Gramercy Drive last summer. It filed […]
Blog: Is Hedi Slimane over L.A.?
According to the listing, the five-bedroom, six-bathroom house, which set him back a little over $4 million, was designed by British architect Rex Lottery in the Sixties and has been extensively remodeled by Slimane. The renovation yielded a living room with high ceilings, a gourmet chef’s kitchen, a large dining room, an office/media room, and […]
Blog: Review: Kenneth Branagh returns to his William Shakespeare obsession with the original drama ‘All Is True’
Settling into middle class domesticity in Stratford-upon-Avon after two decades away in London — his two big projects are a memorial garden for Hamnet and securing a grandson from either of his daughters — Will discovers simmering tensions, both at home and in town. His illiterate wife, Anne (Judi Dench), abandonment etched into her pursed […]
Blog: Review: Kenneth Branagh returns to his William Shakespeare obsession with the original drama ‘All Is True’
Twenty years ago, audiences devoured (the non-Branagh-made) “Shakespeare in Love,” which fancifully imagined the genius behind some of literature’s most memorably knotty romances starring in his own. Branagh’s affectionate if labored wade into this realm, written by Ben Elton, is essentially “Shakespeare in Retirement,” offering a scenario in which greatness comes to terms with legacy, […]
Blog: I’ve Tried Countless Eyebrow Products, and This 1 Is the Best
I’ve long suffered from thin, wimpy brows with no discernible shape. They’re so thin that I only got them shaped once as a teenager, and then never saw the point in getting them done again. After trying everything, including pencils, fiber gels, and chunky crayons, to pump them up, I finally settled on one game-changing […]