YES, it actually gets cold enough in Los Angeles to call for The Standard-Hollywood and The Standard-Downtown LA to throw some woolen Pendleton blanket on their guestroom beds and YES of course they are selling them to anyone who wants to take home the artist-created designs themselves. The two blankets were officially released into the Standard Shop just before Thanksgiving, and indeed they could be ideal gifts for the person in your life that obsesses over staying at one of Andre Balazs’ hotels.
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Hmm…we can’t really classify this under Holiday Hotel Decorations. Perhaps we need to start a new series, Holiday Hotel Cards?
The Sunset Tower in West Hollywood is known to bow down to every request put forth by their celebrity clientele. (Want an oven in your suite? No problem! Just ditch that drunk make-up artist.)
But for the holiday season, hotelier Jeff Klein decided to reach out to a few regular celeb guests for some help. The NY Times’ Media Decoder blog reports that Klein enlisted the help of “Lonely Island” …
So, you thought Charlie Sheen was hogging the spotlight when it came to bad celebrity hotel behavior? Nope! It seems he’s happy to share that stage with estranged wife Brooke Mueller–who spent Thanksgiving eve at the Farmer’s Daughter Hotel in L.A., but the next day in rehab.
While most families were watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last Thursday morning, Mueller’s family and a representative from a sober-living house were escorting Mueller from the hotel wearing her baggy pajamas and looking a little worse for wear.
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Yum, turkey at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge.
This Thanksgiving, forget about spending hours shopping, the day cooking in the kitchen and then the evening doing sinks full of dishes. There are a number of Los Angeles hotels that will serve up the traditional meal, with no fuss or mess for you.
Check out our six Thanksgiving dinner hotel picks after the jump.
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L’Epicerie Market
Photo: courtesy of the restaurant
As ever, the arrival of Beaujolais nouveau is being celebrated at a number of jolly events throughout SoCal, all of which go down after the legally mandated time when the new vintage can be consumed (midnight on the third Thursday of November). Only the French would codify the drinking of wine into law.
On November 18, San Pedro pub The Whale & Ale will be expecting its first shipment of Beaujolais nouveau to arrive at LAX around 11 AM. Later that day the wine will be …