Ordinarily, it would be shocking to hear two men enthuse over a child drowned in an icy pond. In this case, however, the men are the producers of the Edwardian Ball: a celebration of illustrator/poet Edward Gorey and the Edwardian era he brought to gleefully ghastly life. The “drowned child” is actually a sartorial representation [...]
February 13, 2012 | Posted in
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Last weekend may have been a cultural desert because of the Super Bowl but Friday kicks off a fortnight of nearly nonstop fun. Eat your Wheaties. Start your engines. Go. Go. Go. Crushtastic Ms. Go Go says, what better way to kick off the pre-V-Day weekend than with a big ‘ole free love fest? Remain [...]
February 9, 2012 | Posted in
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The Super Bowl is behind us, the wings and poppers are a greasy memory, and all hell has broken loose in the City That Never Sleeps. Especially last night. So this evening, you’re resting up, recovering from the weekend — don’t lie, Ms. Go Go knows it was a multi-day nail biter ’til Madonna sang [...]
February 6, 2012 | Posted in
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Go Go’ers, sometimes you have to bow down to the inevitable. Cocktails are king. Chocolate cures everything. And this weekend, Eagle Rock is your one-hop-stop for culture and fun. You might want to bring a toothbrush and spend the night. Drinking at a Toddler Celebration The first brewery to set up shop taproom in Los Angeles [...]
January 27, 2012 | Posted in
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Ms. Go Go has a wee touch o’ the Scots in her blood — the Ogilvie clan, doncha know — which may, in some small way, explain her appreciation of whiskey. It doesn’t exactly explain her appreciation of rum, vodka, gin, tequila, and other assorted spirits; the latter is undoubtedly due to natural joie de vivre. [...]
January 24, 2012 | Posted in
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Brace yourselves, Go Go’ers. Winter is here…the SoCal version anyway. It may not be blizzards and bluster outside but Ms. Go Go knows you’ll feel a pang as you swap cut-offs for cardigans. Update to your 2012 “To Do” list? Invent sexy fleece. Below, three suggestions to help you turn winter woe-is-me into weekend wow-wow-wow. [...]
January 21, 2012 | Posted in
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Go Go’ers, it’s Day 13 of 2012. Do you know where your resolutions are? Whether those suckers are still on the shelf all shiny and new or crumpled up with lint and a dry stick of gum in your discarded New Year’s Eve duds, it’s never too late to get serious about Being a Better [...]
January 13, 2012 | Posted in
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Go Go’ers, the Twelve Days of Christmas isn’t just a song about conspicuous consumption and/or an obsessive stalker-ish boyfriend. January 6th, the twelfth day of Christmas, is Three Kings Day when the Three Wise Guys – as Ms. Go Go’s li’l gangsta goddaughter used to call them — finally showed up with gold and other [...]
January 5, 2012 | Posted in
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You swore you wouldn’t do it again and yet, here you are. You raise your bleary, post-Xmas head in which visions of sugar plums — whatever the heck they are — have polka’ed your plan-ahead gene into oblivion. You realize — horrors! — it’s mere days until New Year’s Eve and you’ve forgotten to figure [...]
December 28, 2011 | Posted in
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Go Go’ers, we’re down to a couple days of ho, ho, ho and counting for Baby J’s birthday bash this Sunday. Here’s the problem. After Sunday, comes Monday and there you are with a passel of house guests clamoring to see the “real” L.A. Or maybe that’s just you climbing the walls. Either/or, this bunch of Boxing Day forays is guaranteed [...]
December 23, 2011 | Posted in
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