Prince William and Kate Middleton touched down in LA yesterday, the beginning of a whirlwind US trip that marks Kate's first visit to the US. What did she wear for the event? She emerged from the plane in a soft gray dress by London-based designer Roksanda Ilincic, but for a reception later at the British consul's home in Hancock Park, Kate changed into a green silk Diane von Furstenburg dress. Read more

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor relocated to a building on the Upper West Side where Stiller's parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, still live, and now they're finally saying goodbye to their Los Angeles roots. The couple has put their 10-bedroom, 11-bath Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $11.5 million. The estate features a one-bedroom guest house, a magnificent Read more

Charlie Sheen may or may not be off his rocker, but there's one facet of his high-profile life where I do believe he is #winning. Sheen just scooped up a 9,020-square-foot, six-bedroom, eight-bath manse in the prestigious gated community of Mulholland Estates in Sherman Oaks, CA for $7.5 million, and it is a beauty. Save for the Mediterranean-style exterior, which is I think too played-out in Read more

I've fallen in love with green, urban venue SmogShoppe in LA. But for those of you not planning on celebrating any events at the refurbished smog check center, there's still much to glean from this hidden gem. Take a cue in your own home from SmogShoppe's blend of vintage furniture and modern design with both industrial homages to the spot's past life and a smattering of desert-plant greenery. Read more

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When West Hollywood-based interior designer Elizabeth Dinkel was hired by a young, growing family to design the interiors of their new-construction Brentwood, CA, estate, her objective was to give it a clean, classical style. The client, a successful and prolific movie producer (no names here), had purchased several period fireplace surrounds during his European travels, which were a natural fit. Read more

Not too long ago in 2008, Ryan Phillippe scooped up a five-bedroom, seven-bath home in LA’s Hollywood Hills for around $7.175 million. Built in 1998 by producer Sylvio Tabet, the home, appropriately named "Rising Zen," bore a mixture of Asian and modern architecture. Ignoring the innumerable Buddha statues and Zen-style furnishings, the house's unusual architecture and city and ocean views Read more

This weekend I caught A Single Man on DVD. The film, which stars Colin Firth as gay British university professor George Falconer, is set in Los Angeles in 1962. The film's gorgeous look can be traced to the thoughtful work of director Tom Ford and the production design team behind Mad Men. Of course, my eye was drawn to the gorgeous glass house where Falconer resides. Designed by architect John Read more

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Since Gwyneth Paltrow was born and partially raised in Los Angeles, she's an expert on where to stay and where to eat in the City of Angels — at least she is according to her weekly newsletter, GOOP. Although I suspect that Paltrow chose the moniker of her newsletter simply because gwynethpaltrow.com was taken, I do find it interesting to hear what she has to say once a week. Paltrow has Read more