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Mosey on over for another titillating installment of The Standard, Hollywood’s Desert Nights. This Wednesday, grab a cocktail, sit back, relax, and enjoy!
The Silver Spoons: The Silver...
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PSY is a Korean phenom who’s video GANGNAM STYLE has just gone global contagion level viral on YouTube. The song is an ode to the fabulous lifestyle of the Gangham district in...
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Nadine is the girl who makes sure the lighting and sound systems at Le Bain are at their dance-cajoling best. She’s a 20-year-old New Yorker, born and raised. Her parents were DJs and she...
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22 years before the The Standard, High Line first revolved its yellow doors, Nelson Sullivan decided to film his walk home at Five 9th Avenue. He lets the camera pan around the neighborhood and...
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In these final weeks of summer, when the days are long, the sun is fat, and idleness blooms in the withering heat, we propose a challenge, something to do with those hot, restless hours....
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This week’s song is by über-cool girl of the moment: Grimes. This video to her song Genesis just dropped today. It gives quite the interesting glimpse into her Zelda-esque...
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Gather ‘round little cowpokes, it’s time for another toe-tapping installment of The Standard, Hollywood’s Desert Nights! This Wednesday’s line-up is aimed to please, so...
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This Wednesday at Le Bain, Mercury Nights presents a special end of summer party with the boys from Saturdays Surf. André Saraiva, Simonez Wolf and Sebastian Puga are also hosting...
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It’s simple, pretty, and instructive. Introducing Standard Moves, our new health, yoga and fitness blog on Tumblr. Each gif, and that’s gif with a hard “G” (which if...
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LA is in the midst of a heatwave and it’s not fun. Seriously, if we’d wanted to experience humid 90 degree weather then we would have moved to New York! Well, this being tinseltown...
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When we saw Bendow’s (or Ben Waldow, as his parents called him) work on LA, I’m Yours, we couldn’t resist calling him up and enlist him as our next mural artist. He agreed...
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At Sunset Beach on Shelter Island, Chef Mark Zeitouni adheres to the principle that summer lunches should look as light as they taste. In practice, this means plenty of tartines—the...
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In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a soft-spoken Detroit musician named Rodriguez put out two magisterial albums and then disappeared from the music scene. For the next three decades, he...
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Last Thursday, our pals at Monster Children and Pabst came by to celebrate the art of Michael John with a live performance from the newly reunited Chief. Downtown LA artist Michael John had...
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Last Friday at The Standard Spa yoga instructor Tara Stiles was in the house. Beloved for her accessible approach to yoga (imagine Tara saying in a sing-song, “Take your time” and...
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Join us for a very special Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) edition of The Standard, Hollywood’s weekly Desert Nights! This week’s Desert Nights is held in conjunction with the...
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Our favorite on-the-fly photos from the week that was …
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The excitement is palpable at The Standard, Hollywood. The annual Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) is nearly upon us. Held August 16th - 18th, headliners include Marilyn Manson, De La Soul,...
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We had Brooklyn-based artist Wes Lang design this silk twill scarf for The Standard’s Summer Plaza restaurant. Wes is known for his intricate drawings of American iconography and...
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