Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 31, 2009
Get ripped off 24/7 at CVS!
One day I trekked down to my regular pharmacy and got a rude awakening.
Much to my chagrin, the corporate giant that runs CVS gobbled up the retail outlet I was loyal to, without so much as a:
“Wham-bam! Thank you man!”
Like Wal-Mart before it, a CVS invasion into the mainstream marketplace has [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 29, 2009
Yogurt Stop No. 1 Frozen Yogurt
(Los Angeles Magazine/Editors/July)
My charming gal pals at Yogurt Stop in WeHo have a lot to crow about!
Producers from a reality show – “I get that a lot” – made a pact with the winsome twosome (lovers) to film a segment of the candid-camera-style comedy at the ever-popular dessert outlet in [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 28, 2009
Pearly Gates at Forest Lawn
After unexpected delays – and intervention of the court over cost-issues – Michael Jackson will finally be laid to rest at Forest Lawn in the “Great Mausoleum” (Holly Terrace) where Hollywood’s legendary greats have gone before him – Carole Lombarde, Jean Harlowe, and Clark Gable – to name a few.
According to [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 27, 2009
Gary Cooper was larger-than-life – a dazzling screen idol - and adored by many.
Now, it has been announced that a U.S. commemorative stamp in his honor, will be uveiled next month at the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles (September 10th).
The Postmaster General is making a big ta-do about it, too.
Leonard Maltin will be on hand to act [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 27, 2009
Officials who hail from the land of the majestic Alps are hopping-mad with the suits at google for ignoring Switzerland’s privacy laws.
According to Hanspeter Thuer, the Federal Data Protection Commissioner, images that Google captured on the sly for inclusion in their world-wide mapping service failed to obscure the identities of pedestrians in plain view on [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 27, 2009
Those blood-sucking Twilight Vampires are coming to an upscale Hotel near you!
Over the next three years, in response to a heated fan demand, Twilight conventions will start to tour the globe.
Organizers are still tweaking the three-day events which will feature clips from movies, panel discussions, photo ops, contests and parties, maybe even a lock of [...]
Dangerous only to himself?
Rehearsal footage shot over a span of a scan few weeks (leading up to Michael Jackson’s much-anticipated return to the stage for a series of sold-out concerts to kick-off in London before his unexpected demise) has been edited into a feature film slated to screen in a limited two-week run.
“This is it” [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 26, 2009
Stale rolls, overpriced water, and wilted flowers a specialty!
Years ago when I was residing on Flores Street in West Hollywood, I was so spoiled when it came to shopping for groceries and household goods.
Just a hop-and-a-skip away, Mayfair Market beckoned with fresh fruit and vegetables at reasonable cost, a wide selection of name products on [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 26, 2009
My Kingdom for a steely-hard sword!
That Arnold can be a tough negotiator!
Just ask the State Legislators he fought hand-over-fist with during the recent California Budget crisis.
Yup, that one was a squeaker!
After quite a bit of sparring (and fancy footwork) – the cigar-toting muscle-flexing former body-builder – ended up ruling the day, though.
Even still, the Governator [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: August 26, 2009
The buck stopped here!
Imagine that!
Along with thousands of other Americans around the country – and especially in that neck of the woods otherwise-known as Detroit (motor city!) – you imagined that the mere presence of a greenback or two in that sweaty little palm in the throes of this wide-reaching recession was capable of rustling [...]
