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Search ArticlesA secretive celebrity club and its even more secretive owner
Good morning. It’s Monday, October 12. Expect a few morning showers to taper off as the day proceeds. 1. The hot new celebrity club next to a Hollywood veterinary hospital. Vin Diesel, Guy Pearce, and Adrien Brody attend the CAA Pre-Oscar Party at Living Room in 2025. (Photo by Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Creative Artists Agency, LLC) Along with Umami Burger and the Kogi truck, Soho House holds a prominent place in the memory palace of 2010s Los Angeles.
L.A.’s Hottest Club is Living Room
Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber, and the Hollywood members-only club Living Room. (L.A. Material photo illustration. Background images: Daniel Zuchnik/FilmMagic and Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion) ON A RECENT SATURDAY NIGHT IN DEEP HOLLYWOOD, reality star Lisa Rinna and her uncannily glamorous family were seen dancing together inside a menacing gray building on Cahuenga, next door to a veterinary hospital.
A once-forgotten L.A. literary legend is huge in Italy
Good morning, it’s Friday, Oct. 9, and you can expect a reprieve from the heat wave, with highs in the mid-80s. 1. How one classic L.A. novel became such a giant deal in small-town Italy. The year was 1939 and it was a great one for the Los Angeles literary scene. That February, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep debuted, followed in quick succession by The Day of the Locust from Nathanael West.
A Great L.A. Novelist, Often Overlooked Here, Is Huge In Italy
This year’s John Fante festival. (photo by Joseph Di Lello) ONE OF THE best novels ever written about Los Angeles, according to many a literary critic, is John Fante’s Ask the Dust. But these days, that novel, which was published in 1939 and tells the story of Arturo Bandini, an Italian-American writer in Bunker Hill during the Great Depression, is most fervently celebrated 6,300 miles away, in a remote town in the mountains east of Rome.
Can Congress save Hollywood?
Good morning, it’s Thursday, October 8. An extreme heat watch is still in effect but today should feel very slightly cooler than yesterday. 1. Congress considers first-ever film tax credit Congresswoman Laura Friedman was a movie producer before she entered politics. Her oeuvre includes the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen 1995 vehicle It Takes Two (she says she couldn't tell the twins apart, but other people on set could) and 1996's Foxfire, starring Angelina Jolie.
The In-N-Out delivery underground is thriving on Facebook
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, October 7. You can expect another day of Hell on Earth (meaning the hot weather, not the afterlife place). How to get In-N-Out delivered when DoorDash is banned. Like many of you, I still have a Facebook account in the year 2026 mainly for one reason: Facebook Marketplace. Rarely a night goes by where I’m not scrolling through its goldmines for L.A. ephemera, vintage Dodgers gear, or cheap houseplants.
Is It Possible to Get In-N-Out Delivered?
IT IS A TRUTH lamented across California: In-N-Out, unlike many of its fast food peers, cannot be found on DoorDash, GrubHub, or other food delivery services. In fact, in 2015, In-N-Out, which frequently touts the freshness of its burgers and fries, sued DoorDash after repeatedly asking them “to stop using our trademarks and to stop selling our food." But nature abhors a vacuum and so, apparently, does Facebook Marketplace.
Photos the Raman campaign doesn’t want you to see
Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Oct. 6, and you can expect another day of scorching misery. Follow the mayor’s race with our new Campaign Countdown. Today, exactly four weeks out from Election Day, L.A. Material is launching a new daily segment in our newsletter to offer an insider’s look at the mayoral race and other city contests. We’ll be publishing exclusive tidbits, campaign gossip, and insider analysis of the home stretch of this city election.
Do people still make out in cars?
Good morning, it’s Monday, October 5, and it will remain dreadfully hot. 1. The death of the car makeout? A few weeks ago, Lauren Bans — one of my favorite writers working in L.A. today — sent me an email pitch that made me laugh out loud. She and her boyfriend are both divorced with kids, meaning that on many a date night, their respective apartments are occupied by babysitters and children.
Does Anyone Make Out in Cars Anymore?
A couple kisses in a car circa 1954. (Bettmann/Getty Images) LET ME START WITH THE VICTORY. After many trials and tribulations, I successfully made love in a car in Los Angeles. Was it comfortable? No. We were parked on an incredibly steep hill on a tiny street off the Silver Lake Reservoir. To our benefit, the steepness meant the lots were graded and the houses perched far above street level.