About LAist

LAist is a website about Los Angeles. More

Editor: Zach Behrens Publisher: Gothamist

About | Archive | Contact | Mobile | RSS | Staff

Entries from LAist tagged with 'theroosevelt'

October 18, 2007

These days, the Roosevelt Hotel is all about partying. After the painstaking restoration of its Spanish-Moorish lobby, with its hand painted beams, tiled floors and leaded glass windows, the hotel is home to the Tropicana Bar, where guests get in free till 9pm (How generous!) and long lines develop of the young and the beautiful. They don't hold a candle to the older residents of the hotel though. The Roosevelt is rumored to be......

Continue Reading "The "Boo"sevelt Hotel"

July 31, 2007

You may have noticed a new button on our left-hand column with the title We See The Best Concerts. It dawned on us the other day that we really do go to the best concerts and we usually write about them the next day or a few days later. So here's a wrap up of all 37 shows we reviewed this month, with links to the posts just in case you missed it. Chris......

Continue Reading "LAist Concert Reviews of July '07"

June 30, 2007

Looks like the Hollywood Roosevelt has some explaining to do. Here is the story from my husband, Bob: If you requested Prince tickets for the Roosevelt and never heard back, check your credit card statement! Prince just cost me a thousand freaking dollars and I didn’t even SEE the guy. When I saw the announcement to email the Roosevelt for ticket details, I did so immediately. They emailed back an order form, which had......

Continue Reading "Prince fans - Check your credit card receipts!"

June 11, 2007

This weekend we were enjoying televised entertainment when we happened to notice Prince doing a Verizon ad. Does Prince even do ads? Whatever, it worked on us, we watched, we enjoyed, it was great. Until the end when it seemed like the ad company totally ripped off LA gossip blog Pink is the New Blog by stenciling a light-colored purple "Be A Music Hunter" on its final image. Unless PITNB's Trent is being paid......

Continue Reading "Is Verizon Ripping Off Pink in Its Purple One Ads?"

2003- Gothamist LLC. All rights reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. We use MovableType.