Partying at The Standard Hotel's poolside | Photo by skampy via Flickr The City of West Hollywood's Planning Commission met the other night to discuss the Standard Hotel's request to extend their poolside hours to 1:30 a.m. from the current weekend midnight closing (closes at 10 p.m. on weekdays), keeping the hotel's poolside bar competitive with other Sunset Strip nightlife options. B-Side Blog attended the meeting to support the idea, but left the meeting......

If you’ve driven through downtown LA you’ve definitely seen the Bonaventure Hotel. Next time you’re stuck in traffic on the 110, look to the side for four cylinder glass towers. Designed by developer and architect John Portman in 1977, the Bonaventure on south Figueroa stands out in the LA skyline as one of the few buildings worth looking at twice. I’d been hoping to visit it since seeing it from the roof of The......

CIA the CIA in North Hollywood WILL BE JUMPING with Haunted Cologne, the McDaniels, and special mystery guests??? Doors open at 8pm, all ages (ps. We suspect THE RADIOACTIVE CHICKEN HEADS!!!) THE BIGFOOT LODGE will be showing scary movies, plus drink specials and DJ Lee will be spinning a scary assortment of Halloween themed records from the 50s - now. Starting at around 9:00 PM! 410 BOYD 410 Boyd (410 Boyd St) combines the......

Could it be? Did someone finally out ArcLight the ArcLight? If one of The Standard hotels built a theater, it would look like the new Landmark. The most accurate way of describing it is “boutique”. The Landmark is all about the visual angles; sloping fixtures light the theaters and give a completely different feeling of space than you would expect for a “mall theater”. Angled walls line the hallways, and an angled ceiling compliments......

This weekend is the launch for the new Sunday Tea event at The Standard in Hollywood (4-7 p.m). From the Cactus Lounge, lobby, or poolside, the hotel is offering a special menu of sandwiches, desserts, brewed teas and it wouldn’t be The Standard without cocktails. Called “mar'tea'ni's,” these drinks are booze infused with tea and herbal blends by La Mill, a nice change if you want some antioxidants with your buzz. There are five......

Hot: Knit Bombing Not: Slap Taggers Come Thursday, you might notice some softer graffiti around town. That's because Knitta, Please -- a crew of clandestine knitting females (and one male named MascuKnitity) -- will be hosting a show at The Standard Hollywod from 7 - 10 p.m. Whether or not our local Crazy Aunt Purl will be joining in on the fun, keep your eye out for bike racks, beer bottles, sign posts or......

Metal Skool @ Key Club Hinder @ Roxy Messiah Sing-Along @ Disney Hall The Delta Spirit, Army Navy @ Spaceland Libbie Schrader, Jen & Abby @ The Hotel Cafe Matcli, Amity, Goodbye Valentine @ The Knitting Factory High Speed Scene, Electromagnetic @ Silverlake Lounge Native June, Coda Vesta, Dirty Kings, Brutus Gets the Girl @ The Troubadour The Parson Redheads, The Kris Special, Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ The Echo The Peppermint Creeps, Romak &......

If you've spent time near the front desk of The Standard on Sunset in West Hollywood, you may have noticed there's a woman there in a glass case. She's on display wearing very little, a tank top and boxer shorts or boy shorts, all white. What's it like to the be the girl in the box? Hotel Chatter tracked down a former box girl asks about her chicquarium experience. She says, in part: HotelChatter:......