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The Styled Side: The fall of mall stores
SoCal fashion may always be in style, but some dour duds in stores are putting a damper on major retailers.
"Retailers were definitely NOT cracking open the champagne and tossing confetti after the most recent quarter," says Michelle Dalton Tyree of Fashion Trends Daily.
Sales at Abercrombie were down 4 percent from the year before, and revenue at Express dropped 6 percent, too.
"What does these stores have in common? They're at the mall," says Tyree.
Mall traffic has been heading downward, with people spending more of their money on travel, homes and big experiences.
When shoppers go out to get new clothes, they are heading towards lifestyle centers – which are like malls but open-air and more upscale, such as The Grove.
"These malls are focusing heavily on bringing in dining and entertainment to court a fatigued consumer," says Tyree, "and let us not forget that little thing we talk about frequently on The Styled Side: fast fashion.
Retailers like H&M and TopShop are turning out trendy merchandise at affordable prices in rapid fashion. They have been giving other retailers a big headache by taking a bite out of the teen market.
Not to mention that people just don't like the clothes at retail stalwarts like J. Crew.
"J. Crew recently had both fit problems and style issues with their latest lines," says Tyree, "and Banana Republic tried to deliver more fashionable pieces to woman, but turns out women just counted on them for office wear and everyday basics."
Is Arizona shifting its attitudes on immigration?
After a meeting in Mexico, Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence will appear at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona on Wednesday.
This will be Trump's fifth campaign appearance in the state and he's said he plans to discuss his signature issue: immigration.
is an immigration reporter with the Arizona Republic. He says that since SB 1070 was passed in 2010, attitudes about immigration seem to have shifted.
"I think we do still have a lot of people in Arizona who are uncomfortable with the demographic changes that have taken place here in the last 20 years. It's a state that experienced a lot of demographic changes in a short amount of time. That created a lot of anxiety here in schools and public safety and hospitals," Gonzalez said. "But in a lot of ways I think people have become more accustomed to the changes that were taking place. There's not as deep of a resentment, or anxiety that used to be. SB 1070 was really kind of the high watermark for the bills that the state was passing."
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Reginald Hudlin on putting on the 'blackest of all Oscars' and 'Black Movie Soundtrack II'
Tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, Gladys Knight, Common, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, and members of Earth Wind and Fire will take the stage.
It's the Black Movie Soundtrack II concert, hosted by comedian Craig Robinson. The show is a sequel to a concert that happened two years ago, celebrating the best songs from a variety of films.
The concert is the brain child of producer/director Reginald Hudlin, who also produced this year's Oscars.
Hudlin recently took some time out of rehearsals to chat with Take Two's Alex Cohen about the show.
Interview highlights:
On paring down his wish list of songs
"Once the show became a real thing I sat down and made a list of songs that we should do. And I didn't do any research, I just said 'Well, what's the obvious-- the songs that if you don't do them, it's just ridiculous. It would be an embarrassment if you didn't do these songs.' So that list, without any research, was 120 songs. And I said 'Well how many songs can we do?' They said 'Like 12.' And I said 'That's impossible!' They said 'Calm down, Reggie. If the whole thing works, then we'll do it again.'"
On producing this year's Oscars amid the #OscarsSoWhite controversy
"Well the irony is, because of 'Oscars So White,' we were able to make the blackest of all Oscars. So we had more black people in front and behind the camera than at any Oscars show in history. You know, from being a camera operator, to choreographers, to myself as a producer, to of course Chris Rock as a host. And, you know, I've got a long working relationship with Chris, and we always kind of talked philosophically about what should happen. Not so much jokes. Jokes-- he's the master of. It's really more 'What do we want to say?'
And once the nominations came out, we were like 'Hm, that's unfortunate.' But how is this different from pretty much every other year in our lives? It's not like 'Oh! Unlike those other years where there were so many black nominees!' So we said, well this is an opportunity for us to talk about it in an extraordinarily entertaining way... And I talked with the Academy and ABC and I said in light of the circumstances, the best thing we can do is let Chris do whatever he wants, which is what we did."
On whether changes are happening in Hollywood when it comes to getting more people of color working behind the camera
"There's always been extraordinary people working in every department-- whether it's casting, or sound, or camera. And the question is, what are the quality of opportunities you're being given? And what's been fantastic in I would say the last three years is that all of a sudden there's a bunch of core realizations that have hit Hollywood. [One] is that a movie with a multiethnic cast makes more money than a film with an all white cast. So you go well this is the new reality, so everyone needs to embrace it. And studios are starting to embrace it. And because people want multiethnic casts, suddenly having a director of color to maximize the value of those actors becomes a more important thing as well. And the fact that campaigns like 'Oscars So White' have made decision-makers more conscious of the idea-- let's make an extra effort to reach out to women, to people of color, and make sure they have the same opportunities as white men."
'The Black Movie Soundtrack II" concert is tonight, August 31st at The Hollywood Bowl.
Will there be a 'mad man like Hitler'?: Dana Point time capsule reveals predictions for 2016
The year was 1966. Local officials in the coastal community of Dana Point were getting ready for a groundbreaking ceremony at the harbor. So, they did what a lot of towns did to preserve a little bit of history - they put together a time capsule.
Monday afternoon, the contents of that time capsule were revealed to the public. Orange County Register reporter Erika Ritchie was there for the event and she joined the show to speak about some of the contents they found in the time capsule and how Dana Point has changed in 50 years. For more on Erika's coverage of the time capsule, click here.
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