Susan Michals

We've seen the great influence that shows like Mad Men and Downton Abbey have had on fashion; now get ready for another fashion trend invasion.

Baz Luhrmann's rendition of The Great Gatsby doesn't debut until December of...

Cute. Cuddly. Rubber.

Starting May 5 at Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles, My Little Pony will be...

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It takes a lot of courage to play legendary French singer Claude François. The pop sensation sold over 65 million records before his untimely death in 1978, to become one of France's biggest idols ever (he wrote and...

In the last few months, we have happily experienced the advent of Mad Men, Season 5 and sadly, the conclusion of Downton Abbey, Season 2.

While we can revel for the next few weeks in Joan's post-baby...

If music be the food of love, play on. --William Shakespeare

It doesn't matter what kind of music you love -- what matters is the impact. The right song can pull us out of that crap mood and into a joyous one; and sometimes vice versa. It is the sound...

First of all, it's not what you think, you dirty minded reader you. This event -- albeit with an eye-catching, titillating title -- is a celebration of art, of talent, of... sparkles on steroids. On Friday, March 30th in Los Angeles,...

On last night's debut of Mad Men Season 5, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is thrown into a bit of a tizzy when his new, hot French Canadian wife Megan (Jessica Pare) throws him a surprise birthday party. Now, those of us who know and love Don, know that...

We all need to get away from the non-stop barrage of information we endure daily, but many of us can't turn it off so easily. That's why a place like Viva Mayr is the perfect getaway.

Remember the nursery rhyme "What Are Little Boys Made Of?"

Kitsch. Kink. Color. Pedro Almodovar has to be one of the great masters of this filmic trifecta - and has become one of the most beloved directors of this (and the...

This article also appeared in The NY Observer.

"I think we're going to leave. My friend fainted."

That was the very first comment The Observer overheard as we headed into the entertainment portion of our program at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's...

Billy Childish is a renaissance man with quite a sense of humor. The British artist and former member of The YBA opened his latest artistic extravaganza last week in New York at Lehmann...

Hollywood is the epicenter of entertainment -- but sometimes the masses forget it is a hub of not just film and television but of immense artistic talent outside those filmic confines.

Saturday night was proof positive that entertainment is not the only game in town. Leonardo DiCaprio graciously lent his...

Last week at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, The Weinstein Company boldly presented one of their most unusual films to date. The Artist tells the all too frequent tale of success...

Ray Caesar is weird - but if you're familiar with his work, you probably already know that. One might think using a word like "weird" to describe a heralded and successful digital artist...

Beginning Thursday, October 20th, singer Bryan Ferry - yes, the dapper, suave and oh-so-elegant frontman of the British rock band Roxy Music - will showcase his photographic works at The...