Chef Stefan Richter of LA Farm

Bring your taste buds

By Valerie Milano

Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Today) 5/21/13 – Stefan Richter’s new summer food & happy hour menus for Santa Monica’s favorite restaurant, Stefan’s at L.A. Farm. Since his opening in 2009, Bravo’s Top Chef has completely renovated the space, giving the restaurant an elegant new look and creating an electric ambiance! [Read more →]

Heather-Graham-actress-hang-over-3-fashion-designer-Michelle-Jonas

Los Angeles, CA, (Hollywood Today)5/21/13/– Actress Heather Graham, in latest film Hang Over Part III,  hosted an exclusive (CCF) Cambodian Children’s Fund Charity Event sample sale, with friend and colleague international resort wear designer Michelle Jonas, and Scott Neeson former 20th Century Fox President.

The CCF Charity event, featured  many of L.A.’s top designers clothes donated to the sale and all proceeds from all sales were donated to the Cambodian Children’s Fund Designers included; event organizer Michelle Jonas, with her trendy resort wear tie dye dresses ,  Justice Boden,Julieri, Blue Lotus, Nola Singer, Friendship Love and Peace, Piper Gore, Karen Zambos, White, One Love Unified, Stewart Brown, kuki Squares, Skin Again, and 1921 jeans.  Skinagain.com functional skin care with Dermavibe was also donating their new line of exclusive skincare advanced formula highly active plant extracts from local Carlsbad, CA. [Read more →]

Luis Mandoki (Mexican director of some Hollywood blockbusters and many mexican films), Greisy Mena (new actress from Venezuela) and Joaquín Cosío

WOW TALENT!

By Valerie Milano

Hollywood, CA (Hollywood Today) 5/21/13: For the fifth consecutive year, Hola Mexico displays the best of the best of Mexican film in a weeklong festival. However, this year the array of films range from melancholic documentaries, to period pieces, and yes the RomComs and Comedy genre are also present.

More so, the gastronomy of the various regions of Mexico are also present with samples for all in attendance, and if you are a wine connoisseur prepare your taste buds for the most exquisite wines from, yes – Mexico! Without a doubt this is what makes Hola Mexico a festival like no other. [Read more →]

Fishbone for Topanga Days Festival

The canyon population has grown over the years

By Valerie Milano

Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Today) 5/20/13 – If you’re looking for some fine, family fun, a for sure ‘Don’t Miss’ this weekend is scheduled in your own back yard: The 40^th Annual Topanga Days – a Memorial Day tradition. LA ’s longest running bohemian festival and country fair is held at the Topanga Community Club Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

A true family weekend is in store on a 12-acre property, which became the Topanga Community Center in 1949. There will be live music on two stages, Kid Zone  will provide family fun with traditional games like egg tosses, watermelon spitting  and pie eating contests, face painting and tattooing. Food and beverages are available as are healing arts and a weekend highlight,: the Topanga Days Parade begins at 9am on Memorial Day. [Read more →]

Mel Brooks
Actor/Director/Writer Mel Brooks speaks onstage during the PBS panel for ‘AMERICAN MASTERS “Mel Brooks: Make a Noise” ‘ of the 2013 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa on January 14, 2013 in Pasadena, California.
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 Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

By Valerie Milano

Pasadean, CA (Hollywood Today) 5/20/13 – In a recent interview with Hollywood Today and other reporters American Masters producer Susan Lacy, director Robert Trachtenberg and comedy great Mel Brooks discussed the new documentary American Masters Mel Brooks: Make a Noise. Susan Lacy described Mel as a“…comedy giant and a 60-year showbiz veteran who has won more major awards than any other living entertainer. He’s a Kennedy Center honoree and one of a small, elite group of EGOT winners, people who won an Emmy, Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.” Brooks chimes in quickly, “I’m not such a comedy giant. I’m five six. There are guys not as funny, but they are bigger, and I think that counts.” This new career-spanning documentary features interviews with Brooks, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, and many others.

Brooks discussing his early childhood explained, “I said to myself, ‘one day I’m going to have a Broadway show! No factories for me, no driving in a cab, no working or renting bicycles. I’m going to write things that are in my soul, that are in my heart and I’m going to be in show business. And I knew it. And I was going to enjoy my life and have fun and live that kind of life.’ And I did.” He goes on to say, “being rather bizarre looking and being rather short, I needed another tool so that I would be accepted. So then, I used comedy.” In the documentary, well-loved Hollywood director Rob Reiner discussed Mel’s craft, “Mel works best when he’s put in a corner. My father has a way of leading him to places that are so uncomfortable and awkward for him that it forces him to have to figure out a crazy funny way to get out of it. And Mel, I think, is his best when he’s with my dad.“ [Read more →]

Crowned Univision’s Nuestra Belleza Latina (Our Latina Beauty)

By Valerie Milano

Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Today) 5/20/13   Marisela Demontecristo,  the contestant with a number of unprecedented votes (over 10 million) has been crowed the 7^th Miss Nuestra Belleza Latina and the 1^st Salvadoran to have such honor bestowed.

Marisela Demontecristo, born in El Salvador and living in Las Vegas, NV, was seen as the least likely to win the coveted crown during the 3 month contest. However, each weekend the “Cinderella” of the group won over the audience with her candid smile, humble beginnings, and perseverance. Hollywood Today sat with her prior to her crowning and asked – what would she do with the $250,000 winning prize. Her response was like no other. Marisela wasn’t looking to buy a house, to vacation at the most exclusive resort, “All I want to be able to pay for my niece’s surgery and enrich the education of the poorest children in my country,” said the humble queen.  Her niece was born with an intestinal failure and is in need of surgery in order to live life normally. [Read more →]