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Gwyneth Paltrow's Shiny, Happy Cities

"As strange, spread out and flatly lit as it can sometimes be, Los Angeles, with its bougainvillea, sea breezes, avocados and eccentric inhabitants, is like no other place and will always be in my soul," Gwyneth Paltrow writes in the latest installment of her newsletter GOOP. We can't account for what made us sign up for this vanity project, which promises to "nourish the inner aspect" with glossy weekly lists of things to buy and do, but her last two travel-related dispatches have us downright confused.

After recommending holistic detoxes and cutting "white" foods in an earlier edition, Paltrow spends the lion's share of her LA report recommending... restaurants, from her best buddy Mario Batali's Mozza on Melrose to "authentic deli food" in Beverly Hills. Some of her choices are solid--the treats from Joan's on Third and Intelligentsia Coffee both got high marks from us--but the whole thing reads like anorexia porn. (Not to mention the weird fixation on mentioning which restaurants are located in mini-malls, but maybe that's a SoCal concern.) And what is there to do in LA? Besides the Griffith Observatory, it's all farmer's markets.

In fairness to Gwynnie, her previous week's report listed two art exhibits to catch there, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Honor Fraser Gallery. But that's shoved in with her other adopted hometowns, like New York, London, Madrid and (really?) New Orleans. What we're saying is: Gwyneth, why must you make us hungry?

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