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Adventures of Link: Seeing Red

October 22, 2007 at 5:00 PM | 0 Comments

Fires are still burning throughout Southern California, much to the dismay of the celebs who hang out in Malibu. Beach houses are burning, including the LG House that this summer hosted, among others, Rumer Willis, Hayden Panettiere and the girls of The Hills. We haven't heard anything yet about the fate of the Polaroid Beach House.

But there's stuff ablaze beyond SoCal. Police have tracked down the right-wing "vandal" who filled the Trevi Fountain with red dye, and a tomato juice spill gummed up the works at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Related Stories:
· Summer Party House on Fire [TMZ]
· Police Investigate Suspected Extremist [AP, via IHT]
· Tomato Juice Spill Causes Headaches [WCBS, via Consumerist]
· San Diego CVB's Wildfire Update [Official Site]
· San Diego's Local Paper Set Up a Fire Blog [Union-Tribune]

[Photo: andrewsc]

Where is the Polaroid Beach House?

August 16, 2007 at 11:50 AM | 0 Comments

Half way through August and we haven't mentioned the Polaroid Beach House in Malibu. However, Carmen Electra's carefully orchestrated bikini strip, filmed by everyone, and shown everywhere, reminded us that our readers were inquiring about the billionaire beach house earlier this summer.

This summer the house has obviously seen less of Lindsay Lohan, however, the Entourage cast and crew hosted a screening party for their current season there -- complete with large screen HD televisions, bbq style food, and plenty of booze.

As for your beach house questions, our answers are below, Carmen's bikini flaunting photos are après jump.

What is the Polaroid Beach House?
A summer beach house that aims to gather "the Hollywood it crowd to interact with Polaroid's latest gadgets". Polaroid's words, not ours.

Where is it?
Behind Ralph's on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. This map should help you out.

I am traveling to LA. Can I go?
Probably not. It is invite only, though you can walk there from a public beach, but if the tide is in you might get stuck. More likely than having to swim for it? Security intercepts and boots you long before you get to the house. However, if you are carrying a zoom lens camera and look like a weekly rag photographer, security might let you gather with the rest of the always present photogs.

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Coffee Talk: Diedrich Coffee

October 24, 2006 at 3:55 PM | 0 Comments

If you've visited Los Angeles or have had the misfortune to live there for a while, you know about the town's triumverate of coffee chains--Starbucks, Coffee Bean and Peet's Coffee.

But there's a chain out there that's better than all of them, for several reasons but great coffee and free wireless are among the top.

Diedrich Coffee is a product of Orange County where the company's headquarters started back in the 1970. However, this isn't just some old coffee shop that expanded.

Nope, the Diedrich family began their coffee obsession back in the early 1900s when the matriarch, Charlotte, inherited a coffee plantation in Costa Rica. From then on her sons and grandsons took over the business, starting up a new plantation in Guatemala and then expanding the coffee shops across Orange County.

Today there's about 23 locations in the OC and randomly, they also have a three locations in Denver and three in Texas.

Up in LA County, the Diedrich's in Malibu is a local favorite. Located across the street from the celebrity and paparazzi-ridden Malibu Country Mart (this is where Britney was driving away from with Sean P. on her lap), Diedrich's is quiet and small, but there's enough room to sit down with your laptop for an hour of free wireless, with a purchase of course.

And you will want to purchase a drink here because they are delicious and fresh. Not some mass-created junk like a frappucino. Our fave? A mocha latte with whip cream and pieces of freshly shaved chocolate sprinkled on top.

Insider Tip: If you can't handle the trek to Malibu up the Pacific Coast Highway (which can get crowded), then check out the other Diedrich location in Santa Monica on Montana Avenue. [Update: This location as of Jan. 3, 2007 is closed]

[Photo: HereinMalibu]

Kate Hudson Falls into Malibu

October 20, 2006 at 4:27 PM | 0 Comments


More than half way through October it is predictably cold and damp here in the east. However, out west, Kate Hudson shows us that the water is still perfectly fine in Malibu. Jealous, we have become.

More pics of Kate in the water.

[Photos: GossipRocks]

Related Stories:
· Malibu Beaches [Official Site]
· Malibu Beaches [Flickr]
· Malibu Coverage [Jaunted]

Lindsay Lohan and Harry Morton at the Polaroid Beach House

July 11, 2006 at 9:09 AM | 0 Comments


Lindsay Lohan camped out at the Polaroid Beach House in Malibu all weekend with her new beau, Harry Morton, of the Hard Rock Hotel Morton family. They were all over each other yesterday at the Polaroid pad.

More entertaining to us is that Morton is the face of the Pink Taco chain of Mexican restaurants. While the name is undoubtedly a bit risqué--as evidenced by protests over plans to open a branch in Scottsdale, AZ--we never would have guessed that Lindsay Lohan's boyfriend would be the source of as much controversy as LL herself. The mind boggles.

[Image via celebworld.org]

Related Stories:
·   Lindsay Lohan [Jaunted]

Nicole Richie and Mischa Barton Love the Sand

June 22, 2006 at 10:15 AM | 0 Comments



Ah, summer, it is officially here. With 21 miles of coastline, and constant celebrity sunbathers, Malibu is one of the most popular sunning locales in SoCal.

Malibu boasts plenty of private beaches with public access ways as well as plenty of popular public beaches.

Parking is a real bitch, but if you can swing it you may be sharing a stretch of beach with Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe, Carmen Electra, Brad Pitt or even Danny Devito.  Yeah, they say you haven't lived until you see Danny Devito in a speedo.

Just last week, waifs Nicole Richie and Micha Barton split a stretch of SoCal beach, toweless, with gawkers, dogs, and Malibuans, er, Malibuites, um, Malibu-agoans looking on. Can't these girls afford beach towels?

[image via D-listed]

Related Stories:
· Malibu Beaches [Official Site]
· Malibu Beaches [Flickr]
· Malibu Beach Info [TripAdvisor]

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