Home Decor: Celebrity songwriter and New York transplant Kara DioGuardi feels inspired by her Hollywood Hills home….

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Home Decor: Drawing on inspiration from its bright and lively name, Lollipop Couture emphasizes bold design and customer satisfaction in the luxury market.

Lollipop Couture provides the design industry with an alternative to using the sa…

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Good stuff from the folks at Reason – Real Clear Politics

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Equestrian ranch
Location: Mesa area of Topanga Canyon
Size: There are five bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in 4,700 square feet of living space. The lot is 6.5 acres.
Published on: Oct. 8, 2006
Listed then for: $5.85 million
Relisted for: $4,199,000 this April
Price reduction: 28.2%

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Pop star Natasha Bedingfield, who launched her own British invasion of the U.S. airwaves with such often-played hits as “Unwritten,” has purchased a home in the Los Feliz area for $2.3 million.
Read more here.

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Question: I live on the second floor of a four-floor condo complex. The pipes in my kitchen and bathroom shower are common lines, but when they clog I have to pay for their cleaning.

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Demand for entry- and mid-level houses has led to bidding wars. But many foreclosures are still off the market.

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This old L.A. ditty from the early 1920’s was passed over to me by my friend and antiquarian Peter Graser who learned it from his great grandmother’s singing of it to her daughter, Peter’s grandmother who in turn passed it to Peter’s mother who undoubtedly sung it to young Peter on [...]

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