As a veteran red carpet and nightlife reporter and long-time fashion and lifestyle journalist, I’ve grown and evolved with Los Angeles and am here to speak to the over-thirty crowd. I like spending $200 on dinner, smoking quality sativa, blasting hip hop music, and anything that makes me look younger – from mood lighting to beauty products. Once a Hollywood club hopper, my nightlife taste now leans towards boujie restaurants that serve mezcal cocktails and have a solid bar scene or exclusive events with formal dress codes. I’m well-traveled, have an adoration for European music, worship fashion (though I don’t consider myself a taste-maker), go on way too many first dates, and sometimes think food is better when I’m stoned than it really is. So can you trust me to steer you through life in LA? I’ll let you decide.

Marketer Turned Mogul: Ingrid Best Makes her Mark with Launch of iBest Wines

Remember when Diddy sent Dnice a full bar stocked with Ciroc and DeLeon, exemplifying the resurgence of luxury gifting to anybody who was anybody during a time in the pandemic when we couldn’t actually be together with the way we wished? That was Ingrid.

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LA Fashion Week’s Show Stealers

The tall, slender dancer was part of the original Broadway cast of Bring It On: The Musical and later, In the Heights during his tenure in New York City. An appearance in Chris Brown’s Kiss Kiss music video launched him into the hip hop scene, and he has since worked with nearly every well-known artist and then some: JLo, Missy Elliot, and Demi Lovato, to name a few.

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Dexter Carr Talks Dance, Life, and LA’s Greatest Playground

The tall, slender dancer was part of the original Broadway cast of Bring It On: The Musical and later, In the Heights during his tenure in New York City. An appearance in Chris Brown’s Kiss Kiss music video launched him into the hip hop scene, and he has since worked with nearly every well-known artist and then some: JLo, Missy Elliot, and Demi Lovato, to name a few.

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