May 11
You wouldn’t know it from her sunny (and often hilarious) disposition on red carpets, but “Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland has been fighting kidney disease since she was a kid.
The 21-year-old actress revealed in an interview with Seventeen magazine as well as on “Good Morning America” Monday that she was diagnosed with abnormal kidney development at 9 years old.
“I would be in a lot of pain a lot of the time. If I didn’t get, like, 12 hours of sleep, it felt like none at all,” Hyland revealed. But being in the industry she’s in, she had to push forward, accommodating by often sitting down during a scene to give her body a break.
“You know, if you’re sick, you still go to work,” she said. Read full article…
May 04
The Pierpont Inn & Spa in Ventura is set to go to auction in June by order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
A potential buyer has a deal to buy the property with The Ahn (Family) Trust as the owner and seller and trustee Grace Ahn, but the court has ordered the property to go out for bid in case it can sell at a higher price, according to the bidding procedures.
The property must sell for at least $7.5 million, according to the document.
The 6.2-acre inn and spa on Sanjon Road went on the market in January for $8.5 million with Glendale-based commercial real estate brokerage Paramount Real Estate & Property Management.
The family trust filed for bankruptcy protection in November.
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Apr 10
First lady Michelle Obama continues to take Hollywood by storm. She’s appeared with David Letterman, Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres in recent months — and Saturday she made her first-ever live appearance on Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Obama presented “The Big Help Award” to country pop singer Taylor Swift for Swift’s work helping tornado and flood victims.
“I’m here because I’ve always felt an obligation to give back; to lift up others the way my parents, my teachers and mentors lifted me. And that’s something that our next honoree believes, too,” Obama said at the awards ceremony. Read full article…
Apr 08
In the 1980s, Debra Sharon Davis was a young woman working on her own as a journalist. She traveled with the Rolling Stones and also interviewed John Lennon’s close friend, the late singer/songwriter, Harry Nilsson, who shared some unknown insights about Lennon, including the fact that he struggled with bulimia.
Life moved forward and Davis filed away her notes. She got married at 20, divorced, raised two daughters as a single parent and moved on to other things, including working as a screenwriter and founding her own companies, the Westlake Village-based Davis Communications Group Inc.
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Mar 28
Music fans will have a blast rocking out at the annual SXSW Music Fest in Austin, Texas. The festival has become one of the most important events in the music industry. But with so many acts performing throughout the city, how can the average person decide which ones are really worth experiencing?
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Websites that publish music reviews often have articles devoted to their favorite acts performing at SXSW. Read full article…
