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By Laurel Modlen/ Julia Posey Hidden behind a wooden gate on a quiet residential street in West Hollywood, a compound of English Tudor-style bungalows has become a fairy-tale-like home away from home for those lucky enough to discover its charms. Sprinkled with the pixie dust of Hollywood history, the property at 819 North Sweetzer was…

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By: Jasmine Gokbilgin Editor-in-Chief/TV Host Media Personality As unpredictable life proves to be, it is full of surprises and just when you think you know your town, think again. Just when you think you experienced the most beautiful moment, you can be moments away from experiencing another one, it’s just a matter of being open…

Entering the Charlie Chaplin cottage, I stooped to avoid hitting my head. At 5 feet 8, I’m about 3 inches taller than Chaplin. (It’s said the Little Tramp had the door made small so his guests would have to bow as they entered.) I was at the Charlie, an eccentric but charming West Hollywood hotel occupying a…

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The city of West Hollywood – colloquially known as ‘WeHo’ to locals – encompasses the legendary clubs of LA’s Sunset Strip, Melrose Avenue’s fashion boutiques, a high-end art gallery and design district and an out-and-proud LGBT community centred on Santa Monica Boulevard. It’s also, historically, where Old Hollywood lived, slept and played, and where the…

In 1924, the Ruth Gordon family built Charlie Chaplin a set of private bungalows as a countryside escape. In 2008, the property opened as The Charlie in what’s now West Hollywood. Although no one knows for sure which old Hollywood stars absconded to the hideaway, hotelier Menachem Treivush made the most of the rumors by…