Media Room: Recent Coverage
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Media Kit | Recent Coverage
Here are a few highlights of West Hollywood's most recent coverage.
June 2011
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Woman's Day
(PDF)
"West Hollywood – or WeHo to locals – centred around the ever-famous Sunset Strip, is home to myriad megastars and one of the most happening party scenes in the US."
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February 2011
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Conde Nast Traveller
(PDF)
"Designer or vintage, gladrags or gifts? Catherine West, buying director for designer boutique Matches, provides her retail guide to the city."
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December 2010
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Let’s Travel
(PDF)
"Since it first opened its doors in 1964 Whisky a Go Go has been as much a part of the LA nightlife as Bourbon Street is to New Orleans. Alice Cooper, Cream, The Doors, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin to name just a very small few have played here…. there is no doubt in my mind that this is one place you must visit at night when in LA."
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October 2010
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Sunday Canberra Times
(PDF)
"A hip celebrity hangout that gave birth to some of the greatest rock legends of the 20th century, ‘WeHo’ and ‘The Strip’ are a pulsating hotbed of clubs, music venues, top end shopping and sleek hotels and restaurants.
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September 2010
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The Sun
"My jet lag was helped when I checked into the calming Mondrian Hotel, on Sunset Boulevard and was handed the first of many margaritas.
Fans of the show will be well aware of the hotel's importance. Its beautiful Sky Bar - teeming with gorgeous but, dare I say, plastic women - is featured when Grenier's character Vince moves into the hotel after selling his house to pay for a movie script. "
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August 2010
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West Hollywood Patch
"Hitting the Sunset Strip, looking for a restaurant, or planning a night on the town in West Hollywood? A new mobile application has arrived on the scene, aiming to give users what its creators call "the key to West Hollywood in the palm of your hand.""
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August 2010
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The Times Magazine
(PDF)
"Cool, quirky and contemporary, West Hollywood is the hip heart of LA"
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July 2010
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The Sunday Times
(PDF)
"Fiercely dedicated to fabulousness, and endearingly compact and manageable, West Hollywood isn't just the coolest place to visit in LA - if you want to relax and enjoy this arduous megacity, just tear up the rest of your guidebook and never leave WeHo."
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March 2010
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San Francisco Chronicle
"West Hollywood takes a funky, unpretentious angle on the Southern California vibe, veering into a curious mix of edgy bohemian and chic cosmopolitan, casually funky and religiously design-conscious."
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March 2010
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GRAZIA
(PDF)
"Those in the know head straight for West Hollywood, roughly three square kilometres of fine restaurants, hip A-list haunts and cutting-edge boutiques."
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November 2009
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Los Angeles Times Business
(PDF)
"West Hollywood's latest effort is spearheaded by a redesigned travel website (GoGayWestHollywood.com) that includes lists of hotels, clubs, bars and nighttime happenings that the visitors' bureau believes would appeal to gay and lesbian tourists."
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November 2009
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TVNZ Breakfast
"Reporter Megan Singleton hits West Hollywood, checking out luxury furniture, celebrity shopping, and gets an extreme makeover!"
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October 2009
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Western Living
(PDF)
"In Tinseltown, turning 25 is usually the beginning of the end. But West Hollywood (or WeHo, as it’s known), where modern moviemaking started on the United Artists lot at Formosa Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, is in its heyday. Since breaking away from Los Angeles in 1984, the five-square-kilometre principality is prime star-spotting territory."
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September 2009
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Mecho: The Style Black Book
"Design addicted? If so, West Hollywood is the place to stay in Los Angleles for both global and local designers as it is the new fashion mecca on the west coast. Think Christian Louboutin, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Alberta Ferretti, Maxfield and local favs such as Kitson, Sorum Noce and Makeup Mandy just to mention a few."
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September 2009
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Handbag.com
"West Hollywood, or WeHo as the locals call it, is the place to go if you want to experience the Hollywood we see on television. The streets are lined with boutiques, bars, trendy hotels and salons, basically everything you could possibly to need to have a holiday and night out worth remembering."
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September 2009
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The Sunday Telegraph
(PDF)
"Our accommodation was at Le Montrose all-suite hotel in West Hollywood – the area where the stars just quietly go about their business (picking up their laundry, shopping for clothes, stopping for herbal tea in cult cafes like Urth). In short, the neighbourhood feels relaxed.
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June 2009
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Passport
(PDF)
"With a gay overlay and uniquely friendly feel, West Hollywood is a little oasis in the middle of the big city and its diverse selection of restaurants complements this fascinating and vibrant city."
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April 2009
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Dominion Post (AUS)
(PDF)
"If all the world’s a stage, LA
shares the spotlight with New York and London, Paris and Milan, and designers seeking a global presence must be noticed in LA. So the best of
international design is shown alongside the copper and lacquer creations of Robert Kuo, the fashions of Balenciaga and Ferretti."
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April 2009
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Herald Sun
(PDF)
"WHEN movie stars come to LA for awards season, they take refuge in West Hollywood. The breeding ground for seminal rock bands such as the Doors and Guns N’ Roses, this colourful neighbourhood has undergone gentrification in the past 20 years. Home to the famous Sunset Strip, it’s a rare part of LA that can be covered on foot and therefore has more of a village feel than any other section of the city."
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March 2009
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Southern California Meetings + Events
(PDF)
"Take an area less than two square miles, cram in nearly 2,000 hotel rooms, 130 restaurants, 300 shops, 30 spas and health clubs and you have one vibrant, dynamic community. Add in sightings of today's hottest celebs and you have the inimitable West Hollywood, a star-studded destination for your next meeting or event."
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March 2009
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Brisbane News
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"On the glittering Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, you could be sipping a US$75 flute of Krug beside Jennifer Aniston at the wood-panelled Tower Bar (in the hotel where Errol Flynn, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne all lived at one time), or rocking out beside Sean Penn in the grungy Viper Room."
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March 2009
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Elle Decor
(PDF)
"The entertainment industry continues to party in WeHo, hotels and shopping are as top-drawer as ever, and live music remains a nightlife mainstay. But for tourists, West Hollywood's greatest asset is its central location. Important cultural institutions and scenes of natural splendor are few and far between within the 1.9 square mile city limits but museums, beaches, mountains, and movie studios are all close by. Better yet everything within WeHo is easily accessed on foot."
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November 2008
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Houston Pet Talk
(PDF)
"From the city's moderate climate, walkable streetscape, pet-friendly activities, boutiques and hotels, West Hollywood offers a myriad of options for you and your animal companion."
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October 2008
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e-Travel Blackboard
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"Grafton on Sunset, one of West Hollywood’s hippest Sunset Strip boutique hotels, offers its equally trendy surroundings a lesson or two in cool website conception.
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September 2008
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Handbag.com
(PDF)
"We hit the Sunset Marquis Hotel and Villas mid-afternoon and immediately know we've come across a little gem right in the centre of Hollywood.
...Without doubt, the best hotel we have ever stayed in, and one we very much hope to return to one day."
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July 2008
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Fortune
(PDF)
"On Santa Monica Blvd, a longtime hub of Russian markets, two newcomers have true Soviet swagger: Voda Spa proffers a steam bath with a coed swimming pool, below, and caviar body wraps. The Art Deco Bar Lubitsch, has an army of vodkas 200-strong and a dance floor appropriately named Red Room."
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June 2008
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Seattle Gay News
(PDF)
"Sitting pretty just below multimillion-dollar homes dotting the infamous "Hills," miles away from L.A.'s clutter of skyscrapers, and sparkling with hip celebrity hangouts is West Hollywood."
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May 2007
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Curve
(PDF)
"West Hollywood is the number one go-to place to see and be seen if you're any kind of lesbian in entertainment."
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February 2007
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Edmonton Sun
"Alberta, Canada's daily newspaper."
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