SEPHORA OPENS NEW STORE AT THE AMERICANA AT BRAND

Beauty retailer Sephora, will open a new store at The Americana at Brand on Friday, January 28. Supermodel and actress Josie Maran, creator and founder of Josie Maran Cosmetics a popular line at Sephora, will be on-hand to participate in the opening celebration and will take photos and meet with Sephora customers from 10 a.m. to noon. As part of the grand opening festivities the first one hundred customers will receive a Sephora gift card. In addition, Maran’s talented team of make-up artists will be at Sephora all day to offer the latest beauty tips and tricks of the trade to customers. The new 5,800-square-foot store at The Americana at Brand will feature over 13,000 products from more than 200 brands that are favorites of Sephora fans.

Dont miss this opportunity to get beauty tips and tricks by Sephora's talented team!!

Friday, January 28 10a.m. – opening event
10 a.m. – Noon – meet-and-greet and photo-op with Josie Maran
Throughout the day make-up artists will offer customers beauty tips and tricks



For more information:

www.americanaatbrand.com

35 State Street Hotel Partners Acquires Santa Barbara’s Hotel Californian

35 State Street Hotel Partners, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment and development company led by Michael Rosenfeld, managing partner of Next Century Associates, owners of the famed Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, has acquired the 1920s era Hotel Californian in the State Street Waterfront district in Santa Barbara along with two neighboring parcels.

Known as Entrada de Santa Barbara, the three parcel project is fully entitled for a 114-room luxury hotel, nine fractional vacation units, and 21,557 square feet of retail space with open plazas, paseos and gardens, all designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style of Santa Barbara. The project designed by DesignARC of Santa Barbara has also received Design Approvals from the Santa Barbara Historical Landmarks Commission.

35 State Street Hotel Partners is an affiliate of Woodridge Capital Partners, LLC, a broad based real estate investment company with hotel, residential and commercial assets throughout the United States. Woodridge and its CEO Michael Rosenfeld have been active in the real estate industry for more than 20 years.


For more information check out today's LA Times article:

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-hotel-20110120,0,3900009.story

Unveiling of the Architectural Designs for The New Broad Museum

Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad

Casey & Sayre CEO Barbara Casey and City Councilwoman Jan Perry

Architect Liz Diller- Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Community Redevelopment Agency Chairman Kenneth H. Fearn

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Eli Broad

The New Broad Museum will be home to the worldwide headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation, which Eli and Edythe Broad created in 1984 as a pioneering lending library for contemporary artworks.

Dedicated to increasing access to contemporary art for audiences worldwide, the foundation has made nearly 8,000 loans to 485 museums and galleries around the world. The Broad Collections are among the most prominent and important collections of postwar and contemporary art in the world and have more than 2,000 works by nearly 200 artists.

http://www.broadartfoundation.org/

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Represented by Robert C. O’Brien of Arent Fox in Lawsuit Against Topps

The 80-year-old retired astronaut filed a lawsuit against Topps on Monday.
Robert C. O’Brien and Stephen Larson, co-counsel for Dr. Buzz Aldrin and StarBuzz LLC, filed a complaint against Topps Company, Inc., contending that the trading card company had unjustly profited from his historic achievement by including a photograph of the Apollo 11 mission in a series of trading cards.

The suit was filed as a last resort after Topps repeatedly refused to refrain from using Dr. Aldrin’s name, image or signature without his consent, or to compensate him for such unauthorized use.

Dr. Aldrin has been represented for over 12 years by Robert C. O’Brien, managing partner of Arent Fox LLP, Los Angeles, who has handled hundreds of infringement matters.

For more information check out today's LA Times article:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/12/astronaut-buzz-aldrin-sues-topps-for-trading-card-profits.html

About Arent Fox LLP:

http://www.arentfox.com/