Apologies for being a little late with this. It's just that with Gossip Girl and The Hills on the same night, we sometimes have to boot up the ol' DVR. Besides, it really takes additional views to grasp the depth of the characters.
Audrina was given some big responsibilities at work at Epic Records and assigned The White Tie Affair music showcase at The Hollywood Roosevelt. It's the band's first trip to LA and the label wants to pimp them out to "25 select kids that really love music."
Audrina's in charge of rounding up some music-loving kids and brings in her friends Lauren, Lo, and Stephanie. Funny because just last week Lauren called Audrina's music "weird."
Can you believe it? Lindsay Lohan is turning 22! We seriously thought she was like 35 already.
Girlfriend not only looks a little worse for the wear in person she has also had more stuff happen in her young life than most peeps have in a lifetime. Super teen stardom, followed by three stints in rehab, DUIs, money woes, etc.
Nevertheless, the party must go on and diligent celebrity party sniffer-outer Perez Hilton says Lohan is throwing a bash at the Hollywood Roosevelt tonight inside the VIP bar, Teddy's. Lohan has been known to party it up in here several times before.
Wanna crash Lohan's party? The easiest way to do it is to get a room. And you're totally in luck. Rooms tonight are going for $199 on the hotel's website. That's for a superior queen-bed room in the tower. The poolside cabanas cost a little more at $369.
Tell Lindsay we said happy birthday and don't drink the water bottles! You don't know what's in there.
We haven't heard much since our last post on this hotel so look at this snapshot not for what it is, but for what it will be--probably a groovy but kind of scary boutique hotel. Have you seen Sean Mac's picture? And if you've been to the Magic Castle, you will know what we are talking about.
The first post written (by someone with the same name as us!) didn't get us too excited. It was about a family event to check out--the movie Enchanted playing at the nearby El Capitan theater. However, we were surprised to see that there were no mention of a hotel package connected with the movie so we kinda respect that.
What does Jessica Simpson do when she has a new man in her life? Well, she makes sure that she is photographed with him at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
JSimp and Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo hit up VIP club Teddy's to help celebrate her ex-assistant Cacee Cobb's 30th birthday on Saturday night. Since Jess is such a frequent visitior, perhaps would care to comment on our OpenThread about service at Thompson Hotels?
Upon our visit to the Hollywood Roosevelt last weekend, only one really good thing came out of that experience--the burger we had at the hotel's 25 Degrees restaurant. We actually went again last night to introduce our friend to this amazing burger.
Open 24 hours (dangerous!), this joint is the fourth eatery from Domaine Restaurants which also runs The Dakota inside the Roosevelt. The interior was done by Thompson Hotels pet designer Dodd Mitchell who gave the place a “Bordello meets Burger Bar” kind of look with black and chrome-mirrored tiles on the walls and with oxblood leather booths that wrap around half moon-shaped wooden tables. Adding to the cool factor are the staff's Ed Hardy t-shirts. Oh wait, that's not cool anymore.
Now onto the food.
25 Degrees serves only burgers, any kind/style/meat that you like, along with kick-ass fries and onion rings. Although we suggest ordering these fried sides in half-orders since they are huge. Plus ask for ranch dressing, you won't be sorry.
On Saturday night we hit up the "Visions of Hollywood" GQ photo exhibition at the Hollywood Roosevelt. We only did a quick walk-through of the exhibit and thus missed several celebs in the process because we were too busy drinking. But aside from this exhibit, there was a ton of other stuff going on at the hotel.
For starters the Dakota bar and restaurant was bustling with hotel guests, locals dining out and people stopping for a quick drink. Outside at Tropicana, things were quiet early in the evening but up above on the glass bridge/VIP section was the for-one-night-only RJ Dunhill smoking lounge which was created to promote a new line of Dunhill cigarettes.
Up there we spotted Bai Ling and Tommy Davidson (In Living Color alum) and sipped on Peronis while an engraving artist personalized us a cigarette case. As for Bai Ling, she looked completely bored and was on her Blackberry pretty much the entire 20 minutes she sat up there. We even snapped her in action (above.)
Down at Teddy's, rumor had it that Brett Ratner was throwing a party there but when we contemplated navigating the crowd of wannabes and suck-ups to get inside we ultimately decided a burger and fries from the hotel's 25 Degrees burger bar would be so much more fulfilling. And it was.
All in all, there was a lot of stuff happening at the Roosevelt that night and we're sure stuff like this goes on every weekend night but we just wanted to go home. We pitied the souls actually staying in the hotel who had to deal with the noise until at the earliest 1:45am. We guess some things never change.
