Alexander Stuart

Wishing everyone a very happy Chinese/Vietnamese/Asian/Lunar Year of the Rabbit! May we all hop with joy:)

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Photographs by Alexander Chow-Stuart Situated right next door to the Pacific Palisades office of realtor Coldwell Banker is my British friend Dennis Giedd's hair salon, The London Colour Studio (tel: 310-573-9444). When I visited Dennis recently, I was stunned by the design of the salon, which is almost entirely the work of Dennis himself. Using a mix of stone, metal and a technique of dripped wax that a friend of Dennis' perfected, a relatively small and intimate space has been transformed into a warm and welcoming salon. Featuring a water wall that is Dennis' trademark from his earlier salons, The London Colour has a mood somewhere between LA contemporary and a modern London private member's club, such as the Soho House. Dennis, an award-winning stylist who trained at Vidal Sassoon and has been a hairdresser for thirty-four years - including stints in Paris and Milan - is an expert at hair color, as his salon's name might suggest. If you're in West

Screengrab from Al Jazeera English: Live Stream

Screengrab from Al Jazeera English: Live Stream It is hard not to be moved by today's huge and very peaceful demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square - and similar demonstrations elsewhere in Egypt - estimated by Al Jazeera English to be well over one million people, with numbers possibly as high as two million, with crowds in surrounding streets trying to enter the square. It is possible to set politics aside for a moment and simply reflect on - and empathize with - the sheer outpouring of emotion and energy of such a mass of humanity. Astonishing, too, to think that these demonstrations in Egypt would have been unthinkable a week ago. These crowds are not the result of an organized movement, although some initially used Facebook and Twitter to initiate protests last week, and certainly both social networks have been critical around the world in communicating international support (from individuals, if not so swiftly from governments) to those who wish for peaceful chang