Coachella, Stagecoach, Neon Carnival & Music Festival Season are Back!!!

 By Laura Medina

LA’s original nightlife maven Brent Bolthouse has just announced that Neon Carnival will make its triumphant return and descend upon the desert night sky to illuminate once again on Saturday, April 16. This year’s exclusive invite-only party will be presented by iconic denim brand Levi's®, back to headline the event alongside Mexico’s original luxury tequila, Tequila Don Julio. This year’s celebration welcomes new brand additions, including Liquid I.V., DIRECTV, Monster Energy, new Smirnoff Neon Lemonades and PathWater to the festivities.

Neon Carnival will make its triumphant return and descend upon the desert night sky to illuminate once again on Saturday, April 16. The coveted after-party is back to celebrate its 11-year anniversary exclusively on weekend one of the highly-anticipated desert festival. With continued involvement from the biggest names in entertainment and consumer lifestyle, including the return of iconic denim brand Levi's®, back to headline the event alongside Mexico’s original luxury tequila, Tequila Don Julio. This year’s exclusive invite-only fête welcomes new brand additions, including Liquid I.V., DIRECTV, Monster Energy, new Smirnoff Neon Lemonades and PathWater to the festivities.

 

And for the first time this year, Neon Carnival is also going digital with two exciting opportunities. Levi’s® and Neon Carnival regular, Paris Hilton, will host the Neon Carnival

experience in the metaverse in “Paris World” on Roblox. Additionally, our longtime partner Tequila Don Julio is getting in on the digital action with a unique update that will drop the week before the party (and might even get you a ticket in), so be sure to stay tuned!

 

Returning to its permanent home located at the Desert International Horse Park, the sprawling equestrian center welcomes back festival-goers to its all grass knoll spanning three football fields, featuring carnival-style games and exhilarating amusement park thrills. No strangers to Neon Carnival, world-renowned DJs Ruckus and Kayper, return to the scene to keep the party going late into the night along with newcomer Mel DeBarge, reining from New York City and a staple in the international party arena.  

 

Conceptualized by LA’s original nightlife maven, Brent Bolthouse, and produced by Best Events, the duo has created the unrivaled outdoor dance party that is widely recognized as one of the most sought-after parties on the planet, attracting the entertainment industry’s elite year after year.

 

“We can’t wait to return back to the desert and celebrate our 11-year anniversary of Neon Carnival. It's been a long two years and we are excited to catch up with some old friends and meet new ones,” said Brent Bolthouse. “ We’ve added international party scene Mel DeBarge along with Kayper and DJ Ruckus to round out the evening and keep partygoers dancing all night long.” 

 

Levi’s®, the brand that revolutionized American fashion with their iconic 501® blue jean, returns for their fourth consecutive year as a co-presenting sponsor, and will light up the sky with their Levi’s® branded Ferris Wheel. Co-presenting sponsor, Tequila Don Julio, is back for their sixth consecutive year as well, serving up craft cocktails from the Airstream Speakeasy and celebrating with Don Julio 1942 bottle service in VIP. Wristband pick-up will be hosted by Liquid I.V. while also kicking off their on-site Neon Carnival presence with a fully branded bumper car installation emblazoned with neon signs and a steady supply of their exclusive festival-flavored Hydration Multiplier. In addition, DIRECTV, offering the best of live TV and On Demand on all your favorite screens, will transport partygoers to new dimensions and take over the VIP tent. 

Lucien Laviscount Just Found Out He's Back as "Alfie" for Third Season of "Emily in Paris," at PaleyFest.

 By Laura Medina

You all readers should had seen Lucien Laviscount's face when Darren Star broke the news that Lucien will be returning as a prominent character for the upcoming third season of "Emily in Paris" during PaleyFest, promoted from recurring character to series regular.

PaleyFest audiences were furthered treated when Lucas Bravo is nothing like his character, Gabriel.

Lucas objectively explained that Gabriel's and Camille's relationship is constantly drifting apart and that they always split apart as soon they make up then get back together.

Creator, Darren Star explains that Gabriel's and Camille's on-and-off relationship was created to add spark to the series while explaining in real life, there are couples that need to separate to have space and air in order to gain energy to come back together.

Since the show celebrates French culture, we have to talk about the clothes.

Out of all the adorable Emily wardrobe, Lilly said it was the ruffled red dress that best expresses Emily adjusting to French culture, a fashion show at Versailles.  That one moment, that one chance to go all out.

For Ashley, her half-Femme gown/half-tuxedo drag out that was her character's turning-point outfit.  Pat Fields got the outfit costumed made by The Blondie then suggest Ashley wears a half-mustache on the tuxedo side, the first episode of Season 2, "Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi?"  Now, that's pure couture.

David Lynch's "Inland Empire" Remastered with his "Rabbits."

 By Laura Medina

For y'all David Lynch fans, here's a great way to spend a whole afternoon or a whole late night, his "Inland Empire" is back, remastered with his horror shorts, "Rabbits" is glued as dream sequences.

This mega package is about an established actress making a comeback, who ends getting lost in character.

When this was first made then released fifteen, this was Terry Crew's dramatic debut.

Get lost with David Lynch.

Nickelodeon's "The Brothers Garcia" Have Grown Up Into HBO Max's "The Garcias" with Families of Their Own."

 By Laura Medina

Nickedodeon's "The Brothers Garcia" one of the first English-speaking Hispanic cast and sitcom specifically aimed at English-speaking Latin audience in the early 2000's, is returning April 14th on HBO Max, with Hispanic and blended ethnicity Millennial families of their own, as the multi-generational "The Garcias," The Garcias | HBO Max Originals

The teen and tween children of "The Brothers Garcia," has grown into Millennial family men and women, heading their own families, running their own app companies and searching for more app ideas and opportunities as they struggle to hold onto their Hispanic heritage as All-Americans as they and America develop and evolve together into what it means to be Latin and American as they blend traditions and culture with their own blended families.

As George Garcia (Bobby Gonzalez) questions if he's "Mexican" enough as a Mexican-American, his younger brother, Carlos Garcia (Jeffrey Licon) is trying to forge new ways of family traditions with his Korean-American wife, Yunjin Huh Garcia (Elsha Kim) and their Mexican-Korean American children as his mom, Sonia Garcia (Ada Maris) is struggling to adapt her traditional Mexican Catholic traditions to her daughter-in-law's spiritualism as these two ladies fight in how to raise the two Mexican-Korean/Hispanic-Asian American daughters.  This is the absolute reflection of America now, a blending of the two most prominent and rising demographics in America, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans growing and blending together, that is uniquely and realistically All-American.

All this happens during a summer family vacation in a spacious vacation house in the Mexican Riviera, while the only Garcia girl, Lorena Garcia (Vaneza Pitynski) is a busy and racially and sexually harassed local tv weather reporter, who's forced to send her son away to his brothers' families and cousins in order for him to have a vacation.  While Carlos discovered new business opportunities with the snotty All-Mexican preppies next door, big brother George is slighted by the Mexican preppies and his Mexican wife, as a Mexican-"American," George feels he's not "Mexican" enough.  This existential identity crisis is a wide-ranging and wide-spreading identity-crisis that the majority of first-generations are experiencing right now.

"The Garcias" tackled these deep issues with humor.

Wait until the last and final biting tenth episode, "George's Nightmare," where George grasping and wrestling with cultural and ethnic-identity questioning accumulated into a nightmare seriously tackling derogatory Mexican stereotypes.  His nightmare about what it means to Hispanic, mocks these insulting stereotypes.  But according to the creator and producer and director, Jeff Valdez, these derogatory stereotypes are still so sharp. that it hurt one of the actors that made her cry during rehearsals and during breaks.  However, this harmful issue still needs to be tackled, so people anywhere on the Hispanic/Latin spectrum, can be reassured that they're not alone in identity-tackling while breaking then progressing beyond stereotypes that been holding all sorts of people back.

HBO Max's "The Garcias" is an All-American show.

John Legend's Concert by Ashley Furniture & Pandora, "ASHLEY x PANDORA PRESENT HOME ON TOUR'

 By Laura Medina

John Legend's Pandora concert celebrates home with Ashley Homes.

Since John and Chrissy Tiegen are all about home, with Ashley Furniture's help, Ashley gave away home swag to make your home more chic.

Free stations of succulent plant swag but the cocktail infuser kits swags and the diffuser kits were just as popular as John Legend...

At the Diffuser Kit swag table, lucky guests to a free John Legend concert were equally lucky in crafting their own free, personalized diffuser, picking from five different fragrances with a coconut oil base with their pick of five different diffuser jars and two colors of lids; that they can mix with beige and black reeds.

John Legend, Ashley Furniture, and Pandora are all about bringing it home, while improving it with a succulent plant, while chilling over your customized diffuser and your own home-made cocktail or mocktail.

Blowfish Malibu Shoe's Blow Out for Their 4Earth collection for Spring-Summer 2022.

 By Laura Medina

Blowfish Malibu team celebrated the launch of our 4Earth collection for SS22 at a new hot-spot in Hollywood, Grandmaster Recorders. Friends, editors, and many more gathered to check out the new line, snag a new pair of shoes for themselves and enjoy drinks and bites on a rooftop under the iconic Hollywood sign. To learn more about the 4Earth project, you can do so HERE. Fun fact: every pair of shoes in this collection has an upper made up of recycled plastic bottles and for every pair sold, $1 is donated to the non-profit Oceana.

TIFFANY HADDISH SURPRISES HER BEST FRIEND WITH A DAZZLING MAIN FLOOR MAKEOVER IN APRIL 18 EPISODE OF HGTV’S ‘CELEBRITY IOU’

 By Laura Medina

 Tiffany Haddish, the Emmy® Award, GRAMMY Award® and BET Award winning comedian, actress, producer and author, will give her best friend of 20 years a special home renovation in the Monday, April 18 season premiere of HGTV’s Celebrity IOU. Airing at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and also available to stream on discovery+, the episode will spotlight Selena, who is like a sister to Tiffany and has been a lifeline for her through the highest and lowest points of her life. Working with real estate and renovation experts Drew and Jonathan Scott, Tiffany will surprise Selena with a breathtaking update to her kitchen, living area and guest bathroom.

“This is my best friend and someone that I care about tremendously,” said Tiffany. “I love how we take care of each other and this is my way of taking care of her.”

Selena’s dated home has some character, but with two children and multiple pets, she needs major upgrades to increase its durability, functionality and style. Arriving armed with big design ideas to elevate Selena’s spaces, Tiffany will swing a sledgehammer to knock out cabinets, help tile the new bathroom floor and hand pick modern finishes for the renovation.

“My friend deserves the best,” added Tiffany. “She sacrifices for so many people and she does such awesome things for others. I feel like this is the least I could do for her.”

Celebrity IOU spotlights Hollywood A-listers who wield sledgehammers and pick up power tools to help an extraordinary person in their lives get the renovation they need. The series features Drew and Jonathan and their celebrity friends as they inspire, entertain and bring fans to happy tears with deeply personal stories of gratitude. Working together with the Brothers, the celebs get their hands dirty to surprise their deserving friends and mentors with the stunning home overhauls. Celebrity IOU is produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment, with Drew and Jonathan as executive producers.

Fans are invited to visit HGTV’s digital platforms for additional fresh content from the new season of Celebrity IOU. Fans can connect with the series at HGTV.com/Celebrity-IOU and by following @HGTV and #CelebIOU on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram for extra show content and updates. Drew and Jonathan also will share more from the new episodes on their social channels at @mrdrewscott (Instagram, Twitter) and @jonathanscott (Instagram, Twitter). In addition, viewers can watch the episodes on HGTV GO the same day and time as the TV premieres—Mondays at 9 p.m.