Glass House

The minimalist, loft-style Glass House was designed to make the most of its ocean and sandy beach views. An 11-foot-tall folding door system allows indoor-outdoor living, while channel glass side walls bring diffused natural light into the interiors. Location: 2316 The Strand, Manhattan Beach 90266 Asking price: $11 million Year built: 2001 Architect: Roger Kurath House size: Two bedrooms, three bathrooms, 3,963 square feet Lot size: 3,503 square feet Features: Exposed H beams, curved walls of glass, spiral staircase, living room fireplace, billiard room, media room, circular glass shower with skylight, ocean-view spa bath tub, two-car garage.

The minimalist, loft-style Glass House was designed to make the most of its ocean and sandy beach views. An 11-foot-tall folding door system allows indoor-outdoor living, while channel glass side walls bring diffused natural light into the interiors. Location: 2316 The Strand, Manhattan Beach 90266 Asking price: $11 million Year built: 2001 Architect: Roger Kurath House size: Two bedrooms, three bathrooms, 3,963 square feet Lot size: 3,503 square feet Features: Exposed H beams, curved walls of glass, spiral staircase, living room fireplace, billiard room, media room, circular glass shower with skylight, ocean-view spa bath tub, two-car garage.

MUSIC When the Village Voice's year-end music poll was topped by the Bay Area-based Tune-Yards (a.k.a. Merrill Garbus), the cries of "Who?" in some circles were deafening. Deserving of an audience beyond true believers and rock critics, the big-voiced Garbus mixes up Afro-pop and folk with an experimenter's ear for chance creation while looping herself on a sampler. Also headlining this stopover between Coachella sets is St. Vincent, whose knotty songs take on more blood and grit live courtesy of the guitar pyrotechnics of mastermind Annie Clark.

Showtime was only minutes away at the Glass House in Pomona on a recent Saturday night as Michael Quercio, Danny Benair, and Louis Gutierrez, three original members of the Los Angeles psychedelic pop quartet the Three O'Clock, prepared for their first live show together in 28 years. With the exception of the band's frontman Quercio, who at 50 has maintained the boyish looks that made him a local heartthrob in the 1980s, the rest of the band bore little resemblance to their musical personas of old - a reality they were willing to joke about.

When real estate agent Earl Gervais advertises an open house at 751 Oak Crest Drive in Sierra Madre, he isn't kidding. His listing is a glass pyramid perched in the foothills, with a view all the way to downtown L.A. It is a famous--or, some would argue, an infamous--landmark known to the local gentry simply as "the glass house." While there hasn't been an acceptable offer, luring lookie-loos has not been a problem.

CBS has dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit againstABC's reality series "The Glass House," which the network had contended was a close copy of its"Big Brother" reality show. Executives maintained the low rating of "Glass House" made the suit unnecessary. "The viewers have spoken and delivered the ultimate form of justice against 'The Glass House,' " said the statement from CBS. "As a result, we filed in federal court this morning a voluntary dismissal without prejudice of our claims against ABC. " However, CBS left open the door for further legal action: "We reserve the right to re-file this claim against ABC/"The Glass House" or any other entity, that goes to such shocking lengths to duplicate our copyright material.

Reality TV paid a visit to Santa Ana this week. But there were no phony millionaires or aspiring pop singers. Instead, Arlene Lane and Jo Telles put their friendship to the test as cameras filmed them living in and decorating a glass house inside the MainPlace mall for 24 hours, ending at noon Thursday. "I did, originally, want my husband to come on the show," Lane said. "But I wanted to stay married." So she asked Telles, a friend and coworker at the Southern California Gas Co.

"The Glass House" is so laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all. Since its producer, Neal H. Moritz, has among his credits such diverse successes as "The Fast and the Furious," "Cruel Intentions" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," it is hard to understand what he saw in this hopelessly contrived script, credited to Wesley Strick, that is studded with increasingly wretched dialogue.

BOOKS Moby On his website, the electronic-music maker describes his new album, "Destroyed," as "a soundtrack for empty cities at 2 a.m. " Moby will sign copies of the album and its companion book, a collection of photographs capturing his life on the road. Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 7 p.m. (310) 659-3110. http://www.booksoup.com. COMEDY Huebel and Scheer Present Crash Test Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer of MTV's hit sketch comedy show "Human Giant" convene for their bimonthly humor fest.

Luci Baines Johnson remembers going to sleep to the echoes of protesters outside the White House yelling, "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?" Peggy Hoover Brigham, granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, recalls a time during the Great Depression when the mother of a childhood friend forbade them to play together. "She's responsible for your father losing his job," Brigham remembers the woman telling her friend.

It's April, which is good news for the roughly 180,000 music fans who have tickets to the sold-out Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, set for the weekends of April 12 and April 19. But for those who find themselves shut out of the annual festival in the desert, there are numerous noteworthy concerts happening closer to home. Most even feature modern amenities such as air conditioning, and many, in fact, include artists performing at Coachella. Granted, you won't be seeing 100-plus acts over a three-day span, but for less than the cost of one $349 general admission Coachella wristband, one can undertake a more than worthy pop-music crash course over the next four weeks.

This post has been updated. See below for details. A number of factors contributed to the power of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' show in Pomona on Friday night. Among them: the fans, the venue, the spirit, the sound, the moshing, the opening band, the headliners and the casual feeling that we were all at a rehearsal space hanging out. Appearing in a warm-up show in advance of their forthcoming fourth album, which arrives in the spring, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the hub around which all this positive action occurred.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And if that glass house has two 12-sided, almost circular, mostly door-less structures with precious few straight interior walls? Then hanging art, relying on conventional right-angled furniture and even closing the kitchen door to have a mid-dinner powwow with your better half are all pretty near impossible. But Shannon and Peter Loughrey, owners of Los Angeles Modern Auctions , say those are minor grievances when compared with the novelty of living in their Encino hilltop home.

Documentarians David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have pieced together an eye-opening account of a form of human trafficking: an industry that sends pubescent European girls to Asia as wannabe models, offering meaningless contracts and no accountability. As an indictment of 'an unscrupulous business, "Girl Model" is more impressionistic than investigative. The nonaggressive approach can be frustrating, but it nonetheless gets under the skin-deep promises of glamour and wealth that lure a seemingly endless stream of very young hopefuls.

CBS has dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit againstABC's reality series "The Glass House," which the network had contended was a close copy of its"Big Brother" reality show. Executives maintained the low rating of "Glass House" made the suit unnecessary. "The viewers have spoken and delivered the ultimate form of justice against 'The Glass House,' " said the statement from CBS. "As a result, we filed in federal court this morning a voluntary dismissal without prejudice of our claims against ABC. " However, CBS left open the door for further legal action: "We reserve the right to re-file this claim against ABC/"The Glass House" or any other entity, that goes to such shocking lengths to duplicate our copyright material.

Even the No. 1 network has been feeling the pain this summer. CBS may be the most-watched broadcaster, but it's wallowed in the same doldrums afflicting everyone else as viewership has declined this year. "This summer has been a little soft for everybody," CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler admitted Sunday at a Television Critics Assn. session in Beverly Hills. The latest evidence? CBS' reality dating show "3" previewed to weak ratings last week. On Sunday night, "3" was set for the thankless job of officially premiering opposite the third night of NBC's Olympics coverage.

Twenty-six cameras track them 24 hours a day, from the shower to the exercise room and into their rumpled beds (why don't they ever make them?), where goateed Maxim tries to convince strawberry-blond Olga that going all the way in front of millions of viewers is part of the job. "Easy for you to say," she answers breathily as he tries to detach the microphone strapped to her back. "You're a boy. Can you just imagine what people are going to call me?"

This post has been updated. See below for details. A number of factors contributed to the power of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' show in Pomona on Friday night. Among them: the fans, the venue, the spirit, the sound, the moshing, the opening band, the headliners and the casual feeling that we were all at a rehearsal space hanging out. Appearing in a warm-up show in advance of their forthcoming fourth album, which arrives in the spring, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the hub around which all this positive action occurred.

CBS tried to shutter ABC's reality series "The Glass House," but a federal judge on Friday said the show will go on. Claiming the ABC series is a "Big Brother" copycat, CBS filed for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against "Glass House" that would have blocked its Monday premiere. The network had already sued ABC and "Glass House" producers claiming copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets; that suit is still pending.

MUSIC When the Village Voice's year-end music poll was topped by the Bay Area-based Tune-Yards (a.k.a. Merrill Garbus), the cries of "Who?" in some circles were deafening. Deserving of an audience beyond true believers and rock critics, the big-voiced Garbus mixes up Afro-pop and folk with an experimenter's ear for chance creation while looping herself on a sampler. Also headlining this stopover between Coachella sets is St. Vincent, whose knotty songs take on more blood and grit live courtesy of the guitar pyrotechnics of mastermind Annie Clark.