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Lululemon Athletica Inc.'s problem isn't just that a batch of its black yoga pants were made too sheer and had to be recalled - the popular retailer is now downgrading its financial predictions and watching its stock do a downward dog. The Vancouver, B.C., company said late Monday that it pulled the women's pants from its stores and e-commerce sites over the weekend after learning that the material was too revealing. The Luon fabric is produced in Vietnam and Taiwan and made with a mix of nylon and Lycra spandex fibers.

Verizon Wireless began taking pre-orders for the BlackBerry Z10 on Thursday and announced it will sell the smartphone in stores beginning March 28. The device, BlackBerry's first to run on the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, will be available from Verizon for $200 with a two-year service contract. Users who pre-order can expect their BlackBerry Z10 to arrive by March 28. Verizon will sell the phone in black as well as in white, which is exclusive to Verizon. The Z10 is a touch screen phone that has a 4.2-inch display and 16 gigabytes of internal storage.  LIVE DISCUSSION: Join us at 12 p.m. for a live unboxing of the BlackBerry Z10 Earlier this week, AT&T began taking pre-orders for the upcoming BlackBerry device.

At a spot on Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, visitors scoop up sushi, taste frozen yogurt and order lattes. But this isn't a restaurant or even a fancy supermarket. It's that Main Street staple: Walgreens. "It's like an amusement park," gushed West Hollywood resident Brent Leonesio, 30, as he eyed the line of people waiting to pick up caffeinated drinks to go. "They've kind of made this into a destination. It's actually fun to come here. " Once mainstays for late-night snack runs and toilet paper emergencies, drugstores are shaking off their stale image and going upscale.

Urs Fischer likes big gestures, and this year (April 21 to Aug. 19) MOCA is giving him the space to make them, devoting part of its Grand Avenue and Geffen buildings to a midcareer survey of the Swiss-born, New York-based artist. The show's curator, Jessica Morgan of the Tate Modern in London, gives us an early sense of what to expect. How did you come to curate this show for MOCA? Through my relationship with Urs. We've been doing projects now for 10 years or so. The first one was a big show in Iceland about [the influence of]

Interior designer Frances Merrill steps inside Phukaw, a new import shop chock-full of traditional Thai home goods, apparel and vintage textiles. It's one of those inexplicable Hollywood Boulevard juxtapositions - authentic design from Thailand's northern hill tribes, adjacent to Jumbo's Clown Room, the pole-dancing club where Courtney Love worked. Merrill grabs a roll of indigo-colored embroidered fabric, a handmade necklace and hair fob to be repurposed as room decoration, and a gingham towel.

Luxurious as it may be to sip a great cup of coffee at a coffeehouse, sometimes there's nothing better than a fresh pot brewing away first thing in the morning when you've barely got your eyes open. For some, that first cup o' joe is nothing more than a jolt to get us up and running; for others, it's still a sacred art, even if we practice it in our bathrobes. If coffee is more your passion than vice, you probably take great care about where you buy your beans. But have you considered how you store them?

Path, the social network designed for close friends and family, began rolling out its latest major update for iOS users Wednesday. In Path 3, the Silicon Valley start-up has added a private messaging feature for one-to-one messaging or group chats. Users will be able to use the new feature to send each other text and voice messages, their location, songs, books, photos and videos. Users can also send each other "stickers," which appear to be similar to emoticons but are much larger.

Designer Angelo Surmelis doesn't want all of your business at Angelo:Home, his new, 1,500-square-foot store in the historic Eastern Columbia building in downtown Los Angeles. “We're all unique; our homes should be as well,” the veteran of "Clean Sweep" on TLC and "Rate My Space" on HGTV said by email. “You should be shopping at more than one place.” Some readers may not need to. The Angelo:Home collection includes more than 800 products including furniture, lamps, rugs and bedding in an array of styles, all at affordable prices that include shipping from the store's warehouse to your door.

Swanky Rodeo Drive is getting a new occupant as British brand Burberry brings its oft-copied tartan patterns and popular trench coats to the upscale Beverly Hills shopping strip. The brand is expected to bring its a new flagship store to Southern California in 2014 after recently launching outposts in London, Hong Kong and Chicago. The London chain was founded in 1856. It is slated to open in a space currently occupied by luxury menswear line Ermenegildo Zegna. The company already has another store in Beverly Hills on Wilshire Boulevard.

Assi Natural Market carries dozens of kimchi products. There are more than 200 kinds of dumplings. Its carts mimic the red and green of Sriracha sauce bottles. All of which seems to indicate a pretty standard Asian grocery. But once it opens this month in Irvine, Assi aspires to be a hybrid of cultures - like the growing and increasingly moneyed population of second-generation Asian Americans it hopes to draw into its aisles. The goal, manager Thomas Yoon said, is to become the Whole Foods of ethnic supermarkets.