Sunset Strip

Location: 2260 Sunset Plaza Drive, Los Angeles 90069 Asking price: $10.9 million (also for lease at $55,000 per month) Previous sales price: $8 million in 2009 Size: Main house has five bedrooms and six bathrooms in about 8,000 square feet. Guesthouse has two bedrooms and two bathrooms in about 675 square feet. Lot size: 0.6 acres (26,136 square feet) Additional features: Sauna, maid's quarters, koi pond, gated entry, motor court, three-car garage.

Kim Fowley pulls DVDs, fliers, CDs, a hospital admission slip and more DVDs out of a jumble of media on the mixing board of a drab Hollywood strip-mall studio. Per usual, the infamous pop schlockmeister has a beautiful young woman by his side. Fowley wants to transform Snow Mercy, a scientist-turned-dominatrix/performance artist, into his latest star. But he's got a dozen other hustles going on too, and he hands a reporter one copy after another of B-minus movies. They all feature Kim Fowley.

Snap. Snap. Snap. In my mind's eye, I see a layout for a design or architecture magazine. The salvaged wood boards, some silvery and weathered, a few whitewashed, used for the restaurant's exterior. The wide barn doors leading out to the courtyard in front. Rough timbered walls and a wood-clad high-pitched ceiling. Lampshades stitched from baker's linen. Industrial sewing lamps peering out from the walls over banquettes covered in a large-scale striped herringbone. The new Eveleigh on the Sunset Strip is an anomaly in a neighborhood known more for arch French or Italian chic than anything resembling this essay on the salvaged.

Mandana Dayani of "The Rachel Zoe Project" and her husband, TV executive and producer Peter Traugott , have sold their Sunset Strip-area home for $1.5 million. The traditional-style house, built in 1952, was designed for indoor-outdoor entertaining. The living room opens to a terrace on the main level, and the lower level to a swimming pool with spa. The master bedroom features dual walk-in closets, a den and a bathroom for a total of three bedrooms and 21/2 bathrooms in the 2,240-square-foot house.

The Sunset Strip gets a touch of the avant-garde by way of Adidas, as the German sportswear giant opens a pop-up shop that will stock its Y-3 collaboration with Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, as well as debuting select pieces from its affordable, eco-friendly SLVR collection. The spring and summer collection of Y-3, now in its sixth year, will be carried in the pop-up, which opened last week for a six-month run, and at a permanent Y-3 store opening April 1 at Newport Beach's Fashion Island.

A man who was kicked out of a Sunset Strip nightclub returned with a gun and shot two men, including a former guitarist with the rock band Kiss, authorities said Thursday. The shooting took place at the Rainbow Room in the 900 block of Sunset Boulevard at 1:20 a.m., said Los Angeles Sheriff's Lt. Bard Smith. An unidentified 29-year-old employee of the Rainbow Room was hit in the foot.

The Key Club will be singing a new tune beginning July 24, when the Sunset Strip venue gets a new lease on life by burning some weekly "rubber." Rubber, which is already a successful dance club in Orange County, makes its L.A. debut at the erstwhile Billboard Live on that Friday, and the hot promotions team of John Huntington and his partner Damian Sanders, a professional snowboarder, have big plans for opening night.

He was a master of glitz and glamour whose flashy, celebrity-studded restaurants turned a sleepy stretch of hillside street into the fabled Sunset Strip. Billy Wilkerson was already the founder and publisher of the Hollywood Reporter when he began dotting a one-time cow path with elegant nocturnal playpens for the stars--the Vendome, Cafe Trocadero, Ciro's and Restaurant La Rue.

The Sunset Strip corner that housed Schwab's, the famous soda fountain/film-industry hangout that closed in 1983 after 51 years, may soon have a Schwab's again. "It's part of the contract that Schwab's will go back in the building," Caroline Lembeck said.

Though Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood is such a special street, I thought there might be some lessons to be learned from the urban design issues raised by a controversial project there. The project is a combined office and residential complex at No. 8981. When, two years ago, I first glanced at its plans and renderings in an issue of Progressive Architecture magazine, they looked quite promising.

Actress Selma Blair has listed her Sunset Strip-area house at $1.78 million. The single-story home, built in 1922 and updated to a contemporary look, features white wood floors, walls of glass and fireplaces in the living room and master bedroom. Its nearly 3,000 square feet include three bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms. The gated property, surrounded by tall hedges, has a patio area for outdoor dining and a koi pond. Blair, 41, starred last year in "Darkhorse" and "Replicas.

Fashion executive and attorney Mandana Dayani and her husband, TV producer Peter Traugott , have listed their Sunset Strip area house for sale at $1.549 million. The two-story traditional, built in 1952, is designed for indoor-outdoor entertaining. The living room opens to a deck with city views on the main level and the lower level opens to a swimming pool and spa area. The master bedroom includes two walk-in closets, an office or den and a bathroom for a total of three bedrooms and 21/2 bathrooms in the 2,240-square-foot house.

Actor Ryan Phillippe has put his home in the Sunset Strip area up for sale at $7.45 million. With a master suite that takes up an entire level, the gated five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house contains 7,600 square feet of living space. Among features are a gym, a media room and separate guest or office space. The more than half-acre of grounds includes a swimming pool, a spa, a sauna and an outdoor kitchen. Phillippe, 37, starred in "The Lincoln Lawyer," released earlier this year, and "The Bang Bang Club" (2010)

Bebe Stores founder Manny Mashouf has put a Sunset Strip-area home on the market at $4.65 million. The 5,200-square-foot home opens to a backyard infinity pool, spa, fire pit and outdoor kitchen. The contemporary Mediterranean features cathedral ceilings in the living room, ocean and city views, four bedrooms, 41/2 bathrooms and a four-car garage. Public records show Mashouf bought the property in 2006 for $4.264 million. The clothing store magnate bought it for use by one of his children, who has moved to San Francisco to launch an anti-aging water called Fix, according to listing agent Susan Del Prete of Nelson Shelton & Associates.

Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we extend our subway system westward. (Hey, we're working on it.) Or maybe just your basic Asian-Russian-Latino-gay-vegetarian-barbecue-automotive-modernist-tar-pit-chili-dog weekend. In other words, it's a trip worth taking, and a great way to catch the city in the act of reinventing itself, from the Japanese department store that's now a car museum to the Jewish avenue that's now a skateboarder haven.

Musician Shannon Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars has purchased a bank-owned house in the Sunset Strip area for $900,000. The gated contemporary Mediterranean features a family room, an office, two fireplaces, a master suite with a sitting area, two other bedrooms and three bathrooms in about 2,600 square feet. Stairs off the back of the house lead to a wrought-iron enclosed swimming pool. Leto, 41, is the drummer for the rock band, whose latest album is "This Is War" (2009).

Earlier this month, the city of West Hollywood began work on repaving Sunset Boulevard for the first time since the 1930s. The makeover is more than metaphorical for many businesses on the Sunset Strip, including the iconic Key Club, which is undergoing its own beautification project -- a surprise to some who thought the club might be on its last legs. "I grew up right down the street from here, and I'm committed to bringing back the Sunset Strip night life that I remember," said new Key Club proprietor Ian Shepp inside the venue last week.

"Friends" star Matthew Perry has put two homes up for sale and sold a condo in the last three weeks. His contemporary-style house in the Sunset Strip area is priced at $5,695,000. The 4,100-square-foot mid-century modern features disappearing walls of glass that open to a patio and swimming pool, a home theater and indoor and outdoor fireplaces. There are three bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms. He bought the property in 2006 for $1.7 million. The actor's ocean-view Malibu house is listed at $13.5 million.

"Friends" star Matthew Perry has put a second home up for sale in as many weeks, this time listing a contemporary in the Sunset Strip area at $5,695,000. The 4,100-square-foot midcentury modern features disappearing walls of glass that open to a patio and swimming pool, a home theater and indoor and outdoor fireplaces. There are three bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms. Perry, 42, starred in the decade-long sitcom "Friends" starting in 1994. Since his days as Chandler Bing, he starred in "17 Again" (2009)