I love making chickpea hummus! However, I am so thrilled by this recipe and the added nutritional value Edamame brings to the recipe, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to chickpeas! I had never dreamt of this fabulous concoction called Edamame hummus until one fateful Christmas Eve in Laguardua airport! My stomach rumbled as…
Check out the awesome button/magnet we are giving away for FREE tomorrow to anyone who swims with the Polar Bears on New Years Day 2012 or spends $20 or more at the Lola Star Boardwalk Boutique! This limited edition collectors item will only be available for 1 day…. Another reason not to miss the Fabulous…
“It’s been scientifically measured that the cross roads of the world ROTATE from Times Square at midnight to Coney Island at noon. The center of the universe, is moved to Coney Island during the 12 hour earth rotation.” Earlier today my friend Bruce Handy revealed this incredible discovery that we all suspected but it has…
Shimmer and I want to wish all of you an absolutely fantastic holiday! We hope that all your most extraordinary, glittering, technicolored holiday dreams come true! Thank you so much for making this an incredible holiday season and year in Coney Island and at Lola Star. We are so immensely thankful for the support, encouragement,…
It’s official! We will continue to shine on the boardwalk for the next 8 YEARS!!!!! I have some really incredible news…after much negotiating…I signed my lease to rent my boardwalk shop for the next 8 years!! I am ecstatic to have the opportunity to continue to contribute my electric hot pink aura of fabulousness to…
Hurray today is Small Business Saturday!! I so love and appreciate the color, diversity & uniqueness small biz brings to our culture! I’m immensely proud to be a part of that hard working, creative, brave group! Lola Star will be open 12-5 on the boardwalk for your small biz shopping pleasure! It was an incredible…
“WOW! That was like walking into a movie!” -customer as he walked out of my shop. Mystified and amazed! Heavenly day on the boardwalk! We’ve had some beautiful sunsets in Coney Island lately, but tonight’s was, by far, the most spectacular!! Delicious Dusk on a Fabulous Black Friday in Coney Island!
My 7 year old fantasy junk drawer is now my reality!
The holidays are here and the Lola Star Boardwalk Boutique is OPEN for your fabulous holiday shopping… and we are having a HUGE SALE this weekend only! The summer of 2011 will go down in history as the endless summer in Coney Island! The weather has been so unseasonably balmy. Although we usually close for…
You have to work pretty hard to *shock* someone in Coney Island! It is a place where the most absurdly unexpected is expected! This was the lesson that the NBC crew learned today! They were filming for Betty White’s hidden camera television show in Coney Island all day, trying to shock people on the boardwalk…
To find little Miss. Shimmer Star sleeping in her “office” at our boardwalk boutique!
Luminous blue clouds hover in the Coney Island sky!
Photographer Harvey Stein and Lola Star will be signing books on Sept 16th 7-9pm at the Lola Star Boardwalk Boutique!! Coney Island 40 years is a collection of enchanting photos taken in Coney Island from 1970-2000 by Harvey Stein! Lola Star wrote the forward for Harvey’s amazing book! Here’s your chance to pick up a…
Seagulls watching the kites swirling in the gray coney sky!
Merissa rockin her Lola Star Day of the Coney tee, high heels and a power tool while she gets our outdoor displays ready to show off our new sweatshirts!!!
No Sailor can resist droppin his anchor to visit the gorgeous sales hosteses at Lola Star!
Wow, what a week for natural disasters in NYC! Just a few days after the East Coast earthquake shook Coney Island, we received word that Irene was comin’ to town! Irene was a massive hurricane which left a duanting path of destruction behind her as she swirled up the East Cost!!! She seemed to…