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Got a minute? Joe E. Tata, better known as the Peach Pit's lovable proprietor Nat, speaks out about returning to Beverly Hills for the new 90210 and what we can expect the revamped crew to serve up.

Q: How do the new actors compare with the original cast?

A: It's tough to say that yet, because everybody smiles and everybody is nice. And when we first met back then, everybody smiled and everybody was nice.

Q: So we don't have any gossip-column divas yet?

A: Oh, not yet. Give 'em a chance to make some money. I used to say I was the Tony Curtis of the show—you know, the old guy. Then, after the third year, they were telling me what to do. They were explaining to me what the situation was.

Q: What can we expect from the new Peach Pit?

A: I have no idea. Everything has been a mystery to me. We shot at this restaurant. They made it the Peach Pit—upscale, a little more restaurant-ish, if you will.

Q: What's happening with the Peach Pit's infamous nightclub, After Dark?

A: After Dark is now going to just be called the Pit. Now, that's the only scoop you get, sweetheart. I can hear Aaron Spelling's voice: "Joey, be careful what you say, now."

Q: How did it feel running around with a bunch of high-schoolers?

A: I was just the oldest kid in the group. Instead of being just the guy that owned the restaurant, the writers made me the hub of everything. I was the surrogate everybody: the brother, the uncle, the father they didn't have or see. It was really aces.

Q: Who was a better match with Dylan: Brenda or Kelly?

A: I don't know. I was the only person on the show that never got laid. Does that help? So therefore I don't know Brenda, Kelly, or, you know, Tori or whatever. Pick one—whoever was there. I wanted to raise my hand during the press tour—put my hand up and ask a question. I was gonna say, "I want two questions answered: Am I really gonna run the Peach Pit? And do I get laid this time?" Ruth Baron

Brenda says goodbye to Nat and the Peach Pit.

Photograph by Greg Delves

Before night falls, stick to a light, citrusy cologne with undertones of bergamot, neroli, ginger, or mint. Kayleen Schaefer

1. Versace Pour Homme ($72), nordstrom.com
Geranium and bitter-orange notes reminiscent of the Mediterranean.

2. Prada Infusion D'Homme ($100), neimanmarcus.com
Clean and soapy with a kick of iris.

3. Tommy Hilfiger Hilfiger ($59), macys.com
A papaya-and-grapefruit blend that's as subtle as a chalk-striped suit.

Check back next Thursday for colognes to wear after dark.

-By Michael Macko, Details Fashion Director

The keffiyeh started out as a headdress for Arab men, protecting them from direct sun exposure and shielding their eyes and mouths from blowing sand. In the sixties, the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat adopted it as a symbol of the resistance movement and was rarely seen without one. And like the Che Guevara T-shirt, the keffiyeh quickly went from political symbol to fashion statement, causing controversy along the way: In May, Dunkin Donuts pulled a commercial featuring Rachael Ray after the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin claimed that the scarf she was wearing in the ad resembled a keffiyeh.

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While the company A Peace Treaty didn't introduce the signifier-cum-accessory to the fashion world, the two women behind the scarf line that launched this year—Farah Malik, a Pakistani Muslim, and Dana Arbib, a Libyan Jew—have updated its meaning. The friends were originally inspired by the fall/winter 2007 Balenciaga show that featured embellished scarves in the style of the keffiyeh. They took that idea and evolved it further, fashioning their versions from fabrics in bold checks and in-your-face stripes that don't so much co-opt the keffiyeh's message as riff on it.

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The Peace Treaty girls didn't just want to make a beautiful product, though—they also wanted to do some good. Each scarf is hand-sourced from a different region of Pakistan, where, as with Scotland's tartans, weaving techniques are indigenous to specific areas. This means that local craftspeople get to continue to hone their skills while earning a living. Each scarf takes approximately two months to complete, and only 30 of each style are made.

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Get your hands on one now and you can wear it through Indian summer and right into the chill of autumn. It's also important to note: The summer scarf was the standout accessory on the spring 2009 runways, so when the warmer weather returns, you'll be ahead of the other guy by a neck.

Photograph by Greg Delves. Denim jacket ($90) by Levi's.

The jean jacket may be the most egalitarian article of clothing a man can own. Embraced over the years by both the Establishment and the anti-Establishment, it transcends time, class, and trends. Wear an inky version with a polo shirt and khakis and it's unequivocally preppy; put the collar up on a washed-out model and it reads punk. But the most versatile—and modern—breed of denim jacket is close-cut and worn and looks like it came with a built-in history. Courtney Colavita

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Smart high-school comedies have more to offer than camera-friendly teens. See Election, Clueless, and now Hamlet 2—in which Steve Coogan plays a talentless drama teacher who attempts to save his school's theater program with a musical sequel to Shakespeare's Oedipal tragedy. It's helped along by gifted kids and some cheeky controversy: The musical numbers (like "Rock Me Sexy Jesus") and the wildly profane script (sample direction: "The time-machine door opens, revealing Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, and Hillary Clinton having what appears to be group sex") spark knee-jerk protests, which ignite support from a First Amendment lawyer (Amy Poehler). But throughout all this it's the sublimely absurd Coogan—he asks a Kinko's employee, "Which color do you think works best for a controversial piece of sociopolitical agitprop theater?"—who proves that sharp adult quips can carry a high-school musical. Ruth Baron

The sing-a-long for "Rock Me Sexy Jesus"

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Got a minute? A Continuous Lean's Michael Williams chats about workwear, bad style, and his up-and-coming blog.

Q: You work at your own PR firm by day. What made you take up blogging as a hobby?

A: There are a lot of great women's-style blogs, but men are underrepresented. Everything was either super-straight—about cars, drills, outdoor grilling equipment, or other shit I don't care about—or it was just too gay. I wanted to have a mix. It's for the guy who likes to buy certain labels, but it's not that serious.

Q: What are you into right now?

A: Rolled pants, bow ties . . . What's happening in menswear with all of this tailored and preppy stuff is pretty amazing. Fall is only going to have more of the plaids and classic American looks. D&G's fall collection is so American-looking. To see the Italians being influenced by American menswear is amazing. I'm totally digging it—my style is pretty classic and I'm pretty conservative about what I wear. I hope it lasts for a while so I'll be cool for a little bit longer.

Q: How do you pick what to cover?

A: I can't compete with other sites on covering brands like Robert Geller, and I don't want to regurgitate what's out there—there's so much. So I try not to cover a lot of New York brands. I'm obsessed with workwear, and there's this guy Christophe Loiron in L.A. who does MisterFreedom. He makes all of these antique, vintage reproductions from navy uniforms and coats, but the attention to detail is insane. Southwick is another favorite brand. It's a tailoring company—they make a lot of garments for Brooks Brothers. It's all made in the United States, and I'm a junkie for things that are made domestically.

Q: So why don't you take the catty approach to covering fashion? Like, "Can you believe Josh Hartnett wore that?"

A: It's so much easier to be negative about clothing than it is to say good things. Plus, bad-looking things don't look good on your site. I don't want to look at bad clothing—if you go outside, you can look at that all day long. Ryan Wenzel

As originally conceived, The 19th Wife [Random House, $26], David Ebershoff's novel based on the life of Ann Eliza Young, who publicly divorced Mormon pioneer Brigham Young, was to be set solely in the 19th century. But after he traveled to the compound of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect, Ebershoff realized that, 200 years later, little had changed. "I noticed there was a cop on my tail," says Ebershoff, 39. "I was literally driven out of town. I thought, 'Can that happen in the 21st-century United States?'" In the resulting book, Ebershoff meshes Mrs. Young's story with that of a present-day 20-year-old man investigating his father's murder after his mother (a 19th wife) is accused of the killing. "I personally don't have reason to object if a man wants to live with 19 women," Ebershoff says, "but when children are involved, it becomes a much more complicated question." Timothy Hodler

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Got a minute? Rapper and resident of New Orleans' Ninth Ward Kimberly Rivers talks about turning her home movies of Hurricane Katrina into the documentary Trouble the Water.

Q: What made you start filming your neighborhood the day before Katrina hit?

A: From what everybody was saying, it seemed like history was going to be made. I was going to record it just in case. I did it just to show my kids—and in case we died, so somebody would find the camera.

Q: When did you know it wasn't going to be just another storm?

A: The experience of the weather changing and the moods and the constant broadcasting—I knew it was going to be something major. I didn't even know what the word catastrophic meant. I didn't understand the degree of the hurricane or what was going to happen. If I would have known that, we would have been walking.

Q: You met filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin at the Superdome when you were staying there. How did that relationship develop?

A: When I first met them, they had the upper hand on me. They knew the business and I didn't. I didn't have enough time to read about it in books, and nobody around me knew film, so I was kind of afraid when I met them. But after they earned my trust to some degree, I kind of relaxed.

Q: Do you still have the $20 camera you used to make your movie?

A: Why, you want to buy it?

Q: I'll give you what you paid for it.

A: Twenty dollars? Please. I'll take $20,000.

Q: Why is Katrina still on so many people's minds after three years?

A: I don't think it's on people's minds enough. We should have more progress in New Orleans. Katrina is actually still going on. It's history, man. It's American history, New Orleans history, black history—a time capsule, you know?

Q: Do you agree with Kanye West that President Bush doesn't care about black people?

A: What I think is what I know. Watch the news. Go to New Orleans and see. They rebuilt the French Quarter. California has been back on the map after earthquakes; Florida is back on the map. They were rebuilt. Yes, I believe that he's got a thing against black people.

Q: You still live in New Orleans. Do you keep your house stocked with supplies?

A: No, I just keep my truck gassed up. Yaran Noti

The trailer for Trouble the Water

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Meet one of the men shaping the future of American fashion. Courtney Colavita

Name: Richard Chai, thirtysomething

Résumé: Geoffrey Beene, A/X: Armani Exchange, Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, TSE

Plan: "They are clothes that don't make a guy feel precious or overdressed or uncomfortable," says Chai of his layer-heavy collection of cardigans (long and chunky or slim with silk ruching), double-breasted jackets, and black or cream jeans that bunch at the ankle. Available at Barneys New York.

-By Michael Macko, Details Fashion Director

A story on the front page of the June 4 edition of the Wall Street Journal sounded the death knell of the necktie in America. The article focused on the hard times for the American Dress Furnishings Association, a trade group that represents American tie makers, whose membership dropped from 120 during its 1980s, power-tie heyday to just 25 at present. The story cited a recent Gallup poll, which found that the number of men in the United States who reported wearing ties to work every day reached a record low of 6 percent last year, down from 10 percent in 2002.

Ties, from left: Z Zegna, Alexander Olch. John Varvatos, Prada. Tie bars, from left: Paul Stuart, Dolce & Gabbana. (Photo by Michael Macko)

But the truth is—as many fashion insiders have noted—rumors of the necktie's demise have been greatly exaggerated. "Ties are absolutely not dead to the fashionable younger guy, who doesn't have to wear one," says wunderkind tie designer Alexander Olch. Men in their twenties and thirties don't need to wear a knot with wing tips and a suit for meetings—they choose to put one on, more likely with jeans and a cardigan.

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One key component to this casual necktie look is the tie bar. Before its 21st-century renaissance, the accessory-to-the-accessory found fans among the likes of Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra.

Tie by Dolce & Gabanna. Tie bar by Thom Browne. (Photo by Michael Macko)

And while this add-on is hardly new to the modern stylish guy, cool designers like Thom Browne and Dolce & Gabbana are now retrofitting it to go with the super-skinny ties that were still all over the fall runways (another death prematurely reported). Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana—who have a tie that comes in at less than 1.5 inches wide—have shrunk the classic tie bar proportionately. Browne created one that, at one inch, is the smallest of the lot, and he did so out of personal necessity. "My ties are narrower than most," he says. That's no small feat.

Johnny Flynn, A Larum [Lost Highway]

Our rating: 3.5 out of a possible 5

A Shakespearean actor turned folkie? Don't worry—Flynn is like Damien Rice but with cojones. His mix of traditional English melodies and American blues is catchy without being precious—especially on the Pogues-like romps "Leftovers" and "Sally," which reek of the booze in which they were born. Matt Hendrickson

The music video for "Leftovers"

The Faint, Fasciination [blankwav]

Our rating: 2.5 out of a possible 5

Blander than LCD Soundsystem and funkier than the Rapture, the Faint occupy dance-rock's middle ground. Their fifth album is edgier (see "The Geeks Were Right"), but still between fire and ice—where, as Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls says, you find lukewarm water. Matt Hendrickson

The band performing "The Geeks Were Right" in concert

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This month James Bond's carmaker of choice rolls out its first project since splitting from its parent company, Ford: an update of the hand-built V8 Vantage. While the exterior is unchanged (and for good reason), the inner workings of the car have been reimagined. A new center console is carved from die-cast zinc alloy, and a bigger, 420-hp engine takes it to 60 in just 4.7 seconds—and it does so with 13 percent more fuel efficiency. The Vantage's sticker price of $113,400 (a fraction of the cost of other Astons) places it squarely in Mercedes S-Class territory. Think of it as an extremely sophisticated gateway drug. Ian Daly

The Aston Martin V8 Vantage in action

You'd think you wouldn't want your place to look like a hotel room. But when the sleepover spot in question is a stylish operation furnished with some of the best new design out there, copycatting can be a good thing. These destinations let you take home a lot more than mini-toiletries. Monica Khemsurov

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1. Viceroy Hotels
On the website for the Kelly Wearstler-designed Viceroy hotels in Santa Monica and Palm Springs, California, you can order neoclassical pieces like ornate plaster wall adornments ($90) and nickel drawer pulls ($60 each).

1819 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, and 415 South Belardo Road, Palm Springs; 800-439-3719

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2. Dream Hotel
From the relaxation-driven Dream Hotel (or its website), you can get a bed ($1,100) or a desk ($2,000) that emits a soothing blue glow. There are also less New Age-y items like white leather lounge chairs ($690) and aluminum Artemide lamps ($220 to $410).

210 West 55th Street, New York, 866-437-3266

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3. The Keating Hotel
At the first hotel crafted by Pinin-farina, the company behind cars for Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati, luxe Italian design is applied to espresso machines ($700), chaise longues ($4,500), and glass-and-steel end tables ($450).

432 F Street, San Diego, 877-753-2846

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4. Claska Hotel
This spring, Tokyo's original bou-tique hotel got a makeover that involved the work of up-and-coming Japanese artisans; some of it, like Shimizu pottery teapots ($45), spare wooden tissue boxes ($20), and Noguchi lamps ($68), is for sale in its Do shop and online.

1-3-18 Chuo-Cho, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan; 011-81-3-3719-8121

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster [Henry Holt, $23]

Brooklyn's most accessible absurdist ventures into Philip K. Dick territory in this eerily sparse novel, in which an elderly auto-accident victim imagines an alternate America where the 2000 presidential election led to civil war—and the World Trade Center was never destroyed. Timothy Hodler

X-Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker by Alex Cox [Soft Skull, $18]

The director of cult classics like Repo Man and Sid & Nancy chronicles his battles with film executives and actors including Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, and Harry Dean Stanton. But this isn't just a memoir: It's also an inspiring—and acerbic—how-to guide. Timothy Hodler

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Meet one of the men shaping the future of American fashion. Courtney Colavita

Name: George McCracken, 26

Résumé: Visual merchandiser at Bergdorf Goodman

Plan: McCracken's first collection is made up of narrow black jeans, pullover hoodies, cropped leather and nylon bombers, and waxed-cotton parkas. "I like the idea of unbranded or anonymous clothing," he says. "There's some military and maybe even a touch of Star Wars in there." Available at Bergdorf Goodman.

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Got a minute? Stand-up comedian and actress Margaret Cho dishes about her inner exhibitionist and her new series, The Cho Show, which premieres August 21 on VH1.

Q: How would you describe your new show?

A: It's a sitcom starring real people. It's not really reality—because it's fake. We didn't script the dialogue, just the situations. There are things from my stand-up comedy and things I've wanted to write about. Anal bleaching. And I get a shot of collagen in my G-spot—it's supposed to give you amazing orgasms. It didn't, but at least I tried it.

Q: While working on All-American Girl in 1994, you were told you were too heavy and "not Asian enough." Why go back to TV after that?

A: I have control over it—I'm the suit, the executive. That's the difference. When I was doing television 15 years ago, after I did my first screen test I wore a little midriff shirt. The executives freaked out and said, "Please never show your stomach in public ever again." In the new show, I'm naked in every episode. People need to see what a 40-year-old body looks like—a normal woman who doesn't do botox, liposuction, or plastic surgery. I eat carbs all day and you can see it. And I don't give a shit.

Q: Will The Cho Show show teach your fans anything new about you?

A: I think they'll learn that the people I hang around are super-funny too, and that I'm the one laughing all the time. All I do is laugh at other people.

Q: You've always had a huge gay fan base. How have you kept up that relationship?

A: I got deputized to be a marriage commissioner in California, so now I can perform gay marriages. I plan on doing that for a while. I'm not charging anything, just asking for donations to charity. That's my gay thing right now.

Q: Your parents provide a lot of your stand-up material. What's it like having them on your new show?

A: It's trippy, but it's my favorite part of it. I'm able to give them a second life that they've never experienced. They're in their seventies and from Korea. I never even brought them to any kind of premiere. I love that I get to spend time with them and share this world with them.

Q: Were they reluctant to do the show?

A: No. I told them, "It's either this or assisted living." Ryan Wenzel

Cho impersonating her mother in her stand-up routine

Aaron Parks, Invisible Cinema [Blue Note]

Our rating: 4 out of a possible 5

A jazz pianist who takes risks—he's covered Radiohead's "Knives Out"—the 25-year-old Parks is a wonder on his major-label debut, raining down notes at a punishing pace, then pulling back (as on the slow-burning epic "Peaceful Warrior") without disrupting the groove. Matt Hendrickson