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Inside The New Orange County Museum Of Art
In early October, I drove down to Costa Mesa, a drive of around an hour from Los Angeles (traffic dependent), for a preview of the newly opened Orange Country Museum of Art (OCMA).OCMA is located on the campus of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and is right off the 405 at Bristol Avenue. The […]
Chris Burch Never Stops Listening
Chris Burch, the mega-successful investor, and brand guru was a poor student in school, as he would be the first to tell you. But he has been a great student of life and of people.Burch has seeded, launched, and invested in many successful businesses including Guggenheim Partners, Upstack, Rappi, and BaubleBar; products such as Jawbone, […]
David Hockney's Beautiful World
“I know it’s an unusual picture because there are not many made this way. I think it’s what we need today. New looking fresh pictures of a very beautiful world.” â David Hockney.Late November-Early December has gotten cold, damp, and grey in most places, even in our paradise of Santa Monica, and Venice, California. Fear […]
An Al Green Mystery
Could the best Al Green album in decades, perhaps the best album this year, actually be a decade old release? That’s the mystery I found myself in. Let me explain:I”ve been known to bounce from streaming music service to streaming music service having done my time with Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music to name a few […]
Arman Naféei is in The Air
Arman Naféei would like to be the Anthony Bourdain of Music Exploration (minus the heroin addiction, depression and suicide) and when you spend time with him, you believe it will happen. His podcast, Are We On Air? has in its two-year existence already logged interviews with Patti Smith, Dua Lipa, David Byrne, and Khruangbin. Arman’s […]
Champagne & Oyster Architecture for the Holidays
Downtown LA’s Central Market is getting hipper by the minute. You can now have vertically responsible hamburgers (Bel Canto), gourmet coffee (G&G), small batch pastrami (Wexler’s), and heavenly ice cream (McConnell’s), and now, at  The Oyster Gourmet,my friend Christophe Happillon’s new pop-up (and I mean that literally, the kiosk pops… View Original Article […]
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