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 […]

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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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One night a few months ago, I found myself surfing through the Criterion collection on Hulu and stumbled upon an early Les Blank documentary, “The Blues According to Lightnin” Hopkins.” I pushed play and I was suddenly in a field in Mississippi, with great immediacy and no explanation – no… View Original Article […]

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Although Rosette Delug has only been collecting art for a decade, her Trousdale Estates mansion at the apex of Beverly Hills has become a showcase for cutting-edge international contemporary art……. View Original Article […]

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Dec 30, 2014 … For more information, visit getty.edu/museum/exhibitions. Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he’s an author and …… View Original Article […]

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