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Danny Boyle Talks about
the Sex Pistols Legacy
The power of the playlist
in restaurants
2022 PRIMARY ELECTION:
Several Familiar Faces
Return
JUNE 17 - 23, 2022 / VOL. 44 / NO. 32
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Tori Amos is back with stunning album and tour
By Brett Callwood
2 NEWS McCosker will battle Danielle Sandoval,
with each race assuring a new council
have the trust of so many.”
City Councilman Kevin de Leon was
2022 PRIMARY
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Other notable results within the city in- than 7% of votes, and the Associated
clude a runoff for controller between CPA Press has projected that the gap is wide
Kenneth Mejia and Councilman Paul Ko- enough to predict Caruso and Bass as the
ELECTION:
retz, with Mejia receiving more than 38% final two candidates.
of the vote. Had either candidate received more
A much closer race for city attorney is than 50% of the vote, there would have
still taking place between Faisal Gill, Ma- been no need for a runoff, but Los Ange-
SEVERAL FAMILIAR
rina Torres - both of whom received 20% les City Councilman Kevin deLeon gave
of the vote and Hydee Feldstein Soto with the two top candidates a run, receiving a
19% of the vote. modest 7.6% of votes, with community
activist Gina Viola receiving 5% of the
FACES WITH LOS
Caruso And Bass To Face Off In vote with the help of an endorsement
November Race For Mayor Of LA from Black Lives Matter-L.A.
Developer Rick Caruso and Represen- Ultimately, Caruso and Bass had led
tative Karen Bass are projected to face off in polls conducted throughout the race
ANGELES CITY RETURN
in the race for Mayor of Los Angeles this and the projections held true until elec-
November. tion time.
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As of this writing, Caruso has received “It’s official - there will be a runoff in
more than 40% of the vote, with Bass November,” Bass said in a tweet. “Be-
earning more than 38%. tween now and then, we’ll bring folks
With the 2022 primary election now behind us, the city of “... LA voters spoke by going into the from every corner of LA together, to
Los Angeles will see many familiar faces returning with a voting booth and sending a clear mes- build a better city for ALL. We’re in the
sage: we’re not hopeless in the face of our fight for the soul of Los Angeles.”
handful of new blood entering City Hall, as well. problems,” Caruso said after the election. The winner of the November 8 election
BY ISAI ROCHA “Together, we have the power to change will replace Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has
the direction of LA for the better. I’m served two terms and is no longer eligible
I
honored to be the top vote-getter and to to run due to city term limits.
n early vote tallies, there appear to
Rick Caruso, a Democratic candidate
be no new Los Angeles City Council for mayor of Los Angeles, waves
members elected in the June 7 primary, to supporters attending a primary
with some races likely to be decided in election campaign event in Los
November. Angeles
The city had eight of its 15 district seats
up for grabs this year, from districts 1,
3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15, and multiple fa-
miliar faces presumably returning to Los
Angeles City Hall.
We were assured to see at least four new
council members next year, as Kevin de
Leon and Joe Buscaino both conceded
their seats to instead run for mayor of
Los Angeles, Paul Koretz leaving to run
for city controller and Mike Bonin an-
nouncing his retirement.
It appears voters chose to bring back
four council members, with the rest of
the seats, including 13th district Coun-
cilman Mitch O’Farrell’s, to be decided in
the Nov. 8 national elections.
As of June 10, regaining their seats will
be 1st district Councilman Gil Cedilllo,
who received 52% of the vote, 3rd district
Councilman Bob Blumenfield with 65%
of the vote, 7th district Councilwoman
Monica Rodriguez with 68% of the vote
and Councilman Curren Price with 66%
of the vote.
Councilman O’Farrell fell behind can-
didate Hugo Soto-Martinez by percent-
age points in the 13th district, but both
received 35% of the vote.
Katy Young Yaroslavsky and Sam Yerbi
will face off in November for the 5th dis-
trict, Erin Darling and Traci Park will go
head-to-head in the 11th district and Tim ALEX GALLARDO/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK
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Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., speaks during her election night
party, in Los Angeles.
Sheriff Villanueva Will Face Robert Luna Luna was chief of police. He led with in-
In November tegrity and was an excellent leader. He
In the race for L.A. County Sheriff, Alex made important reforms and fixed prob-
Villanueva (33%) held a lead over candi- lems. It’s time for the chaos of the current
date Robert Luna (25%), with both candi- sheriff to end.”
dates going to a November runoff.
Villanueva goes into the November Governor Newsom Will Face Brian Dahle
election facing much scrutiny over al- In November
legations and investigations over gang With the primary election reaching its
activity within the department, as well as end in California, it is now clear that Gov-
an alleged “cover-up” of a video showing ernor Gavin Newsom and Senator Brian
a Sheriff ’s deputy kneeling on an inmate’s Dahle will face off in the November race.
neck. Newsom will be aiming for a second
The Sheriff has proclaimed that allega- term as California governor, months after
tions against his department have been an having to stave off a recall effort.
orchestrated attack as the elections drew According to numbers from LAvote.
near. gov, Newsom received 61% of votes and
Luna is the former Long Beach Chief Dahle came in second with 10.9%, as of
of Police and retired in order to run for this writing.
sheriff. Long Beach PD has had its own Jenny Le Roux, Michael Shellenberger
controversies with accusations of exces- and Luis Javier Rodriguez round out the
sive use of force and Black Lives Matter top five candidates, all receiving less than
protesters showing vocal opposition to- 5% of the vote.
ward Luna. While Newsom has not yet publicly
Luna did receive support from Long addressed the election results, he did
Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, who com- go ahead with declaring and signing
mended Luna on his “integrity.” the November 8 general election for
“It’s time for L.A. County to unite be- California, where the two candidates,
hind Robert Luna,” Garcia said. “I served as well as other races within the state
as mayor for the entire time that Robert will take place.
T
4 ori Amos is partway through
the Ocean to Ocean tour
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interview; finally, the cel-
ebrated singer and songwriter
can get out on the road and celebrate
the album of the same name that was re-
leased in October. She’s characteristically
chatty and charming when we speak by
phone, an easy conversationalist. But
she’s also very open about the fact that
the past couple of years have been chal-
lenging to say the least.
Amos spent the pandemic period
in her home in Cornwall, a gorgeous
county in the southwest of England.
Thankfully, she’s now able to travel and
see family, as well as tour.
“Now that the pandemic has lifted,
between the tours I popped into the
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beach house in Florida before it all
started – I hadn’t seen my father except
one time in the last couple of years,”
she says. “So I’m in Cornwall for a good
portion of the time, but not for many,
many months now.”
There are worse places to be locked
down than Cornwall but still, a
lockdown is a lockdown. In the UK,
they had three over the course of the
pandemic.
“On the third one, I thought we
handled it as well as we could,” Amos
says. “For the first and the second,
particularly the first, we were busy.
We were at the recording studio so we
had a book that came out [Resistance:
A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change,
and Courage], we did a virtual book
tour, and then we did an EP and put
out Christmastide with Decca. So we’ve
been pretty busy. And then the insur-
rection happened. And then the third
lockdown had been put in place, and I
think it was clear that live music wasn’t
going to happen so here we go again.
I think a lot of musicians that I’m
speaking to are in a similar mental state
which is ‘when is this going to shift?’
Our business was one of the businesses
that was on its knees. That and live the-
ater. But as you know, the music side of
things was one of the last to come back.
So it was challenging.”
TORI’S GLORY
It was particularly strange for Amos,
a North Carolina native and former Los
Angeles resident, to watch the January
6 insurrection from the UK.
“The Brits that were phoning in
were asking ‘what in the world has
happened to your country?’,” she says.
“My husband started wearing a t-shirt
around the house going ‘Make America
Great Britain Again.’ Then he looked at
me and said, ‘Wife, your people have
Tori Amos is back with stunning album and tour lost their way.’ Maybe they need their
BY BRETT CALLWOOD older brother to come back in, colonize
them and teach them what’s what. Oh
my goodness. But in a way, this is such
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PHOTO BY DESMOND MURRAY
teenager behavior. ‘Watch me dad, I’m in that time of very dramatic weather. “I think it worked because Matt up. That was the process.”
gonna crash my car. Fuck you, I’ll show It was humbling. I said, ‘Clearly, you as Chamberlain [drums], Jon Evans Ultimately, the album sounds phe-
you.’ Burn it all down.” an energy force are able to deal with a [bass], Mark Hawley [guitar] and I, nomenal. Songs such as the title track
It was the events on January 6, com- world that’s gone mad and I just need we worked as four directions on this and “Spies” are classic Tori Amos –
bined with Cornish mythology and the to study from you’ because I’d got into a with John Philip Shenale – we added emotionally stirring, near-classical,
environment, that inspired Ocean to place of despondency. I didn’t have the an extra direction with him in there,” epic yet organic and utterly beauti-
Ocean. tools. Nobody did, really. How do you Amos says. “JPS I’ve been working with ful. Under the circumstances, she has
“It’s all of it, and it’s also having to deal with a pandemic, especially if your since ‘91. So because we have a history excelled.
get out even in the wintery Cornish livelihood and what you do doesn’t of playing together for so many years “Those were the circumstances,”
weather – when the gales are blowing lend itself to Zoom. Not really. So it and working together, there was a lan- Amos says. “Would it have been differ-
and the gusts of wind – it can be fero- was about, how do you adapt? That’s guage that we’ve developed. When you ent if we’d all been in a room together?
ciously beautiful because it’s so power- when I just sat with nature and started have that language, you have it. Yet we Probably? I remember when Matt
ful,” Amos says. “I got myself out in it. listening. ‘Metal Water Wood’ was the weren’t in a room together jamming. So heard ‘29 Years’ once it was done, and
We’re in the middle of nowhere really, first song to come, to admit that I was it went from the studio to L.A. to Matt he said ‘reggae, really?’ That’s all he
we’re in farm country 20 minutes from just in a place of sadness.” Chamberlain’s studio, then it would said. Because once he’d played drums
the cliffs in northern Cornwall where The album was recorded, produced, come back to us and I’d do a take off on it, he didn’t hear it again until the
the weather coming off the Atlantic mixed and engineered in Cornwall, Los my piano and play to him. Then it goes end. I’m sure he was surprised but after
can be quite something. It was almost Angeles and Massachusetts, which was to Jon Evans’ studio, and comes back to he listened to it for a couple of days, I
a relief to realize that nature wasn’t in challenging but the results are excep- us. We’d add stuff and it’d go to JPS, and think he was really thrilled. The choices
lockdown. She was busy, and she was tional. then it would come back and we’d tie it you make are the choices. When you’re
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in a room together, it’s a very different about pro-life, then where are they after seven and a half years, when big hair ing as a pivot. But we’re rewriting the
conversation than when you’re thou- the birth of the kid, these people? This was the thing. I lived in L.A. at a specific narrative so the journey is different every
sands of miles apart. There was just no is about anti-choice. This isn’t about time. I was in my twenties – I moved night, reflecting what we’ve learned that
time to get it back to people to say, ‘let them assisting these people with bring- there when I was 21. I was all over the day in that town, which will be L.A. It’s
me change this, let me change that.’ ing up a kid. Financially and anything Canyons, in the Valley, and driving my just reading the letters before the show,
I’ll occasionally get a letter from an else for the next 18 years. Very few little wannabe Mustang – a baby blue getting a sense of where people are, tak-
introvert going, ‘How’s your pandemic? people put their money where their Capri – all over the place. Playing piano ing requests – that’s how I do it.”
Mine’s going quite swimmingly.’ The mouth is. That’s where I just roll my bars anywhere I could. I played the Finally, Amos says that the schedule
introverts get a little break here. Good eyes and say, ‘don’t confuse yourself on Sheraton, the Bonaventure. I even played over the next 12 months is open to
for them.” what this is about. This is anti-choice, the Sheraton in Long Beach after Little change. Anything can happen.
Now on tour, Amos receives a lot of because you’re forcing somebody to Earthquakes got rejected. I had to go back “A lot of it is timing,” she says. “Does it
letters from people concerned about have a child, whether they then feel like to piano bars. I played the Ramada in work? Because when we’re touring really,
the state of the world. She’s been an ef- they don’t want to send the child up for Beverly Hills. I played it all, my friend.” other than some interviews, it’s not as if
fective activist for years, with organiza- adoption but struggle on and try to do People intending on attending all three I can just jump into a recording studio
tions such as RAINN (Rape, Abuse & it.’ A lot of people are making it clear nights can expect the odd change in the somewhere and contribute to something
Incest National Network). Naturally, to me how they’re seeing it. A lot of setlist here and there. if they have a deadline of three weeks
she’s dismayed about the recent moves people are incredibly concerned about “We change a few songs every night,” from now. It doesn’t always work time-
by the Supreme Court to potentially the court and what the court means. Amos says. “I’m always moving the set wise. So I’m open to what happens. I
overturn Roe vs. Wade. This is a real defining moment, I think, around. I start the same way, because think I’m going to spend some time in
“We’ve been out for several weeks, in our history, with our justice system.” that’s ‘once upon a time’ for each tour. the States so I can see my family because
and the letters that we’re getting from Amos will be performing for three Then you can move anywhere you want I haven’t seen them in such a long time.”
people who are deeply concerned about nights in Los Angeles at the Orpheum, to move, pretty much. There might be Tori Amos performs at 8 p.m. on
what’s happening,” she says. “Many of and she’s relishing the chance to return some that show up more than others, Wednesday, June 15, Thursday, June 16
them keep making it clear that this is to her former home. because they’re part of the narrative right and Friday, June 17 at the Orpheum,
anti-choice. It’s not pro-life. If this were “I love it,” she says. “I lived there for now for our time now, that are just work- laorpheum.com.
D
anny Boyle was 19 when the Sex
Pistols’ notoriety exploded in
ENTERTAINMENT else. The episode providing background to
the song “Bodies” is the only misstep in
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PISTOL FIRES AND HITS
England. The band had a for- the series, as it introduces a new character
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midable impact on the film- with a triggering tale that takes away from
maker’s life that would inspire the band and their story, which is all we
him for years to come. Boyle, best known for really want to see.
acclaimed films including Trainspotting, The Still, the supporting characters in the
Beach, 28 Days Later, and Slumdog Million- Danny Boyle Talks Johnny Rotten, Punk History and the band’s punk posse are pivotal and pretty
aire, had a strict Irish-Catholic upbringing Sex Pistols Legacy wonderful to watch, too. Beth Dillon as
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and was even supposed to enter the priest- a pre-Banshees Siouxsie Sioux and Game
hood, but his affinity for theater in school BY LINA LECARO of Thrones’ Maisie Williams as famed UK
led him down another, more creative path. punkette Jordan provide the moxie and
Danny Boyles’ Pistol, a six-part FX series most importantly the looks needed to
chronicling the formation and demise of convey the badassness of the scene at the
the infamous punk group, is in many ways time, which shaped fashion, music and
a homage to his youth, and really all English even feminism in ways they’d never imag-
youth who came to discover that doing what ine. The styling by the way, is near perfect;
was expected by family or society in general, looks from the era are replicated with ob-
wasn’t necessarily what was best for them. vious attention to detail – from the spikey
“When they emerged, they represented a hair to the latex looks and plaid bondage
complete change of everything, in the way pieces.
that the Beatles didn’t, for instance, may- If FX and Hulu’s connection to Disney
be Elvis further back… they represented evoked concerns that Pearce and Boyle’s
proper change in society where everything story might be a wholesome wash of
was just shattered,” Boyle tells LA Weekly the U.K.’s greatest unwashed, the duo
via Zoom during the press day for the quashed it pretty early on. Pearce’s work
film. “They were this force that stopped is unapologetically audacious most of
life from being rigid. I come from a very the time, and as for Boyle… just give
similar background to the guys, where PHOTO BY MIYA MIZUNO/FX
Trainspotting or even 28 days Later, a re-
your life was laid out, you were going to watch and ask yourself if this man is the
follow in your father’s footsteps, you were at least just as exhilarating. And it’s not childlike, if less complex, Sid Vicious than type to shy away from unpleasantness.
going to kind of become your mom or be- just his story. It was adapted by Craig Oldman did in Sid & Nancy. That said, taking on the Sex Pistols and
come your dad. And you could see it in the Pearce (best known for his work with John Lydon took issue with his portrayal their lore would be a challenge for any-
fashion. People started to dress like their Baz Luhrmann), from Steve Jones’ 2016 and the movie even before filming began one. Punk purists will find fault with any-
parents. They were like, ‘no – wear rubber, memoir Lonely Boy. (Read our 2017 inter- (after refusing to OK the group’s music for thing, and if the interpretation isn’t 100%
wear leather, wear T-shirts with pictures of view with Steve Jones about Lonely Boy on the project, his former bandmates sued true to life, naysayers are sure to spew
penises on them.’ LAWeekly.com). him and won due to an agreement that negativity. But Boyle’s take is clearly more
“They detonated the stultifying nature of Beyond Jones’ take, the story unfolds licensing approvals would be on a “major- concerned with capturing the anarchistic
Britain, and I imagine it resonated around in a way that sort of gets everyone’s point ity rules basis”). The frontman, formerly whirlwind, and his artistic interpretation
the world,” Boyle continues. “But I under- of view accounted for – it seems to try at known as Johnny Rotten, still has not en- is “punk,” no matter what that means to
stood it in British terms, and when I look least. Jones (Toby Wallace) is an abused dorsed the film and he even called Boyle modern audiences.
back, I owe a lot of my career to the way kid who finds his chosen family in the leg- an asshole on UK Morning TV recently. “It’s not a historical document and I
that shaped me, and the freedom that gave endary UK punk fashion boutique SEX, We had to ask the director about it, of don’t know how you would make a truly
me to believe in your own rules, not other owned by Vivienne Westwood (Talulah course. authoritative historical document be-
people’s.” Riley) and Malcom McLaren (Thomas “Discord is sort of part of his genius, cause they all disagree constantly about
Of course, Boyle, who has been nomi- Brodie-Sangster). The pair become paren- which I think the series, as you go on, what happened,” reminds Boyle. “Discord
nated for several BAFTAs, Oscars and tal figures to the young hoodlum, and ul- shows more and more,” Boyle says of Ly- is sort of part of their nature. If they find
Golden Globes (Slumdog scored him all timately puppet masters, as they take over don. “You realize that is a very particular themselves agreeing too much, they agree
three for Best Director), has always played his young band – including bassist Glen part of his makeup. And if you’re going to to disagree. Then they just start disagree-
by his own rules. His gritty yet beautiful Matlock (Chirstian Lees) and drummer make a TV series about it, you can’t expect ing. I mean, it’s just constant with them.
filmmaking style, which plays with pac- Paul Cook (Jacob Slater), naming them, him to be all cuddly, because it wouldn’t But what you’re trying to do is you’re
ing, from fast and frenzied to ponderous dressing them and ultimately guiding be accurate. You know, he is a confronta- trying to get people lost. You know, the
and intimate, has become a signature of them into infamy as vessels for their anar- tional provocateur. And that’s his genius, viewer is in a gallery, and in the gallery are
his cinematic storytelling. Embellished chistic pop culture revolution. his makeup… and you’ve got to celebrate real events, things that we can all agree on
and heightened by a liberal use of archival McClaren has always come off as a ma- it, you’ve got to capture it and celebrate it. because they did happen.”
footage, Pistol is an exhilarating musical nipulative cad, and as played by Brodie- I think no matter what he says about the Boyle understands that viewers want
kick in the bum as it was intended, and a Sangster (who most people will recognize series, I hope that he watches it, and he re- realism, or close to it, but he also never
modern bookend to the slate of films that from The Queen’s Gambit, but we can’t un- alizes how much the people who made it forgets that modern audiences are watch-
have attempted to tackle the mythic story see as the kid from Love, Actually), he’s a think he is a genius, actually, because I do. ing with their own preconceived norms
of the band– from Julien Temple’s fun but pretentious parody, but he still feels accu- And I think Anson who played him does and ideas. “You want to feel that you are
corny The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle to rate, as the real man presented himself as as well, so that’s genuine.” watching truth about 1975, without hav-
his documentary The Filth and the Fury to such. Other than Jonesy and his love inter- Indeed, you can feel the filmmaker’s rev- ing to make a big effort to go back there,”
Sid & Nancy (the movie that made Gary est Chrisse Hynde (an amiable if miscast erence in pretty much every installment he explains. “It’s just fluid in front of you.
Oldman a star). Sydney Chandler), everyone mostly feels of Pistol, maybe especially in the “Rotten” It feels convincing. And yet it’s not oppres-
Fury is the only proper doc, and it re- like a caricature in Boyle’s film, but this and “Nancy and Sid” episodes, in which sively nostalgic, because nostalgia kills
mains the best of the bunch, if you want to works with the film’s style and subject mat- there are obvious attempts to add dimen- everything. It feels vibrant and alive now,
fully know and understand the band’s true ter. Any fan of the band will recognize the sion to the iconic personas of all three. because the gallery you’re in is ‘the now.’”
trajectory. Punk policing aside, Boyle’s ar- personalities and dynamics at play. Louis Rotten, ironically, comes off more sympa- All six episodes of Pistol are on Hulu
tistic interpretation of the Pistols’ story is Partridge, by the way, conveys a more thetically than we’ve seen him in anything now.
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8 hen Carlos Alzaola dips
in and out of the various
FOOD questions and conversations with clients.
They could be looking for energy, driv-
THE POWER OF
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of the Cloverfield in Santa they’re looking for familiar sounds or dis-
Monica and surveys the covery. Some of the hotels Talea works with
scene, a sixth sense tells the assistant general can have up to eight different concepts per
manager what sounds the crowd needs to hotel, like the lobby bar, two restaurants,
subliminally enhance their dining experi- the spa, the pool that all need their own
THE PLAYLIST
ence. music. Hotel Figueroa wanted cool, mostly
Restaurants still struggle post-pandemic discovery driven, electronic, good energy
and are constantly coming up with strate- music playing in the hotel’s food and bev-
gies to bring in new and returning custom- erage outlets. There’s one out by the pool
ers. Because dining out is a multi-sensory and one in the lobby and they both need
experience, a huge amount of time, money different music.
and consideration is put into restaurant
playlists. Many say that it makes the differ-
How Restaurants Aim To Satisfy All The Senses It’s all about the senses.
“People feel better when they are enjoy-
ence between one mimosa and a bottom- BY MICHELE STUEVEN ing all of their senses,” the sound architect
less brunch. says. “You go to a restaurant and have a
In addition to his regular managerial du- great meal, the food tastes good, you’re
ties, Alzaola spends almost an hour daily happy, the service is good, the design is
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on compiling the lists made up of different Brunch at The Cloverfield visually interesting, the seats are comfort-
artists and styles, relative to the vibe of the able. All those touchpoints – everything
day or night. from the silverware to the napkins – it all
“Depending on if people are enjoying the matters. But the music literally touches ev-
moment, it tells me if I should switch over erything. If you have bad music, it ruins all
to another list or not,” the former Patina of those other things that the designers and
chef, who spent years absorbing the sounds the chefs worked so hard to perfect.”
of the Walt Disney Hall and Hollywood On the flip side in the vinyl district, you’ll
Bowl, tells L.A. Weekly. “It really depends find another one of the city’s best playlists
on the flow of the day. On Fridays, I love to at Thompson Hotel. Curated by Sebastian
play acid jazz, Herbie Hancock and John Puga, Executive Vice President of Brand
Scofield. People come in at the end of the Experience at Ten Five Hospitality, three
week for a chill vibe at sunset. At brunch very distinct global playlists for very dif-
I let the kitchen pick the music. The serv- ferent moods fill the air at the Terrace, Bar
ers get here real early and they want to lis- Carlos Lis and the new Mes Amis.
ten to their music and it plays throughout Alzaola PHOTO BY MICHELE STUEVEN “At Bar Lis and the Terrace at Thompson,
the restaurant inside and out to help get behind the we had a very clear idea of what we wanted
them started. Then I’ll change it up again bar at The to create,” says Puga. “It’s a cote d’Azur,
for the afternoon crowd. On weekends a Cloverfield just completed an installation in Mexico south of France 1960s inspired lounge that
lot of families come in and like to listen to for a private resort attached to the Mon- derives from the idea of making an imagi-
familiar songs and many want to discover tage called Maravilla Los Cabos that had nary place that never existed into a reality.
new music. It’s just a feeling. I want it to 40 zones of music, requiring 40 unique It’s finding that perfect blend of what’s vin-
be ever-changing. Volume has a lot to do concepts. tage and what’s modern. The music on the
with it too, especially for the older clien- “Over the years as the streaming services rooftop is very worldly and thought out –
tele. They come in to dine and talk, it’s not come out, people are a lot more aware and there’s Latin, there’s funk, jazz, soul, Italian,
Vegas or Miami. Then again, later at night opinionated about music than they used and French. If you’re having a good time
after people have had a few drinks the vibe to be,” says Wintner, who credits what he you’re going to stay and if you’re going to
changes and so does the music and maybe PHOTO BY MICHELE STUEVEN learned about music to his time working stay you’ll likely order dessert or an extra
the volume.” with hospitality guru Rande Gerber. “Ev- appetizer.”
Born in Cuba with close ties to the Buena erybody’s got a Spotify account to build At Bar Lis, there are DJs nightly with a
Vista Social Club, Alzaola notes that Latin good reaction out of that. I ask, ‘Listen, do their own playlists. People are paying more different format in the evening because
jazz is especially popular on current play- you know who Duke Ellington is? Charlie attention to it when they’re in restaurants – people are coming for cocktails and danc-
lists across Los Angeles. His tastes lean Parker? Charles Mingus?” Those people not just customers but restaurant owners, ing and those playlists are offered online.
toward hip hop, acid jazz, and bebop be- are part of American culture and the ABC hoteliers and chefs. They are all aware of For the newly opened French bistro on the
cause they all mix together well. Most of of any DJ and it’s important to know who the impact the music has on the business.” property, Mes Amis, Puga spent two weeks
the songs are instrumental or with no lyrics they are. If you don’t recognize any of those With that sophistication in the public’s working for hours and days on the music
because that can be distracting in a restau- names, you can’t be part of the process. The musical tastes, a lot of the playlist is also that went through five edits, listening to it
rant. When he does pick songs with lyrics bar is pretty high here.” about discovering new music. in the space with the lights, food and other
they are usually in Spanish, providing a For others, like Andrew Wintner who “When I’m in a space that we are curat- touchpoints that make the experience a
soft and gentle background. owns Talea Tailored Music Solutions, ing music for and I see customers raise whole.
“When I first got here everybody on the playlists are big business. Wintner and their phone up to the speakers to Shazam “We want you to be able to put your sun-
staff was coming to me with different sug- his team of curators work with hospitality a song, that’s just the biggest compliment glasses on and listen to Françoise Hardy,
gestions, trying to take over the music,” he groups like the Viceroy Hotels, The Lon- you can get,” says Wintner, whose compa- order something for lunch and linger and
says while mixing an Aviation cocktail be- don Hotel, Tocaya Organica, Toca Made- ny also programs the music for the ice skat- feel like you’re in the south of France or on
hind the bar. “If you are really interested ra, Hotel Figueroa,Lettuce Entertain You ing rink at Rockefeller Center. “That means the Italian coast,” he says.
in music, you need to have knowledge of (Stella Barra in Santa Monica), Palisociety they like it and they want to know what it With some cajoling, if you hear a playl-
all different kinds of music. I’m more than (Palihouse, Palihotel and their restaurants) is and plays a role in whether they come in ist you fall in love with, most restaurants
happy to listen to suggestions, but if those as well as Sweetflower, the largest owned again or order another Manhattan.” will share the soundtrack with you as a
names are always the same, it’s hard to get a multi-location cannabis shop in LA. Talea Fine tuning that process involves many parting gift.
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The kings of digital dabs are at it again with their
latest invention
BY JIMI DEVINE
T
he Puffco Proxy is the company’s One could easily argue the quality of
newest device and latest effort to the atomizer construction was the biggest
push the way we consume con- jump between the first two Peak genera-
centrates into the future. tions. What the pro offered felt like a tank
Old School hash heads will that ripped compared to the original at-
remember long before the Peak caused omizers that at times felt flimsy. The idea
more torches to be put away than any elec- that from the very beginning the Proxy
tronic dab tool in history, Puffco already had a better built-in atomizer construc-
was a heady name in the most elite circles. tion has to give many high hopes. When
Why? While quartz was king for the you actually use it, those hopes will hold
people that owned hash companies, they up. We’ve only had the chance to con-
still needed something to consume their sume some Wilson F3 live rosin from
product in on the go or while vacationing Hash and Flowers in the proxy so far. It
somewhere it was too sketchy to bring their was delicious.
full dab rig setup. After Puffco’s founding The atomizer felt a pinch smaller than
in 2013, its early dab pen, the Puffco Plus, the one on the Peak Pro. That being said,
quickly made its way into the hands of it still felt very sturdy and capable of solid
some of the most elite names in hash. chunky rips. Like the Peak, a slow steady
The Plus went on to be one of the draw gives the best experience.
most awarded cannabis products of Roger Volodarsky, CEO and founder
the decade. A true gold standard in a of Puffco, weighed in on the company’s
flooded field. When we think of Puffco latest release.
products without water, it’s our most re- “The Puffco Proxy celebrates cannabis
cent memory and it is still a gold stan- by creating connections -- not only to the
plant and its cultural legacy, but also to
our community and friends,” Volodar-
sky said. “Its familiar pipe form honors
the rich heritage of cannabis, and invites
you to connect with others who share a
passion for dabbing and other modes of
consumption.”
dard in the dab pen space Volodarsky noted that the Proxy is also
with its timeless dart tech. Most one of Puffco’s smallest devices. A big
importantly for the purposes of this plus whether you’re looking for discre-
discussion, the Plus sets a very high bar tion or portability,
for Puffco’s latest product the Proxy. “We designed it so you can enjoy
But 2016 was a long time ago. Even if broad consumption flexibility, compat-
the Plus was better than the coil vape pens ible with an array of future accessories
of the era, Puffco has learned a lot in the from our ecosystem, along with those
years since. The Proxy is all those years of from a world of talented glass artists,”
new technology in a unique new package. Volodarsky said. “The Proxy’s innova-
The Proxy has been in development for tive base design offers glass artists a
so long that it’s actually where the now- broad new canvas and platform to create
popular 3D chamber for the Peak Pro meaningful pieces, which we are really
got its start. In the midst of creating the excited about.”
Proxy, they realized the heating chamber The Puffco Proxy is available now. Puff-
they were designing for it was awesome. co will host a pop-up here in L.A. later
They would end up releasing tech based this week, where you can get your hands
on it as a standalone peak atomizer last on one in person. You can RSVP through
year at Puffcon. the link on Puffco’s Instagram.
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Just in time for summer, the arts get friendly with nature
BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT
H
ere are some creative ways series that you kind of just have to ex-
naturalists are using the arts Washed Ashore perience to believe.
to tell us about the Birds & the
Bees — and by extension, to The (Illustrated) Aviary. The Aviary
educate and engage citizens is an evolution of The Illustrated Aviary,
with pressing environmental issues in in- which ran from 2013-2021, in which art-
novative new ways. The Audubon Society ists reinterpreted Audubon’s iconic orni-
is a paradigm of birder boosterism, but in thological paintings through their own
recent years they’ve gotten really creative eclectic styles. From pop art to expres-
with their interdisciplinary storytelling. sionism, vintage-inspired illustration and
Their Mapping Migraciones project traced found-object assemblage, contemporary
the migratory routes of species common folk and urban, street and Lowbrow, this
to the Americas, overlaying these lessons series was anything but staid. Originally
with individual lived experiences of human gracing the back covers of the printed
immigration from those same regions. For magazines, the online archive also in-
several years they produced The Illustrated cludes stories and interviews with the
Aviary, since expanded into a broader inter- artists about why they chose their bird
disciplinary arts-based education platform. species, along with facts about the species
And now they’ve launched an online mu- and recordings of their calls and songs.
sic series blending field recordings with a Now simply The Aviary, the series is ex-
range of spoken word and compositions panded to include other disciplines than
by contemporary musicians like Beck and the strictly visual, such as social practice,
Nick Cave. video and performance. audubon.org/
the-aviary.
Closer to home and in person, a mys-
tical dance-based musical production For the Birds: The Birdsong Project.
this weekend at the Broad Stage uses A surprising, haunting, ethereal, and
Sufi poetry, framing birds as meta- obsession-worthy musical collabora-
phors for the journey of the soul; and tion gathering hundreds of voices —
the Natural History Museum’s Butter- musicians, actors, writers and artists
fly Pavilion (If you think about it, but- — to celebrate the beauty of birdsong
terflies are kind of like a cross between and highlight the plight of so many spe-
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lets you enter their kaleidoscopic by lauded music supervisor Randall
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their apiary adventures with a side of to stream on Spotify, but there’s also
cheerful feminist surrealism, the bee- a limited-edition LP box set. Figures
forward spiritual center College of the PHOTO BY MASON TRINCA involved in Volume 1 alone include
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