Posted by Jonathan Velardi on September 6, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Think underground supper club-meets-Pipilotti Rist and you’re close to describing a night at Monkey Town LA. Founded by Montgomery Knott in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2003, the pop-up restaurant has since made appearances in Denver and Austin, and has even crossed the Atlantic to Barcelona, Spain. The Los Angeles iteration marks Monkey Town’s grand finale in a […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Food + Drink, United States · Tags Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Guide, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Los Angeles Food + Drink Guide, Monkey Town, Monkey Town Los Angeles, restaurant, Restaurant Hotspot
Posted by Neeza Adenan on December 9, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis aren’t just people with exotic, cool sounding names; they’re also the powerhouses behind LA’s Bestia, a progressive, multi-regional rustic Italian restaurant housed in a converted warehouse in Downtown LA’s far eastern edge. Their ”˜from scratch’ approach has resulted in the most authentic ”˜clean-up rustic’ (coined by Menashe himself) Italian food […]
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Category Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Food + Drink, United States · Tags Bestia, Bestia LA, California, city guide, Downtown LA, DTLA, Italian, LA, LA Design Guide, LA Design Hotspot, LA Restaurants, Los Angeles, restaurant
Posted by Jonathan Velardi on November 30, 2015 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) “We’re thinking about putting on an annual exhibition where we invite a group of artists from another city to L.A. and see how it informs their practice”, Naomi and Anthony disclose in their enviable art-filled office as gallery dog Lou circles the desks. “It would be very relevant […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, Food + Drink, Hotels, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Features, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Los Angeles Hotels, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags 29 Palms Inn, Anthony Cran, art, Art Gallery, Cafe Stella, city guide, Curator, Daily Dose Cafe, Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Echo Park, Gallery, Joshua Tree, LA, LA city guide, LA Food + Drink, LA Shopping, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Naomi Wilding, Petty Cash Taqueria, Silverlake, Time Travel Mart, Urban Radish, USA, Wilding Cran Gallery, Wilding Cran Gallery Los Angeles
On welcoming me into her West Hollywood home, it’s clear Valeria Sorci has acclimatised effortlessly to her new Los Angeles lifestyle. Relocating with her husband and two children from Rome a year ago to the beautiful Baxter-Hodiak House – designed by architect John Lautner for the actress, Anne Baxter ”“ Sorci has embraced the ”˜LA’ […]
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Posted by Jonathan Velardi on February 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment
As Nicolas Libert guides me through the boutique-cum-gallery he founded with Emmanuel Renoird in Downtown Los Angeles, he recounts an anecdote: “when we first opened last year we were expecting a delivery. We waited and waited and realised the courier had in fact attempted the delivery; he read the name of the space ”“ Please […]
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Posted by Jonathan Velardi on November 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) In deep and darkest Downtown Los Angeles, or so the Westside would have you believe, resides the tallest and brightest concept store in the city. Perched on the twelfth floor in the historic Pacific Mutual Building on Pershing Square, little will prepare visitors to the light-filled boutique-cum-gallery. Glass […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags Arik Levy, Art Gallery, California, city guide, Concept Store, contemporary art, Downtown LA, DTLA, Fashion, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Design Hotspots, Los Angeles Shopping, Menswear, Modern Art, Please Do Not Enter, Please Do Not Enter Los Angeles, USA
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on June 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) It’s a safe bet to say that if you’re reading Melting Butter you’re likely a prolific explorer; traveller and probably to some extent, rather aesthetically inclined. If I’m right, you’re a lot like me so I’m pretty sure this app I’m going to tell you about will make […]
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