If your walls could talk... they’d probably have plenty to say, but at some point they’d get around to mentioning how nice it’d be to have some more gallery-worthy photography hanging on them. Like these canvas prints from award-winning wildlife photog Randal Ford. You’re welcome, walls.
Maybe you’ll be at Coachella this year. Maybe you’ll be at CannaSpa at Coachella, a two-day spa, cocktail tasting and upscale-dining event with one incredibly lenient marijuana policy. Then again, maybe you’ll be at both, in a bold experiment to assess weed’s effect on listening to music.
Last month, we explored Avenue, the first nocturnal destination open at the Dream Hollywood. Now, Beauty & Essex and Tao are up and running on its flanks, respectively bringing a striking pawn-shop-inspired restaurant and Buddhist sushi hot spot to the block. Nice to see the neighbors getting along.
The Corner is a new Santa Monica joint you’ll visit with friends after work for banh mi, burgers and a dram. Meanwhile, Santa Fe’s Tesuque Market is now supplying Venice with prepared sandwiches, cupcakes, blue corn pancake mix and tequila. The breakfast ideas are already flowing.
Nighthawk: Breakfast Bar has a new weekend happy hour full of things like bacon towers, benedict fries and $8 Tang mimosas. And wasn’t that you who famously said, “I’m not going to pay a lot for these Tang mimosas”?
You know Schott. They basically invented the motorcycle jacket. And now, they’re inventing a La Brea location full of leather, nylon bombers and the full collection of the famous Perfecto Brand line. Maybe next they’ll invent a place in LA where you can wear a jacket.
