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filled with writings by the likes of Naomi Klein, Henry Rollins and David DeGraw. He will release a 7-inch vinyl record containing covers of Discharge’s “State Violence State Control” and Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up” with his art-pop project Nøise. There will be a live musical performance, whose headliners are, naturally, top secret. Sculptures will span a larger-thanhuman-scale figurative fiberglass sculpture to a “liberated” pay phone completely redone with Fairey’s work to a neon sign. “I think the term ‘immersive’ is really goofy,” he says, “but that might be the word [to describe it]. The goal is to translate the viscerality of a street-art encounter…to a controlled environment. I want it to be inspiring to people, to make them think about how they can do things better in the world.” In short, Fairey wants you to “question everything.” And he wants you to pay attention: to climate change, xenophobia, racism, sexism, the travel ban, DACA and campaign finance reform, for starters. “Just making things that are beautiful reminds people to look for beauty in the world and ways to achieve it creatively— and be sensitive to it. That counts for a lot in terms of bringing out the best in people, which I think has a ripple effect on all sorts of issues,” he says. “But that’s not enough for me, I need more than that.” obeygiant.com. • MELISSA GOLDSTEIN
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Some distillers are open for individual visits, but Steel provides a comfortable van and a driver, a tutorial on the history and craft, and a local’s access to experiences that aren’t open to the public. The daylong tour ($215/person) makes three stops that might include walking through the rye and barley fields at Belgrove Distillery (belgrovedistillery .com.au); experiencing the entire process at Lark, from barley smoker to barrel to bottle; or touring Tasmania’s most renowned distiller, Sullivans Cove (sullivanscove .com), in the company of its head distiller, Patrick Maguire. In 2014, Sullivans Cove put Tasmania on the spirits map when it was named best single malt at the World Whiskies Awards, the first winner not from Scotland or Japan. The current edition of that roughly $360 bottle, like the other Sullivans Cove releases, is nearly impossible to find in the United States. It was our first sip of the day. • MICHALENE BUSICO
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On the set of Burden, filmed in rural Georgia, director Andrew Heckler staged a fake Klan rally, and it attracted some participants who didn’t understand the nature of the proceedings. “We had people come to the set thinking it was real. Someone would ask, ‘Are you with the crew?’ And they’d say, ‘No! We just needed to check it out.’ They were Klan members. [The cast and crew] all came on board because they aren’t naïve. They know what’s happening out there.” Hedlund is not the kind of guy who makes strong political statements with words, but it’s clear that he is proud of the work he has done on both of these recent films and that he possesses a powerful drive to tell stories about real, often darkly complicated men who make hard choices for the right reasons. “I have the empathetic curse—I would definitely call it a curse,” he says with a laugh. “If you’re stressing right now, I’m the one who might feel nauseous for you. The stories I love make me cry my brains out. But I’m a Virgo. Naturally, we’re the sensitive ones.” Growing up in Minnesota, the only options Hedlund saw for his future were through sports like wrestling or hockey (a handful of pro players come from his hometown). If that didn’t work out, “you were taking over the farm,” he says. Opportunities for a teenage boy with his unique combination of interests and personality traits—his love of walleye fishing and skeet shooting, and his desire to communicate a certain emotional truth—were limited. At 14, he moved to Phoenix with his mother, and the world seemed to open up before his eyes. “In Phoenix, there were creative-writing classes, photojournalism classes, theater. It got these wheels spinning. I started thinking about life in a different way,” he says, painting a picture of his teen self in “hand-medown clothes and horrible haircuts by my sister with my dad’s clippers.” He developed a penchant for bingeing on movies—buying a ticket for one and staying in the theater for three—which sparked an interest in acting, and he started flying to L.A. for auditions. His first major job was Troy, where he was so green that his co-stars, like Pitt and the late, great Peter O’Toole, had to give him impromptu on-set acting lessons, telling him where to stand in certain shots. In the early days, people often mistook him for actor Charlie Hunnam, particularly during Hunnam’s stint on Judd Apatow’s campus sitcom Undeclared. “We went up against each other for the same parts for years,” he says. Now the closest of friends, they recently found themselves shooting Glocks together under the blistering July
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sun. “I was out in the middle of nowhere, doing weapons training with Charlie, and we had a blast,” he says, and then points to the sunburn on his arm. The plan is for the two of them to co-star in a military drama with Mark Wahlberg, but because this is Hollywood, and funding and schedule changes drop on projects like bombs, he is managing his expectations. At the moment, he’s enjoying some rare downtime in L.A., which is technically his home, though typically for only a few weeks a year. He’ll write in his journal, listen to jazz, take a long drive out of town, avoid his big movie-star house and generally do his best to pretend that it isn’t 2017. “When people describe me, I get ‘not from this era’ a lot,” he says, lighting up another cigarette. “I’ll take that as a compliment.” •
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industry, this is farming.” He’s referring to a verdant swath of Northwest California known as the Emerald Triangle, covering Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties. Cannabis plants were originally cultivated there in the 1960s during the Summer of Love and have been breeding ever since—it’s rumored there are 18-foot-tall plants growing in the dense coastal forests. What is certain is that this specific terroir offers perfect growing conditions for some of the world’s most complex heirloom strains. In other words, what Napa Valley is to wine, the Emerald Triangle is to bud. As California brings its sacred crop to the public market for the first time, there are likely to be some growing pains (inexperienced retailers, environmental and safety concerns, quality control, compliance, and so on), but it’s the end of a long road for many who’ve spent decades lobbying to legalize grass. As Campbell puts it, “It’s really exciting to be able to enjoy doing something that is so nostalgic of my childhood in a grown-up way and not get arrested for it.” And beyond this fertile ground, it seems like it’s only a matter of time until the rest of the country decides to join the party. beboe.com. •
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