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WHAT’S SO SCARY ABOUT BARI WEISS? THE LION KING: THE RISE AND FALL OF P-22 CAN BILL KRAMER SAVE THE OSCARS?

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A HANDS-ON GUIDE TO FINDING LOVE IN L.A.

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Writer Bari Weiss (left) with wife Nellie Bowles and their child.

Features Where Is the Love?

» Check out these L.A. hot spots for under-theradar love. Plus: The Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger shares her top dating tips.

Pickup on Aisle 6!

» Now that the pandemic is finally (mostly) over, L.A. singles are ditching dating apps and venturing into the real world in search of love—and finding it, of all places, at Erewhon supermarkets.

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Eat Your Hearts Out

» Spice up your Valentine’s Day at one of L.A.’s most romantic restaurants.

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Out With the Olds When Hollywood tried to sweep comedy legend Shelley Berman under the rug, his red-carpet handler took a stand.

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How controversial columnist-turnedSubstack superstar Bari Weiss ditched her haters in New York and found peace (but not quiet) in Los Angeles.

As the international collecting class comes to town for Frieze Los Angeles and other art fairs, Los Angeles has assembled a portfolio of buzzy new galleries and ascendant artists you need to know about this month.

Bari, Bari, Quite Contrary

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State of the Art

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PHO T O GR A PH E D BY S T E V E N SI M KO

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Buzz The Lion King

› P-22’s death inspired an outpouring that reached far beyond Los Angeles.

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The Brief

› What’s in Eric Garcetti’s future? Winnie the Pooh goes dark. David Geffen’s mystery companion. Alexander McQueen’s new collab with artist Chuck Arnoldi. Stanford goes for woke.

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In Like Flynt

› The late porn king Larry Flynt wasn’t exactly famous for his good taste.

Still, his old gold-plated tchotchkes just fetched a fortune at an online auction.

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The Price is Wrong

› L.A. realtors are increasingly listing houses with lowball “marketing prices” to stoke phony bidding wars.

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EJ James gets his fabulous fashion sense from strong Black women.

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Ask Chris › What’s the busiest traffic day in L.A.? Is there a block in Hancock Park that has a pond behind the homes? What’s the city’s oldest barbershop? Our resident historian answers all your burning questions.

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Incoming!

› Academy CEO Bill Kramer discusses the upcoming Oscars; Bob Marley’s “One Love” comes to L.A.; Dionne Warwick is Twitter’s unlikely new star; Frieze Los Angeles is cleared for takeoff; celebrity fashion dos and don’ts on the red carpet

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With this single iconic photo, P-22 became L.A.’s most famous animal star since Lassie.

The Lion King P-22’S DEATH INSPIRED AN OUTPOURING THAT REACHED FAR BEYOND LOS ANGELES. BEHIND THE GLOBAL REQUIEM FOR OUR TOP CAT

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I N F E B RUA RY 2012, news reached the National Park Service, which tags and tracks the mountain lion population in the Santa Monica Mountains, that a puma was hiding in plain sight in the busiest city park in Los Angeles. “It was like discovering an urban legend, like Bigfoot or the chupacabra,” says Miguel Ordeñana of the Natural History Museum of L.A. County, the wildlife biologist credited with the discovery of the mysterious cat.

No mountain lion had come close to entering Griffith Park in the ten years since the NPS started tracking their movements. Previous sightings in the Hollywood Hills—and the blurry photographs and hearsay used to back up their veracity—tended to be dismissed by wildlife experts as campfire stories.

Still, L.A. was aflutter with the idea of a feline, all silence and stealth, loping through the chaparral-choked arroyos below the Hollywood sign.

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traffic, the presence of a mountain quickly became the most famous lion roaming freely in the heart of L.A. feline the city had produced since was oddly comforting to Angelenos the MGM lion. When his image was who longed for a return to a wilder, captured by National Geographic freer Los Angeles. photographer Steve Winter’s trail “P-22” was the name NPS researchcamera in the now-iconographic porers gave him when they placed a GPS trait with the Hollywood sign in the radio collar around his neck after his background, P-22 seemed to blithely discovery. (The “P” stands for “puma”; acknowledge that he was already the “22,” his place in the sequence of a star. As Winter marveled, “He mountain lions studied pretty much stood there

by NPS.) In 2015, when for about 20 seconds a Pasadena radio station and raised up his head.”

“P-22 might presumed to rename With that photo be the first him “Pounce de Leon” came an irresistible or anything sounding backstory of lonely mountain less like a villain in the perseverance that lion to trend Terminator franchise, Hollywood usually on Twitter.” listeners revolted and reserves for laconic the contest was canceled. gunslingers. Male While many commumountain lions claim nities in America would react with 150-square-mile territories that they extreme prejudice to the presence of defend relentlessly, killing or driva large wild cat on the prowl, in celebing off interlopers. To reach Griffith rity-mad Los Angeles, P-22 became Park from his birthplace west of the the toast of the town. An apex preda405 freeway in the Santa Monica tor that fled a shrinking kingdom Mountains, P-22 became the first and risked everything for a sliver of mountain lion to successfully cross wilderness in the middle of L.A., P-22 two freeways, the 405 and the 101.

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He would have had to belly through the rugged slopes from Bel-Air to Mulholland Drive, and then across the 101 near the Hollywood Bowl, and enter Griffith Park, where he beheld a virtual wildlife preserve stocked with plenty of mule deer and no competition. No wonder P-22 stuck around—he had everything an L.A. cat could want, save the prospect of a finding a mate.

Settling near the Hollywood Hills garnered him A-list neighbors, including natives Leonardo DiCaprio and Billie Eilish, who claimed him as one of their own. Alan Ruck, star of Succession, recalled glimpsing P-22 and calling after him like a stan spotting Bieber leaving Pace. By the time he was captured by Winter’s camera in one of the most reproduced nature images ever, P-22 had taken his place among L.A.’s strange pantheon of beloved locals, from Angelyne to the late Vin Scully and Kobe Bryant.

P-22’s ten-year residence in Griffith Park led to a remarkably long life for a mountain lion; by the time he was euthanized, he was estimated to be nearly 12 years old but also 30 pounds underweight and succumbing to heart and kidney disease.

In his weakened state, P-22 could no longer stalk and kill deer and so had begun prowling the streets of Hollywood Hills for easier prey, killing one Chihuahua on a leash and nearly killing another being walked by its owner, who was clawed during the attack, which likely prompted the cat’s capture.

These desperate forays beyond the wildland-urban interface would be P-22’s undoing. When veterinarians discovered he had eye and skull trauma, the likely result of being struck by a car (a fate he had so pointedly escaped during his dashes across the 405 and 101), and, considering that he had a combination of critical health issues, they decided they had no choice but to euthanize him.

The response to P-22’s death was stunning: After 48,500 Twitter users mentioned his name within hours of the announcement of his death, the regional head of the National Wildlife Federation, Beth

Pratt, tweeted that “P-22 might be the first mountain lion to trend on Twitter.”

There was a memorial hike in Griffith Park, a memorial mural in East L.A., and a memorial celebration of his life planned for the Greek Theatre—even calls to claw back the name of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing from the benefactress who had donated $25 million to the monumental construction over the 101 freeway and rechristen it in honor of P-22. Even choosing P-22’s final resting place begat its own news cycle, pitting those who don’t think he should be buried in Griffith Park against Native Americans who insist he should. Not to mention the outrage generated by reports that the noble cat would be stuffed and displayed in a museum. (He won’t.)

As the face of the campaign to protect Southern California’s mountain lions, P-22 had achieved considerable fame when he still

roamed Griffith Park. But reports of his death launched an avalanche of coverage that ordinarily accompanies the passing of a superstar.

The Los Angeles Times published a P-22 eulogy, of course, but so did the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, NPR, AP, Reuters, England’s Guardian, as well as Vanity Fair, and, that ultimate arbiter of celebrity, People.

In the end, something in P-22’s heroic pilgrimage struck a sympathetic chord across the world at a moment when entire populations have been beset by diasporas voluntary and involuntary, and the sanctity of borders and who can and can’t cross them called into question.

“P-22 needed to find his own turf and was willing to risk everything to get it,” says Ordeñana, the wildlife biologist who first confirmed that the big cat was lurking in Griffith Park a decade ago. “That’s why his story is legendary.”

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1. Artist Corie Mattie’s mural in Silver Lake, completed shortly before P-22’s death. 2. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tweet eulogizing P-22. 3. and 4. P-22’s international fame drove sales of merch. 5. Rendering of the Annenberg wildlife crossing under construction in Agoura Hills.

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ERIC GARCETTI STILL WANTS TO BE AMBASSADOR TO INDIA FOR A MINUTE, IT LOOKED LIKE THE EX-MAYOR MIGHT HAVE GIVEN UP. BUT NEW DELHI DREAMS DIE HARD

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X-MAYOR Eric Garcetti’s

on-again-offagain trip to India appears to be on again.

Maybe.

L.A.’s 52-year-old former mayor, who handed City Hall’s keys to Karen Bass in December, has been packing his bags for New Delhi ever since President Joe Biden nominated him for the ambassador post back in July 2021. But sexual harassment allegations leveled against Garcetti’s former municipal aide Rick Jacobs—and charges that Garcetti turned a blind eye toward those 1 2 L A M AG . C O M

allegations—have kept Garcetti’s Senate confirmation dangling for nearly a year and a half, and by the end of 2022, it looked like both Biden and Garcetti were ready to throw in the towel. Talk around town was that Biden was instead going to appoint Garcetti U.S. envoy on climate, a job that doesn’t require confirmation and may soon be vacant if rumors are true that current occupant John Kerry is ready to retire.

But now, it looks like Garcetti may have a shot at India after all. In January, Biden announced that he was resubmitting

Garcetti’s name to the Senate, which now has one more Democrat in it since the midterm elections. Will that extra seat make all the difference? Capitol Hill sources are skeptical, since it’s not just Republicans objecting to the appointment but also a couple of Dems, like Mark Kelly, who have expressed concerns. Still, in December, before the newly expanded Democratic majority took office, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer managed to squeeze together enough votes to confirm Biden’s pick for ambassador to Brazil, Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, who’d been ensnared in a scandal of her own regarding old comments that some deemed anti-Semitic.

If Schumer could pull Bagley over the finish line with only 50 Democrats, shouldn’t he be able to do the same for Garcetti now that he’s got 51?

Obviously, Biden thinks so; otherwise, he wouldn’t keep nominating the guy.

makeover in a new live-action horror flick, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, due in theaters February 15.

“We’ve gone the anamorphic route—half bear, half human,” explains producer-director-writer Rhys Frake-Waterfield.

“You want your villain to be [big enough to] hold something sinister and slashing away.”

The demented adaptation of the A. A. Milne story—its copyright conveniently expired in 2022—is just the latest from London-based production house Jagged Edge, which for the last couple of years has been turning publicdomain bedtime stories into Michael Myersstyle nightmares with films like Easter Bunny Massacre and Jack & Jill: The Hills of Hell. Says

OH, BOTHER! WINNIE THE POOH SLAYS HE’S NOT SO CUTE

anymore. Not all that cuddly. And ever since Christopher Robin moved out of the forest, he’s grown murderously bitter.

That’s right, folks: Winnie the Pooh, the beloved children’s book character, has been given a Texas Chain Saw Massacre-style

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A poster for Jagged Edge’s latest public-domain nightmare.

Frake-Waterfield, who is currently hard at work on Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare, “I’ve got a long-term goal to ruin 7 billion childhood memories.”—A N DY L E W I S

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Garcetti, who endorsed Biden in 2020, hopes his second nomination is the charm.

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Geffen’s latest boyfriend, who may or may not be a porn star.

IS DAVID GEFFEN DATING A PORN STAR?

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Instagram page has long been filled with the rich and famous, with everyone from Julia Roberts to Jerry Seinfeld popping up in selfies snapped on the 79-year-old mogul’s yacht. But none of those star-studded photos attracted nearly as much attention as the pic Geffen posted Christmas Day showing off his latest way-younger boyfriend, Donovan Michaels. “Merry Christmas indeed!” Geffen captioned the picture.

As it turned out, a number of social media users claimed to have recognized Michaels under a different name, identifying Geffen’s new boy toy as Brandon Foster, an exotic dancer and onetime porn star.

“He used to work at the same bar as me,” posted Morgan Le Shade, intimating that the club in question was Liquid Tampa in Florida. Another former dancer, Hunter Vance, also claimed he knew Michaels. “Brandon

is his real name,” Vance told Los Angeles when we reached out. “We all danced together before he [got into] porn.”

Geffen, of course, has been known to date younger men—and is famous for treating them well. Remember how he took 26-year-old surfer Jeremy Lingvall to President Barack Obama’s 2009 state dinner?

Alas, Michaels/Foster may want to hold off on picking out a tuxedo for any future state functions; Geffen quickly deleted the photo from his Insta account after his boyfriend’s alleged porn star past was revealed.

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IS THAT AN ARNOLDI YOU’RE WEARING? VENICE ABSTRACT artist Chuck Arnoldi is

famous for incorporating

medium: schmattes. The 76-year-old Guggenheim Fellow was recently approached by British luxe label Alexander McQueen for a collaboration on its spring/summer 2023 line.

“They’d seen a painting of mine and wanted to use it to create dresses for women and suits and T-shirts for men,” Arnoldi says. “I had no idea who or what Alexander McQueen was. Didn’t have a clue.”

But Arnoldi’s wife, novelist Katie Arnoldi, explained who the late designer was and how his company is still producing high-end fashion, and then Arnoldi received a packet of sketches from McQueen’s design team.

“I said to Katie, ‘This stuff looks pretty good.’ I told them, sure, they can use it,” he says. “They offered me 50 grand, and I said, ‘OK.’ I don’t care about A B RU S H W I T H FA S H I O N

Alexander McQueen’s Arnoldi dress.

32nd Stanford’s Lame List of Bad Words The university released a catalog of newly forbidden words and phrases as part of its Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.

The list, which triggered a furious outburst, has since been withdrawn.

American “Insinuat[es] that the U.S. is the most important country in the Americas.”

Guru “In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the word is a sign of respect.

Using it casually negates its original value.”

Karen “Used to ridicule or demean a certain group of people based on their behaviors.”

Killing Two Birds with One Stone “This expression normalizes violence against animals.”

Man Hours “This term reinforces male-dominated language.”

Walk-in “Ableist language that trivializes the experience of people living with disabilities.”

You Guys “Lumps a group of people using masculine language and/or into gender binary groups.”

nontraditional materials— like parts of trees—into his paintings. But now, he’s branching out into a new

the money. My lawyer told me I could have asked for four times as much!”

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In Like Flynt

THE LATE PORN KING LARRY FLYNT WASN’T EXACTLY FAMOUS FOR HIS GOOD TASTE. STILL, HIS OLD GOLD-PLATED TCHOTCHKES

JUST FETCHED A FORTUNE AT AN ONLINE AUCTION

BY JOEL STEIN

Class with a Capital K COLLECTORS SNAPPED UP A SLEW OF FLYNT’S OLD BRIC-A-BRAC AT PRICES FAR EXCEEDING WHAT ABELL AUCTION COMPANY PREDICTED, PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT THERE’S NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE

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TIFFANY- STYLE TABLE LAMP

JADE CABBAGE

DECO TABLE LAMP

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O Sold for $1,750.

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“Yeah, he made porno, but porno is free on the internet now,” says Schireson. “That’s no big deal. I don’t think people are like, ‘Ew, gross, it was Larry’s.’ ” In fact, Schireson initially guessed Flynt’s bric-a-brac could get close to the 20 percent celebrity markup he

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at the Bellagio. It’s all oversized and Versailles-inspired. And it’s almost is that it worked. Not the all replicas. aesthetics. No, they don’t I wonder who will possibly buy work at all. any of this. Todd Schireson, the vice But Larry Flynt’s fight to be taken president of Abell, is not worried. seriously—that totally worked.

“Is there a value added because it’s When the porn titan died last his?” he asks, then answers his February, his New York Times obit own question. “I think called him a “freea lot of people are fans.” speech hero.” And now, This was not always in an even greater sign “People true. If you went over to of respectability, the aren’t like, someone’s house 25 years Hustler founder’s furago and the host said, niture was peddled off ‘Ew, gross, “Guess who owned that at an online auction it was couch you’re sitting on? in December by Abell Larry’s.’ ” Larry Flynt!” you’d run Auction Company, straight to a dry cleaner. the 107-year-old house Flynt, after all, was a guy that once sold the who, when accused of objectifying items of Hollywood royalty like women like sides of beef, put an image Cecil B. De Mille, Jack Warner, and of a naked woman being fed into a Barbara Stanwyck. meat grinder on Hustler’s cover.

I am shocked at everything I see But Flynt’s image started being during my presale peek in November rehabilitated in 1996, when Miloš at the Flyntorabilia stored in the aucForman made The People vs. Larry tion house’s 100,000-square-foot Flynt, and suddenly the man in a warehouse. It isn’t the 1980s Patrick golden wheelchair became a First Nagel cocaine-inspired sex-dungeon Amendment icon. Since then, decor I idiotically expected.

Hustler went from a brown paperFlynt was born to a sharecropcovered magazine to a licensed brand per in rural Kentucky. He wanted name. There’s a Hustler Casino and respectability. So he went full dictanearly 60 Hustler Hollywood stores. tor chic. The stuff here is VIP room H E M O S T ridiculous part

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Hustler founder Larry Flynt in his office in Los Angeles in 2004.

got on the items in Carol Channing’s estate. In actuality, he got way more than that. One of Flynt’s items—a 100-year-old dragon vase—fetched 25 times its estimated value, selling for an astonishing $37,500.

Schireson thinks he would have snagged an even bigger celebrity

markup for the 14-karat gold-plated wheelchair Flynt used after being shot and paralyzed in 1978. Or the placard that sat on Flynt’s desk that reads, “EVERYDAY I’M HUSTLIN.” But those more personal items remain in his house in the Hollywood Hills, where his widow still lives.

Instead, Abell got everything from Flynt’s office in the ten-story William Pereira-designed tower at Wilshire and La Cienega (before LFP Publishing Group leaves to relocate to Century City). Which, looking around this warehouse, is more than enough. Flynt was an avid antiques collector, and a good chunk of his collection ended up in his workspace. Now, after Abell’s auction, all of it—Tiffany-style lamps, knockoffs of Victorian everything, urns with figurines of captives, marble statues, jade statues, bronze statues, replicas of baroque paintings likely dashed off in China—is part of someone else’s home decor. Exactly whose isn’t known, but I got a sense from my pre-auction tour of the warehouse.

Five others were browsing Flynt’s goods while I was there, including a Chinese couple looking at the jade carvings. I also met Martin Folb, perhaps the country’s foremost collector of toy trains and a dabbler in Tiffany-style lamps. Years ago, Folb met Flynt in his Hustler office, not to talk about business or porn, but to dish about cut-glass lighting. Folb liked the guy. Apparently, everyone in the collecting racket did. He was a great buyer.

“I think if he had better advisers, he would have had more of the real McCoy,” Folb says, gazing at the cabinets. “This is the Norma Desmond version. He liked things that emulated the lifestyle of the Gilded Age.” Apparently, Flynt wasn’t the only one: Abell is planning a second sale of Flynt’s wares by early February.

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CERAMIC DRAGON VASE

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Estimated price: $400 to $600.

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One of her other clients got caught in a bait and switch where a lovely home, with a too-goodto-be-true $1 million listing price, ultimately went for more than $400,000 over asking, with 15 bidders. This is the real estate equivalent of shopping a spec script with Baz Luhrmann attached for WGA scale.

Indeed, I have bid on several of these deceptive listings; one of them sold for $1 million over asking, with 25 of us furiously vying. The agent knew he was underpricing the home by that much and played us one against the other. Unethical? Of course. “But that’s how it works sometimes,” says my agent, sheepishly.

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The Oscars’ New Boss BILL KRAMER, THE MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY’S LATEST CEO, INHERITS AN ORGANIZATION DESPERATE FOR FRESH DIRECTION. CAN HE CUT TO THE CHASE?

BY STEVE APPLEFORD

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I L L K R A M E R never imagined he would end up working in Hollywood. Still, he’d loved the movies during his boyhood in a small town outside Baltimore—his grandmother would buy him copies of R E A DY F O R H I S C L O S E U P Variety so he could track the week’s hits and misses.

1. Kramer with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson; 2. In one of the academy’s two theaters; These days, Kramer lives beneath the Hollywood sign, 3. With Robert Pattinson, H.E.R., and Britt not far from the house where Barbara Stanwyck manipuHennemuth at the academy museum’s opening; 4. With AMPAS’s then-CEO lated Fred MacMurray to murderous ends in 1944’s Double Dawn Hudson (in green) at the museum’s Indemnity. The latest CEO of the Academy of Motion ribbon-cutting in 2021.

Picture Arts and Sciences can now read about himself in the trades as he attempts to navigate a movie industry upended by the pandemic and streaming. There are key initiatives in diversity and film preservation to lead, plus repair work at the Oscars after last year’s bizarre on-camera meltdown by Will Smith, until then one of Hollywood’s most beloved stars.

Though Kramer, 55, has been on the job only since July, he isn’t exactly a new face at the academy: He brought the long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in for a hugely successful landing in September 2021 as its director and president. Now, as the academy’s CEO, “I have a completely new set of problems to solve,” he says, “but I walked in with very open eyes.”

Kramer seems suited to the task, with a lengthy history of strategic planning and fundraising—including the $250 million he raised to start museum construc1 tion in 2016. He’s also a naturally diplomatic spokesman for an industry roiled by controversies from within and without.

Kimmel back as host for the first time since 2018. While “This is a different moment in time for the film industry,” it seems unlikely a comedian as thoughtful and occasionKramer acknowledges with considerable understatement. ally merciless as Kimmel will let the Slap go unmentioned, Dressed in a cerulean suit and seated in the academy’s the shape and content of the show have been an ongoing sixth-floor conference room in Beverly Hills, a wall-size discussion at the academy and at ABC, which has aired the photo from the set of 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia beside him, ceremony since 1976. he continues, “We’ve just survived a pandemic; theatrical “We take what happened very seriously,” says Kramer. releases don’t look the way they used to”—2022’s North “This is about honoring the arts and sciences of cinema.

American box office was down about 35 percent from preWe are looking at the show’s design and production to pandemic 2019—“streaming is becoming a big ensure that nothing like this will happen part of our life. We need to evolve and be at the again.” That includes bringing back veteran center of those conversations while still recogawards show producers Glenn Weiss and “I have new nizing and supporting and preserving cinema.

Ricky Kirshner and returning to a single, problems I think we can do all of that.” experienced host in Kimmel. “A key part of to solve, but The Academy Awards celebrate their what makes a host of the Oscars successful 95th year in 2023 and remain AMPAS’s most is the nimbleness that a live-television host I walked precious asset despite the ceremony’s plungunderstands,” Kramer says. “It’s a very specific in with very ing television ratings and talk of creeping skill, and Jimmy’s brilliant at it.” open eyes.” irrelevance. Viewership in 2022 increased an Another change the CEO promises is a encouraging 58 percent from the previous year reversal of the academy’s controversial decision but was still the second-least-watched Oscars last year to remove eight categories—includshow in broadcast history. Meanwhile, Smith’s slapping ing original score, makeup, and film editing—from the Chris Rock onstage spawned criticism over the decision to live broadcast, which Knives Out director Rian Johnson allow the actor to tearfully pick up his Best Actor trophy tweeted at the time was “absolute bullshit.” It was a failed minutes after the assault. experiment to save airtime, Kramer acknowledges, that The first Oscars under Kramer’s watch will unfold went “against the core mission of the academy to celebrate March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy all of the arts and sciences of moviemaking.”

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Kramer’s arrival as CEO follows the tumultuous 11-year regime of his predecessor, Dawn Hudson, whose leadership drew equal measures of applause and criticism for her moves to modernize and diversify the academy. She bore the brunt of every controversy and misstep at the Oscars, from falling ratings and abrupt changes in producers and hosts to announcing, then immediately canceling, plans for a “Best Popular Movie” award. While Kramer inherits lingering concerns about diversity, the answers aren’t obvious. Calls for “genderless” awards (rather than Best Actor and Best Actress) to make room for nonbinary performers have been discussed, but there is no plan to make that change, he says. “At the academy, a big part of our work today is to help envision a more diverse, equitable, accessible film industry. We are always evolving, and it’s a conversation that we will constantly be having. There’s no end point to this work.”

Starting in 2024, the academy will institute “inclusion standards” for diversity in cast, crew, and other areas of production in order for films to be eligible for Best Picture consideration. “What’s giving us a lot of hope is that almost everyone we’re working with is already thinking about this on the production level,” says Kramer, who notes that all of last year’s Best Picture nominees would have qualified, even as filmmakers and academy members have criticized the rule as invasive, anti-creative, and impractical to implement. The British Academy of Film

and Television Arts will apply the same standards for its Best Film award in 2024. “We’ve locked arms with BAFTA as we’ve created this process,” Kramer adds. “This is not about legislating art.”

While the academy has no direct control over the making of movies, Kramer has worked to wield influence in other ways. When the museum was preparing to open, he personally asked Spike Lee to “christen the space” dedicated to directors with an exhibition devoted to Lee’s life and work, a shrewd conciliatory gesture considering the filmmaker’s fraught relationship with the academy, which awarded 1990’s Best Picture Oscar to the feel-good Driving Miss Daisy but didn’t nominate Do the Right Thing, Lee’s provocative dramatization of racial dynamics. (The first film shown in the museum’s state-of-the-art David Geffen Theater was a 70mm print of the director’s Malcolm X.) Kramer also oversaw an installation by Pedro Almodóvar and an upcoming exhibition with fellow Baltimore native John Waters along with other auteurs he discovered as a younger man learning to love and understand the movies.

“It’s been amazing to work with filmmakers who helped form my early notions of cinema and diverse ways of telling stories about ourselves, whether it’s being queer”—Kramer and husband Peter Cipkowski married in 2019—“or living in another country,” he says. “It has stayed with me.”

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YOUR FEBRUARY CULTURAL AGENDA

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M U LT I M E D I A

One Love Experience › Bob Marley, one of the godfathers of reggae, is due for the immersive treatment. “It’s going to be amazing bringing the experience here to the U.S. for the first time and just steps from Daddy’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,” says Cedella Marley, the CEO of the Bob Marley Group.

The show features the entire Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Bob Marley Archive, flush with previously unseen photos, memorabilia, a cannabis garden, a giant spliff, and the world’s largest indoor vinyl record celebrating his best-selling album Legend. Exclusive art from The Postman, Camoworks, Idiot Box, and others emphasize the reggae star’s influence on street art. It’s as close to Marley’s Jamaica as you’ll get without booking a flight.

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The First Deep Breath › Playwright Lee Edward Colston II chronicles a family’s spiral of denial when town pillar Pastor Albert Jones and loved

ones gather for a memorial service to honor their late daughter. But when the eldest son, whom Jones blames for her death, returns from prison, everyone is confronted with some hard

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truths. Geffen Playhouse, geffenplayhouse.org, February 1 through March 5.

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Marlowe › No, not Shakespeare foil Christopher Marlowe but Raymond Chandler’s other Marlowe, Philip, the one with the trench coat and fedora who’s committed to rooting out crime in Los Angeles.

Oscar winner Neil Jordan directs this search for the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, and Jessica Lange. In theaters February 3.

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Mozart’s 1785 comedy of class and conjugal commitment on an Italian estate. Originally scheduled by L.A. Opera for 2020, Gray’s opera debut features costumes by celebrated fashion designer Christian Lacroix. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, February 4 through 26.

BOOKS

Unnatural History: An Alex Delaware Novel › Author Jonathan Kellerman’s L.A. crime

fighters, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, team up to solve the murder of a photographer whose recent folio examines the homeless and the fantasies that inspire them. The killer

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could be among those exploited by the photos.

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B O O KS

Victory City › Rebounding from last year’s attempt on his life, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie is back at it with this epic tale of a motherless child who inherits the powers of her goddess namesake and conjures a fantastical empire.

February 7.

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Ovation Hollywood, bobmarleyexp.com, January 27 through April 23.

over 15 galleries, and a larger South Korean contingent than ever before. DIVERSEartLA returns with a curatorial focus on climate change. Conceptual photographer Alfredo De Stefano presents enigmatic installations in an ethereal desert setting. Evocative vermilion wrapped figures, long shadows, and scorched shrubbery auger Earth as a desert planet. On the flip side is Il Giardino Planetario, an immersive allegory of the planet as a garden. It comes courtesy of the Italian Cultural Institute and artists Pietro Ruffo and Elia Pellegrini. L.A. Convention Center, laartshow.com, February 15 through 19.

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centertheatregroup.org, February 19 through March 26.

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Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection

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command, the children’s classic springs anew as orphan Mary Lennox travels from India to her uncle’s English country estate. There, with the help of some quirky companions, she penetrates the long-locked garden and uncovers family secrets from the past. Ahmanson Theatre,

› In the aftermath of 1989’s Tiananmen Square uprising, China saw unprecedented prosperity and openness under the Chinese Communist Party.

Artistic expression flourished during the decade that followed, an era immortalized on film and video by artists like Weng Fen, Cao Fei, Yang Fudong, Zhu Jia, and Xu Zhen. Hammer Museum, hammer.ucla.edu, February 19 through May 14.

Cali Vibes › With Method Man & Redman topping the

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SPORTS

Super Bowl LVII › This year’s matchup takes place in Glendale, Arizona, with Rihanna serenading a sold-out stadium. Fans of the reigning champion L.A. Rams will have to wait until next year, but the L.A. Chargers have qualified for the AFC playoffs.

Fox, February 12.

ART

Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 › Before there was AI, there was the mainframe, technology dedicated to making lives easier.

As with any new tool, artists pounced—writers, painters, musicians, choreographers, and filmmakers discovered new ways of reflecting

lineup, think herb.

It’s what you’ll smell burning at this Long Beach music festival. This year’s roster also features Snoop Dogg, Damian Marley, Slightly Stoopid, 311, Jack Johnson, Rebelution, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, and

others. Take in tunes, the salty air, and secondhand smoke.

Marina Green Park, calivibesfest.com, February 17 through 19.

the world in the era preceding the PC. LACMA, lacma.org, February 12 through July 2.

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2023 NBA All-Star Weekend

L.A. Art Show › Sure, there’s that other art confab (Frieze L.A.) out in Santa Monica, but our homegrown show, now in its 28th year, features works from more than 80 galleries, museums, and nonprofits from around the world.

It’s one of this month’s best places to view contemporary paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, photography, design, video, and performance.

Jeff Robb‘s lenticular photography will be on display. New to the show is the Japanese Pavilion, debuting

Expect the usual slam-dunk contest, threepoint shootout and Rising Stars Challenge.

The NBA HBCU Classic pits Grambling State University against Southern University, with alumni Willis Reed and Bob Love as honorary captains. TNT, ESPN2, and NBA TV, February 17 through 19.

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The Secret Garden › Return to paradise with Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman and Grammywinning composer Lucy Simon. Under their

ART

Mr. Brainwash Art Museum › Soon after the Paley Center shut its doors, popular street artist Mr. Brainwash announced plans to open his own museum. Three years later, his efforts bear colorful fruit. The inaugural exhibition, Enter Through the Museum, is a play on the Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. And yes, there is a gift shop. mrbrainwashartmuseum.com.

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WITH DECISION TO LEAVE, PARK CHAN-WOOK’S ACCLAIMED NEW RELEASE, SOUTH KOREA’S GREATEST WORKING FILMMAKER MAY HAVE ALREADY MADE THE YEAR’S BEST MOVIE

BY STEVE ERICKSON

D E C I S I O N T O L E A V E will be a revelation to

anyone just catching up with Korean cinema.

Asian movies in general and Korean movies in particular have been the future of film for the last quarter century, in part because the future has come to Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China at bullet-train velocity, and in the process has wiped the past clean, a blank slate on which cinema has been reimagined. In movies like Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Memories of Murder, Crush and Blush, Pietà, Snowpiercer, Train to Busan, The Villainess, On the Beach at Night Alone, and Burning—not to mention the world-rocking TV series Squid Games—the melodrama of pulp fiction mixes with the sociology of economic class, an eroticism that’s all the more explosive for how repressed it is. In Decision to Leave, the timeless sea, mountains, and fog of South Korea on one hand and the text messages, voice recordings, and smartwatches of the 21st century all have their roles in an unfolding story of identity and homicide, existential futility, and unhinged passion.

These movies can be intense to a fault—Pietà and the landmark Oldboy sometimes verge on the unwatchable—but their arrival in the world’s cultural consciousness is beyond dispute. The breakthrough was 2019’s Parasite, which buried filmmaker Bong Joon-ho in Oscars for picture, director, and screenplay. Parasite is a preeminent example of how successful art is so often about being in the right place at the right time. Not the best Korean movie ever made, Parasite was nonetheless a phenomenon that struck a chord having to do with the obscene chasm between haves and have-nots for audiences whom capitalism failed and egalitarian democracy imperiled.

Like most major Korean writer-directors, CANDID Bong’s filmography mixes genres of crime, CAMERA horror, black satire, and science fiction in Park is the Korean new wave’s supreme freewheeling fashion. virtuoso. Decision to One of the advantages of a new cinLeave is a full blast of ema is that it doesn’t know what’s not his cinematic lexicon.

supposed to be done. Wild, irreconcilable tonal shifts abound in Parasite—are we supposed to gasp, flinch, laugh? yes—and the results are insights into human behavior that can’t be fully articulated in any language but movies. Now perhaps slightly in the shadow of Bong’s new international prominence is his occasional producer and the greatest working Korean filmmaker, Park Chan-wook. At the still productive age of 59, Park is Korea’s supreme stylist and virtuoso, following up revenge epic Oldboy with the even better revenge epic Lady Vengeance, delinquent-vampires-in-love epic Thirst, erotic lesbian epic The Handmaiden (Park’s masterpiece), epic espionage remake The Little Drummer Girl, and now the neo-noir epic Decision to Leave.

Preliminarily a generic murder mystery, Decision to Leave’s two and a half hours are a full blast of Park’s cinematic lexicon, if you’re ready for it. Narratively labyrinthine, it’s packed with minor moments that circle back (or forward) to other moments you might not notice until a second viewing, along with subplots that involve secondar y relationships that bubble up to f lood the blueprint of the ongoing story while paranoid imaginings mingle with what’s “really” happening—sometimes in the past, present, and future all at once. What grounds Decision to Leave are the performances of Park Hae-il’s detective, as obsessed as he is tightly wound, and particularly Tang Wei’s femme fatale, who’s ultimately as deadly to herself as to anyone else. By all rights, Tang should have been an international superstar ever since her performance in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution 15 years ago, so scorching it got her banned for a while in her native China. As with so much of Korea’s new wave, you may not immediately know what to make of Decision to Leave, but as the hours and then the days pass, you’ll find yourself unable to shake the film’s final scene—the most haunting ending in any recent cinema from anywhere—as well as the nagging suspicion that you may have just seen the year’s best movie.

Korean movies have been the future of film for 25 years.

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THE FRIEZE LOS ANGELES ART FAIR IS BACK AND BIGGER THAN EVER. THIS YEAR’S EMPHASIS IS ON GALLERIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

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Assembled at the Barker Hangar are participants at this year’s art fair. Opposite page, from left: artist Hana Ward, Naoki Sutter-Shudo of Bel Ami gallery, Anat Ebgi of Anat Ebgi gallery, Kristina Kite of Kristina Kite Gallery, artist Veronica Fernandez, Karen Galloway of Sow & Tailor gallery, artist Edgar Ramirez, and artist Milano Chow.

This page, from left: Pauli Ochi of Ochi gallery, artist Clifford Prince King, Lee Foley of Bel Ami gallery, artist Hanna Hur, artist Shana Hoehn, Sebastian Gladstone of Sebastian Gladstone gallery, and artist Jane Margarette.

O R I G I NAT I N G O N the Paramount Studios backlot in 2018, Frieze Los Angeles landed in Beverly Hills last year and will make the hop to the Santa Monica Municipal Airport this month (February 16 to 19), when it raises the curtain on art from over 120 galleries from 22 countries. Under Frieze Director of Americas Christine Messineo, this year’s fair emphasizes twentieth-century art, often spotlighting work by practitioners who may have been previously overlooked.

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The Focus section of the fair is dedicated to relatively new galleries from across the country, expanding from last year’s L.A.-only remit.

“You’re going to find Minneapolis and D.C. and Chicago in here, all cities with people showing incredible art on par with galleries working on the coasts, who will also be on view in Focus,” says returning curator Amanda Hunt, head of public engagement, learning and impact at Walker Art Center, who’s working with associate curator Sonya Tamaddon for this edition. “There’s really strong energy this year.”

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You are hilarious on Twitter.

A personal favorite: “Who is Olivia Rodrigo yelling at on Good 4 U? I would like to know who we are angry with.” I gather you are very close with your niece. Any possibility that your niece is behind the tweets? > No. Dionne writes the tweets. And, yeah, they are funny. Anytime that I am around people, I want them to smile and laugh. And all my tweets, if you notice, end with a smile.

In 1962, Burt Bacharach discovered you singing backup, fell in love with your voice and, along with his partner,

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lyricist Hal David, started writing music for you. Then, in 1973, they had a fight and split up. Did you try to mend their relationship? > Mo Ostin, then the CEO of Warner Bros. Records, asked if I could get them to get back into the studio. I was flown to Tahoe to speak with Burt, but Burt was adamant that he wasn’t going to write with Hal any longer. Then I came back to Los Angeles, and Hal said, “I’m not going to write with Burt any longer.” It is a shame that it ended the way it ended.

Burt did write in his memoir that during that period you showed up at a concert for his then-wife, Carole Bayer Sager, and glared at her. > That’s Burt’s opinion. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even know who Carole Bayer Sager was. Nor did I care. And I was P H O T O G R A P H BY DAV I D VA N C E

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only there at the urging of my friends, who wanted to go see what the show was about.

have done. That voice is for romantic, wonderful songs, not disco.

You’ve only ever been In 1979, you had a huge married to one man, the late comeback with such songs actor William Elliott, but as “I’ll Never Love This Way married him twice.

Again.” Just prior to this, > Those who can’t do with, were you really thinking can’t do without. about leaving the music business altogether?

The first marriage was quite > Absolutely. I figured that I short, right? might as well use my teaching > It only lasted a few months, credentials. People were no and I woke up one morning longer attracted to what I was and decided doing, and I was I didn’t want still a young lady. to be married You have to real“My voice anymore, and I ize, in that period of time, there would never went to Mexico and got a was a little thing have made Mexican divorce. called disco any kind and a young of impact Was he aware lady named of what you Donna Summer, with disco were up to? who took over music.” > No. When I the recordgot back, he ing industry. goes, “Why were you in Mexico?” I said: I think your voice “Here are the papers. We are would’ve been great on no longer married.” But then, disco records. he pursued me, which was > No. My voice would never lovely. I was in Italy, performhave made any kind of ing, and Bill was sitting in the impact with disco music. front row. And he wooed me As a matter of fact, that’s and moved me and asked why I kind of did this to my me to marry him again. And I nose when Barbra Streisand said, “OK.” And we got mardecided to jump into disco, ried in Italy. which she should never 4

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1. Warwick with her aunt, soul singer Cissy Houston. 2. The singer’s Twitter humor. 3. In the studio with Burt Bacharach in 1964.

4. With husband William Elliott and sister Dee Dee at the Academy Awards in 1972. 5. On the cover of Jet magazine in 1972.

In 1972, you were on the cover of Jet magazine with the headline “How Astrology Helps Her in Music and Marriage.” > Well, I found out it doesn’t.

Is it true that because of numerology, you added an “E” to the end of Warwick in the ’70s? > Yes. I was told it would add vibratory enhancement to my last name. At the time, my husband and I were going through a bit of turmoil—and the “E” being representative of my last name at the time, Elliott, might vibratorily bring us back together. Well, all hell broke loose with that “E,” and I said, “Let’s get rid of this ‘E.’ ” I did, and that’s when I started recording again, and all kinds of wonderful things started happening.

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Back in 2011, you did The Celebrity Apprentice.

You did not appear to enjoy that experience. > No, I did not. It was a lot of backbiting and craziness.

I said: “Dionne, why are you going to ruin your career here with these crazy people? Get out of this.” And that’s when I fired myself. It was so funny because Donald’s face was like, “You can’t fire yourself.”

I just did!

You appeared to particularly dislike Marlee Matlin and Lisa Rinna. > It was a case of not wanting to really be around people of that ilk, who decided that they had to be obstinate, crazy, and say silly things to each other. I said, “I don’t want to be ’round these ladies.”

Evidently, Lisa Rinna has become a big villain on her Real Housewives show.

Do you watch those? > No. I don’t watch any of that crap. I watch Gunsmoke.

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The massive, 7,500-square-foot multilevel space is indeed stunning. “We have an upstairs agave bar that is a little bit more quiet and dark. Downstairs, we have what we’re calling Bar Mírate, which is more lively. And then we have a mezzanine dining deck with a roof that opens up. It’s an open-air dining deck with wraparound patio seating throughout the rest of the restaurant,” says Egan, who left a career in the film industry to open Mírame in 2020 with chef DEEP-SEA Joshua Gil, whom he disDIVE covered in a cookbook and Coctél de subsequently befriended.

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California), the two have opened their second project, founded on the same principles as their first: sustainability and the desire to bring the kind of upscale Mexican food they’ve eaten in Mexico to the U.S.— inventive food that tells a story.

At Mírate, where the menu centers around the mezcal-heavy cocktail program of star barman Max Reis (previously of Gracias Madre), this means tacos you wouldn’t find anywhere else, like skewered spicy oyster mushroom tacos arabes with ground toasted corn and sesame salsa on house-made flour tortillas.

The restaurant grinds its own masa for tortillas and uses grain from the Tehachapi Heritage Grain Project. Thick-cut yucca fries come drenched in cheesy, meaty queso. Generous bowls of hamachi aguachile ceviche with black lime and tomatillo is fresh and bright, and pairs nicely with a frothy sour papaya tequila cocktail. Every spirit on Reis’s menu comes from Mexico.

“One of our core values is that anything on our menu has to tell a unique story,” says Egan. “We always put our spin on everything we do.”

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“They’re from an amazing Black creative brand, TooMK. All of my work is rooted in service to others, so I am always looking for a way to promote and highlight the creativity of my own community.”

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“I wore these as part of a green sequined suit for a going-away party that a dear friend threw for me in N.Y. before I moved to L.A.”

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“Something about these Gucci loafers spoke to the androgynous personality that I have—loafers are more of a manly style, but adding the heel speaks to women.”

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N Y T H I N G G O E S ? Not. After 30 years as an

observer of the Oscar red carpet—an almost95-year-old ritual—I can say with authority: Hits are classic shapes in striking colors; misses go too hard for the gusto (though Lady Gaga always gets a pass). It’s all about balance: The brighter the color or beading, the simpler the silhouette; the louder the jewelry, the quieter its canvas. Ilaria Urbinati, stylist to Ryan Reynolds and the Rock, among others, sees 2023’s Academy Awards as “the first real Oscar red carpet in years.”

Hence, more actors getting paid by luxury brands. “Eighty percent of what you see is paid endorsements,” says Beverly Hills jeweler Martin Katz. “Jewelry’s trending smaller, but when the jewelry doesn’t go with the dress, big money’s changed hands.” Actors still take home $250,000 to a million bucks to vogue down the carpet. Who can resist that?

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BLACK ON BLACK

• When staying monochromatic,

texture is all. Andrew Garfield’s Saint Laurent plush velvet jacket (2022) contrasted his satin shirt and shiny shoes.

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THINK PINK

• While sheer dresses let it all

hang out, Zoë Kravitz went full Audrey in strapless Saint Laurent (2022). As Diana Vreeland once decreed: “Elegance is refusal.”

TAKE A BOW

• All gowns are not created

equal. Armani Privé’s peplum bow (2018) for Nicole Kidman gave her outfit volume, contrasting that flash of leg.

GOOD AS GOLD

• Leslie Odom Jr.’s double-

breasted Brioni tux (2021) was crafted with 24-karat-gold silk thread—classic fit + flamboyant fabric = fabulosity incarnate.

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• Angelina Jolie on her Atelier Versace

• Knights in bright satin? Sure.

gown (2012): “I had a more complicated dress, and I wore the more comfortable dress . . . I was just so comfortable.”

Maybe comfort isn’t everything.

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GOING GIRLY

• Rosettes. Keyholes. Pastels.

One sleeve. Sheer fabric. Froufrou.

Heidi Klum’s fluff-happy Marchesa gown (2016) was labeled “a bridesmaid disaster.”

Men other than Tom Wolfe in ice cream suits? Never. We're looking at you, Kodi Smit-McPhee (Bottega Veneta, 2022).

RUFFLED FEATHERS

• Kristen Wiig’s Valentino sheath with

double-sided ruffles (2020) was a bold choice. The color worked—but not with that shape. The Instarazzi dubbed it “the lasagna dress.”

GOTH GONE WRONG

• Goth gowns, jewelry, and guyliner

don’t mix. After she donned Alexander McQueen (2002), Cosmopolitan advised: “If there’s one time to put them away, Gwyneth, it’s the Oscars.”

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Out With The Olds WHEN HOLLY WOOD TRIED TO S W EEP CO M EDY L EG EN D SHELLEY BERMAN UNDER THE R U G , H I S R ED C A R P E T H A N D L ER TO O K A S TA N D

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A L O N E LY S T R I N G of blinking lights tacked to the side of a cubicle signaled the impending arrival of Christmas. Well, that plus the dark circles under the eyes of every employee in the film marketing department at Universal Pictures. It was December 2004, and our team had been working tirelessly to promote the upcoming release of Meet the Fockers—the hotly anticipated sequel to Meet the Parents, starring Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, and Robert De Niro.

On the Monday before the movie’s red carpet premiere, I received an email from my friend Jeff, a senior VP of publicity at Universal: “I know how much you love the old-timers, so I nominated you to accompany Shelley Berman down the red carpet at the premiere this Thursday. You’re welcome.”

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It’s true, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for older adults. Raised by a cash-strapped and overwhelmed single mother, I attributed many childhood moments of joy to the generosity of grandparents and great aunts and uncles. I grew up believing that these graying arbiters of happiness had their acts together and deserved reverence.

So, of course, I considered it an honor to walk down the red carpet with 79-year-old Shelley Berman— an original gangster of comedy and the actor who played Larry David’s father on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

That said, due to extreme burnout, I hoped to be excused from working that night.

VPs and higher-ranking executives were invited to attend movie premieres, but we junior staff were given work assignments at the events. After years of slogging through the ranks, I’d earned my stripes as a “Digital Marketing Director” and managed multiple film campaigns a year. That meant pulling together a digital strategy, sending out trailers and film stills to publishers, setting up promotions, coordinating interviews with talent and online press, and coping with the intense stress of liaising with diva filmmakers and shark-like publicists.

By year’s end, I’d morphed into a beaten shell of myself. Luckily, I was still young, in my thirties, but even older employees were put through the same paces.

Meanwhile, I dreaded working premieres, ergo, hand-holding actors and familiarizing media outlets with the lesser-known talent in the hope of securing interviews and exposure for a movie. I generally spent the evening white-knuckling a walkie-talkie while sprinting down the red carpet in sensible flats, trying not to knock over any starlets and begging reporters to speak to B-list cast.

Since we were short-staffed in December, I accepted my fate and stopped by my boss’s office to commiserate. A senior executive VP of marketing, Kevin empathized with my year-end exhaustion. He’d been invited to the premiere as a guest but hated schmoozing and preferred to stay home. I asked if he could 40 L A M AG.C OM

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1. Shelley Berman at the Improv in West Hollywood in 2002.

2. On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Berman as Larry David’s father.

3. Barbra Streisand and James Brolin on the red carpet at the Meet the Fockers premiere in 2004.

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skip this one. “No,” he groaned. “I need to make an appearance. But I’ll just get in and get out.”

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AT T H E FO CK E R S gala, the red

carpet stretched from Universal CityWalk to the Universal Amphitheatre. That night, the temp dipped to 57 degrees—freezing by L.A. standards—and, like the lookie-loos in knitted beanies and jackets crowded behind a gated-off fan-viewing area, I’d bundled up in a cream sweater, a navy trench coat, and wool slacks.

The brisk air, Christmas trees, and red ribbons transformed CityWalk from a tourist trap into a festive winterscape, but I still longed to recline on my couch and watch A Charlie Brown Christmas for the 200th time.

With the Fockers score blaring through gigantic speakers, I stood under the floodlights, shout-chatting with one of my coworkers. On-air personalities from hundreds of media outlets lined up to interview the stars, and a gaggle of photographers crammed into the “photo pit” near the entrance to capture celebrity arrivals. Prime-time TV shows like Entertainment Tonight, E! News, and Access Hollywood had pole position in the middle of the carpet. Lesserknown outlets—in 2004, these were mainly online press—were stuck at the end of the carpet, destined to miss out on the late-arriving stars who

rushed past to get to the theater. I’d just fielded another complaint when a voice barked into my headset, “Hilary, the Berman limo just arrived.” I hotfooted it over to the car drop-off area.

Out of a black town car stepped Shelley Berman, a slender fellow with a pair of bushy and expressive eyebrows. After his first major movie role in years, he’d dressed for the occasion in a charcoal pin-striped suit, navy pin-striped shirt, gray silk tie, and a paisley pocket square. He reached a hand inside the car and helped his wife step out onto the street. A whitehaired vision in a cream dress and red beaded necklace, Sarah stood an inch or two shorter than her husband. For the first time in my life, next to Sarah, I felt like an Amazon.

Shelley, though slight in build, had been a comedy heavyweight in his day. Winner of the first Grammy for spoken comedy record in 1959 and three gold records, he went on to star on Broadway, in television, and, occasionally, in films. His comedy routines focused on life’s annoyances, and he gained popularity for telephone monologues where he’d sit on a stool onstage and speak into an unplugged telephone, getting increasingly agitated with the person on the other end. My mom, a native New Yorker, plotzed when I told her the news: “Shelley Berman! A real Jewish icon from the borscht belt comedy set. I grew up listening to him.” She wasn’t alone: Shelley’s comedy style inspired

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the likes of Larry David, Woody Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld. After Shelley died in 2017, Steve Martin credited him with “Changing modern stand-up.”

I introduced myself to the couple with a touch of nervousness in my voice. Talking to famous people always set me on edge, as if I dared to cross the barrier between us and them.

Gossip mags love to post pics of celebs walking their dogs with the caption, “They’re just like us!” But we commoners know that even if we drag our mutt up the same Hollywood hillside as Jen Aniston, we’re still nobodies and she’ll always be somebody.

Sarah, however, put me at ease by flashing a warm smile and thanking me for my assistance.

“So, what’s the plan?” Shelley asked, pressing his shoulders back and sinking his hands in his pockets.

I explained that he’d have an hour to complete interviews before heading to the theater to watch the movie, followed by the party. I took another minute to gush about his performance as Judge Ira in the film. “You were my favorite part,” I said. “Truly hilarious.”

The movie was no Oscar contender, but Shelley’s performance as a randy judge demonstrating bawdy movements in a sex therapy class taught by Barbra Streisand stood out as comedy gold to me.

“Really?” His furry brows shot up, and he smiled. “I haven’t seen it yet.”

“The movie is fun, but you really make it.”

“Ready for your close-up.” She “How wonderful,” Sarah said, totstraightened his tie. tering next to him on kitten heels.

Suddenly, the crowd went berserk.

The three of us made our way Photographers shouted, “Babs, over down the carpet, and I stepped out here!” Barbra Streisand glided up the ahead to introduce Shelley to the first carpet in a light-gray fur coat over of many clueless twentysomething a periwinkle crepe dress, her blond, on-air personalities. Press outlets lustrous locks flowing in the breeze, tended to ignore the supporting and a perfectly manicured hand cast so as not to be tied up when clamped around James Brolin’s arm. the superstars arrived. I wanted to She moved at a quick clip, ignoring make sure that the reporters showed all the outlets in the press queue, and Shelley respect and took time to beelined for ET and Access. Before interview him thoughtfully. With a I had time to push Shelley onto the wave of my arm, as if presenting a platform, Babs jumped the line and king at court, I said: “This is Shelley took his slot.

Berman. He’s a godfather of comedy, Shelley’s expressive face contorted star of the stage and screen, and a livinto a mask of confusion and rage. ing legend.”

His mouth hung open, and his blue Shelley ambled along, but we eyes blinked repeatedly, as if he’d just made great strides, knocking the awoken from a fever dream. smaller outlets off the list. I enjoyed “It’s not fair!” he fumed. watching him get his 15 minutes and, “She should wait her turn like as I stood on the sidelines, smalleveryone else.” talking with Sarah.

I understood his indignation.

He wore a giddy grin and remained I felt it, too. This man had been in high spirits through close to an waiting decades for a close-up. hour of interviews. Fifteen minutes One would hope that elders would before we had to be at the theater, the be lauded at these events and press grew restless, checking their given preferential treatment, but watches and craning their necks to Hollywood catch a glimpse of celebrates the the A-listers. Each upstagers. time a mega celebBefore I had time To make matrity showed up, the to push Shelley ters worse, the volume spiked and red carpet was the atmosphere onto the platform, closing, and became more frenBabs jumped the we had to get to zied. Celebs and line and took his the theater to guests clogged the start the screencarpet like parade slot. “It’s not fair!” ing. I certainly marchers in sushe fumed. didn’t possess the pended animation, authority to rush more interested the one and only in being seen than Barbra Streisand off the stage, anything else. Photographers shouted, and if I didn’t get Shelley to his seat “Dustin, over here!” and “Ben, look tout de suite, he’d miss the beginthis way!” followed by a strobe-light ning of the film. effect of camera flashes. Through Priding myself as a glass-half-full my headset, the VP of special events kind of helper, I tried to spin the announced, “Wrap up interviews and situation, telling Shelley that TV head to the theater.” interviews are edited down and only I rushed Shelley to the main a few seconds make screen time. stages for Entertainment Tonight Print and online will be much better, and Access Hollywood, where he I assured him. He shook his head, waited for Ben Stiller to finish up. and his lips twisted into a deep frown, Those entertainment TV shows one that seemed to drag his whole reached millions of viewers, and face down with it. His devastation every actor craved the exposure. palpable, no amount of cheerleading “How do I look?” Shelley turned to could change the fact that his scene Sarah and smoothed his hair.

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had been stolen. I felt like a failure for letting him down. Still, I hoped the rest of the night would make up for this setback.

With the movie about to start, I hustled the couple to their seats, fetched popcorn, and arranged to meet up afterward to escort them to the party. Two hours later, I waited on my charges outside the theater. Shelley emerged, his forehead lined with creases and the color drained from his skin. “They cut most of my scenes! I’m barely in the movie.” He fixed me with a deliberate glare. “You lied to me!”

Now, Babs wasn’t the only doublecrosser on his list—I was, too. A classic people-pleaser, hell-bent on spreading happiness, I was gutted to know that Shelley thought I’d lied to him. I was verklempt.

“I swear, in the cut I saw, you were fantastic,” I pleaded.

He squinted his eyes and pressed his lips together, as if the sound of my voice hurt his ears. My credibility had taken a nosedive. All I could do was try to make sure he had fun at the party.

“Once you eat something, you’ll feel better,” Sarah said, ever the supportive wife.

Alas, at the party, everything descended 20,000 leagues further under the sea. An area had been set up with cocktail bars and several heated dinner buffets emanating gassy blasts of Sterno. Guests milled around heat lamps, enjoying the festivities, replete with holiday music, wreaths, ribbons, blinking lights, and giant gift boxes on display.

Shelley surveyed the scene and immediately zeroed in on a special roped-off VIP section for the film’s stars, flanked by security guards to keep away fawning fans. He wasn’t considered A-list and didn’t have access to this elite enclave. I’d hoped to elide this omission earlier in the night by “reserving” a table close by—tossing my coat on top of it and crossing my fingers that nobody would move it.

“Have a seat, and I’ll grab you some food from the buffet,” I offered.

“Can we go in there?” Shelley pointed at his costars whooping it up behind the velvet ropes.

I wanted to chomp on a cyanide capsule and collapse, mouth frothing instead of admitting, “It’s, um, a special-access area.”

For Shelley, this was the final blow.

He sighed and flashed a crestfallen look at Sarah. In that moment, all the reasons I’d fallen out of love with the job snapped into focus. I loathed “the business” for its shallowness and lack of compassion. And while I enjoyed the creative challenge from time to time, in a world plagued with struggle and inequity, it all seemed so unimportant and meaningless.

Rather than celebrate the old guard who lit the path for today’s young stars, Hollywood ditched its pioneers on the cutting room floor. Legendary actresses with faded beauty died penniless. Silly movies broke box office records, and beautiful art-house films disappeared from theaters overnight.

“I want to say hello to Dustin,” Shelley said sternly, as if he suddenly remembered he was a “somebody” and I existed only to serve his needs.

This was my last shot at redemption. I had to make it happen, or else I’d end up (presumably along with Barbra Streisand) as a needleriddled voodoo doll on Shelley Berman’s dresser.

“OK, let me see what I can do.” I sped over to the VIP area, armpits soaked with sweat and several frizzy curls flying free from my poorly assembled chignon. I’m sure I had a crazed look in my eye as I ducked under the red rope and squeezed through the crowd, searching desperately for a familiar face. I spotted the talent handler for Dustin Hoffman and waved her over.

“Shelley Berman wants to say hello; can we please let him in?” I held my hands together in prayer.

Dustin Hoffman overheard, spotted his friend, and shouted, “Shelley!

Come here!”

I unclipped the velvet rope for Shelley to slide in. He squared his shoulders and stood up straighter.

The two men hugged, and Shelley glowed with joy. Ben Stiller came over and gave Shelley a hug, too.

From my perch outside the red ropes, in the plebian zone with Sarah, I observed this sweet scene, and I swear I saw light radiating off that

man. Tears welled in my eyes as I watched how this small gesture made Shelley’s year. Suddenly, I had an epiphany: It was time to move on. No more fraught nights on the red carpet for me. Instead, I would follow in the footsteps of my geriatric heroes and pursue my passions. Sure, I was in my thirties, but why wait until my knees had to be replaced and my feet were covered in corns to fulfill my dream of

being a writer? And so, the following Monday, I walked into Kevin’s office and gave my notice. He assumed I’d landed a better job at another studio. I explained that I’d had it with drudgery, and if he needed to get in touch, he could find me at the discount movie theater or the YMCA. He laughed at the absurdity of the idea, but I could tell, deep down, he wished he were going with me.

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who noticed that the high-end specialty supermarket was an ideal setting for uncoupled Angelenos to meet cute. “My clients were already making connections in the checkout line,” she says, so she saw the Monday night gatherings as an opportunity to “uplevel the vibe.”

Weber’s hardly the only one who’s picked up on Erewhon’s love connection potential. As the pandemic has finally started to fade away, L.A.’s singles have begun poking their heads up from their dating apps and venturing into the real world in search of actual face-to-face romance, the kind that doesn’t require swiping left or right but swiping nonetheless.

“Between dinner and our turmeric teas, I’m out $100,” sighs one Shop & Shagger. And here on Venice Boulevard, as well as seven other locations—in Santa Monica, Fairfax, SOURCE: Match.com’s 2022 Singles in America survey of 5,000 singles ages 18 to 98.

Silver Lake, Beverly Hills, Pacific Palisades, Calabasas, and Studio City—they have discovered that, at Erewhon, finding a prospective mate

By Allen Salkin Physical attraction no longer ranks among the top 5 characteristics of what singles are looking for in a partner in LA. Instead, it’s someone they can trust and confide in (90%); someone who is emotionally mature (90%); someone who can make them laugh (90%); someone who is comfortable with their own sexuality (89%); and someone who is comfortable communicating their wants and needs (89%).

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can be as simple as sipping a $19 Maca Bomb smoothie.

“I’ve started numerous relationships here,” says one shopper who is such a well-known fixture at the stores that the staff has started referring to him as Erewhon Famous. “When you meet someone here, you know they’re following a healthy lifestyle.”

Officially, Erewhon has no part in the Shop & Shag events, and Yentling isn’t listed on the tonic bar menu.

But it’s clear that the company’s stated mission of “creating community” has gradually morphed into the promotion of outright canoodling.

Indeed, every detail in the stores seems to have been deliberately—one might even say aerodynamically— designed to be dating-friendly. From its frequent-shopper program with its suggestive name (“Members with Benefits”) to the soulful musical selections (Bowie, Coldplay, Byrne), it’s an aspirational utopia devoid of adult diapers or denture creams, but where the gluten-free energy bars are as numberless as the world’s wonders and the sultry, muted lighting rivals any Ian Schrager hotel lobby.

“It all creates a sensual mood,” notes Erewhon shopper Mariah O’Brien, an interior designer.

“Everyone looks better next to natural material, and the small aisles force you to interact with people. As you squeeze by, you feel people’s energy.

It’s a visceral experience.”

Jason Widener, Erewhon’s VP of brand management, is a bit cagier about the company’s matchmaking intentions. “When you make healthier food choices, why wouldn’t that lead to improvements in your love life?” he says, all but winking.

Whether or not the company’s executives admit it, Erewhon has become the hottest meet market in Los Angeles. “I’m here to make a sacral connection,” says one shopper, “That’s something you can’t do in cyberspace.”

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novel (the title is the word “nowhere” spelled backward, except the “w” and “h” are in the wrong places)—it was anything but sexy. On the contrary, it was a hippie hangout for hard-core adherents of the strict diet. The scent of fermenting veggies hung in the air like a bad review, and it was hardly the pickup joint it is today, unless you were picking up carob chips in bulk.

But in 2011, foodie entrepreneurs Tony and Josephine Antoci purchased the company and quickly set about modernizing the brand and adding locations. Eventually, RDC Collective, the buzzy architectural firm that designed many of L.A.’s high-end pot dispensaries, was brought in to update the vibe, giving the stores a hipper, chiller, more intimate, and better-smelling ambiance. It also put some serious thought into customer flow and interaction in spaces that generally have a much smaller

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LIQUOR STORE WALLY’S Celebrating 55 years, Wally’s seduces with its gentleman’s club vibe and sophisticated clientele who come for the more than 8,000 hand-

picked varieties of wine, spirits, beer, and gourmet snacks. The store’s surfeit of top-drawer booze and food is an aphrodisiac in itself. L.A. matchmaking expert Pattie Stanger’s take: “You wanna know where the millionaires go? They go to Wally’s. Men are impressed by women who know about wine. So if you say, ‘What are [you] gonna eat tonight?’ and he says, ‘Steak,’ you respond, ‘You know, I kind

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of want a Duckhorn with that.’ He’s gonna be like, ‘What?!’ ” 447 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, and 214 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica.

DOG PARKS WEHO DOG PARK With views of the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood’s vest-pocket dog run is packed with a wide range of the young and old, gay and straight, professional and not. All are out to let their canine friends have a day in the sun and check each other out, which inevita-

bly leads to meet-cutes among owners when Spot and Princess take a shine to each other.

Stanger’s take: “If you’ve been walking your dog forever and you’ve never met anyone, that means that they’re not your type or you’re not their type. So take your dog for a walk in the neighborhood you want to live in.” 647 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: SILVERLAKE DOG PARK, 1863 Silver Lake Blvd., Silver Lake, and

LAUREL CANYON DOG PARK, 8260 Mulholland Dr., Beverly Crest.

VOLUNTEER Connect with potential mates by volunteering—it’s a great way to meet those with similar interests and make a direct deposit into your karma bank. Stanger’s take: “I think PROJECT ANGEL FOOD is probably the best one. And MEALS ON WHEELS. At both, you’re working in the kitchen with

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footprint than most other supermarkets (the Silver Lake Erewhon, for instance, is just 12,000 square feet compared with the 50,000 square feet of the average Vons). The aisles in Erewhon aren’t numbered like other supermarkets either. Instead, the stores are staffed with swarms of young “shopping consultants” who happily escort customers to whatever product they’re seeking, plying them with friendly conversation along the way, which in turn tends to spark engagement with other shoppers.

It doesn’t hurt that a lot of Erewhon’s sculpted young employees look like they just finished practicing Ayurvedic yoga on the Ionian Sea. So, not surprisingly, Erewhon workers often find themselves being chatted up by patrons wanting to take home something spicier than turmeric root tea. Take Tamar, for example, who radiates intelligence and a “Venus on the Half-Shell” vibe and works in the supplement section of Erewhon’s Beverly Hills outpost. (I witnessed one customer slyly asking if the medicinal tonics “might make a good mix with gin.”) This kind of thing

people you don’t know, and interacting. UNION RESCUE MISSION is amazing downtown. Serve holiday dinners at THE LAUGH FACTORY. Sean Penn’s charity, CORE, is helping communities in crisis.

If you’re gay, you want to go to the GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS or AMFAR GALA. And events for HEAL THE BAY.”

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happens so frequently to Tamar that her coworkers joke about making PA announcements to help rescue her from overly interested customers.

(Though she currently isn’t dating, she’s managed to deftly swat away her supermarket suitors with an air of cool professionalism.)

In any case, by 2020, Erewhon had new stores sprouting up across

and actors and well-off men and women—or at least those who claim to be while spending $300 a month for a membership. Stanger’s take: “That gym is great. It’s a matchmaking dating club. You’d be surprised what shit goes down.” RUNYON CANYON PARK is the place to get your outdoor fitness on with the most incredible views of the city—and of hot hikers, too. Stanger’s take: “Runyon is the number one gold standard in the singles community. And you can bring your dog.” TOPGOLF, the luxury sports

entertainment complex in El Segundo, is where guys and dolls work on their swing, golf-related and otherwise.

Stanger’s take: “It’s a great way for girls to learn golf because it’s very much a man’s sport. Especially if you’re standing at the range and you’re like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing.’ He’s like, ‘Let me show you how to hold the club.’ ” Equinox, 8590 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood; Runyon Canyon, 2000 N. Fuller Ave., Hollywood Hills; Topgolf, 400 Pacific Coast Hwy., El Segundo, CA.

the city, but then, just as the chain was starting to take off, the pandemic hit L.A. Suddenly, squeezing through Erewhon’s extra-cozy aisles seemed less like a sensual dance with strangers and more like a deadly high-wire act. Like every other business here and in the rest of the country, foot traffic at the stores slowed to a crawl. Even Erewhon’s most devoted customers

CHURCHES Eleven percent of married couples say they met their partners in church. Nondenominational churches like MOSAIC and AGAPE make it easier to break the ice. Stanger’s take: “If you are gonna go to a Catholic church and you’re not Catholic, good luck to you. The nondenominational ones like Agape, that’s really the way to go. Go to the church you have interest in; don’t go to a church just because you heard the hottest men are Catholic.” Mosaic,

7107 Hollywood Blvd.; Agape, Saban Theater, 8440 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills.

MUSEUMS THE GETTY CENTER is one of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles, and architect Richard Meier’s multiple travertine patios and viewgrabbing nooks offer plenty of opportunities to turn chance encounters into romance.

Even the tram that carries you and a carful of strangers from the parking garage to the musuem is fair game—why

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retreated into their homes, resorting to Grubhub for their meals and apps like Hinge, Raya, and Match (or Pornhub) for their social needs.

But in recent months, as life in L.A. has approached something resembling normalcy, Erewhon found itself perfectly positioned to exploit a postpandemic resurgence in reallife romance. “People were enjoying solo sex 25 percent more during the pandemic, and that rate seems to be holding,” notes sexologist (and longtime Westside resident) Dr. Rob Weiss. At the same 1 time, he adds, “interactions on apps began trending away from hookups and toward cultivating real intimacy.” In other words, a lot of singles were both self-satisfying and sick to death of screen time. “Apps don’t allow for authenticity,” explains a Studio City Erewhon-habitué who’d met his fiancé in the parking lot. “But what’s more real than grocery shopping?” (Who cares if it’s a corporately choreographed authenticity?)

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not strike up a conversation and see where it leads? Stanger’s take: “I had my second date of my last relationship there, and it was really romantic. We were drunk on boxed wine, and he threw me against the wall and made out with me. It was kind of sexy. ” 1200 Getty Center Dr., Brentwood.

HONORABLE MENTION: THE BROAD, 221 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown.

HOTELS Far from being mere places to sleep, hotels

For singles once again looking for the kind of oxytocin-charged, oneenchanting-evening-style encounters that, in pre-digital times, used to take place in singles bars and dance clubs, this kind of “dating experience,” as Weber characterizes it, can be had through Shop & Shag.

The postpandemic inaugural event on Monday night drew a slew of these neoromantics, ranging in age from early 30s to late 50s—an undeniably attractive crew in drapey garments

in L.A. are often where the action is, with some of the hottest bars and restaurants—not to mention townies. Stanger’s take: “THE MAYBOURNE in Beverly Hills, on Thursday night and on Sundays, has a huge singles scene because a lot of people go to AVRA across the street. Another one would be the POLO LOUNGE, epecially at lunchtime, and the pool at THE ROOSEVELT

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suggesting they were either so relaxed or smoking-hot that the fabrics were melting off their bodies. Also, there are lots and lots of dogs. Shoppers at Erewhon saunter past the numerous signs announcing Erewhon’s noanimals-inside policy without second thought. But as a regular reminded M

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in Hollywood. Also the PENTHOUSE restaurant at THE HUNTLEY. In Santa Monica, CASA DEL MAR and SHUTTERS still crank. TERRANEA RESORT in Rancho Palos Verdes has a big scene in the summer and spring.

So does the rooftop deck at the WALDORF ASTORIA in Beverly Hills— JEAN-GEORGES there has great food. SURF RIDER has a seductive bar scene in Malibu; so

does CALAMIGOS GUEST RANCH AND BEACH CLUB.”

PUBLIC GARDEN Love is always in bloom at the HUNTINGTON BOTANICAL GARDENS. The Desert Garden there is where urban naturalists meet and love can take root. Tip for singles angling to go steady: 1919

CAFE, a hangout for local literati who work on their laptops while working the room. Stanger’s take: “You get both sides of the street here: male, female, gay, straight, people who are very cultured.” 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino.

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me, “There’s a saying: If you’re single in L.A. and don’t have a dog, what are you doing?”

I discreetly eavesdrop on a few of the attempted sacral connections.

“I’m a van lifer,” Zian, a vegan, tells Jackson, a 37-year-old paleo devotee, extolling the virtues of her mobile housing lifestyle.

“Oh, cool, where do you shower?” he asks her.

“At your house?” she suggests with a sly smile.

While no one has yet compiled stats on the success rates of relationships struck up at Erewhon, there is anecdotal evidence that suggests some of them have staying power. Jason Stuart, a fiftysomething comedian, tells me that he once stopped into the Beverly Hills market after a gym workout and made meaningful eye contact with a fetching Italian in the snack section. Then, when Stuart sat down for a nosh outside, the Italian— who turned out to be a chef named Antonio—took one look at Stuart’s pasta lunch and said, “I could make that so much better.” Antonio did just that

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RECORD STORE Music and passion are always in fashion at AMOEBA MUSIC. The vinyl mecca has been the scene of a whole lotta love since it reopened on Hollywood Boulevard in 2021. Management confirms that “multiple couples who met here or had their first date here have come back to take engagement photos.”

BOOKSTORES Getting lost and found in the stacks is still a thing. At the LAST BOOKSTORE in downtown L.A., one employee met their future spouse amid exemplary customer service. At VRO-

MAN’S in Pasadena, SoCal’s oldest bookstore, the SRO crowds at the new TEPITO COFFEE CAFE encourage flirty bookworms to share tables. With its proximity to the Sunset Strip and perennially hot 1970s L.A. vibe, BOOK SOUP continues to be the sexiest bookstore in Los Angeles. And, truly, what is sexier than mingling with hotties who actually read books? The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., Downtown; Vroman’s, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena; Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood.

BEACH DOCKWEILER is one of the few local beaches that allows alcohol, bonfires, and dogs—the dreamy trifecta for those looking for a love match amid Southern California’s classic romantic atmopherics. Even the roar of jetliners taking off from nearby LAX serves as a reminder that the opportunity to find love is often fleeting and life won’t wait. 12000 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey.

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loved LOG CABIN has served as the locus for countless 12-step programs—and, inevitably, romantic rendezvous.

“I met my first boyfriend at the Log Cabin,” says a 32-year veteran of meetings there. Besides providing “love, compassion and kindness from strangers,” he adds, the cabin’s Saturday night meetings can feature get-down trappings complete with disco lights and DJs, “like a full-on party in recovery.” 621 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood.

(One dude popped the question while the store cranked the lovebirds’ favorite Led Zeppelin tune.) Amoeba patrons who’ve been hit on say the musician-branded clothing section is where the most sparks fly. 6200 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.

during their two years together, until he returned to Rome.

Juliette Hohnen, a well-known L.A. realtor, isn’t looking for love herself but has plenty of clients who are, many of whom hold memberships at fancy coteries like NeueHouse, Soho House and the San Vincente Bungalows. “But they don’t meet people to date there,” she says. Where do they meet? “The parking lot at Erewhon.”

Another longtime customer shares that he often catches shoppers in the Venice parking lot checking their hair and teeth in his Tesla’s side mirrors, which have motion-activated sensors that can record footage. (They were all probably on their way to the arbored garden, which is known as ground zero for Erewhon hotness).

“I just came from a photo shoot,” hairstylist Jerrod Roberts told me as he sipped on a tropical turmeric

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smoothie. “A model I know told me this is the hot place for dating.”

As it happens, there is no shortage of sexy shoppers at any of the chain’s locations. “Our client base is very attractive!” explained an employee at the Silver Lake market as we watched customers sashay through the store as if they were walking a runway rather than wandering the aisles. Everyone seemed to embody that patented Eastside loucheness—baggy silk pajama bottoms with anime characters, Miu Miu jackets, nails like knives, kitten ears over cashmere beanies. After a few minutes of this impromptu fashion show, he headed off to do his own grocery shopping at the cheaper Ralphs. “But I’d rather meet someone here,” he said, because, you know, “the attractiveness.”

Back at Shop & Shag, Mychal, a holistic life coach sporting a jade necklace gifted to him by a Mayan timekeeper, had stopped in at the tonic bar with his partner. Instead of the soup line, he favored a no less saccharine opening. “What’s your favorite chocolate?”

(It worked for me. During my visit, I scored a “Honey Mama Lavender Rose Indulgence,” a cakey confection infused with a scent reminiscent of your grandmother’s linen closet, that left me swooning.)

Sure, go ahead and roll your eyes, if you must, but I found the whole evening endearing. When setting off on a new relationship, we need to see a potential partner through rosecolored glasses. But rose-petaled chocolate certainly doesn’t hurt.

Maybe my Golden Milk latte just boosted whatever it was supposed to boost, but in addition to the $83 I spent on sprouted-nut snacks, I bought into what Weber, the brains behind Shop & Shag, told me about her event: “Inspiring more meaningful, loving relationships—this, to me, is the solution to all of the world’s problems!”

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THE FOR MILLION MER HOST OF T H A SHARES IRE MATCHMAKEE H E FOR FIND R STRATEGIE R S ING LOVE IN L.A. 1: There’s a line in dating that I will take to my grave. My grandmother said it, my mother said it: You only get the love you think you deserve.

2: Those who travel in packs do not get as much attention as the person who goes out alone. The secret is that there are no friends around you who are going to disrupt meeting this [person].

It’s better to be alone, and you decide yay or nay.

3: The more normal you are, the more likely you are to get into a serious relationship: “Hi, I’m Dave. I live around the corner. Can I buy you a drink?” Try to be consistent with your personality.

4: Bartenders make the best matchmakers. Tip the bartender. Lean in and say, “Hey, is there a regular here that you know is single and that you think I would be great with?” They’re bodyguards, they’re matchmakers, they’re therapists all rolled into one. So be nice to your bartender.

5: Get out of your neighborhood. Who says you can’t live in L.A. and go to Calabasas for drinks at night? Why can’t you go downtown? How about spending the evening in Santa Monica or going down to Manhattan Beach?

6: You can’t walk in with the expectation, like, “Tonight’s the night I’m gonna meet ‘the’ person.” It’s like being on vacation.

When we’re on vacation, we don’t expect shit. And then what happens?

You end up having a fling because you are detached from the outcome. You’re not making it Serious City. You’re just letting what happens happen.

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CARA CARA 1100 S. Broadway, downtown, properhotel.com

This rooftop restaurant from chef Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne is, literally, a towering achievement atop downtown’s Proper Hotel. Banquettes or seats around the stylish firepit provide excellent skyline views. The Portuguese-influenced menu is also a draw, complete with cumin-spiced piri piri fried-chicken strips and crackly focaccia with white trumpet mushrooms or roasted pears. A setting 5 2 L A M AG . C O M

this sumptuous calls for sparkling wines and mocktails named “free spirits.”

cream and pomegranate has been known to be persuasive.

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2132 E. 7th Pl., Arts District, damiandtla.com

122 W. 4th St., downtown, orsaandwinston.com

Mexico City culinary icon Enrique Olvera and his team have carved out a unique industrialchic setting in the Arts District, particularly on the plant-lined patio, where a colorful mural and scenic skylights add to the fun for diners who flock here to enjoy modern Mexican food, like luxurious lobster al pastor and uni tostada over a Caesar salad. Weekend brunch is a great time to visit, when masa-battered fried chicken is served with live marimba accompaniment. If your date’s still on the fence, the hibiscus meringue with Chantilly

Josef Centeno offers an intimate, five-course tasting menu in downtown’s Old Bank District. Couples can get comfortable in banquettes or sit near the open kitchen to interact with the folks crafting their food. The menu ostensibly draws on Japanese and Italian culinary traditions but actually casts a more global net. No two dinners are ever the same here, and diners can’t preview menus online. Centeno wouldn’t have it any other way, which adds electricity to each meal. Don’t worry about where the current menu will lead; just trust that you’re in good hands.

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MAZAL 110 N. San Fernando Rd., Lincoln Heights, mazal.la.

Mazal is a good place to go on a double or triple date. The more plates of food covering your table

on the patio, the more it feels like you’re eating in the backyard of people who love you. The Israeli restaurant features a vegetarian menu that will satisfy all diners. The tahini is subtitled “sesame tears” on the menu, and the thick-cut, air-fried Maghrebi potatoes are served on a bed of it.

For the full experience, add Moroccan carrots and beets or roasted cauliflower with cilantro sauce and labneh. For the second round, get the mozzarella flatbread

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salad to salty karaage, but the star of the menu is the kabocha tempura.

Follow the fried food with a shaki shaki salad: shaved cabbage and fennel in a sesame dressing. But the best thing for your party to do at Ototo is to explore the many interesting sakes on the menu together. Try something new, and see where it takes you.

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Chef Jason Witzl’s tasting menu changes monthly at this snug 12-seat table in a space beside sister restaurant Ellie’s. For January, that meant an Italian-style Feast of the Seven Fishes starring Maine lobster and whole striped bass with Long Beach mushrooms.

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DRUMMED OUT OF NEW YORK, COLUMNIST TURNED SUBSTACK SUPERSTAR BARI WEISS HAS A NEW BABY, A THRIVING MEDIA VENTURE, AND A NEW LIFE IN L.A. BUT NOW HER WORK ON THE TWITTER FILES IS ONCE AGAIN TRIGGERING HER CRITICS

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BARI WEISS WAS AT HOME IN LARCHMONT VILLAGE, CHANGING HER THREE-MONTH-OLD’S DIAPERS, WHEN SHE HEARD HER CELL PHONE PING. IT WAS A TEXT MESSAGE FROM THE RICHEST MAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. “He asked if I wanted to go to the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco and look at the Twitter archive,” she says about Elon Musk’s message. “It was a Friday evening, around 6 p.m., but I was like, ‘Sure, why not?’ and ran to pack my bags. I was on an 8 p.m. flight. I was at Twitter HQ by 11 p.m. I mean, I’m a journalist—why wouldn’t I go?”

When she arrived, Musk was there to greet her, along with a few of his bodyguards, a couple of engineers, and one of his eight children, two-year-old X, who zoomed around the otherwise empty, mostly darkened Twitter offices.

After they settled into a windowless, underventilated conference room on the tenth floor, the billionaire laid out his ground rules for looking at the archives. They were the same terms he’d presented to a handful of other journalists, like former Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi, and they were as simple as they were seductive.

Musk would grant Weiss and her team unfettered access to Old Twitter’s internal memos and private emails regarding its content-moderation policies before he purchased the company last year, policies that had been criticized by conservatives for allegedly silencing their voices and promoting the so-called liberal-woke agenda.

Weiss could plug in any search term she wanted and could write whatever she wanted about whatever she found in the archive. But she’d be required to publish it first on Twitter, in a series of 280-character tweets.

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“My reaction was, ‘I can’t wait to dig into the documents,’ ” she says.

And so it was, during the last chilly weeks of 2022, that Bari Weiss, the 38-year-old former New York Times op-ed writer turned Substack superstar, the Jewish lesbian from Pittsburgh whom liberals (and some conservatives) love to loathe, got sucked into the Twitter Files—you know, the buzzy series of exposés-in-tweets that first Taibbi and then Weiss and other journalists started posting in early December and are either the most important scoop since Woodward and Bernstein covered Watergate or else a big, fat nothingburger, barely worthy of a yawn.

Like most of the controversies swirling around Weiss, where you stand depends on your political point of view.

Of course, this is hardly the first time Weiss has found herself smack in the middle of a media megastorm.

Indeed, her entire career has been one gale-force squall after another, starting as far back as her student-activist days as an undergraduate at Columbia University in the mid-2000s, when she first made a name for herself protesting against professors in the Middle East studies department that she and other Jewish students accused of anti-Semitism. Even now, her critics charge that Weiss, who frequently rails against cancel culture, lobbied to get one professor fired, an accusation she firmly denies.

Years later, during the Trump era, Weiss had become one of the country’s most talked about—or shouted-about— opinion writers, particularly in pro-

gressive circles. Her dramatic public resignation from the New York Times in 2020 dropped like an A-bomb on the media establishment. Some people— well, her grandmother—still haven’t gotten over it.

Somehow, though, this latest brouhaha over the Twitter Files feels a little different—yet also entirely familiar. A self-professed centrist, Weiss once again finds herself dangling in the middle, a perennial political piñata, with just about everyone taking a whack at her.

Progressives are denouncing her as an opportunistic culture warrior stoking old grievances over Twitter as a way to boost her own brand—a brand, by the way, that includes a spanking-new website and media company, the Free Press, which Weiss launched in the middle of the uproar. (More on that later.) Meanwhile, the conservatives who initially cheered her Twitter Files reporting, seeing it as smoking-gun proof that the site had indeed been throttling their accounts, began turning on Weiss the minute her dealings with Musk went south. Which they inevitably did, as Musk continued his startling transformation into the Joker, flinging open Twitter’s doors to QAnon crazies and neo-Nazis and—the last straw for Weiss—banishing several prominent journalists from Twitter for reporting on the fact that Musk had earlier banned an account that had been keeping track of his private jet’s whereabouts.

“The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases, and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem,” Weiss tweeted about the private-jet controversy, starting a brawl with the tech magnate who’d just a few weeks earlier invited her to rummage through his archives. “I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists who were reporting on a story of public importance should be reinstated.”

“Rather than rigorously pursuing truth, you are virtue-signaling to show that you are ‘good’ in the eyes of the media elite,” Musk instantly tweeted back at Weiss, clearly unaware that Weiss has never been considered remotely “good” by the media elite and probably never will be. Then, in the ultimate act of spiteful vengeance—at least for a social-media mogul—Musk stopped following her and the Free Press.

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“It’s been exhausting,” Weiss says with a sigh. “It’s the classic Jewish position—I’ll never be a part of any of these tribes. But, listen, all I can do is stick to my principles. That’s all I can do. Let the chips fall where they may.”

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I F W E I S S truly is what her detractors claim—pure evil, the Lord Voldemort of the chattering class—she’s pretty good at disguising it, at least in person.

When you meet her in the flesh, she is nothing like the finger-tenting supervillain her enemies describe.

For one thing, she’s a hugger, even with strangers bearing tape recorders who come to interview her at her home—a tasteful, casually decorated, sprawling bungalow where she’s been holed up with wife Nellie Bowles, a former Times tech reporter, since

leaving New York in 2020. In fact, she’s so fizzy and upbeat, there really is only one word that fits her, and that word, which she’d hate, is “bubbly.” But Weiss is also supersharp and hyperarticulate. She’s got the coolly casual confidence of someone accustomed to being the smartest kid in class but who has learned, over the years, not to be obnoxious about it.

In other words, she’s less Voldemort, more Hermione Granger—if Hermione had been a nice Jewish girl from Pennsylvania.

And yet, for some reason, Weiss is also insanely triggering to a lot of folks, mostly liberals. “The real defining feature of Bari Weiss is how absolutely, categorically stupid she is,” reads one typically nasty tweet from Tom Scocca, a writer who’s made a hobby out of regularly trolling Weiss online.

And the hate isn’t just happening on

the internet. Before the story you’re reading was published—before it was written—its author received irate phone calls from progressive friends and colleagues who were furious that Weiss was being given a “platform” in the pages of Los Angeles magazine. One caller hung up in a flurry of obscenities.

(Interestingly, though, not one of the never-Weisses to whom Los Angeles reached out agreed to be interviewed for this piece.)

But crack open the Weiss Files—her writings back when she was at the Times, as well as her pieces for Commentary magazine and her own Substack, “Common Sense”—and it’s hard to figure out what’s got ever yone so unhinged.

She’s pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-democracy (meaning anti-Trump), and pro-LGBTQ rights. True, she’s also pro-Israel, a position shared by a majority of Americans that’s become increasingly incendiary in academia and the media.

She also defended Brett Kavanaugh—sort of—during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, arguing that it wasn’t his behavior in high school that disqualified him, but his behavior in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and has frequently pushed back against what she calls “illiberal liberalism” in media and on college campuses.

Still, it’s puzzling. Bill Maher can be as heterodox as he likes on his HBO show, and he doesn’t stir up nearly the furor that Weiss does. Joe Rogan can denounce woke culture to his heart’s content on his podcast and won’t set off this sort of red-hot rage. But if Weiss suggests in a column—not unreasonably, perhaps—that shutting down schools for nearly two years during the pandemic possibly wasn’t such a hot idea after all, it sets off such fury that you’d think she’d incited an insurrection.

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Weiss on Real Time with Bill Maher in 2022. “I asked the same questions you’re asking,” the comedian says. “Why is this lesbian Jewish girl now considered conservative?”

my freshman year,” is about all she’ll say about her youthful love affair with the future Saturday Night Live star, other than, “It was a very formative relationship in many ways.”

Columbia in the mid-2000s was a hotbed of student activism, so Weiss fit right in. She helped form Columbians for Academic Freedom, a student group that made national news when it accused pro-Palestinian professors of anti-Semitic polemics (the group’s critics claimed Weiss and other members were trying to get faculty fired for their opinions). For the first time, Weiss started taking writing seriously, penning think pieces for the student newspaper, The Daily Spectator. “I always liked getting into political arguments, but I found it was way more exciting to do it on the page,” she says.

Her first gig out of school was an internship at the Wall Street Journal.

She ended up sticking around for a staff job, writing opinion pieces and editing book reviews. “It was a very male environment, and I was more liberal than most of the people there,” she recalls. “And I was young. I didn’t have strong feelings about stuff like the child income tax credit, which really animated people there. For years,

I wondered if there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t get it up for those sorts of subjects.”

It was around this time that Weiss, who considers herself bisexual, got married for the first time, to an environmental engineer. The marriage lasted only a couple of years, but there were apparently no hard feelings. “A total mensch” is how she describes him today.

Then, in 2016, Weiss, along with the Journal ’s Bret Stephens, got offers to join the editorial staff at the New York Times, which had been caught flat-footed by the election of Donald Trump. “We were ideological diversity hires,” she says, laughing. “There was a lot of soul-searching at the Times after Trump’s election, and there was an effort to bring in more people with different sensibilities.”

She had a different sensibility, alright. Suddenly, she went from being the most liberal writer at the Journal to being the most conservative at the Times. Still, her family was thrilled.

“When I told my grandparents that I was working at the New York Times, I think it was the happiest moment of their lives,” she says. “They’re the prototypical Times readers. My grandma still doesn’t understand why I left.”

For Grandma, then, here are the reasons. From the start, Weiss says, her colleagues reacted to her hiring as if the love child of Roger Stone and Stephen Miller had taken up residence in the cubicle next to them.

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he was pushed out and started his own Substack). “Maybe it’s because a young Jewish lesbian is not allowed to violate the orthodoxy and tribal identities that are now so hard-wired they have no relationship to objective reality. I think also they know she understands the social-justice left and how it operates, so she is dangerous and cannot be intimidated. Then there’s her defense of Israel.”

Weiss herself throws up her hands when asked about it.

“There are two things I’ve given up on,” she says, perched on a chair in the backyard shack she’s turned into a soundproof podcasting studio. “One is trying to figure out why I trigger people the way I do. And the second is trying to resist it when people mislabel me in some way. Because it’s maddening when you trend on Twitter as a caricature of yourself, as something totally unrecognizable to you. It’s really upsetting and disorienting. I don’t think human beings are meant to withstand that kind of incoming. I’m definitely not.”

There certainly aren’t many hints in her history as to how antagonizing liberals became one of Weiss’s superpowers. She’s always been very much a middle-of-the-road sort of gal. In fact, she literally grew up in Mr. Rogers’s neighborhood.

Her parents were in the flooring business in Squirrel Hill, the Pittsburgh suburb where Fred Rogers lived—and where, years later, in 2018, an anti-Semite shot up the Tree of Life synagogue, the temple where Weiss had been bat mitzvahed. (She wrote movingly about the tragedy in a Times column titled “When a Terrorist Comes to Your Hometown.”)

“I was a type A kid,” she says, unsurprisingly. “I was kind of a theater nerd, loved musicals, loved watching the Oscars, but I also read a lot. I was reading The New Republic when I was 12 years old. It was really great back then. Michael Kinsley was editor.”

After high school, she spent a year in Israel, working in a kibbutz kitchen.

Then she headed to Columbia, where she started out dabbling in theater and dated a classmate named Kate McKinnon. “We met in a play that I did

merely her middle-of-the-road politics that offended her new coworkers.

“If you googled me at that point, the things you would see about me were: Jewish, Zionist, feminist, bisexual, gay, and Pittsburgh,” she says. “What is it among those descriptions that might be unpopular?” She waits a beat for an answer before giving one. “At institutions like the New York Times, ‘Zionist’ is a dirty word.”

It only got worse over time, as Weiss penned columns that many of her coworkers considered ideological apostasy. Her piece on the Women’s March, for instance, in which she flagged the anti-Semitic histories of some of the event’s organizers, didn’t win her any popularity contests among the staff. Another column defending Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari against what turned out to be dubious accusations of sexual assault—“Aziz Ansari is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader”—also went over like a lead balloon with her colleagues, though it did win her one notable fan. After Bill Maher saw the piece, he invited Weiss onto his show.

“I read that column and said, ‘I’m going to make her famous,’ ” Maher recalls.

“And I did. I had her on the show three times that first year, and I asked the same questions you’re asking.

Why is this lesbian Jewish girl now considered conservative? It wasn’t many years ago that people like Bari and I were considered down-the-middle liberals.

We’re still fairly left of center. It’s not like we’re against gay marriage or anything—I mean, Bari is in one. But we live in an era of extremes, and in a lot of people’s minds, you’re either all-in or you’re not.”

Weiss’s Real Time with Bill Maher appearances were followed up by a glossy Vanity Fair profile for which she was photographed sashaying down a windswept New York City street in a red Valentino dress and Manolo Blahnik heels, looking like she’d just joined the cast of Sex and the City. That didn’t help matters back at the office, either.

“Bari was treated terribly by her coworkers the entire time she worked there, but I never thought it was because of her politics,” says Shawn McCreesh, a New York magazine writer who at that time worked at the Times as Maureen Dowd’s assistant. “If you go back and look at the stuff she was writing, none of it was that controversial. She was just writing what every sane person thought but didn’t have the balls to say. But that made her a star. Suddenly, she was on Bill Maher’s show every other week and being photographed by Vanity Fair. And that drove the staff—all these groupthinkers who were toiling away on their pious opinion pieces—nuts.

SHE WAS JUST WRITING WHAT EVERY SANE PERSON THOUGHT BUT DIDN’T HAVE THE BALLS TO SAY. BUT THAT MADE HER A STAR. SUDDENLY, SHE WAS ON BILL MAHER’S SHOW EVERY OTHER WEEK. AND THAT DROVE THE STAFF AT THE TIMES NUTS. YOU CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW JEALOUS PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA ARE.”

You cannot overstate how jealous and petty people who work in the media are.

So it just got nastier as time went on.”

Weiss did manage to make a few pals at the Times. While other colleagues were bad-mouthing her in the newsroom or openly crapping on her on the paper’s internal Slack channels, she struck up a long-distance texting relationship with Bowles, then still at the Times, who happens to be a member of a prominent San Francisco family.

(She’s a descendant of nineteenth-century cattle baron Henry Miller, once the largest landowner in the U.S.) “Bari really needed a friend,” Bowles says with a chuckle after she joins Weiss

in the podcast shack. Their friendship turned romantic shortly after she and Weiss met for a drink in the West Village when Bowles was in town for a story. That also didn’t go over well at the office.

“A group of us were standing around having drinks in one of the bureaus,” Bowles recalls, “and an editor turned to me and, in front of other people, said, ‘You’re dating a Nazi. She’s a fucking Nazi!’ I tried to laugh because it was so uncomfortable and intense and aggressive. But it just got worse from there.”

Eventually, Weiss couldn’t take it anymore. In July 2020, she resigned in the most public way imaginable. In an open letter to Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger, Weiss laid out her grievances for all the world to see, from her colleagues’ bullying online (“Some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly ‘inclusive’ one, while others post ax emojis next to my name”) to what she saw as the paper’s embrace of progressive small-mindedness and a narrowing of its ideological tolerance. “Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times,” she wrote.

“But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.”

Not surprisingly, the letter made a huge splash in New York media circles.

Some of Weiss’s critics believe that was the point— they’re convinced her “self-canceling” was all part of a plot to draw attention to herself. Others dismissed her complaints in the open letter as whining.

“She is literally asking the Times to prevent people at the paper from criticizing her, on the grounds that she dislikes the criticism,” wrote Noah Berlatsky in the Observer. A former Times executive editor, Jill Abramson, was even tougher on Weiss. “[She’s been] on Twitter throwing some punches herself,” she said at the time, “but if you are going to dish it out, you’ve got to be ready to take it.”

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former Love Line host turned cranky podcaster Adam Carolla, and Brian Grazer’s ex-wife, conservative novelist Gigi Levangie. Weiss has also scored an agent at CAA, guest-hosted on The View, and—the ultimate expression of acceptance in this town—was even mentioned in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. (Larry David slams a door when he hears her name.)

Sure enough, it wasn’t long before inspiration struck, and Weiss found a new calling—although the idea came not while she was in California but at 30,000 feet on a flight to Miami. Also, it wasn’t her idea.

made a lot more money than I ever thought was possible in journalism,” she told CNN Business in October was she supposed to do—slink out of 2021. Within another year, Weiss there?” asks McCreesh. “After putwas raking in even more bucks, with ting up with shit for years, she went “Common Sense” swelling to 280,000 out swinging.” paid and free subscribers and a spinAccording to Weiss, though, her off podcast, Honestly with Bari Weiss, quitting was a spontaneous act of desdrawing thousands more listeners peration. “There was zero plan,” she to her conversations with everyone insists. “Nothing.” In fact, Weiss caught from Benjamin Netanyahu to Kim herself so off guard with the decision Kardashian. to leave the Times, she found herself

By November 2021, Weiss was even without health insurance. “And then announcing the formation of a new Nellie, who was still at the paper, sugcollege to help fix America’s “broken” gested we go get an instant marriage, higher education system—Universo I could get on her insurance. We sity of Austin—although were already engaged, so that endeavor still remains that’s what we did.” largely theoretical, with only “After that, Bari was just a couple of summer classes wandering around, unemheld so far. (“The Twitterati ployed, sitting around the have compared the Univerhouse,” Bowles says. “She sity of Austin to Trump Uniwas like, ‘Should I become I NEEDED TO BE IN A PLACE versity,” quipped a speaker a rabbi?’ ” T H AT H A D EN ERGY, at a recent Commentary Eventually, Bowles manSO I PICKED LOS ANGELES. roast for Weiss. “That’s not aged to coax Weiss out of fair. A semester at Trump her one-bedroom walk-up I’V E FOU N D IT TO BE University lasted more than apartment—and out of New A N U N BELIEVA BLY R ICH two weeks.”)

York altogether. The couple EN V IRON MEN T. SU R E, But then, she and Bowles headed west and resettled —who by then had also rein Los Angeles.

THER E A R E MOR E PEOPLE signed from the Times— “Nellie is a sixth-generWITH PLASTIC SURGERY hit on an even bigger idea. ation Californian,” Weiss WALKING AROUND THAN They decided to start their says. “She’s from San FranTHERE WERE ON THE UPPER own media company. “We’re cisco, and if she had her going to pick up the flag druthers, we would probWEST SIDE, BUT IT’S THE that legacy news organizaably be living there. But I ONLY PLACE WE COULD BE.” tions have put down,” Weiss needed to be in a place that says, explaining the master had energy, so I picked L.A., plan behind the Free Press. and I’ve found it to be an “If you’re someone that unbelievably rich environused to read the New York ment for making friends Times and listen to NPR in and meeting people that are the morning, and now you’re thinking building incredible things. Sure, there “I opened a computer, noodled to yourself, ‘I don’t know if I can trust are more people with plastic surgery around with the airplane Wi-Fi, and what I hear or read there anymore,’ walking around than there were on the I started a Substack for Bari, which I where do you go? Those people want Upper West Side, but it’s the only place knew about from being a tech reporter,” a publication that will treat them like we could be.”

Bowles says of the day in January 2021 adults, with respect and transparency Weiss and Bowles (who converted when “Common Sense” came into and honesty. And that’s what we’re goto Judaism since meeting Weiss) being. “And I told her, ‘Here, you’re ing to try to do with the Free Press.” have indeed made new friends here, starting this.’ And Bari was like, ‘No, I attracting a coterie of expats from the don’t want to do a newsletter. It looks O O O O old left and other assorted political weak.’ And I was like, ‘No, it’s going to and cultural oddballs. Weiss recently be great.’ ” threw a party at Fia in Santa Monica Bowles was right—it was great. “ W E L C O M E T O the kibbutz,” Weiss to celebrate the publication of British Within a year, Weiss’s new Substack, says in early December, waving a hand author Douglas Murray’s latest tome, which she named after Thomas Paine’s toward a group of young reporters hudThe War on the West: How to Prevail famous pamphlet, was generating dled around a kitchen island tapping in the Age of Unreason. The guest list more than $800,000 annually from on laptops. A few others are loungincluded renowned playwright turned 14,000 paid subscribers, with another ing on easy chairs in her living room, nutty right-winger David Mamet, 75,000 in nonpaying followers. “I’ve dangling their legs over armrests, also 6 0 L A M AG . C O M

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typing into MacBooks. A couple of yapping dogs dash from room to room.

Later, Weiss’s and Bowles’s threemonth-old baby girl will make a brief, loud appearance.

This is headquarters for the Free Press, or at least it will be when the brand-new media company—not just a newsletter anymore but a website with an actual full-time staff, more podcasts, and, eventually, books and live events—launches in another 24 hours or so. Originally, they had a bit more time to prepare—D-Day was scheduled for mid-December—but then a certain richest man in history texted Weiss with the Twitter Files invite and that moved the timetable up a week. After all, what better way to advertise and promote a new media venture than with the biggest media scoop of the century? Or even with a nothingburger, so long as it makes enough noise?

The point being, Weiss’s timing couldn’t have been more impeccable.

Within a day or two of posting her Twitter File thread, the number of her followers more than doubled to nearly a million. Some of those clicks must have spilled over into her Free Press traffic because, within a week of launching, it was already up to 300,000 subscribers. Weiss is cagey about revealing how many of those subscriptions are paid versus free—and, clearly, a huge

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Weiss (far right) and her staff at the Free Press’s headquarters—aka her kitchen—just hours before the new media company launched.

chunk of them were old “Common Sense” subscribers who’d been rolled over to the Free Press, where Weiss’s “Common Sense” writings will now be a column. But even if just 20 percent are paying the $7-a-month fee, that’s more than $5 million in annual revenue. Together with a small “friends and family” loan that Weiss says helped bankroll the startup—along with a reported investment by venture capitalist and mainstream-media-hater Marc Andreessen—that should be plenty to keep the presses rolling for at least a while.

For now, Weiss’s kitchen—er, newsroom—remains a bootstrap operation, with just a dozen full-time staffers.

But it’s an eclectic crew, ranging from a 67-year-old former Slate scribe to a 27-year-old former New York Post writer (that’d be Weiss’s younger sister, Suzy) to 38-year-old Andy Mills, one of the creators of the New York Times podcast The Daily. The Free Press is presenting itself as an island of calm, centrist sanity in an ocean of ideological extremism, so it’s not surprising that it tends to attract writers and editors

who sound a little fed up with media as usual in the twenty-first century.

“We are tapping into something that I think many, many Americans crave,” says one of her new hires, Peter Savodnik, a former Vanity Fair writer, “which is a thoughtful conversation about the issues of the day where you don’t have to be afraid of using the wrong word, where you’re allowed to disagree with people without hating them.”

“I don’t know where my coworkers are politically,” agrees Emily Yoffe, the former veteran Slate writer, “but we’re all on the same page about being able to have a robust conversation, about publishing things that not all of us necessarily agree with. That used to be what good journalism was all about— being provocative, telling readers something they didn’t know. That’s not so much the case anymore. And that’s a shame.”

Thanks to her short-lived adventure with Musk, Weiss is now used to writing in tweet-sized bits, so she puts it all more succinctly.

“The Free Press is for the vast majority of Americans who aren’t on the hard left and aren’t on the hard right,” she says of her latest journey down that treacherous, narrow lane known as the middle of the road. “It’s telling those people that they’re not crazy and they’re not alone.”

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MICHAEL SLENSKE As the international collecting class descends upon L.A. for another season of conspicuous commerce at the London-based Frieze Fair—this year held at Santa Monica Municipal Airport, the exact spot where the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair once thrived—more adventuresome art lovers might want to venture to other parts of the city for a slew of shows by more organically raised L.A. artists. In these pages, Los Angeles has assembled a portfolio of buzzy new local galleries and artists— including a multimedia group atop Mount Washington, a ceramics sculptor extraordinaire in Long Beach, and a comic-critic performing at downtown’s MOCA. It’s all the aesthetic thrills of Frieze, but with none of the jet fumes.

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ALICIA PILLER » Since earning her MFA at CalArts a few years ago, Alicia Piller has propelled her sculpture—made from iPhone photos of flowers and press images of Black Lives Matter protests printed on resin-coated paper, archival family slides, repurposed canvases, all varieties of vinyl, jewelry, leather, and minerals—into the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum; a sprawling survey, Alicia Piller: Within, curated by Jill Moniz, at Craft Contemporary; and a recent New York Times feature naming her as one of “5 Artists to Watch at the California Biennial.” The divergent roads running throughout her oeuvre emerged from an unlikely origin story: Piller is the youngest daughter of a Jewish physician father and a Black legal secretary mother who supported his medical pursuits by enlisting an adolescent Piller to work clown gigs at birthday parties. (She uses balloons in her work to this day.) At Craft Contemporary, her examinations of capitalism, colonialism, trauma, the accumulation of material, and the sinuous layers of the body (informed by her father’s anatomy books) will come full circle. aliciapiller.com

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» In 1998, the Cuban-born artist Jorge Pardo was offered a solo show at MOCA. What he created for the show was a 3,000-square-foot property—it later became his home/studio—made of redwood, concrete, and custom Mexican tiles atop Mount Washington’s panoramic Sea View Lane.

A quarter century later, current occupant Sara Lee Hantman, the gallery director and furniture designer behind the budding Prisma Studio (which she launched during the pandemic with her fiancé, Coley Brown), is carving out her own gallery in Pardo’s former studio, Sea View, with a multimedia group show called River Styx, cocurated by Matthew Brown gallery director Brandy Carstens. “Brandy and I had been talking about this boundaryless space where people can stay awhile,” says Hantman. Adds Carstens, “We want you to have a cup of coffee, walk down the nature trail. Let’s share some ideas that can inspire something new.” sea-view.us

CHRISTINA CATHERINE MARTINEZ » It’s fair to say that art criticism is not a wellspring for cutting-edge comedy. But Christina Catherine Martinez is not your typical art critic. Since she braved her first open mic in 2015, the East L.A. native has turned herself into an indemand comic whose “conceptually highbrow and physically slapstick” stand-up style also bleeds into droll reviews, an acclaimed book of confessional social commentary (Aesthetical Relations), and avant-garde performances at institutions like Human Resources (where she shot her forthcoming special How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age) and MOCA, where she’ll give a 45-minute “walk-through” of the Iranian-born, L.A.-based painter Tala Madani’s retrospective—perhaps as her Valley Girl art-publicist alter ego, Stephanie—on February 19. “When I started taking comedy more seriously, I thought, ‘This is my exit from the art world,’ ” says Martinez. “Ironically, since I’ve been more open about both, they are actually coming together in more interesting ways.” christinacatherine.info

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SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW » Ambre Kelly was working for a creative consulting firm and Andrew Gori was an orderly at a psychiatric hospital when they met on a SoHo sidewalk in 2007. A couple years later, the now-married duo merged talents to produce a series of pop-up exhibitions inside St. Patrick’s Youth Center in Lower Manhattan that took an exciting turn after Armory Art Week offered to promote their venture if it was a fair. The duo reasoned, “Well, this could be an art fair.” They dubbed it Spring/Break Art Show and tweaked the market-driven model as a curator-driven platform. Since then, they’ve gone on to promote the work of more than 700 curators and thousands of artists over the past decade. With 11 New York shows under their belts, the bicoastal couple is planning for 75 projects in their fourth L.A. edition. “We always say three is the magic number,” says Kelly. “And last year was the third L.A. show.” springbreakartfair.com

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» When Guy Rusha started his gallery, Seasons LA, just before the pandemic, it began as a pop-up with curator-driven projects that morphed into a brick-and-mortar space a year ago. Under a new name, Rusha & Co., and a new director, Patrick Kellycooper (formerly of Nicodim), the program is on a roll, with acclaimed solo presentations from Lanise Howard, Delia Brown (at Untitled Miami), and L.A.’s beloved multimedia madame Trulee Hall, who will christen the 3,100-square-foot space in a 1914 firehouse during Los Angeles Art Week. For her debut with the gallery, Plays on Foreplays, Hall will exhibit fantasy landscapes in the old bunkroom, screen 25 years’ worth of films inside the century-old fireplace lounge, and create a lush film-and-sculpture installation in the former engine bay that hints at her “sexy tiger woman, lesbian foreplay” theme. “This space came with so much character,” says Kellycooper.

“It allows artists like Trulee to play with a very unique space for exhibiting work.” rusha.co

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» For 35 years, Tony Marsh was a veritable kingmaker as director of what became the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at Long Beach State. There, he “incited” monumental works from some of the most innovative artists working in clay while pushing the medium to new levels in his own practice. His body-formed terra sigillata fertility vessels, lava-like moon jars fitted with taxonomical shelves, and extremely delicate series of containers with thousands of precisely drilled holes are all on display in a new survey of his career, Brilliant Earth: The Ceramic Sculpture of Tony Marsh, at the Long Beach Museum of Art. “So many folks who work with clay settle into a comfortable position relative to cultural appropriation, or in ways that ensure an ever-consistent stylistic identity, or make work driven by technical party tricks,” says Marsh. “Most all of that is something I have worked in opposition to almost from day one.” tonymarshceramics.com

ELLIOTT HUNDLEY » “Usually, I do exhibitions based on a theme or a particular work of literature, but this show is sort of a collage,” says Elliott Hundley, standing in the vast studio of his biggest collage, the 18,000-square-foot live/work space he carved out of a Chinatown import warehouse—which he’s also turned into a low-stakes, high-exposure talent incubator offering elegantly installed solo shows to underrepresented, if overly talented, artists like Mimi Lauter, Yaron Michael Hakim, and Chris Miller. For his most ambitious solo turn, at Regen Projects, Hundley is turning 21 years’ worth of art and ephemera inside this industrial warren into a Wunderkammer that will include his purple foam walls tacked with collage elements and a sculpture made by bite marks from his parrot, Echo, who lends the show its title. “It’s the name of my parrot,” says Hundley, “but also this idea of something coming back, a looking back.” @elliotthundley

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SANTA MONICA » American $$ James Beard Award–nominated chef Jeremy Fox gets personal with a sunny spot named after his young daughter. The high-low menu is full of playful riffs on comfort food, from mixed summer cucumbers to a matzo ball soup with carrot miso to a next-level relish tray. Don’t miss the jiggly Rose Petal pie for dessert. 2421 Michigan Ave., 310-310-3616, or birdiegsla.com. Full bar.

E Broad Street Oyster Co. MALIBU » Seafood $$

If ever there was a car picnic scene, it’s at this open-air spot overlooking Malibu Lagoon State Beach. You can grab a great lobster roll (topped with uni or caviar if you’re feeling extra fancy), towers of raw seafood, delicious clam chowder, and a burger with Nueske’s bacon that shouldn’t be overlooked. 23359 Pacific Coast Hwy., 424-644-0131, or broadstreetoyster.com. Beer and wine.

E Cobi’s

SANTA MONICA » Southeast Asian $$$ Coming here is like visiting a perfectly art-directed beach house where everything—from the colors on the walls to the curries on the plates—just pops.

Grab a date, grab your friends, and get to the party.

Don’t miss the beautifully ferocious Devil Chicken curry, amped up by both fresh and dried bird’s eye chilies and accompanied by a saucer of habanero vinegar that magically cuts the heat and enhances it at the same time. 2104 Main St., 424-238-5195, or cobis.la. Beer and wine.

E Colapasta

» Italian $ It’s equally pleasant to grab and go or eat at this quiet, affordable spot that features fresh pastas topped with farmers’ market fare. The colorful, poppy-seed-sprinkled beet ravioli is delicate and delicious, while the gramigna with beef ragù is hearty and satisfying. 1241 5th St., 310-310-8336, or colapasta.com. Beer and wine.

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The sister restaurant to Dear John’s has a lively formal dining area offering a view of the marina.

The room evokes a feeling of special occasions, with mannered tableside service for items like shrimp Louie salad, which gets drenched in a citrusy, homemade Thousand Island–like dressing. There also are seafood towers, fish sticks with caviar, Dungeness crab cakes, oysters Rockefeller, and a list of classic dishes like trout amandine, fish-andchips, and cioppino. 13950 Panay Way, 310-301-6442, or dearjanesla.com. Full bar.

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CULVER CITY » Italian $$$ With a sprawling patio, concise menu, and various party tricks, Etta is primed for good times. You can go big and order a $120 short-rib “picnic” with accoutrements for the table or opt to have wine poured into your mouth from a large jug while a server snaps Polaroids. But you can also just pop in for a pizza or excellent pasta at the bar. 8801 Washington Blvd., 424-570-4444, or ettarestaurant.com. Full bar.

E The Hideaway BEVERLY HILLS » Steak House $$$

Hollywood actors Ryan Phillippe and Evan Ross invested in this clubby ode-to-1970s-Baja California Mexican steak house, where cocktail king Julian Cox makes margaritas to sip alongside snapper ceviche or New York Wagyu steak with chimichurri. 421 N. Rodeo Dr., 310-974-8020, or thehideawaybeverlyhills.com. Full bar.

Matū

BEVERLY HILLS » Steak House $$$ Prolific restaurateur Jerry Greenberg and his partners are convinced that they serve the world’s best beef. After trying their five-course, $85 Wagyu dinner featuring sustainably raised, 100 percent grass-fed beef, you might see things their way.

Magnificently marbled steaks are cooked to “warm red,” which is the color of rare and the temperature of medium rare. 239 S. Beverly Dr., Ste. 100, 424-3175031, or matusteak.com. Full bar.

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E Caboco

» Brazilian $$ Rodrigo Oliveira and fellow chef/partner Victor Vasconcellos are here to show Los Angeles that there’s a lot more to Brazilian food than churrascarias, so they’re serving habit-forming fried tapioca cubes and a vegan stew (moqueca de caju) headlined by cashew fruit that’s startlingly complex. Wash it all down with refreshing caipirinhas—the bar makes no fewer than five different kinds. 1850 Industrial St., 213-405-1434, or cabocola.com. Full bar.

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Jackson Kalb’s sprawling new Italian joint brings bustle and outdoor tables to a corner along an otherwise quiet stretch. Pastas, including a spicy rigatoni alla vodka and raschiatelli with pork rib ragù, are sublime, and most travel remarkably well if you’re looking to do takeout, which is the only option for lunch. Roman-style pizzas boast a uniquely crispy, cracker-thin crust; to get the full crunch, have a slice as you drive your takeout home. 2025 Pacific Ave., 424-443-5007, or ospivenice.com. Full bar.

DOWNTOWN 'E Asterid BUNKER HILL » American $$

The dishes are, in some ways, a departure from the extensive fare chef Ray Garcia offered at his previous B.S. Taqueria and Broken Spanish. Here, Garcia’s expertise gets condensed into a modern California-leaning menu with dazzling seasonal starters like sunchoke rösti with crème fraîche and strawberry pepper jam. The chicken liver mousse is covered with a bouquet of grape compote, sliced pear, pickled pearl onions, and mustard, and served with sliced toasted sourdough. 141 S. Grand Ave., 213-972-3535, or asteridla.com. Full bar.

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E Caldo Verde ARTS DISTRICT » Portuguese $$$

Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne have opened a Portuguese cousin to their beloved Spanish-infused A.O.C. The restaurant loads up its namesake seafood stew with local rock crab, grilled linguica, mussels, kale, and potato. A starter of Ibérico ham, anchovies, and olives is called “small plate of salty favorites” because Goin understands that you want to enjoy food that’s more intense than what you typically eat at home. 1100 S. Broadway, 213-806-1023, or properhotel.com/downtown-la. Full bar.

'E Camphor ARTS DISTRICT » French/Indian $$$$

Camphor is, at its core, a French bistro where plump oysters are served in a bath of amaretto mignonette and the beef tartare comes with a side of tempura-fried herbs. Chefs Max Boonthanakit and Lijo George aim to bring something completely new to L.A.—that is, something distinctively not L.A. Camphor’s access to the spices from George’s southern Indian homeland makes it a standout.

923 E. 3rd St., Ste. 109, 213-626-8888, or camphor.la.

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E Cha Cha Chá ARTS DISTRICT » Mexican $$

The lively, plant-filled rooftop and some mezcal would make for a good night out at this Mexico City import, but chef Alejandro Guzmán, an alum of Le Comptoir, has packed his menu with quiet thrills. Carnitas get taken up a level by an orange reduction. For dessert, the carrot flan is a small revelation, a surprising, exciting riff on carrot cake. The interior bar, La Barra, offers up unique mezcal cocktails. 812 E. 3rd St., 213-548-8487, or chachacha.la. Full bar.

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“This is my local breakfast corner, and it’s a very simple, Salvadoran familyrun place. They make the best homemade pupusas you’ve ever eaten, and they make them by hand right in front of you.” $2.32, 800 N. Virgil Ave., East Hollywood, ordercaliforniagrill restaurant.com.

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“For that excellent quality, it’s at a fair price, and it’s the only place where I’ll eat ceviche other than my own.

Octavio [Olivas]

is a great chef, and he serves you like you’re at a sushi bar.” $20, 2524 Hyperion Ave., Silver Lake, cevicheproject.com.

Mushroom Pizza OLIVIA

“I love the creativity of everything that chef Mario Alberto presents.

My favorite dish is the mushroom pizza. I’ve never tasted a crust like it—I took some home, and the next day, it tasted amazing without even heating it up!” $21, 205 S. Vermont Ave., Koreatown, oliviarestaurantla.com.

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At long last, Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard has brought her hit Chicago restaurant to a light, airy space and pretty patio in downtown L.A., with seating for 200. The lengthy menu is full of international intrigue and the unexpected flavor combinations for which Izard is known.

Roasted beets mingle with a yuzu-kosho vinaigrette. A salmon poke features chili crunch, avocado, and strawberry. Goat makes an appearance in both a liver mousse starter and a hearty curry main. 555-3 Mateo St., 213-799-4628, or girlandthegoat.com. Full bar.

E Kodō

» Japanese $$$ Don’t be fooled by the restaurant’s visual tranquility. The energy of Kodō, which translates to “heartbeat,” is boisterous because the chef, Yoya Takahashi, wanted to stay true to what a Kyoto-style izakaya would be—a fun place with traditional Japanese bar fare. A Caesar salad of Little Gem lettuce is blanketed with bonito flakes.

The off-menu toro, served with a tangy cilantro sauce, minced tomato, and cucumber, has the kind of fatty, melt-in-your-mouth quality you can’t forget. 710 S. Santa Fe Ave., 213-302-8010, or kodo.la.

Full bar.

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E Pizzeria Bianco ARTS DISTRICT » Pizza $

Chris Bianco’s L.A. debut at ROW DTLA is a hit.

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York-style takeout pizza. At night, it’s full-service dining, featuring the wood-fired pizza Bianco made famous. 1320 E. 7th St., Ste. 100, 213-372-5155, or pizzeriabianco.com. Beer and wine.

'E San Laurel BUNKER HILL » California/Spanish $$$$

Chef José Andrés’s new restaurant serves pleasing California cuisine that shows off Spanish flavors. Sea urchin with raw scallops in a pool of gazpacho consommé gets a dazzling dollop of caviar. Though the food seems relatively down-to-earth considering the kind of molecular gastronomy that made Andrés famous, the cocktails are whimsical. A server pours a beaker full of liquid steam into a mezcal drink to give it an aromatic orange-thyme “cloud.” 100 S. Grand Ave., 213-349-8585, or sanlaurel.com.Full bar.

CENTRAL Bicyclette PICO-ROBERTSON

» French $$$

Walter and Margarita Manzke’s delightful, delicious follow-up to République brings a bit of Paris to Pico. The menu is stocked with exactingly executed bistro standards: onion soup with oozy cheese, hearty short-rib bourguignon, and a luxurious bouillabaisse. Margarita’s baguettes and beautiful desserts are as great as ever. Resisting Bicyclette’s charms is futile. 9575 W. Pico Blvd., 424-500-9575, or bicyclettela.com. Full bar.

E Fanny’s

» French $$$ While by day, Fanny’s is a café that serves salads and sandwiches, by night, it’s a glam, modern vision of an old-school Hollywood hangout. Captains in suits

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push carts of French washed-rind cheeses and carve thick slices of côte de boeuf tableside. Chef Raphael Francois sends out perfect twists on Caesar salad and plays around with menu items like hamachi crudo on a bed of sweet pickled grapes and jicama with brown butter and cilantro. 6067 Wilshire Blvd., 323-930-3080, or fannysla.com. Full bar.

E Found Oyster EAST HOLLYWOOD » Seafood $$$

This tiny oyster bar was a pre-pandemic favorite, and chef Ari Kolender’s seafood dishes still thrill when taken to go or enjoyed on the restaurant’s “boat deck.” The scallop tostada with yuzu kosho and basil is a must-order, and a bisque sauce takes the basic lobster roll to new heights. Interesting, affordable wines add to the fun. 4880 Fountain Ave., 323-522-6239, or foundoyster.com. Beer and wine.

Harold & Belle’s JEFFERSON PARK » Southern Creole $$

For Creole-style food—a mélange of French, African, and Native American flavors—Harold & Belle’s is as close to the Dirty Coast as you’ll come on the West Coast. The crawfish étouffée in spicy gravy will have you humming zydeco, while the bourbon bread pudding will leave you with a Sazerac-worthy buzz. 2920 W. Jefferson Blvd., 323-735-9023, or haroldandbelles.com. Full bar.

Horses

HOLLYWOOD » Eclectic $$$ Located in the red-boothed space that was home to Ye Coach & Horses, the mostly European-inspired menu is rooted in both classic technique and freespirited cooking. A sobrassada panino with white American cheese and a drizzle of honey is thin, crispy, sweet, savory, creamy, and spicy—an extremely

pleasing little bite. Lumache pasta with vodka sauce gets an unexpected, delightful kick from ’nduja.

7617 W. Sunset Blvd., or horsesla.com. Full bar.

Hotville Chicken

BALDWIN HILLS/CRENSHAW » Fried chicken $ With her hot-chicken joint, Kim Prince is doing her family’s legacy justice—she’s the niece of André Prince Jeffries, owner of Nashville legend Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, where hot fried chicken is said to have originated. Prince adds spice at every step in the cooking process to produce a complex, layered flavor. Sides, like mac and cheese, are also winners. 4070 Marlton Ave., 323-792-4835, or hotvillechicken.com. No alcohol.

KinKan

VIRGIL VILLAGE » Japanese-Thai $$$$ Nan Yimcharoen became an underground sensation during the pandemic, selling jewel box–like chirashi sushi via Instagram. Now she’s got a brick-andmortar spot serving a Japanese-Thai tasting menu with exquisite courses like slices of bluefin tuna larb gorgeously assembled in the shape of a rose, and a resplendent crab curry with blue butterfly-pea-flower noodles and a sauce powered by innards and roe.

771 N. Virgil Ave., 949-793-0194, or @kinkan_la. Sake.

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» Korean $$$ Chef Ki Kim uses curated ingredients to delicately weave together Korean flavors into dishes that exist in a genre all their own. At $72 for six courses, Kinn’s is one of the more affordable tasting menus around and includes an evolving, playful menu of thoughtfully crafted dishes like yellowtail in a bath of oyster sauce and charcoal-grilled Wagyu short ribs. 3905 W. 6th St., 213-291-0888, or kinn.la. Beer and wine.

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» Filipino $$$

The shareable trays are a great way to experience a selection of proteins—sweet or savory sausage, grilled Caledonia blue prawns in garlic crab sauce, or chef Lord Maynard Llera’s famous lucenachon (crispy roasted pork belly)—all while sampling glistening chami noodles, tomato-cucumber salad, and wonderfully bright and vinegary pickled green papaya. Finish a meal here with tangy and sweet Filipino Calamansi key lime pie with pandan whipped cream. 5003 Melrose Ave., or kuyalord.com.

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Luv2Eat Thai Bistro HOLLYWOOD » Thai $$

Vibrant flavors and spices abound at this strip-mall favorite from two Phuket natives. The crab curry, with a whole crustacean swimming in a creamy pool of deliciousness, is not to be missed (it travels surprisingly well), but the expansive menu is full of winners, from the massaman curry to the Thai fried chicken with sticky rice and sweet pepper sauce. 6660 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-498-5835, or luv2eatthai.com. No alcohol.

Meteora

HANCOCK PARK » Eclectic $$$$ Chef Jordan Kahn sees Meteora as a restaurant about rediscovery. A vegetable option includes fire-cooked stone fruit served with crispy brassica leaves, grilled roses, quark, cured duck breast, and lettuce leaves for wrapping. There’s the most perfectly grilled sea bream wrapped in banana leaf. The staff, dressed in white or light earth tones, are clearly trained with precision in mind.

6703 Melrose Ave., 323-402-4311, or meteora.la.

Full bar.

' Mother Wolf HOLLYWOOD » Italian $$$

With its open kitchen, Mother Wolf is like theater, where chef Evan Funke’s talent and enthusiasm for perfecting Italian cooking is the star. Because he already had a major presence locally with his Venice restaurant, Felix, many are familiar with Funke’s ricotta-and-Parmesan-stuffed squash blossoms paired with an earthy glass of Nebbiolo. 1545 Wilcox Ave., 323-410-6060, or motherwolfla.com. Full bar.

'E n/soto MID CITY » Japanese $$$

Chef-owners Niki Nakayama and Carole IidaNakayama’s izakaya-inspired restaurant, n/soto, offers all of the precision and excellence that earned the pair two Michelin stars for n/naka, their modern kaiseki establishment. But n/soto exudes a more casual, relaxed spirit. Skewers are, of course, the heart of an izakaya, and the tender lamb chops and grilled shiitake mushrooms stand out. The room is filled with diners who know to order the miso-baked bone marrow with umeboshi onigiri rice balls—it lands at most tables. For dessert, the melon float—a bright-green, soda fountain-style coupe—turns heads. 4566 W. Washington Blvd., 323-879-9455, or n-soto.com. Full bar.

'E Saffy’s

» Middle Eastern $$$$ Chef Ori Menashe has described the food—shawarma and lamb, pork, and chicken kabobs cooked on a wood-burning stove—to be the most like what he and his wife, Genevieve Gergis, might serve to guests in their home. The meat-centric menu is complemented by vegetable-forward sides like green falafel with tahini served atop puddles of a beet zhoug. Gergis’s pastry menu is short and, well, sweet:

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bergamot-chocolate cake with rose ganache, orange blossom creme caramel, and undoubtedly the best soft-serve around. 4845 Fountain Ave., 424-699-4845, or saffysla.com. Full bar.

E Soulmate

» Mediterranean $$$ It’s lovely outside, and there’s a stunning new WeHo spot with a patio that can hold 75 attractive people, plus hours that go to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Starters include various jamóns and spicy paella bites. Further down the menu, there’s a lot of seafood options, from wood-fired octopus with charred romesco to salmon crudo. 631 N. Robertson Blvd., 310-734-7764, or soulmateweho.com.

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EAST E Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery PASADENA » Eclectic $$

This low-key charmer—the work of two alums of acclaimed San Francisco Italian joint Flour + Water—deftly mixes midwestern hospitality and European technique. The casual lunch is all about cheese and charcuterie boards and sandwiches. At dinner, excellent pastas, smartly prepared proteins, thoughtfully selected wines, and great cocktails join the party on the spacious patio. 40 W. Green St., 626-389-3839, or agnesla.com. Full bar.

E All Day Baby SILVER LAKE » Eclectic $$

Jonathan Whitener’s Here’s Looking at You is, sadly, closed, but his thrilling cooking continues on a bustling Eastside corner. Whether you opt for smoked spare ribs, a hoki fish sandwich, or a

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breakfast sandwich on pastry chef Thessa Diadem’s sublime biscuits, it’s all great. 3200 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-741-0082, or alldaybabyla.com. Full bar.

Eclectic regular specials like haute corn dogs add to the fun. 5916 ½ N. Figueroa St., 323-545-3536, or hipporestaurant.com. Full bar.

E Bub and Grandma’s GLASSELL PARK » Sandwiches $$

E Jin Cook GLENDALE » Korean $

This sub shop serves brisket sandwiches made with the same crusty loaves of sourdough and squares of ciabatta that owner Andy Kadin sells to 150 of L.A.’s most prominent restaurants. Kadin refers to the sandwiches as “Bub subs,” which pastry chef Christopher Lier, from Osteria and Pizzeria Mozza, spent at least six months developing. Chef Zach Jarrett heads the kitchen at Bub and Grandma’s, which currently serves breakfast and lunch.

3507 Eagle Rock Blvd., or bubandgrandmas.com.

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E Hippo

Pijja Palace SILVER LAKE » Indian-American $

Hidden in a wood-trussed dining room behind Triple Beam Pizza, this Cal-Ital restaurant from Mozza vet Matt Molina balances casual and refined. Snappy wax beans are sluiced with vinaigrette for a picnic-worthy salad. Great pastas and juicy grilled chicken thighs deliver the unfussy pleasure found at the best neighborhood spots.

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PASADENA » Spanish $$$ The arrival of this splashy new spot suggests that the good times might soon be here again. It shares a charming, sprawling courtyard with the Pasadena Playhouse, and the seafood-heavy menu from chef Dominique Crisp, who previously worked at L&E Oyster Bar, begs for reuniting with friends on nice summer nights. Orange zest enlivens jamón Ibérico crudités, while miso butter takes grilled oysters to new heights. 37 S. El Molino Ave., 626-808-4976, or sasobistro.com. Full bar.

E Moo’s Craft Barbecue LINCOLN HEIGHTS » Barbecue $

Some of the best Texas barbecue is actually in L.A. Andrew and Michelle Muñoz’s brisket and beef ribs are meaty bliss that would be taken seriously in Austin. But Moo’s is very much a vital L.A. spot; the Muñozes weave in their Mexican-Angeleno roots with dishes like a cheese-and-poblano-filled beef and pork verde sausage. 2118 N. Broadway, 323-686-4133, or mooscraftbarbecue.com. Beer and wine.

» Cal-Italian $$

The team behind the beloved local chainlet Guisados has taken over an old seafood-taco stand on a busy Eastside stretch. The results, as you might expect, are delicious and delightful. Playita has a fresh, beachy blue-and-white aesthetic and a tight menu of well-done ceviches, seafood cocktails, and fish tacos. 3143 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-928-2028, or playitamariscos.com. No alcohol.

K-Town has the highest concentration of Korean food in the U.S., but it doesn’t get all the hits. Jin Cook works wonders with “authentic Korean soul food” in Glendale. This homey restaurant brings sparkle to dishes like spicy pork. Thinly sliced meat arrives sizzling in a stone bowl and then gets crusty and caramelized and reaches hyperdrive when showered with shredded mozzarella, which magically melds with the spicy meat and enables cheese pulls galore. 310 N. Brand Blvd., 818-637-7822, or jincooks.com. Beer.

GLASSELL PARK » Southern American $$ “We don’t use processed foods because we try to work within the limitations from before the Gilded Age.” This culinary ethos is the force behind Brian Dunsmoor’s new restaurant, where his devotion to “heritage cookery” is on full display and activity centers on a wood-fired hearth. 3501 Eagle Rock Blvd., 323-686-6027, or dunsmoor.la. Beer and wine.

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E Playita Mariscos SILVER LAKE » Mexican $

E Sōgo Roll Bar LOS FELIZ » Sushi $$

Sōgo is hardly the only concept in town devoted to rolls, but it has mastered the form. Rice is cooked with the same careful consideration and seasoning that sushi master Kiminobu Saito uses at the high-end Sushi Note. Each fish type is thoughtfully paired with ideal accompaniments, from a tangy yuzu-pepper sauce that makes salmon sing to brandy-soaked albacore with garlic-ginger ponzu and crispy onions. 4634 Hollywood Blvd., 323-741-0088, or sogorollbar.com. Beer

Indian-American restaurateur Avish Naran brings pizza and pasta featuring the flavors of his childhood to a strip-mall sports bar. The innovative menu includes Malai rigatoni with tomato-masala sauce, pizza topped with chicken tikka, and cardamom-and-cookies soft serve. 2711 W. Sunset Blvd., or pijjapalace.com. Full bar.

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Case, Michael 'FSHVTPO $BTF 0SS 1BUFSTPO 7FOUVSB Chairez, Joseph L. #BLFSª )PTUFUMFS $PTUBª.FTB Chan, Paul S. #JSE .BSFMMB #PYFS 8PMQFSU /FTTJN %SPPLT -JODFOCFSHª 3IPX -PTª"OHFMFT

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Fugate, Jeanne A. ,JOHª 4QBMEJOH -PTª"OHFMFT Gardner, Steven 4UFWFOª) (BSEOFS #FWFSMZª)JMMT Geffner, Randi &TFOTUFO -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

Eyerly, Dawn B. 'SFFNBO 'SFFNBOª 4NJMFZ -PTª"OHFMFT

Geibelson, Michael A. 3PCJOT ,BQMBO -PTª"OHFMFT

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Falzetta, Frank 4IFQQBSE .VMMJO 3JDIUFSª )BNQUPO -PTª"OHFMFT

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THE BUSINESS OF SUCCESS Handling trade secret and business litigation with ingenuity and integrity is the hallmark of this business litigator who has secured millions for his clients. “Success comes from the relentless pursuit of improvement,” says Super Lawyers honoree John R. Walton, who often sits in the courtroom audience to study other lawyers’ closing arguments. “I also read constantly, both about my own subject areas and trial advocacy in general.” Transforming the complex fields of business litigation and intellectual property law into a form that is simple yet still accurate for juries is another skill handled deftly by this litigator who was named among the top-rated lawyers in Southern California by The American Lawyer magazine and recognized for excellence in trial advocacy by the Mayor of Lancaster, California. The Eagle Scout, with degrees from Stanford, Michigan Law School, and Kyoto University, is also fluent in Japanese and frequently represents Japanese clients in California state and federal courts.

John R. Walton WALTON LAW GROUP, P.C. 35 N. Lake Ave., Suite 700, Pasadena, CA 91101 PH: (626) 578-6000 | waltonlawgroup.com

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Kelly-Kilgore, Sarah (SFFOCFSH (SPTT -PTª"OHFMFT

Glaser, Patricia L. (MBTFS 8FJM -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ª4 4

Kessler, Daniel J. #VSLIBMUFS ,FTTMFS $MFNFOUª (FPSHF *SWJOF 1H ª4

Goldstein, Justin M. 4LMBS ,JSTI -PTª"OHFMFT

Kibler, Michael D. ,JCMFS 'PXMFSª $BWF -PTª"OHFMFT

Gonzalez, Henry H. "OESBEF (PO[BMF[ -PTª"OHFMFT

Kim, Andrew F. ,JN 3JMFZ -BX /PSUISJEHF

Goodstein, Gary J. "MMFHVF[ /FXNBO (PPETUFJO 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT

Kim, Eugene 4USFBN ,JN )JDLT 8SBHFª "MGBSP 3JWFSTJEF

Gottesman, Donald S. ,VMJL (PUUFTNBO 4JFHFMª 8BSF 4IFSNBOª0BLT

Kim, John W. #SPXFS -BX (SPVQ -BHVOBª)JMMT

Grabowski, Richard J. +POFT %BZ *SWJOF Graham, Steven T. 4OFMMª 8JMNFS $PTUBª.FTB Grant, David C. (SBOU (FOPWFTFª #BSBUUB *SWJOF

Greenberg, Alan A. (SFFOCFSH (SPTT -PTª"OHFMFT Greene, Andra B. *SFMMª .BOFMMB /FXQPSUª#FBDI Grodsky, Allen (SPETLZ 0MFDLJª 1VSJUTLZ -PTª"OHFMFT Gross, Dimitri P. -BX 0GGJDF PG %JNJUSJª1 (SPTT /FXQPSUª#FBDI Grossman, Brian 5FTTFSª] (SPTTNBO -PTª"OHFMFT Gwynn, Jeffrey T. 7FSWF -BX (SPVQ 3JWFSTJEF Hall, Howard D. )BMM (SJGGJO 4BOUBª"OB Harder, Charles J. )BSEFS #FWFSMZª)JMMT

King, Howard E. ,JOH )PMNFT 1BUFSOPª 4PSJBOP -PTª"OHFMFT Kinsella, Dale F. ,JOTFMMB 8FJU[NBO *TFS ,VNQ )PMMFZ 4BOUBª.POJDB Klein, Gerald A. ,MFJOª 8JMTPO /FXQPSUª#FBDI 1H ª4 4 Komorsky, Jason B. #( -BX 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT Kornfeld, Alan J. 1BDIVMTLJ 4UBOH ;JFIMª +POFT -PTª"OHFMFT

Livingston, Daniel M. 1BZOFª 'FBST *SWJOF Loewy, Robert G. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 3PCFSUª( -PFXZ "MJTPª7JFKP Lovell, Tre 5IF -PWFMM 'JSN -PTª"OHFMFT Luczon, Diane Myint &BSMZ 4VMMJWBO 8SJHIU (J[FSª .D3BF -PTª"OHFMFT Ly, John -JBOH -Z -PTª"OHFMFT Ma, Stephen &BSMZ 4VMMJWBO 8SJHIU (J[FSª .D3BF -PTª"OHFMFT Macellaro, Theresa J. 5IF .BDFMMBSP 'JSN -PTª"OHFMFT Madnick, H. Mark ,SBNBS .BEOJDL &ODJOP Maloney, Patrick M. 5IF .BMPOFZ 'JSN &Mª4FHVOEP Mancini, Michael V. .BODJOJ 4IFOL -PTª"OHFMFT Mangels, Robert E. +FGGFS .BOHFMT #VUMFSª .JUDIFMM -PTª"OHFMFT Marenberg, Steven 1BVM )BTUJOHT -PTª"OHFMFT

Kozberg, Joel ,P[CFSHª #PEFMM -PTª"OHFMFT

Marquart, Jaime W. 8BZNBLFS -PTª"OHFMFT

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Martinez, David 3PCJOT ,BQMBO -PTª"OHFMFT

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Kuo, Hubert H. "SEFOU -BX (SPVQ /FXQPSUª#FBDI

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Lapidus, Daniel C. -BQJEVTª -BQJEVT #FWFSMZª)JMMT

McFee, Linda C. "UUPSOFZ BU -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

Hershman, Brian +POFT %BZ -PTª"OHFMFT Herzog, Eric A. -PDLF -PSE -PTª"OHFMFT

Lapidus, Ryan -BQJEVTª -BQJEVT #FWFSMZª)JMMT

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LeBoff, Michael S. ,MFJOª 8JMTPO /FXQPSUª#FBDI 1H ª4

Morgenthaler, Alisa M. .PSHFOUIBMFS -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT

Lee, Richard 4BMJTJBOª] -FF -PTª"OHFMFT

Morrison, Jr., Edward F. 5IF .PSSJTPO -BX (SPVQ 1BMNª%FTFSU

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Leff, Randall S. &SWJO $PIFOª +FTTVQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Johnson, Beverly A. +PIOTPOª #FSUSBN .JTTJPOª7JFKP

Levin, Daniel B. .VOHFS 5PMMFTª 0MTPO -PTª"OHFMFT

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Liang, Jason L. -JBOH -Z -PTª"OHFMFT

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Th Becker The B k L Law G Group specializes i li iin u;ru;v;mঞm] 1Ѵb;m|v bm l- ;uv bm oѴ bm] 1-|-v|uor_b1 r;uvom-Ѵ bmf u ķ 1Ѵ-vv -1ঞomvķ mass tort (including sexual abuse, toxic |ou|v -m7 bѴ7Cu;vőķ ;lrѴo l;m|ķ 0 vbm;vv Ѵbঞ]-ঞom -m7 bllb]u-ঞomĺ The Becker Law Group strives to serve its 1Ѵb;m|v b|_ vhbѴѴķ 7;7b1-ঞomķ r-vvbom -m7 bm|;]ub| ĺ ou o ;u ƑƏ ;-uv |_; Cul _-v also been recognized for its service to the Chinese community.

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Nix, Benjamin A. 1BZOFª 'FBST *SWJOF

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Taitelman, Michael A. 'SFFENBO 5BJUFMNBO -PTª"OHFMFT

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We Help Families Through Difficult Times The lawyers at Rombro & Manley LLP are compassionate and understand the emotional stress involved in family law matters. The firm handles cases including divorce, child custody and parenting time, debt and division of property, child support, spousal support, and domestic violence. Each case is unique and presents its own set of challenges. The attorneys are equipped to handle these challenges with the most effective legal approaches for their clients.

One of the firm’s founders, Roger Rombro, is included on this year’s Super Lawyers list. His inspiration to practice family law started early in his career during his own child custody battle.

He understands the difficulties and stress that surround family law disputes. Through his personal experience, he is able to make the complex process more manageable for his clients.

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Marquez, Justin F. 8JMTIJSF -BX 'JSN -PTª"OHFMFT McCune, Richard D. .D$VOF 8SJHIU "SFWBMP 0OUBSJP Menzies, Karen Barth (JCCT -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT Merryman, Bryan A. 8IJUFª $BTF -PTª"OHFMFT Morrison, Michael S. "MFYBOEFS .PSSJTPO 'FIS -PTª"OHFMFT Ohn, Gerald S. -BX 0GGJDFT PG (FSBMEª4 0IO 4UFWFOTPOª3BODI O’Neill, Megan %50 -BX -PTª"OHFMFT Orshansky, Anthony $PVOTFM0OF #FWFSMZª)JMMT Palmer, Melanie Meneses ,JFTFM -BX #FWFSMZª)JMMT Parekh, Behram V. %BMJNPOUF 3VFC 4UPMMFS -PTª"OHFMFT Puglisi, Fred R. 4IFQQBSE .VMMJO 3JDIUFSª )BNQUPO -PTª"OHFMFT Renick, Randy R. )BETFMM 4UPSNFS 3FOJDLª %BJ 1BTBEFOB Rizkalla, Ruth 5IF $BSMTPO -BX 'JSN .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI Robertson, IV, Alexander 3PCFSUTPOª "TTPDJBUFT 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF Robinson, Daniel S. 3PCJOTPO $BMDBHOJF /FXQPSUª#FBDI 1H ª4 Robinson, Jr., Mark P. 3PCJOTPO $BMDBHOJF /FXQPSUª#FBDI 1H ª4 4 Saltzman, Stanley D. .BSMJOª 4BMU[NBO "HPVSBª)JMMT Silberfeld, Roman M. 3PCJOT ,BQMBO -PTª"OHFMFT Sims, Scott H. 'SBOL 4JNTª 4UPMQFS *SWJOF Stahle, Mikael H. .BUFSO -BX (SPVQ .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI 1H ªS-13 Stephenson, Daniel J. , - (BUFT -PTª"OHFMFT

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Fox, Deborah .FZFST /BWF -PTª"OHFMFT

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Miller, Thomas E. 5IF .JMMFS -BX 'JSN /FXQPSUª#FBDI

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Barker, T. Darren -B'PMMFUUF +PIOTPO %F)BBT 'FTMFSª "NFT 4BOUBª"OB Campbell, Nick #VJMEFST -BX (SPVQ #VSCBOL Chen, Alexander J. $IFO )PSXJU[ª 'SBOLMJO .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ Cross, Edward H. -BX 0GGJDFT PG &EXBSEª) $SPTT 1BMNª%FTFSU Dalmore, Jean A. .VSDIJTPOª $VNNJOH -PTª"OHFMFT Darling, John )VOU 0SUNBOO 1BTBEFOB Dorse, Kevin A. 5IFPEPSB 0SJOHIFS -PTª"OHFMFT Feldman, Mark A. 'FMENBOª "TTPDJBUFT -PTª"OHFMFT Fresch, Elaine K. 4FMNBO #SFJUNBO -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ª4 Ghassemian, Mahyar (IBTTFNJBO -BX (SPVQ .JTTJPOª7JFKP Glucksman, Richard H. $IBQNBO (MVDLTNBO %FBOª 3PFC -PTª"OHFMFT Grossbart, Kenneth "CEVMB[J[ (SPTTCBSUª 3VENBO /PSUIª)PMMZXPPE Hack, Marion T. 5SPVUNBO 1FQQFS )BNJMUPO 4BOEFST -PTª"OHFMFT Henning, Stephen J. 8PPE 4NJUI )FOOJOHª #FSNBO -PTª"OHFMFT Horowitz, Jeffrey D. 5IF )PSPXJU[ -BX 'JSN 4IFSNBOª0BLT Hurst, Jeffrey S. .POUFMFPOFª .D$SPSZ -PTª"OHFMFT

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CLOSELY HELD BUSINESS Lappen, Timothy +FGGFS .BOHFMT #VUMFSª .JUDIFMM -PTª"OHFMFT May, Lawrence E. -BXSFODFª& .BZ -PTª"OHFMFT Stafford, Stephen A. #SPXOª 4USF[B *SWJOF Streza, Richard E. #SPXOª 4USF[B *SWJOF

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Anvar, Jessica 5IF -FNPO -BX &YQFSUT -PTª"OHFMFT Barker, John D. ,SPIOª .PTT )FSNPTBª#FBDI

Ibey, Jason ,B[FSPVOJ -BX (SPVQ $PTUBª.FTB Imber, Daniel S. *NCFS -BX (SPVQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT Kaufman, Joseph A. +PTFQI ,BVGNBOª "TTPDJBUFT 1BTBEFOB Kazerounian, Abbas ,B[FSPVOJ -BX (SPVQ $PTUBª.FTB 1H ª4 4 Martin, III, G. Thomas .BSUJOª #POUSBHFS /PSUIª)PMMZXPPE Mizrahi, Guy +PVSOFZ -BX (SPVQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

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Naderi, Ray /BEFSJ -BX (SPVQ &Mª4FHVOEP

Aizman, Diana Weiss "J[NBO -BX 'JSN &ODJOP

Parks, Michael 4DIJNNFMª 1BSLT 4IFSNBOª0BLT

Anderson, Eric D. &SJD % "OEFSTPO -BX &%" -BX 3FEMBOET

Starr, Robert L. 5IF -BX 0GGJDF PG 3PCFSUª- 4UBSS $BMBCBTBT Taylor, Norman F. /PSNBO 5BZMPSª "TTPDJBUFT (MFOEBMF Wilson, Scot D. ,OJHIU -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT

Cohen, Philip Kent 1IJMJQ ,FOU $PIFO 4BOUBª.POJDB Cordova, Ron "UUPSOFZ BU -BX *SWJOF

Arfa, Fay 'BZ "SGB -PTª"OHFMFT

Darden, Christopher A. 4PMVUJPO -BX 'PVOUBJOª7BMMFZ

Artan, Michael H. "UUPSOFZ BU -BX -PTª"OHFMFT Aval, Simon -BX 0GGJDFT PG 4JNPO "WBM 1BTBEFOB Azari, Sara -BX 0GGJDF PG 4BSB "[BSJ -PTª"OHFMFT

Devore, Mark S. -BX 0GGJDFT PG .BSLª4 %FWPSF $BMBCBTBT

Bednarski, Marilyn .D-BOF #FEOBSTLJª -JUU 1BTBEFOB

Diamond, David %JBNPOEª "TTPDJBUFT #VSCBOL

Chekian, Michael $IFLJBO -BX 0GGJDF -PTª"OHFMFT

Berk, Blair 5BSMPXª #FSL -PTª"OHFMFT Berlin, Peter -BX 0GGJDFT PG 1FUFS #FSMJO 5BS[BOB

Donath, Graham D. 5IF -BX 0GGJDFT PG (SBIBN %POBUI 3JWFSTJEF

Davidson, Peter A. &SWJO $PIFOª +FTTVQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Blanco, Meghan -BX 0GGJDFT PG .FHIBO #MBODP -BHVOBª/JHVFM

Dunkle, Stephen K. 4BOHFS 4XZTFOª %VOLMF 4BOUBª#BSCBSB

Blumenthal, Virginia #MVNFOUIBMª .PPSF 3JWFSTJEF

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Slates, Ronald 3POBMEª1 4MBUFT -PTª"OHFMFT

Carey, J. Patrick -BX 0GGJDFT PGª+ 1BUSJDL $BSFZ 5PSSBODF

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Parker Harris, Kellee 1BSLFS -BX $FOUFS )VOUJOHUPOª#FBDI

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Newman, Brian -BX 0GGJDF PG #SJBOª" /FXNBO 5PSSBODF

Simons, Barry T. -BX 0GGJDFT PG #BSSZª5 4JNPOT -BHVOBª#FBDI

Geragos, Mark (FSBHPTª (FSBHPT -PTª"OHFMFT

Powell, Sarah E. #VMMBSEª 1PXFMM 4BOª#FSOBSEJOP

Taylor, Christopher 5IF -BX 0GGJDFT PG 5BZMPSª 5BZMPS )VOUJOHUPOª#FBDI

Glucksman, Jacob -BX 0GGJDFT PG +BDPC (MVDLTNBO &ODJOP

Ridley, Douglas H. 3JEMFZ %FGFOTF 7FOUVSB

Goldstein, Elana (PMETUFJO -FHBM 0GGJDF &ODJOP

Rosenberg, Nicholas -PT "OHFMFT %FGFOEFST -PTª"OHFMFT

Goldstein, Karen L. -BX 0GGJDFT PG ,BSFOª- (PMETUFJO -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ªS-53 Goodman, Jacqueline -BX 0GGJDF PG +BDRVFMJOF (PPENBO 'VMMFSUPO Gorin, Dmitry &JTOFS (PSJO -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ª4 Grech, Jr., Paul (SFDIª 1BDLFS 3JWFSTJEF Gunsberg, Jerod -BX 0GGJDFT PG +FSPE (VOTCFSH -PTª"OHFMFT Gurwitz, Brian 5IF -BX 0GGJDF PG #SJBO (VSXJU[ 5VTUJO Haig, Jerome J. -BX 0GGJDF PG +FSPNFª+ )BJH 5PSSBODF Harley, Jr., Robison D. -BX 0GGJDF PG 3PCJTPOª% )BSMFZ +S 4BOUBª"OB Hashemi, Arash -BX 0GGJDFT PG "SBTI )BTIFNJ -PTª"OHFMFT Hill, Greg T. (SFH )JMMª "TTPDJBUFT 5PSSBODF Holley, Shawn ,JOTFMMB 8FJU[NBO *TFS ,VNQ )PMMFZ 4BOUBª.POJDB 1H ª4 Hong, Janet E. 5IF )POH 'JSN -POHª#FBDI

Sala, Heberto A. "UUPSOFZ BU -BX #BLFSTGJFME

Salerno, Anthony V. "OUIPOZª7 4BMFSOPª "TTPDJBUFT .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ Sanger, Robert M. 4BOHFS 4XZTFOª %VOLMF 4BOUBª#BSCBSB Saros, Alison 4BSPT -BX &Mª4FHVOEP Scafiddi, Michael -BX 0GGJDFT PG .JDIBFMª" 4DBGJEEJ 4BOª#FSOBSEJOP Seki, Bill 4FLJ /JTIJNVSBª 8BUBTF -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ªS-56 Shapiro, Louis J. -BX 0GGJDFT PG -PVJTª+ 4IBQJSP -PTª"OHFMFT Sherman, Victor 7JDUPS 4IFSNBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Sicat, Jocelyn H. 4JDBU -BX $PWJOB 1H ªS-56 Sitkoff, Stephen D. 4JULPGGª )BOSBIBO -PTª"OHFMFT

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR Adams, Christine 5IF "EBNT -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT Alon, Edward E. "MPO 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT Anand, Harvinder S. "OBOE -BX (SPVQ 1BTBEFOB Athey, Joel M. )PMNFT 5BZMPS "UIFZ $PXBO .FSNFMTUFJOª +POFT -PTª"OHFMFT Bass, Diane -BX 0GGJDF PG %JBOFª$ #BTT *SWJOF Beck, Mark E. #FDL -BX 1BTBEFOB Bell, Koren -BSTPO -PTª"OHFMFT Bienert, Jr., Thomas H. #JFOFSU ,BU[NBO -JUUSFMM 8JMMJBNT 4BOª$MFNFOUF Bird, Terry W. #JSE .BSFMMB #PYFS 8PMQFSU /FTTJN %SPPLT -JODFOCFSHª 3IPX -PTª"OHFMFT Buehler, George W. #VFIMFSª ,BTTBCJBO 1BTBEFOB Cohen, Reuven L. $PIFO 8JMMJBNT -PTª"OHFMFT Corrigan, Kate $PSSJHBO 8FMCPVSO 4UPLLF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Houlé, Lisa )PVMn -BX 5PSSBODF

Solis, Anthony M. -BX 0GGJDFT PG "OUIPOZª.

4PMJT $BMBCBTBT

Israels, Philip D. $SPO *TSBFMTª 4UBSL -PTª"OHFMFT

Soo Hoo, Mona C. "UUPSOFZ BU -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

Israels, Sam J. $SPO *TSBFMTª 4UBSL -PTª"OHFMFT

Stambler, Errol H. "UUPSOFZ BU -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

Daly, Bryan D. 4IFQQBSE .VMMJO 3JDIUFSª )BNQUPO -PTª"OHFMFT

Jackson, Alan J. 8FSLTNBO +BDLTPOª 2VJOO -PTª"OHFMFT

Stokke, Allan H. $PSSJHBO 8FMCPVSO 4UPLLF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

de Bretteville, Jason 4USBEMJOH :PDDB $BSMTPOª 3BVUI /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Jonas, Glen T. +POBTª %SJTDPMM 5PSSBODF

Swanson, David E. -BX 0GGJDF PG %BWJE 4XBOTPO /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Farhang, Michael (JCTPO %VOOª $SVUDIFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Taylor, Scott A. 5BZMPS %FGFOTF 'JSN 4BOª-VJTª0CJTQP

Farhat, Vince +FGGFS .BOHFMT #VUMFSª .JUDIFMM -PTª"OHFMFT

Kent, Jeffrey 5IF ,FOU -BX 'JSN 'VMMFSUPO

Thiagarajah, Fred 3JHIU $IPJDF -BX /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Fiset, Rachel L. ;XFJCBDL 'JTFU ;BMEVFOEP -PTª"OHFMFT

Kestenbaum, David S. ,FTUFOCBVN -BX (SPVQ 7BOª/VZT

Thigpen, Craig S. -BX 0GGJDFT PG $SBJH 5IJHQFO -PTª"OHFMFT

Gelberg, Grant )BMQFSO .BZ :CBSSB (FMCFSH -PTª"OHFMFT

Krause, Andrew P. ,SBVTFª )JSTDIIPSO 7FOUVSB

Thompson, Jared M. )VNQISFZª 5IPNQTPO #BLFSTGJFME

Gluck, Benjamin N. #JSE .BSFMMB #PYFS 8PMQFSU /FTTJN %SPPLT -JODFOCFSHª 3IPX -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ª4

Kahn, Stephen R. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 4UFQIFOª3 ,BIO -PTª"OHFMFT Kaplan, Richard D. ,BQMBO .BSJOP -PTª"OHFMFT

LaBarbera, Vincent -BX 0GGJDFT PG 7JODFOUª+ -B#BSCFSB +S /FXQPSUª#FBDI Lessem, Jeremy -FTTFN /FXTUBUª 5PPTPO -PTª"OHFMFT Leventhal, Andrew B. 5IF -FWFOUIBM 'JSN 1BTBEFOB Levine, Stephen .JMMJHBO #FTXJDL -FWJOFª ,OPY 3FEMBOET 1H ªS-54

Torres, David A. 5PSSFT * 5PSSFT 4UBMMJOHT #BLFSTGJFME Unger, Charles J. -BX 0GGJDFT PG $IBSMJF 6OHFS 1BTBEFOB Welbourn, T. Edward $PSSJHBO 8FMCPVSO 4UPLLF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Manuelian, R.J. .BOVFMJBO -BX 'JSN -PTª"OHFMFT

White, Debra S. -BX 0GGJDFT PG %FCSBª4 8IJUF -PTª"OHFMFT

Marks, Donald B. .BSLTª #SPPLMJFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Yakovlev, Alana S. 8BML 'SFF -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

McBroom, Katherine (Kacey) ,BFEJBO #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Yeretsian, Lara :FSFUTJBO -BX (MFOEBMF

McKesson, Winston K. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 8JOTUPO ,FWJO .D,FTTPO -PTª"OHFMFT

Cowan, Andrew S. )PMNFT 5BZMPS "UIFZ $PXBO .FSNFMTUFJOª +POFT -PTª"OHFMFT

Goldsobel, Steven M. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 4UFWFO (PMETPCFM -PTª"OHFMFT Handzlik, Jan Lawrence +BO -BXSFODF )BOE[MJL -PTª"OHFMFT Hanna, Nicola T. (JCTPO %VOOª $SVUDIFS -PTª"OHFMFT Hanusz, John )BOVT[ -BX -PTª"OHFMFT Harris, William S. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 8JMMJBNª4 )BSSJT 4PVUIª1BTBEFOB Hochman, Nathan J. 3PTT -PTª"OHFMFT

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: DUI/DWI

Holscher, Mark C. ,JSLMBOEª &MMJT -PTª"OHFMFT

Megerditchian, Silva L. 4-. -BX 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT

Koenig, Bo ,PFOJH -BX 0GGJDF #BLFSTGJFME

Johnston, Pamela L. 'PMFZª -BSEOFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Missakian, Craig -BX 0GGJDFT PG $SBJHª) .JTTBLJBO 1BTBEFOB

Miller, Robert L. .JMMFS BOE "TTPDJBUFT /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Josephs, Samuel A. 4QFSUVT -BOEFTª 6NIPGFS -PTª"OHFMFT

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2023 Kaufman, Gary Jay 5IF ,BVGNBO -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT

Pelham, Christopher K. /PSUPO 3PTF 'VMCSJHIU -PTª"OHFMFT

Weinberger, Melissa A. -BX 0GGJDFT PG .FMJTTBª" 8FJOCFSHFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Klein, Brian 8BZNBLFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Resnik, Jennifer $PIFO 8JMMJBNT -PTª"OHFMFT

Kreindler, Charles L. 4IFQQBSE .VMMJO 3JDIUFSª )BNQUPO -PTª"OHFMFT

Riddet, James #JFOFSU ,BU[NBO -JUUSFMM 8JMMJBNT 4BOª$MFNFOUF

Werksman, Mark J. 8FSLTNBO +BDLTPOª 2VJOO -PTª"OHFMFT

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Tokoro, Jason H. .JMMFS #BSPOEFTT -PTª"OHFMFT

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Glick-Atalla, Heather (MJDL "UBMMB 4IFSNBOª0BLT Peiffer, II, John C. #SPXOª 4USF[B *SWJOF

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Viscounty, Perry J. -BUIBNª 8BULJOT $PTUBª.FTB

Bostwick, Gary #PTUXJDL-BX 4BOUBª.POJDB

Braun, Jeff I. .D/FJM 5SPQQª #SBVO *SWJOF

Wang, Benjamin T. 3VTT "VHVTUª ,BCBU -PTª"OHFMFT

Glassman, Anthony M. #FSHFTPO #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Everett, III, Seymour B. &WFSFUU %PSFZ *SWJOF

Wesley, Keith &MMJT (FPSHF $JQPMMPOF 0µ#SJFO "OOBHVFZ -PTª"OHFMFT

Jassy, Jean-Paul +BTTZ 7JDL $BSPMBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Gramling, Kevin J. ,MJOFEJOTU *SWJOF

Niborski, Michael J. 1SZPS $BTINBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Harber, Stephen M. .D$VOFª )BSCFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Wilson, Dennis L. ,JMQBUSJDL 5PXOTFOEª 4UPDLUPO -PTª"OHFMFT Zeller, Michael T. 2VJOO &NBOVFM 6SRVIBSUª 4VMMJWBO -PTª"OHFMFT Zerounian, Raffi V. )BOTPO #SJEHFUU -PTª"OHFMFT

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Fasel, Thomas A. 'BTFM -BX /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Berman, Joel J. &MLJOT ,BMU 8FJOUSBVC 3FVCFO (BSUTJEF -PTª"OHFMFT

Leon de la Barra, Mauricio -FPO EF MB #BSSB .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ

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Margolis, Mike #MBOL 3PNF -PTª"OHFMFT

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Corson, Paul M. 1BDLFS 0µ-FBSZª $PSTPO (MFOEBMF

Vahdat, G. Amy 7 " -BX 'JSN &ODJOP

Ryan, Andrew 5IF 3ZBO -BX (SPVQ .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI

Savin, Adam J. 4BWJO #VSTL &ODJOP

Connely, Mark B. )BMM )JFBUU $POOFMZª #PXFO 4BOª-VJTª0CJTQP

Gonzalez, Michael D. -BX 0GGJDFT PG .JDIBFMª% (PO[BMF[ (MFOEBMF

Rudman, Jeffrey 5IF 3VENBO -BX 'JSN &ODJOP

Sardarbegian, Henrik 4BSEBSCFHJBO -BX (MFOEBMF

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Tutuyan, Aslin .BOEFMM 5SJBM -BXZFST 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT Vahdat, Sasan (Sean) 4FBOª4 7BIEBUª "TTPDJBUFT 0SBOHF

Saghian, Edwin 0NFHB -BX (SPVQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Whitehead, Ronnivashti 5IF #BSOFT 'JSN -PTª"OHFMFT

Soong, Danny C. -BX 0GGJDFT PG %BOOZ 4PPOH 8FTUª$PWJOB 1H ªS-15

Roberts, Jeffrey 3PCFSUTª] +FBOESPO -BX /FXQPSUª#FBDI 1H ª4

Rosen, Stephen 3PTFO -BX 0GGJDFT %BOBª1PJOU

Wheeler, Timothy J. (SFFOF #SPJMMFUª 8IFFMFS &Mª4FHVOEP 1H ªS-7

Sitzer, Andrew D. 4JU[FS -FHBM 4BOUBª"OB

Traut, Eric V. 5SBVU 'JSN 4BOUBª"OB

Rodriguez, Daniel -BX 0GGJDF PG 3PESJHVF[ª "TTPDJBUFT #BLFSTGJFME

Wheeler, Alexander R. 1BSSJT -BX 'JSN -BODBTUFS

Vanni, Gregory R. 5IPO #FDL 7BOOJ $BMMBIBOª 1PXFMM 1BTBEFOB Vaziri, Siamak 7B[JSJ -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT

Hewitt, Stephen L. )FXJUUª 3BQIBFM 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT Kelly, John C. $BSSPMM ,FMMZ 5SPUUFSª 'SBO[FO -POHª#FBDI Lee, Tina E. 3FCBDL .D"OESFXTª #MFTTFZ .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI McAndrews, Thomas F. 3FCBDL .D"OESFXTª #MFTTFZ .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI

Wacker, Ted B. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 5FEª# 8BDLFS /FXQPSUª#FBDI

McKenna, III, Robert L. ,KBS .D,FOOBª 4UPDLBMQFS )VOUJOHUPOª#FBDI

Waks, Michael D. .JDIBFMª% 8BLT -POHª#FBDI

Poliquin, Mark 1PMJRVJOª %F(SBWF -BHVOBª)JMMT

Wallace, Bradley S. 5IF 8BMMBDF 'JSN &ODJOP

Reback, Robert C. 3FCBDL .D"OESFXTª #MFTTFZ .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI

Weatherford, Natalie 5BZMPSª 3JOH .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI Weck, Cory R. .D$VOF 8SJHIU "SFWBMP 0OUBSJP Wegman, Atticus N. "JULFOª "JULFOª $PIO 4BOUBª"OB Weinstein, Zev Y. 4DIXJNFS 8FJOTUFJO 4BOUBª.POJDB Weissman, I.Donald 8FJTTNBO -BX 'JSN 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT

Stark, Edward C. $SPO *TSBFMTª 4UBSL 4BOUBª.POJDB Thelen, Dennis R. -F#FBV 5IFMFO #BLFSTGJFME Walker, Jeffrey A. 8BMLFS -BX (SPVQ 3BODIPª$VDBNPOHB Warford, Robert K. "UUPSOFZ BU -BX 3JWFSTJEF CONTINUED ON PAGE S-48

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 2023 PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: PLAINTIFF Blumberg, John P. #MVNCFSH -BX $PSQ -POHª#FBDI Brown, Alan C. %BZ %BZª #SPXO 5VTUJO

Milbrodt, Jeremy D. 1SJOEMF (PFU[ #BSOFTª 3FJOIPMU[ -POHª#FBDI

Spagnoli, Christine D. (SFFOF #SPJMMFUª 8IFFMFS &Mª4FHVOEP 1H ªS-6, S-7 4

Santana, Carmen #FSLFT $SBOF 4BOUBOBª 4QBOHMFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Yuhl, Christopher P. :VIM $BSS .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ

Schatz, Jr., Russell W. 1POE /PSUI -PTª"OHFMFT

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE

Sipprelle, Keith A. 7BO &UUFO 4JQQSFMMF 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF

Bodenstein, Janette S. /FNFDFLª $PMF &ODJOP

Burke, Sean M. 4FBOª. #VSLF *SWJOF 1H ª4

Spangler Khare, Viiu #FSLFT $SBOF 4BOUBOBª 4QBOHMFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Brodsky, Barry Z. ,BVGNBO %PMPXJDIª 7PMVDL -PTª"OHFMFT

Cohn, Richard A. "JULFOª "JULFOª $PIO 4BOUBª"OB

Warren, Sheldon J. -BX 0GGJDFT PG 4IFMEPOª+ 8BSSFO -POHª#FBDI

Cochran, Joan $PDISBO %BWJTª "TTPDJBUFT 1BMPTª7FSEFTª&TUBUFT

Donahue, Thomas %POBIVFª )PSSPX &Mª4FHVOEP

Whitefield, Derek S. %ZLFNB (PTTFUU -PTª"OHFMFT

Cole, Jonathan B. /FNFDFLª $PMF &ODJOP

Hapuarachy, Shane +BDPCZª .FZFST -PTª"OHFMFT

Yoka, Walter M. :PLBª] 4NJUI -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ªS-31

Curtis-Ives, Courtney E. ,BVGNBO %PMPXJDIª 7PMVDL -PTª"OHFMFT

Bunch, Bruce M. -BX 0GGJDFT PG #SVDFª. #VODI 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF

Heimberg, Steven A. )FJNCFSH #BSS -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ª4 Hodes, Daniel Martin )PEFT .JMNBO *LVUB *SWJOF 1H ª4 4 Ikuta, Benjamin *LVUB )FNFTBUI 4BOUBª"OB Kramer, M.D., Bradley I. 5IF 5SJBM -BX 0GGJDFT PG #SBEMFZª* ,SBNFSª. % &TR #FWFSMZª)JMMT Lew, Jin N. -BX 0GGJDFT PG .JDIFMTª -FX -PTª"OHFMFT

Cole, Marshall R. /FNFDFLª $PMF &ODJOP

Gallardo, Tommy /FNFDFLª $PMF &ODJOP

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Aumais, Christopher T. (PPE (VTUBGTPO "VNBJT -PTª"OHFMFT

Matthai, Edith R. 3PCJFª .BUUIBJ -PTª"OHFMFT 1H ª4 4

Brown, Eric %F#MBTF #SPXO &ZFSMZ -PTª"OHFMFT

McCarthy, Michael /FNFDFLª $PMF &ODJOP

Brusavich, Bruce M. "HOFX#SVTBWJDI 5PSSBODF

Michel, Allen L. .JDIFMª] .JMMFSª] 1BSL -PTª"OHFMFT

Michels, Philip -BX 0GGJDFT PG .JDIFMTª -FX -PTª"OHFMFT

Calcagnie, Kevin F. 3PCJOTPO $BMDBHOJF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Miller, Randall A. .JMMFS -BX "TTPDJBUFT -PTª"OHFMFT

Milman, Jeffrey A. )PEFT .JMNBO *LVUB *SWJOF 1H ª4 4

Cathcart, Peter T. .BHBvB $BUIDBSUª .D$BSUIZ 1BDJGJDª1BMJTBEFT

Mulbarger, Mitchell F. #BLFS ,FFOFSª /BISB -PTª"OHFMFT

Oran, Michael -BX 0GGJDFT PG .JDIBFMª- 0SBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Contreras, Erika 1BOJTIª] 4IFBª] #PZMFª] 3BWJQVEJ -PTª"OHFMFT

O’Meara, Frances M. 8PPE 4NJUI )FOOJOHª #FSNBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Petoyan, Marcus (JBOOJª 1FUPZBO -PTª"OHFMFT Raynes, Jeffrey S. 3BZOFTª] &SJDLTPO 3FEMBOET

DeBlase, Patrick %F#MBTF #SPXO &ZFSMZ -PTª"OHFMFT

Pansky, Ellen A. 1BOTLZ .BSLMF 4PVUIª1BTBEFOB 1H ªS-55

Silberberg, Marshall 5IF -BX 0GGJDF PG .BSTIBMM 4JMCFSCFSH *SWJOF

Esfandiari, Bijan #BVN )FEMVOE "SJTUFJª (PMENBO -PTª"OHFMFT

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McMahan, Carl A. .D.BIBO -BX -PTª"OHFMFT McMillan, William %F8JUU "MHPSSJª "MHPSSJ 1BTBEFOB

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Gonter, Jr., K. Robert (BUFT (POUFS (VZ 1SPVEGPPUª .VFODI *SWJOF

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Walkon, Craig 8BMLPO -BX 'JSN 4BOª+VBOª$BQJTUSBOP

Johnson, Raymond Paul 3BZNPOE 1BVM +PIOTPO .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI

Stellwagen, Jr, Robert H. $PMMJOT $PMMJOT 1BTBEFOB

Weinberg, Steven J. .D$VOF 8SJHIU "SFWBMP 1BMNª%FTFSU

Kristensen, John $BSQFOUFSª ;VDLFSNBO #FWFSMZª)JMMT

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Waxler, Andrew J. ,BVGNBO %PMPXJDIª 7PMVDL 5PSSBODF Wechsler, Zachary D. -BX 0GGJDF PG ;BDIBSZª% 8FDITMFS 5PSSBODF

Calareso, Christine D. $.#( -BX *SWJOF

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Cosgrove, Philip R. /FMTPO .VMMJOT 3JMFZª 4DBSCPSPVHI 5PSSBODF

Lukei, Shannon M. 3PCJOTPO $BMDBHOJF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Cronin, Justin +BNJTPO &NQUJOH $SPOJO -PTª"OHFMFT

Michaels, Jonathan .-( $PTUBª.FTB

Ackerman, Lee B. -BX 0GGJDFT PG -FFª# "DLFSNBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Montevideo, John A. %J.BSDPª] "SBVKPª] .POUFWJEFP 4BOUBª"OB

Bradley, Elizabeth L. 3PTFO 4BCB &Mª4FHVOEP

Padgette, Darrell M. "1( -BXZFST -PTª"OHFMFT

Fields, Howard M. )PXBSEª. 'JFMET 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT

Goldberg, Karen B. -FXJT #SJTCPJT #JTHBBSEª 4NJUI -PTª"OHFMFT Hua, Raymond :VLFWJDIª] $BWBOBVHI -PTª"OHFMFT Larson, Arnold D. -BSTPO (BSSJDLª -JHIUGPPU -PTª"OHFMFT McNulty, Elizabeth V. &WBOT 'FBSTª 4DIVUUFSU /FXQPSUª#FBDI

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PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: PLAINTIFF

Furman, Joshua R. +PTIVBª3 'VSNBO &ODJOP Glickman, Steven (MJDLNBOª (MJDLNBO 4IFSNBOª0BLT Joyce, Erin &SJO +PZDF -BX 1BTBEFOB

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Eisenberg, Mark S. &JTFOCFSHª "TTPDJBUFT &Mª4FHVOEP

Kinnon, Kelly *BGGBMEBOP 4IBXª :PVOH -PTª"OHFMFT

Negrin, Matthew /FHSJO -PTª"OHFMFT

Feldman, Lewis G. 'FMENBO -BX (SPVQ 4BOUBª.POJDB

Kirsh, Andrew T. 4LMBS ,JSTI -PTª"OHFMFT

Parker, David B. 1BSLFS .JMMT -PTª"OHFMFT Wilson, Mark B. ,MFJOª 8JMTPO /FXQPSUª#FBDI 1H ª4 4

REAL ESTATE Abram, Steven "CSBN 3PZ -PTª"OHFMFT Abril, Michael S. .JDIBFMª4 "CSJM #BLFSTGJFME Ackerman, Michael S. +POFT "DLFSNBOª $PSNBO -PTª"OHFMFT Adams, Adrian J. "EBNTª] 4UJSMJOH -PTª"OHFMFT

Klein, Michael S. ,MFJOª 8FJT[ -PTª"OHFMFT

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Koffman, Linda S. 4NJUI (BNCSFMMª 3VTTFMM -PTª"OHFMFT

Fileti, Thomas R. .PSSJTPOª 'PFSTUFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Lamishaw, Matthew ,FOOFSMZ -BNJTIBXª 3PTTJ -PTª"OHFMFT

Finkelstein, Henry D. (SFFOCFSH (MVTLFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Lanson, Don E. .BOGSFEJ -FWJOF &DDMFT .JMMFSª -BOTPO 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF

Fischer, Peter R. 4LMBS ,JSTI -PTª"OHFMFT

Logue, Travis C. 3PHFST 4IFGGJFMEª $BNQCFMM 4BOUBª#BSCBSB

Forbes, Amy R. (JCTPO %VOOª $SVUDIFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Lorman, Bruce -BX 0GGJDF PG #SVDF -PSNBO 4BOUBª.POJDB

Gilliland, Jr., Robert J. (VSBMOJDLª (JMMJMBOE 1BMNª%FTFSU

Lurie, Steven (SFFOCFSH (MVTLFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Arkow, Loryn Dunn 4USPPDLª 4USPPDLª -BWBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Goetz, Jon E. .FZFST /BWF -PTª"OHFMFT

Arnold, Dennis B. (JCTPO %VOOª $SVUDIFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Gordon, Marcia Z. (PSEPO ,FNQFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Arshonsky, Richard I. -FWJOTPO "STIPOTLZ ,VSU[ª ,PNTLZ 4IFSNBOª0BLT Baker, Jr., William E. #BLFSª #BLFS 4BOUBª"OB

Baradaran, Bob (SFFOCFSH (MVTLFS -PTª"OHFMFT Benjy, Bob #FOKZ -BX $PSQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT Bloom, Steven N. 'SBOE[FM 3PCJOT #MPPNª $TBUP -PTª"OHFMFT

Graham, Alice (SBIBN -BX $PSQ .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ Gross, Jonathan S. $P[FO 0µ$POOPS 4BOUBª.POJDB

Minoofar, Pedram :BEFHBS .JOPPGBSª 4PMFZNBOJ -PTª"OHFMFT

Guggenheim, Daniel B. .JOU[ -PTª"OHFMFT Gutierrez, Javier F. 4UVBSU ,BOF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Bose, Erica A. $PY $BTUMFª /JDIPMTPO -PTª"OHFMFT

Hardwick, Craig D. "MWBSBEP4NJUI 4BOUBª"OB

McFarlin, Timothy .D'BSMJO *SWJOF Milman, Rachel S. .JMNBO -BX &ODJOP

Grushkin, Josh C. 4UVBSU ,BOF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Hamlin, Richard )BNMJOª] $PEZ .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ

Maisnik, M. Guy +FGGFS .BOHFMT #VUMFSª .JUDIFMM -PTª"OHFMFT Miller, Ken (PSNBOª .JMMFS 4BOUBª.POJDB

Grossfeld, Scott L. $PY $BTUMFª /JDIPMTPO -PTª"OHFMFT

Bordy, Michael J. .JDIBFMª+ #PSEZ -PTª"OHFMFT

Bowerbank, John E. (BSDJB 3BJOFZ #MBOLª #PXFSCBOL $PTUBª.FTB

Mackay, Lee D. /FWFST 1BMB[[P 1BDLBSE 8JMEFSNVUIª 8ZOOFS 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF

Goodkin, Daniel L. (PPELJO -PTª"OHFMFT

Nicoletti, Mark "MMFO .BULJOT -FDL (BNCMF .BMMPSZª /BUTJT -PTª"OHFMFT Packard, Carlisle G. /FWFST 1BMB[[P 1BDLBSE 8JMEFSNVUIª 8ZOOFS 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF Pakfar, Nader 4VUUPO 1BLGBSª $PVSUOFZ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Hawes, Eric -BX 0GGJDF PG &SJD &WFSFUU )BXFT $BMBCBTBT Hensley, W. Michael "MWBSBEP4NJUI 4BOUBª"OB

Paradise, Kate 1BSBEJTF -BX (SPVQ 4BOUBª.POJDB

Brackmann, Eve 4UVBSU ,BOF /FXQPSUª#FBDI

Heydt, Marybeth %50 -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

Popowitz, Neil M. 3FMBX 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF

Breckheimer, Peter J. 0µ.FMWFOZª .ZFST -PTª"OHFMFT

Hoefflin, Richard M. 3JDIBSEª. )PFGGMJO 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF

Quigley, III, Edward F. $PY $BTUMFª /JDIPMTPO -PTª"OHFMFT

Brody, Kevin J. )VOU 0SUNBOO 1BTBEFOB

Hummer, Laurence L. -BVSFODFª- )VNNFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Rabkin, Michael W. 8PMG 3JGLJO 4IBQJSP 4DIVMNBOª 3BCLJO -PTª"OHFMFT

Iaffaldano, Frank W. *BGGBMEBOP 4IBXª :PVOH -PTª"OHFMFT

Rasmussen, Richard G. -BHFSMPG 1BTBEFOB

Insul, Alan -BX 0GGJDF PG "MBOª. *OTVM 8FTUMBLFª7JMMBHF 1H ª4

R’bibo, Alain "MMFO .BULJOT -FDL (BNCMF .BMMPSZª /BUTJT -PTª"OHFMFT

Buchignani, Tony E. 5IFPEPSB 0SJOHIFS -PTª"OHFMFT Burris, Jason R. #VSSJT -BX 0SBOHF Burton, Kent #BLFS #VSUPOª -VOEZ )FSNPTBª#FBDI Butler, Jim +FGGFS .BOHFMT #VUMFSª .JUDIFMM -PTª"OHFMFT Caldwell, III, Thomas F. $BMEXFMM -BX $BMBCBTBT Carlson, Mark C. $BSMTPO -BX (SPVQ 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT 1H ªS-52 Case, Daniel A. $BTF ,OPXMTPO -PTª"OHFMFT Castelblanco, Eric E. $BTUFMCMBODP -BX (SPVQ -PTª"OHFMFT Cody, Marnie Christine )BNMJOª] $PEZ .BSJOBªEFMª3FZ

Irons, John H. )PMMBOEª ,OJHIU -PTª"OHFMFT

Richardson, Kelly 3JDIBSETPOª] 0CFSª] %F/JDIJMP 1BTBEFOB

Iwasaka, Ryan M.T. (SFFOCFSH (MVTLFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Richman, James D. 4USBEMJOH :PDDB $BSMTPOª 3BVUI 4BOUBª#BSCBSB

Jackson, F. Scott +BDLTPO 5JEVT *SWJOF Jackson III, William H. )PMMBOEª ,OJHIU -PTª"OHFMFT

Rips, Matthew 3VTT "VHVTUª ,BCBU -PTª"OHFMFT

Jacobson, Lawrence H. -BX 0GGJDFT PG -BXSFODFª) +BDPCTPO #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Roseman, Steven A. 3PTFNBO -BX 8PPEMBOEª)JMMT

Rollman, Fredric %POGFMEª 3PMMNBO -PTª"OHFMFT

Jimenez, Roy J. 5SFEXBZ -VNTEBJOFª %PZMF 5-% -BX -POHª#FBDI

Cohen, Barry $PIFOª $PIFO &ODJOP

Johnson, Stuart ,FTTFMNBO #SBOUMZ 4UPDLJOHFS .BOIBUUBOª#FBDI

Corfield, Michael $PSGJFME 'FME 4BOª+VBOª$BQJTUSBOP

Juha, Damon M. 'SFFNBO 'SFFNBOª 4NJMFZ -PTª"OHFMFT

Dargan, Christopher M. )JMM 'BSSFSª #VSSJMM -PTª"OHFMFT

Kang, Brian H. (SFFOCFSH (MVTLFS -PTª"OHFMFT

Dreyfus, Caroline W. $PY $BTUMFª /JDIPMTPO -PTª"OHFMFT Ecoff, Lawrence C. &DPGG $BNQBJO 5JMMFTª ,BZ #FWFSMZª)JMMT Ehrhart, Kevin M. ,JSLMBOEª &MMJT -PTª"OHFMFT

Ravid, Nadav 3BWJE -BX (SPVQ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

Roth, Peter J. "MMFO .BULJOT -FDL (BNCMF .BMMPSZª /BUTJT -PTª"OHFMFT Roy, Dennis S. "CSBN 3PZ -PTª"OHFMFT Rutter, Paul S. $P[FO 0µ$POOPS 4BOUBª.POJDB Schorr, Zachary 4DIPSS -BX -PTª"OHFMFT

Karavas, John D. ,BSBWBT ,JFMZ 4DIMPTTª 8IJUNBO -PTª"OHFMFT Kennerly, Nancy N. ,FOOFSMZ -BNJTIBXª 3PTTJ -PTª"OHFMFT Kiely, Michael J. ,BSBWBT ,JFMZ 4DIMPTTª 8IJUNBO -PTª"OHFMFT

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Shafron, Shelly Jay 4IBGSPOª ,BNNFS $BMBCBTBT Shapiro, Daniel "UUPSOFZ BU -BX "MUBEFOB Sharf, Jesse (JCTPO %VOOª $SVUDIFS -PTª"OHFMFT

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Shiner, Andrew 4VUUPO 1BLGBSª $PVSUOFZ #FWFSMZª)JMMT

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Cohen, Mitchell S. 3BJOFT 'FMENBO -PTª"OHFMFT

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Noel, Gregg A. 4LBEEFO "SQT 4MBUF .FBHIFSª 'MPN -PTª"OHFMFT

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E U Street Pizza PASADENA » Pizza $$

There was a moment when U Street’s vodka pepperoni pie was a shining star of Instagram, and rightfully so: the why-haven’t-I-had-this-before combination of pepperoni and creamy vodka sauce is an easy win. Vegetable dishes, notably a Japanese eggplant with Calabrian chili agrodolce, are more than afterthoughts. Note that while the vodka pepperoni pie travels well, the clam pie is best enjoyed in-house. 33 E. Union St., 626-605-0340, or ustreetpizza.com. Full bar.

THE VALLEY E Black Market Liquor Bar STUDIO CITY » New American $$

Some nights it seems as if half the Valley is here, enjoying the colorful patio. Top Chef graduate Antonia Lofaso’s Italian chops are visible in the buxom ricotta gnudi with brown butter and pistachios. The deep-fried fluffernutter sandwich is a reminder that food, like life, should not be taken too seriously. 11915 Ventura Blvd., 818-446-2533, or blackmarketliquorbar.com. Full bar.

E The Brothers Sushi WOODLAND HILLS » Sushi $$$

This hidden gem, reinvigorated when chef Mark Okuda took the helm in 2018, is worth traveling for. The excellent omakase is available in the restaurant, on the patio, or to go. You can also order à la carte or get non-sushi items like soy-glazed grilled chicken. 21418 Ventura Blvd., 818-456-4509, or thebrotherssushi.com. Beer, sake, and wine.

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The L.A. bagel revolution continues at this stylish spot that serves up carefully constructed sandwiches. Tomato, aioli, and maple-glazed bacon elevate a simple bacon, egg, and cheese, while a classic gravlax construction has thoughtful touches like salted cucumbers and pickled onions. Grab a tub of Hank’s “angry” spread—a spicy, slightly sweet concoction—to have in your fridge. 4315 W. Riverside Dr., 818-588-3693. Also at 13545 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, 818-588-3693, or hanksbagels.com. No alcohol.

Tel Aviv Authentic Kitchen ENCINO » Middle Eastern $

Deeply comforting Israeli skewers, kabobs, and merguez come with a colorful and tasty array of salads showcasing produce like red cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, and pumpkin. The spicy sauces on the side work well with any- and everything. 17630 Ventura Blvd., 747-444-7001, or telavivkoshergrill.com. No alcohol.

SOUTH E Ali’i Fish Company EL SEGUNDO » Seafood $$

This small, unassuming spot shames all the glossy poke purveyors popping up around town to serve mediocre versions of the Hawaiian dish. Glistening cubes of tuna, flown in fresh from the Islands daily, remind you how great poke can be. The smokedahi dip with house-made potato chips is not to be missed. 409 E. Grand Ave., 310-616-3484. Also at 4437 Sepulveda Blvd., Torrance, 310-540-2323, or aliifishco.com. Beer and wine.

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E Fishing With Dynamite MANHATTAN BEACH » Seafood $$$

A premium raw bar near the beach shouldn’t be unusual, but it is. The same goes for velvety clam chowder; here, it achieves smoky richness—you can thank the Nueske’s bacon for that—without any of the floury glop. 1148 Manhattan Ave., 310-893-6299, or eatfwd.com. Full bar.

E Little Coyote LONG BEACH » Pizza $

That most amazing slice of pizza you had that one very drunken, late night in your early twenties in New York lives on . . . in Long Beach. The crust is carby perfection: tangy, crispy, thin but with a healthy puff. The concise menu doesn’t offer any revelations about what should be atop pizza but, instead, perfects the usual suspects. 2118 E. 4th St., 562-434-2009. Also at 3500 Los Coyotes Diagonal, 562-352-1555, or littlecoyotelbc.com. Beer and wine.

'E Ryla

HERMOSA BEACH » Eclectic $$$$ There is nothing fussy or pretentious about the menu at Ryla. The fried rice comes flecked with sweet Chinese sausage and pickled ginger and is buried in a thick dusting of shaved black truffles from Burgundy. Start a meal with Hokkaido milk bread with fish roe-nori spread and make your way down the menu to a main dish like the grilled New Zealand Tai snapper that comes in a pool of lime-coconut broth with mussels, daikon, and Fresno chiles.

1220 Hermosa Ave., 424-247-9881, or eatryla.com.

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What’s the busiest traffic day of the year in Los Angeles?

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The Pasadena Freeway during rush hour in 1958.

theater and showroom on Longwood Avenue. “We played in the stream as kids, and there were ducks and crawdads. We’d send little boats down the water,” says Erika Larsen, whose family has owned the Thayer property since 1942. “It’s perennially damp.

My brother recently found magic props buried in the mud.”

A:

Eight of the ten busiest freeways in the state are in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Congestion on the Santa Ana Freeway alone is responsible for almost 10 million hours of lost time every year. While the Thursday before Christmas week is busiest for most L.A. freeways, none is worse than Interstate 5. The date changes every year, but December 16 was the most congested day of 2021. Remember to always give thanks on the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving is traditionally the emptiest day of the year on L.A. freeways.

Q: Is there a block in Hancock Park that has a pond behind the homes?

A: There are plenty of cement ponds in the ritzy Brookside neighborhood, but 1 3 2 L A M AG . C O M

it’s named for the Arroyo de los Jardines, a stream that has trickled south from a natural underground spring near John Burroughs Middle

School since time immemorial.

During the great flood of 1938, the water rose 11 feet and nearly destroyed magician Floyd Thayer’s

Q: What’s the oldest barbershop in L.A.?

A: Seven of the ten oldest barbershops are at private clubs, with the license at the California Club downtown dating to 1943. Lolo’s on Catalina Island, which opened in 1964, has the earliest public license in L.A. County, and, according to the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, Midway Barber in Leimert Park has the oldest active license in the city.

“I cut Mike Tyson’s hair,” says owner Bernie Wilkins, who opened his shop in 1965. “I cut Maury Wills’s hair. I keep it up pretty good.”

CHRIS’S PICK

Living the Game SUPER NINTENDO COMES TO UNIVERSAL O More than 40 years after everyone’s favorite Italian plumber first lit up screens in Donkey Kong, Super Nintendo World will open at Universal Studios Hollywood on February 17. The land’s single ride has doublestacked buggies based on the Mario Kart franchise, where drivers don goggles to see a universe of talking mushrooms, floating coins, and piranha plants floating around them. Maybe they’ll even catch the ghosts that once haunted historic Stage 28, which was demolished to build the new area.

Classics like The Phantom of the Opera and Dracula were filmed on this site, but today video games are more profitable than the movie and sports industries combined. So goodbye, classics; hello, joysticks.

—CHRIS NICHOLS

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