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COMMON’S GROUND

A day in L.A. with the actor, artist and activist PLUS

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COMMON KNOWLEDGE

DON’T CALL IT A FESTIVAL

Is there anything this rapper, actor, writer and producer cannot do? California’s foremost creative with a conscience may be named Common, but he’s consistently proven he’s anything but.

With its permanent sculptures, exclusive guest list, anarchic spirit and apocalyptic setting, Salton Sea’s Bombay Beach Biennale is an experience unto itself.

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EDGE OF TOMORROW

HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON

Tech bigwig Andrew “Boz” Bosworth’s contemporary San Mateo family abode is, like the man himself, focused on marrying innovation with daily life.

Love, Simon’s Nick Robinson graduates to the big time in the season’s louche looks—a little bit Elvis, a little bit ’70s and entirely unforgettable.

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THE THRILL OF IT An international crew of motorcyle and surf enthusiasts descend on untouched Bali for Deus Ex Machina’s Slidetober Fest, a grassroots festival unlike any other.

COMMON WEARING A SALVATORE FERRAGAMO CARDIGAN, SWEATER AND JEANS, AND PALLADIUM SNEAKERS. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BEAU GREALY. STYLING BY ALISON EDMOND. GROOMING BY DARONN CARR, TASHA BROWN AT EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS USING JACK BLACK. LOCATION HOTEL FIGUEROA, LOS ANGELES. ARTWORK THE ONLY TRUE POWER BY WES LANG.

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“COMMON KNOWLEDGE” (P.56): BEAU GREALY. “DON’T CALL IT A FESTIVAL” (P.72): AMANDA VANDENBERG. “EDGE OF TOMORROW” (P.78): MATTHEW MILLMAN. “HERE’S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON” (P.86): CHRISTIAN ANWANDER; NICK ROBINSON WEARING A BOTTEGA VENETA JACKET, $1,950, TOP, $980, AND PANTS, $890, AND JIMMY CHOO LOAFERS, $1,095. “THE THRILL OF IT” (P.96): GIANLUCA FELLINI. SEE SHOPPING GUIDE FOR DETAILS, P.103.

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50 FOUNDER’S LETTER ................................................................................................. 24 C PEOPLE

Who’s who behind the scenes of C for Men........................................................

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Suit yourself at Anderson & Sheppard’s Los Angeles pop-up.

A next-gen country club. Hit the road—and the waves—with Audi On Demand..............................

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Athletic gear for surf and turf. Stir it up with a new Bob Marley-inspired collection. Look hue’s talking...................................................................................................................

C DESIGN

Fashion and art combine forces in Ralph Pucci’s Hollywood digs.

A rising-star architecture firm makes its mark on boutiques up and down the coast........................

C MENU

New York’s Employees Only gets down to business in L.A. Plus, a battle of the

burger kings, and the science-backed book that’s going to change the way you eat.......................

C TRAVEL

The Rioja wine region of Spain, through the eyes of lauded L.A.-based chef

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SHOPPING GUIDE ....................................................................................................... 103 WHEN IN Downtown funk..................................................................................................... 104 PHOTO FINISH

Dexter Darden channels his inner King of Pop................................................

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BURGER (P.50): ERIC WOLFINGER. SUITCASE (P.33): COURTESY OF PRADA. SUNGLASSES (P.104): COURTESY OF TOM FORD. CURTIS STONE TRIP (P.53): MIKAEL VOJINOVIC. SUV (P.44): COURTESY OF RANGE ROVER. RUNWAY (P.38): COURTESY OF LOUIS VUITTON. WATCH (P.40): COURTESY OF JAEGER-LE COULTRE. INTERIOR (P.43): ANTOINE BOOTZ. WEST OF WEST INTERIOR (P.45): INJINASH UNSHIN. HOTEL EXTERIOR (P.30): PIA RIVEROLA. COLOGNE (P.104): COURTESY OF BYREDO.

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ANDREA STANFORD

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Executive Director, Jewelry & Watch

ELIZABETH KHURI CHANDLER

HEIDI KURLANDER-KAIL

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C FOR MEN

Multifaceted is the perfect word to describe this spring issue of C for Men. Take our cover subject, Common, for starters: a man who is one of his generation’s most uncommon talents, thanks to his excellence in myriad realms. An actor, musician, producer, activist and allaround great guy, he is the embodiment of a life fully realized. Taking inspiration from his many layers, allow me to break the issue down by its most descriptive elements: Contradictory: I visited the Salton Sea a few months ago for the first time and was awestruck by the sight of it. It’s often described as apocalyptic—which is the exact word that kept running through my mind—yet the overall vista (tinged though it is with fish bones) was as breathtaking as they come. That a group of renegade artists have created the Bombay Beach Biennale, a truly only-in-California cultural happening (now in its third year), made us want to venture back and immerse ourselves in its madness for “Don’t Call It a Festival.”

Balanced: The NorCal home of Facebook’s Andrew “Boz” Bosworth is a study in finding the harmony between nature and human innovation. The house works into its surroundings perfectly while bringing a whole new level of cool to the neighborhood (think: James Bondstyle Jacuzzi!).

Escapist: Deus Ex Machina’s Slidetober Fest in Bali, a grassroots festival devoted to the brand’s dual passions—surfing and motorcycle riding—is one for the bucket list. Anyone who dreams of the ultimate surf/ride trip can call off the search now. We take you on a photographic journey, courtesy of lensman Gianluca Fellini, to help fuel your nomadic intentions. Because it’s always good to step out of your box and see who you might become during the adventure…

Bold: Actor Nick Robinson, gaining fame in his breakout role in Love, Simon, has been getting into character from a young age, but in our fashion portfolio of spring’s greatest hits, he went method—influenced by Elvis and a bygone, glam-heavy era. Even if you aren’t donning spring’s fashion moment in the same way, adopt a subtle cue and break out of your everyday persona.

Keep those words to the wise in mind as you make your way through the issue; like every issue of C, this one aims to address your diverse interests—because our readers are, refreshingly, as multifaceted as they come.

Founders Letter

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Founder, Editorial Director and CEO

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Who’s who BEHIND THE SCENES of this issue, plus their FAVORITE CALIFORNIA PLACES

BEAU GREALY “Common is talented in an extraordinary number of areas—music, acting, producing, charity, the list goes on,” says photographer Beau Grealy of this month’s cover subject, featured in “Common Knowledge,” p.56. “Driving around downtown in a convertible was a highlight,” Grealy adds. The Australia native, who now calls California home, has amassed a client list that includes i-D, Vogue, H&M and Nike in his 18-year career—not to mention shooting Elle Fanning and Zoey Deutch for C. C SPOTS • Cholada Thai Beach Cuisine in Malibu has the best local Thai and is my son’s favorite restaurant • Red Rock Canyon Park for a hike at home in Topanga • MOCA’s “Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin” exhibit—all masters and inspiration

STEPHANIE RAFANELLI “In one week, I went from interviewing Common to standing next to a performance artist in a headto-toe silver catsuit at the Bombay Beach Biennale,” recalls Stephanie Rafanelli of her polar opposite subject matters for “Common Knowledge,” p.56, and “Don’t Call It a Festival,” p.72. The former features director for Harper’s Bazaar U.K. ventured to California in 2016 to pen a literary novel, and now calls Venice home. Rafanelli has also worked on documentary films for BBC, PBS and Discovery. C SPOTS • The Old Man Bar in Culver City for Pisco sours, vinyl and bearded bar staff • Sky Village Outdoor Marketplace in Yucca Valley near Joshua Tree, where I found an Eames chair for $10 • La Cabaña on Rose Avenue in Venice, where Charles and Ray Eames [reportedly] came for tacos

JAY JEFFERS “It was a four-year project with many custom pieces—a labor of love,” says designer Jay Jeffers of the sleek San Mateo abode featured in “Edge of Tomorrow,” p.78. At the helm of his eponymous design practice since 1999, Jeffers resides in Hayes Valley and St. Helena, and also runs the retail showroom The Store.

His second book, Be Bold, is slated for release this fall.

C SPOTS • Linden Room, a tiny bar in San Francisco with eight seats and fantastic cocktails • Meraki Market on Post Street has beautiful veggies and delicious prepared foods • MX3 Fitness on Waller Street kicks my butt MARK GRIFFIN CHAMPION

“I worked around Alison [Edmond] when I was an assistant in New York,” says photographer Mark Griffin Champion, who collaborated with C’s fashion director on Photo Finish, p.106. “This was a big win for me,” he adds.

Now based in Los Angeles, the Texan transplant has dedicated the past 18 years to the fashion industry, shooting campaigns for California brands such as Clare V. and Monique Lhuillier. C SPOTS • Rosie’s Dog Beach in Long Beach. Dogs freely running and playing on the beach? Sold. • Taco Zone Truck pulls up around 8:30 p.m. at Vons on Alvarado Street with the best carnitas in town • The Bronson Canyon hike in Hollywood Hills has an insane view from the top

CURTIS STONE “We all wish incredible trips could last forever,” says chef Curtis Stone of his cuisine-inspired explorations in La Rioja, Spain, documented in “Tasting Notes,” p.53. “This story brings back the feeling of being there, and is a reminder of what a spectacular region Rioja is.” The L.A.-based Aussie restaurateur behind Maude and Gwen is a multihyphenate with credits as a TV host and author to his name. A James Beard Award semifinalist for Best New Restaurant (Gwen), Stone was also named 2016 Chef of the Year by Eater LA. C SPOTS • I love being cooked for at The Oaks Gourmet Market; their brekkie burrito is insane • The Varnish in DTLA for date night with my wife • Guelaguetza is an authentic Oaxacan restaurant in Harvard Heights and my favorite place for mole SPRING/SUMMER 2018

GREALY: ALISON EDMOND. JEFFERS: MATTHEW MILLMAN. STONE: RAY KACHATORIAN.

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Artist Greg Ito serves upEdited a feast by for the eyes at Artxfood

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Lesley McKenzie Banksy tags and Shepard Fairey murals aside, seeing emerging art on any given evening can be tricky once galleries and museums are shuttered. But ArtCubed’s Ariel Gordon has an antidote launching this spring. From May 11 to June 3, Artxfood, Gordon’s series of nightly, immersive four-course dinners, pairs chef Richard Blais of San Diego’s Juniper & Ivy with Los Angeles-based artist Greg Ito for foodfueled gatherings set inside a pop-up gallery. The creatives will conceptualize an experience designed to engage the senses, staged within an installation built on a Hollywood

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soundstage. Ito—who often incorporates gestural hands and universal symbols in his practice—says this new exhibition, “Hallowed Ground,” relies on a lexicon of familiar childhood stories and myths juxtaposed with everyday imagery.

“Gathering friends and breaking bread…it’s a spiritual experience, one to be hallowed and revered,” Ito explains.

“The theme stems from this idea of the sacred, and that magic is still all around us in our contemporary society.”

Tickets: $170-$235. Goya Studios, 1541 N. Cahuenga Blvd., L.A.; artcubedla.com. • EL I ZA B ET H VA R N EL L

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Bay Area interior designer Charles de Lisle studied ceramics and worked in welding before focusing on interior projects, eventually opening his own Sausalito design studio in 2009. Also a furniture and lighting maker, de Lisle’s artistic intent is to “make spaces that are about that kind of energy of experiencing something, whether it’s having a party or sleeping,” he explains, citing celebrated California interior designers Michael Taylor and John Dickinson—and their penchant for mixing materials and textures to create elegant yet cheeky spaces—as inspiration. “The goal is do things that are interesting and sophisticated in a way that’s not glamorous,” de Lisle adds. “I like things that are approachable.” He has lent his magic touch to Mexico City hot spot Máximo Bistrot, fashion designer Rachel Comey’s modern SoHo boutique in New York and the cedar-and-glass Mill Valley house where he resides, built by the late architect Donn Emmons in 1948. Here, a look at what the versatile talent is coveting. charlesdelisle.com. • STE PHAN IE CHA N

1. MOUNTAIN OCEAN SKIN TRIP COCONUT MOISTURIZER, $10, SKINTRIP.COM. 2. A.P.C. NEW STANDARD JEANS, $220, USONLINE .APC.FR. 3. OLIVER LEE JACKSON NO. 4, 2017 (6.6.17), 2017, ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 28 AT RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY, S.F. 4. CHRISTIANE PERROCHON WHITE BEIGE STONEWARE BOWLS, $230-$3,200, MARCH, S.F. 5. SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM BY JOAN DIDION (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, $15). 6. TACOS CALA MEXICO CITY-STYLE TACOS, 50 HICKORY ST., S.F. 7. PERMANENT COLLECTION BLUNK CUPS, $350/SET OF FOUR, PERMANENTCOLLECTION.COM. 8. HOTEL SAN CRISTÓBAL TODOS SANTOS, MEXICO. 9. KOH-I-NOOR JASPÉ NATURAL BRISTLE TOOTHBRUSH, FROM $25, KOH-I-NOORBEAUTY.COM. 10. GARRETT LEIGHT CALIFORNIA OPTICAL CLUB HOUSE GLASSES, $335, GARRETTLEIGHT.COM. 11. VINTNER’S DAUGHTER ACTIVE BOTANICAL SERUM, $185, VINTNERSDAUGHTER.COM.

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A Q5 FROM THE AUDI ON DEMAND FLEET.

Daydreaming about the waves of Bolinas or Half Moon Bay from your San Francisco-to-Silicon Valley Super Shuttle can be deflating. But now thanks to Audi On Demand car rental service— which puts San Francisco drivers in the seat of one of the brand’s German-engineered vehicles in two hours or less starting at $120 a day—catching the perfect wave doesn’t have to feel out of reach.

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CUT CHEMIST MASTER & DYNAMIC MW60 HEADPHONES FOR SCOTT CAMPBELL STUDIO, $549.

INSPIRED BY THE FILM BOOGIE NIGHTS, THE BAR AT BLIND BARBER HIGHLAND PARK FEATURES MIDCENTURY ELEMENTS.

The historic Frank’s Highland Park Camera building situated on that neighborhood’s ever-evolving North Figueroa Street now houses image crafting of a different sort.

Come to Blind Barber’s natural light-flooded storefront for a haircut and shave by day, and return later for cocktails and grilled cheese in the speakeasy-style spot behind the shop.

After putting down some West Coast roots in Culver City in 2012, this location “felt right with all of the elements of character, age and charm,” says co-owner Josh Boyd.

WH Bits

5715 N. Figueroa St., L.A., 323-739-0315.

JE SSICA RITZ

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ALL EARS Master & Dynamic teams up with Los Angeles tattoo artist (and ganjapreneur) Scott Campbell on a capsule collection of headphones embellished with Campbell’s serpentine designs and a quote from the renaissance man: “The smartest things I ever did were stupid things for love.” masterdynamic.com

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MOTHER THE DRIFTER JACKET IN FIVE’LL GET YOU TWENTY, $325, THE BUSTER PINK T-SHIRT IN WORN STORIES, $95, AND THE CHASER PANTS IN TOOTH & NAIL, $188.

COME TO MAMA When Mother co-founder and creative director Tim Kaeding set about designing menswear-inspired looks for women, based on men’s jeans patterns, he inadvertently created the beginnings of a new collection for the guys. He’s fine-tuned three denim fits largely based on a skinny straight silhouette he’s been custom making for himself over the past two decades, and Mother is launching them midMay alongside a navy jogger set, twill trouser, zip hoodie, T-shirts, and a jean shirt and jacket. It begs the question: Now who’s wearing the pants?

Ron Herman, 8100 Melrose Ave., L.A., 323-651-4129. E.V.

ronherman.com; motherdenim.com

AUDI: AUDI ON DEMAND. BLIND BARBER: BLIND BARBER. DARK CITY: CLIFF WESSELMANN, COURTESY OF GREGORY PAUL WILLIAMS, BL PRESS LLC/TASCHEN. GRIFFIN CLUB: GRIFFIN CLUB.

SECRET HISTORY Prolific author and historian Jim Heimann uncovers a contrasting narrative to L.A.’s sunshine-drenched myths in Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir (Taschen, $100).

“Almost from its start, Los Angeles had a reputation as a hellhole,” writes Heimann (who is also the executive editor for Taschen America) in the book’s introduction.

Lavishly illustrated with archival materials dating from the 1920s through the 1950s, the tome tells its gritty story through gin joints, tattoo parlors and crime scenes, keeping readers turning its hefty 480 pages. J.R. SEX WORKERS COVER UP AFTER A VICE SQUAD RAID ON MELROSE AVENUE, AS SEEN IN DARK CITY CITY.

ROLL WITH IT

PRADA NYLON AND SAFFIANO LEATHER TROLLEY, $2,800.

Prada’s new trolleys are bound to enliven airplane cabins.

Integrating bag-tracking technology with Saffiano leather and rucksack-like detailing, the carry-ons stand out in bold prints such as hibiscus and camouflage.

WH Bits

343 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-278-8661.

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Beverly Hills GRIFFIN CLUB’S LEDLIT TENNIS COURTS AND 25-METER LAP POOL.

ANDERSON & SHEPPARD JACKETS IN BLUE LINEN AND BROWN CORDUROY, FROM $3,740.

GOOD SPORT

Think of Griffin Club (formerly the Beverly Hills Country Club) as a next-gen, members-only establishment with spin, Pilates, yoga, barre and Zumba classes, a modern exercise room, nine lit tennis courts, and a lap pool lined with cabanas.

Post-workout, there’s a restaurant (whose menu spans healthconscious to comfort foods), wine room and an outdoor spa.

3084 Motor Ave., L.A., 310-836-4400. KE LSE Y Mc K I N N ON

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FIT AND YOU KNOW IT

The Sunset Tower Hotel, an homage to Old Hollywood, is a fitting host for Anderson & Sheppard, one of Mayfair’s most storied menswear suppliers, who will set up temporary shop there in June. The Savile Row stalwart that dressed Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, and more recently Phantom Thread’s Daniel DayLewis, will hold court at the art deco haven from June 7 to June 10. The L.A. pop-up will focus on bespoke garments, offering an array of classic suits and jackets, each distinguished by the 112-year-old clothier’s trademark sloped shoulders and a graceful draped cut. Even the shop’s expert jacket and trouser cutters will be on hand, as will 1,000 fabric samples.

Sunset Tower Hotel, 8358 Sunset Blvd., W.H. By appointment only. +44-20-7734-1420, office@anderson-sheppard.co.uk. E.V.

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JOHN VARVATOS X NICK JONAS THE MODERN MOTO, $798, LINEN TEE, $178, AND JOHN VARVATOS STAR USA WIGHT JEANS, $198.

SANDRO TRICOLOR T-SHIRT, $100.

ROCK CITY “Let’s take a great American city and show some love,” says Nick Jonas of the impetus for collaborating with John Varvatos on JV x NJ, a collection inspired by Detroit that includes a pintucked linen T-shirt and other modern pieces. Jonas has the distinction of being the first artist to design with the brand—and happens to be its new face, too. 8800 Melrose Ave., W.H., 310-859-2791. K H A N H T. L . T RA N

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Sandro is sending positive vibes via a collection that celebrates Bob Marley. The fourpiece set, including a sweatshirt with an oversized hood, features striking art from the legendary singer’s record covers.

Style Bits

10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Level 1, L.A., 310-556-5680.

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GOLDEN BOY Launched in 2016 with Italian-made fabrics optimized for tennis, West Hollywood-based Uomo Sport targets style aces with a five-piece, Californiainfluenced capsule collection, including a T-shirt designed by artist Friedrich Kunath. As the brand’s founder, Steven Siebert, puts it, the assortment “exudes that effortless lifestyle.” Canvas Malibu, 3835 Cross Creek Rd., Malibu, 310-317-9895. K.T. L.T.

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SHARP-DRESSED MAN Despite all the talk of California’s casual style, Suitsupply sees a ripe market for its tailored looks. The Amsterdam-based brand has opened its sixth store in the Golden State, offering a made-tomeasure department amid snappy modern decor in San Jose. All in all, it’s “a youthful and energetic feel that’s colorful and instantly recognizable,” says Suitsupply vice president Nish de Gruiter.

333 Santana Row, Ste. 1020, S.J., 408-617-8939. K .T. L .T.

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2. LOUIS VUITTON SURFBOARD, PRICE UPON REQUEST. 3. ISAIA BOARD SHORTS, $280.

4. MONCLER AVIT SANDALS, $560. 5. LORO PIANA VOYAGER CITY BACKPACK, $2,425.

6. MICHAEL KORS SILVER-TONE LON SUNGLASSES, $159.

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3. BALENCIAGA COTTON LANYARD, $235. 4. VERSACE SPRING/SUMMER 2018. 5. THOM BROWNE FIVE-PANEL BASEBALL CAP, $290. 6. SALVATORE FERRAGAMO SNEAKERS WITH GANCINI DETAIL, $495.

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2. VACHERON CONSTANTIN OVERSEAS DUAL TIME IN STAINLESS STEEL, $24,700. 3. CARTIER SANTOS DE CARTIER STEEL WATCH, PRICE UPON REQUEST. 4. WEISS SPECIAL ISSUE FIELD WATCH, $1,250. 5. TUDOR BLACK BAY CHRONO STAINLESS STEEL AUTOMATIC WATCH, $4,975. 6. ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL DAY-DATE 36 YELLOW GOLD, $22,150.

7. PATEK PHILIPPE PERPETUAL CALENDAR WITH MOON PHASE IN ROSE GOLD, $87,320.

8. IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN BIG PILOT’S HERITAGE WATCH 48 WITH TITANIUM CASE, $13,400. 9. MONTBLANC LIMITED-EDITION 1858 GEOSPHERE, $6,300.

10. BULGARI OCTO ROMA WATCH WITH STAINLESS STEEL CASE, $7,150.

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A PURPLE PIERRE PAULIN SOFA ANCHORS A DISPLAY OF 21ST-CENTURY TREASURES AT RALPH PUCCI’S HOLLYWOOD SHOWROOM.

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Andrea Stanford For more than a decade, Los Angeles has come to expect the unexpected from Ralph Pucci’s eponymous luxury furniture, lighting and mannequin enterprise. “What attracts my eye first is something that is sculptural. Additionally, it must be different and functional,” shares the designer and company’s founder, based in New York.

Taking his cues from the fashion and art worlds, Pucci’s sunlit Hollywood space, which opened last year, is a

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Vignettes incorporating Hervé Van der Straeten’s glossy consoles, Eric Schmitt’s mixed-media pendants, Patrick Naggar’s vibrantly upholstered sofas, and India Mahdavi’s gelato-hued armchairs and stools live harmoniously with Matthew Rolston’s large-scale portraits, Paul Solberg’s immersive floral photographs,

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A DYNAMIC COMBINATION OF PATRICK NAGGAR FURNISHINGS, MATTHEW ROLSTON PHOTOS AND FABIO MICUCCI VASES.

Finally a new revolution of impeccably designed (and fun!) SUVs is hitting the market. Here are four of our favorites for 2018.

Clockwise from left: VOLVO XC40, FROM $35,200. ALFA ROMEO STELVIO QUADRIFOGLIO, FROM $79,995.

LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER P400E HSE, FROM $95,150.

JAGUAR E-PACE R-DYNAMIC S, FROM $47,250.

Design Bits One glance and you can see Volvo is doing something special with its sheet metal. Add a Scandinavian-designed cabin to the compact XC40 (loaded with hidden storage areas to avoid clutter), best-in-class advanced semi-autonomous driving aids and safety tech, and it just might be the new standard-bearer in this competitive category. volvocars.com

If the Stelvio is the gamma ray-blasted hot rod, and the Volvo is the stylish but judicious Swede, then Jaguar’s E-PACE is the Goldilocks of the bunch: just right. With all-star looks, proportions and stance, it still peppers in enough performance pedigree to remind you driving can be thrilling. jaguarusa.com

Stuffed with a Ferrari-derived V6 power plant, the 505-horsepower Stelvio Quadrifoglio by Alfa Romeo can explode from a standstill to 60 mph in less than four seconds, all the way up to its 176-mph limit.

Those are supercar numbers, wrapped in the utility of a compact crossover. alfaromeousa.com

The esteemed British brand’s first foray into zeroemission transport, the P400e plug-in hybrid can coast in EV mode for more than 30 miles—plenty for the average commute—while still boasting 398 horsepower and Land Rover Range Rover’s ridiculous off-road utility. landroverusa.com • N I COLA S ST EC H ER

RALPH PUCCI INTERIOR: ANTOINE BOOTZ. STASHED INTERIOR: INJINASH UNSHIN. DEPARTAMENTO RENDERING: COURTESY OF WEST OF WEST. BOAT: © NICK VOULGARIS.

backdrop for 21st-century collectibles, set to a groovy Chet Baker and Stan Getz-centric jazz soundtrack.

and Manuel Geerinck’s abstract chromogenic prints.

Pucci likens L.A.’s flourishing design landscape to the cross-pollinating creative renaissance of 1980s Manhattan: “When I started in New York, I surrounded myself with young artists and fashion designers [including] Ruben and Isabel Toledo, and Anna Sui,” reflects Pucci. “They introduced me to fashion illustrators who then introduced me to photographers. We were at ground zero of all this fantastic energy and talent.”

Today, he is most excited about transitioning Angelenos from the enduring vintage and midcentury aesthetic to cutting-edge and contemporary design.

As a nod to unconventional ideas, pioneering Pierre Paulin ’60s and ’70s furniture and James Brown ceramics are currently on view.

“What we show are things that touch my life,” Pucci says. “These pieces come together to tell a story.” 1025 N. McCadden Pl., L.A., 310-360-9707; ralphpucci.net. • A L L I SON B ER G

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Clockwise from left: THE BANKS JOURNAL STORE IN LOS ANGELES. A PREVIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO’S DEPARTAMENTO SHOWROOM. WEST OF WEST’S PRINCIPALS, JAI KUMARAN AND CLAYTON TAYLOR.

Revived industrial neighborhoods in Los Angeles and San Francisco are the latest recipients of revolutionary new retail interiors dreamed up by the rising design firm West of West.

Its principal architects, Jai Kumaran and Clayton Taylor, both formerly of Thom Mayne’s Morphosis, are the minds behind three original boutique concepts spanning the two disparate cities. In San Francisco’s Dogpatch, the L.A.- and Portlandbased firm created Stashed (2360 Third St., S.F., 415-8545940; stashedsf.com), music exec Steve Stoute’s 2,240-squarefoot streetwear emporium, where new Yeezy drops and sought-after sneakers from Balmain, Off-White and Y-3 line custom Douglas fir display shelves with clever interactive LED scrolls. In L.A.’s Arts District, the firm devised a modern ash and poplar lattice ceiling installation as the highlight of their immersive Australian-meets-Japanese design for Banks Journal’s (Row DTLA, 1320 E. Seventh St., Ste. 114, L.A., 949-662-5737; banksjournal.com) first brick-and-mortar retail shop for sustainable menswear, wetsuits and surfboards.

And nearby, Departamento (@dpto.la), a by-appointment menswear showroom slated to open later this year, sits inside a cavernous warehouse divided by West of West’s massive wheat-paste walls, which elegantly evoke gritty concrete freeway overpasses. E.V.

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DesignJOY Bits RIDE TABLE MANNERS Conceived by Kalon studio’s husband-and-wife design team for their own Highland Park home, the new Bough dining collection comprises elegantly streamlined solid-ash furnishings.

Chris-Craft’s gleaming mahogany runabouts have become a symbol of American glamour since the company’s inception in 1874. Author Nick Voulgaris III, an avid sailor who has restored dozens of boats—including a 1973 Lancer and 1972 XK-22—takes readers aboard the lustworthy vessels in Chris-Craft Boats: An American Classic (Rizzoli New York, $65). With a foreword by Ralph Lauren, the title spans lush images of the iconic Sportsman model, a Riva Super Aquarama (whose engines and other parts are from Chris-Craft) and a rare 1955 Cobra cruising the shores of Lake Tahoe, conjuring the swankiest of nautical fantasies. K . M .

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KALON’S BOUGH COLLECTION TABLE, $5,800.

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New York’s speakeasy-inspired Employees Only comes to L.A. with an internationally expanded pedigree—and local cred Edited by

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WRITTEN BY JESSICA RITZ. PORTRAIT: RAINER HOSCH.

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Dushan Zaric, veteran barman and co-founder of Employees Only—the internationally renowned, Manhattan-born, speakeasy-style bar and eatery—is a master at evolving his brand.

Take, for instance, the first California location in West Hollywood, which opens this spring, and replicates the art decoinspired Employees Only New York City original. “The energy distribution works perfectly,” says the Belgrade, Serbia, native.

Meticulousness of food and beverage craft and an intimate vibe are also a given. Then there’s the glowing pink neon sign advertising a psychic that conceals a discreet entrance—a signature touch exported from the West Village to Employees

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Only in Singapore, Hong Kong, Miami and now Santa Monica Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue. But this venue is far from a carbon copy of its predecessors.

The newest Employees Only is the largest yet, with the bar, a 68-seat main dining room and an additional smaller space called Henry’s Room. Local hospitality designer John M. Sofio’s sensibility helps set a retro, clubby mood throughout.

The Los Angeles operation marks a full-circle career moment for Zaric and executive chef Sascha Lyon. The two met as colleagues back in 1997 at Balthazar, restaurateur Keith McNally’s seminal SoHo brasserie. They continued to work together at Pastis in the Meatpacking District through the early aughts, until Zaric and four other hospitality business cohorts opened the first Employees Only.

Meanwhile, Lyon, whose résumé includes working with culinary icon Daniel Boulud, has been cooking in his native L.A. for Continued on p.102

From above: EMPLOYEES ONLY NEW YORK. THE PROVENÇAL COCKTAIL, FEATURING LAVENDER-INFUSED PLYMOUTH GIN STIRRED WITH HERBS DE PROVENCE-INFUSED FRENCH VERMOUTH AND COINTREAU.

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A second collaboration between French glassmaker Lalique and Mexican distillery Patrón, the Serie 2 comprises art deco-inspired bottles filled with an exclusive extra añejo.

Following his mother’s diagnosis with dementia, journalist Max Lugavere teamed up with Paul Grewol, M.D., to explore the connection between diet and brain health. The result: Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Harper Wave, $28), an approachable, science-backed guide to improving mental performance and staving off disease with nutritional choices. L . M.

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BIG CHEESE Luis Ulloa has manned the stoves for Michael Mina and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, but when he opened his own restaurant, he created a casual pizzeria amid the punk rock holdovers on L.A.’s Melrose Avenue. Blackbird Pizza Shop is the rare California spot to offer gooey deep-dish Chicago-style pies—with meatballs, ricotta and artichoke, and more—but finessed with a flavorful, flaky cornmeal crust and fillings that balance the richness. There is a short, smart wine list, but beer is the thing here, with 54 craft brews from as far as Guatemala. 7459 Melrose Ave., L.A., 323-424-7184. M I C H A L EN E B U S I CO

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KINGS The hamburger is a California obsession, and this spring, two new cookbooks divulge the secret sauce behind today’s most lustworthy versions: A Burger to Believe In (Ten Speed Press, $30) by Chris Kronner, the chef and co-owner of Oakland’s singular Kronnerburger, and Flavor Bombs (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25) by Adam Fleischman, the founder of Umami Burger, the 24-outlet chain that originated in Los Angeles. Kronner the classicist vs. Fleischman the modernist. Professional chef vs. home cook. NorCal vs. SoCal. So which burger represents? You be the judge. M . B.

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CRED A professional chef, Kronner was inspired to look deep within each ingredient after years of cooking with Chad Robertson at Bar Tartine in San Francisco.

CRED Fleischman, a home cook, became fascinated with deconstructing dishes after years of watching modernist chef Heston Blumenthal on TV.

MANIFESTO “A hamburger is the sum of its parts. Don’t complicate it. Start with the best parts…

Allow the parts you have to shine by treating them thoughtfully.”

MANIFESTO “What people crave isn’t a burger or a pizza.

What people crave is within the burger or the pizza: the seared meat, the cheese, the tomato sauce. What we crave is umami.”

BEHOLD THE BURGER A seared, 5-ounce, dry-aged beef patty, homemade dill pickles, onion charred on only one side, tomato (“if in season”), “good” iceberg lettuce leaves, and homemade cheddar mayonnaise on a soft, buttered and toasted bun. On the side: a roasted marrowbone.

BEHOLD THE BURGER Homemade Umami ketchup, a 6-ounce patty of freshly ground chuck or other “nicely marbled” meat, caramelized onions, a Parmesan crisp, sautéed shiitake mushrooms, oven-dried tomato slices, and a final layer of ketchup, all on a soft, buttered and toasted bun. (They agree on the bun.)

DEFINING ELEMENT That marrowbone. Scoop it out and use it as a condiment.

DEFINING ELEMENT Ketchup amped up with fish sauce, truffle salt, miso and more.

PERFECT PATTIES Use coarsely ground, dry-aged beef and a 4-inch ring mold to shape them into pucks, and salt heavily before cooking (a half teaspoon per side).

PERFECT PATTIES Grind without a grinder by cutting meat into cubes, freezing for 20 minutes, and pulsing in a food processor. Shape patties loosely by hand, into flattened balls.

LAST BITE “This is a burger constructed to put the beef on a pedestal. No bacon, no melted cheddar cheese,” and no other tricks of “the modern restaurant chef who doesn’t actually want to serve a burger, burger.”

LAST BITE “Amateurs built the Ark; professionals, the Titanic. Amateurs can create magic in the kitchen. The spontaneous creations from a cook’s heart often trump the most practiced recipes from a culinary master.”

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KRONNER PORTRAIT: ROBERT CHAD. A BURGER TO BELIEVE IN COVER, BURGER WITH MARROWBONE, KRONNERBURGER EXTERIOR (3): ERIC WOLFINGER. FLEISCHMAN PORTRAIT: WENDY SUE LAMM. FLAVOR BOMBS COVER, CHEESEBURGER, UMAMI BURGER EXTERIOR (3): EXCERPTED FROM FLAVOR BOMBS © 2018 BY ADAM FLEISCHMAN; PHOTOGRAPHS © 2018 WENDY SUE LAMM; REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION OF RUX MARTIN BOOKS/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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THE CELLAR AT MARQUÉS DE MURRIETA HOLDS A COLLECTION OF WINES THAT DATE BACK TO 1852.

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For the reimagined menu concept at Maude, chef Curtis Stone is taking his culinary cues from the wine world. His first stop: La Rioja, Spain Edited by

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TRAVEL Clockwise, from left: A BOTTLE OF WINE DATING BACK TO 1958 IS SEVERED TO BE POURED. WINEMAKER JUAN CARLOS SANCHA EXTRACTS WINE FROM HIS BARRELS. A TASTING AT MARQUÉS DE MURRIETA. BODEGAS CAMPILLO, LOCATED IN THE MEDIEVAL TOWN OF LAGUARDIA.

“Since opening [Beverly Hills-based] Maude four years ago, I have been absolutely blown away by our wine program and finally arrived at a place where I said, ‘Let’s start with the wine and then create the menus around it,’” says chef Curtis Stone. “I love Australian, Italian and French wines (our second current menu is inspired by Burgundy), but I’ve always been fascinated with Spanish culture and think that it has completely changed the way we think about modern gastronomy, so we decided to start with a research trip to La Rioja.”

Here, Stone’s travel diary, in his own words: After landing in Bilbao, and checking in to our accommodations, we explored the region’s capital city of Logroño, and its butcher shops, markets and wine vendors. Then we decided to divide and conquer: Ben Aviram (Maude’s director of restaurant operations) and Justin Hilbert (executive chef) headed to Viña Ijalba Bodega (ijalba.com) and Nivarius (nivarius.com/en), an exclusive white winery, while I checked out Bodegas Muga (bodegasmuga.com/en) to learn how they make and “toast” their own wine barrels.

The following days brought us to more incredible wineries: the Count of Creixell, Vicente Dalmau Cebrián-Sagarriga, hosted all of us at Marqués de Murrieta (marquesdemurrieta.com) winery (the collection here dates back to 1852, when La Rioja first started producing wines). We had tastings at Marqués de Cáceres (marquesdecaceres.com), which produces Bordeaux-style tempranillo, and Bodegas Juan Carlos Sancha (juancarlossancha.com) in the town of Baños de Río Tobía, where we also helped prepare a family-style meal of beans, tomato and cheese salad, and eel smothered in mayonnaise. Then there was Bodegas Campillo (bodegascampillo.com) in the medieval town of Laguardia; the iconic Bodegas López de Heredia Viña Tondonia (lopezdeheredia.com) on the right bank of the Ebro River in the town of Haro; Campo Viejo (campoviejo.com), Bodegas Vivanco and Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture (vivancoculturadevino.es/ en), and an underground winery in Briones.

Of course, we also found time to savor and study the local cuisine at places such as Venta Moncalvillo (ventamoncalvillo.com) and Restaurante Alameda (restaurantealameda.net/en) in Fuenmayor where we had a delicious chuletón (steak), which we recreated at Maude. We did a “tapas crawl” along Calle Laurel around Logroño (including stops at Torrecilla and Laurus), learned how they make cheese at Queso Tondeluna (turismorioja.com), chorizo at Embutidos Pisón (embutidospison.com/en), and the art of meat smoking at Mesón Egües (mesonegues.com). One morning, we even went mushroom foraging with chef Francis Paniego, owner of two-Michelin-starred El Portal de Echaurren (echaurren.com), where we later had an epic 30-course dinner.

Marqués de Riscal (marquesderiscal.com) really sums up the whole place: It’s a centuries-old winery with bottles that date back to pre-World War II, and they hired Frank Gehry to design the new hotel building, which is really incredible and wild. That’s what I love about La Rioja: the balance of old and new, which is exactly what we strive to do at Maude. 212 S. Beverly Dr., B.H., 310-859-3418; mauderestaurant.com. • K . M.

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Below: CURTIS STONE (CENTER) AND JUSTIN HILBERT (RIGHT) FORAGE FOR MUSHROOMS WITH CHEF FRANCIS PANIEGO OF EL PORTAL DE ECHAURREN.

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Is there anything this rapper, actor, writer and producer cannot do? California’s foremost creative with a conscience may be named Common, but he’s consistently proven he’s anything but

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“I think storytelling is one of the greatest tools we have to break down the barriers of racism.”

Common has a talent for shooting directly to the heart of a matter. Striding toward my booth at the Viceroy L’Ermitage near his home in Beverly Hills, in a cozy gray T-shirt and jeans, he goes straight in for a bear hug that almost knocks me off my feet. He’s late and seems genuinely pained about it. “I don’t want you to think I’m that kind of guy,” he mumbles, rubbing his post-Oscars stubble. Once he has recovered, first things first: He wants a full rundown of my star sign. (Turns out we’re both moon in Pisces.) I didn’t have him pegged as a keen astrologer, I tell him. He laughs. “Well, I’m not the stereotypical kind of guy.”

Indeed, Common has a knack for finding common ground in the name of common humanity. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song with singer Andra Day and fellow songwriter Diane Warren for Marshall’s “Stand Up for Something,” ultimately losing to “Remember Me” from Coco. But his opening duet with Day alongside 10 activists—from Black Lives Matter’s Patrisse Cullors to #MeToo pioneer Tarana Burke—defiantly set the tone for a new era of inclusive Oscars. “If you can change people’s minds, that’s the win,” he says.

He’s not one to waste his words. During the performance, Common poetically name-checked every issue that has divided this country as of late: feminism, immigration, gun control. “It’s such a crucial time in America,” he tells me, his bass-baritone so grounded and rich it verges on hypnotic.

In person, Common is unlike the commanding lyricist we saw on stage. He has a gentle, benevolent presence while sipping his green tea. And when he smiles, his taut facial contours turn from sternness to dimples. “When you first start rhyming, you’re like, ‘I’m the dopest, I’m this, I’m that.’ But when you grow you learn how rap has an ability to activate people,” he says. “Rap is one of the most direct and connective forms of communication that ever existed.”

A musician, activist, actor, producer and children’s book author who was once invited to recite poetry at the White House, Common—formerly known as Common Sense—is anything but ordinary. With three Grammys, an Oscar and a Primetime Emmy on his shelf, he is only a Tony short of an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), the coveted title held by Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte and Barbra Streisand.

(The missing “T” might not be far off: “I’m looking to write a one-man play.”)

The Chicago-born polymath, who has delivered 11 critically acclaimed albums in the span of 26 years, has dedicated his life to challenging preconceptions.

Born Lonnie Rashid Lynn on Chicago’s South Side, Common may have taken a different turn, had it not been for his mother, educator Dr. Mahalia Ann Hines.

“My mother changed my life by just saying, ‘Man, you gotta read, you gotta write. I need you to take out the trash...’ It gave me a place where I felt a loved human

being. I didn’t have to walk [the streets] in fear.”

His parents split up when he was 1. Five years later, his father, the late Lonnie “Pops” Lynn Sr., a former ABA player, moved to Denver. Although they stayed close, he says: “All of the guys I looked up to were either my age or a little bit older, so they didn’t have their manhood yet. They knew how to hold things down on the streets and how to run things on the streets, but they hadn’t matured. They hadn’t been taught: This is how you handle things with a woman. This is how you handle yourself as a gentleman, as a man.”

Common maintained a relationship with his father from a distance, and had a stepfather to whom he was not close. “So I felt that, from a male perspective, I was raised by some of my older friends and some of the dudes in the ’hood, and that used to be part of street organizations, gangs and stuff. I was raised watching what they did, listening to them. You’re definitely looking for someone you can identify with.”

Now a youthful 46, he’s considered among contemporary rap’s most respected father figures. He has at various times spoken out against glamorized gangsterism, misogyny and homophobia in the genre, and runs the Common Ground Foundation and the Imagine Justice movement. Both work to better the prison system, and the latter was set up in response to Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, about mass incarceration in America. (Common’s song for the soundtrack, “Letter to the Free,” won an Emmy in 2017.) In 2014, he also played his hero Martin Luther King Jr.’s fellow civil rights activist James Bevel in Selma, winning an Oscar with John Legend in 2015 for the theme song, “Glory.” The film won little else.

That same year, #OscarsSoWhite was born.

This year, Common felt things were different at the awards show. “I’ve seen a strong and conscious effort internally [at the Academy] to change the culture

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“I felt that 2017 was really tough on a lot of people.

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of the Oscars,” he says. “This is real change. It was caused by people speaking up. #OscarsSoWhite really affected things. But we’re not there yet. Not while you’re still hearing, ‘This is the first black woman to be nominated for...’”

His own on-stage performance also received acknowledgment. “We were sitting behind Frances McDormand. Afterward, she turned around and said, ‘Oh, man, that was so powerful.’ And my mother was like, ‘Yo, that moved my soul!’” That night, he celebrated with Hollywood’s most relevant power players—Jordan Peele, Dave Chappelle, Tiffany Haddish and Lupita Nyong’o—at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Chateau Marmont after-party.

“Stand Up for Something” was played during the Florida town hall for survivors and activists in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Fla., in February—a fact that makes Common emotional. “My heroes are Muhammad Ali, Dr. King, Dr. Maya Angelou, [poet and activist] Dr. Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin.

And musically, it’s Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, KRS-One and Public Enemy, up to Kendrick [Lamar] now. They all provided music that became soundtracks to a movement. And for me to be included in that, to have songs that mean something to people, I’ve got to say, man, it’s an honor.”

In March, he released August Greene, the eponymous album of his new jazz-rap supergroup with Robert Glasper (“The Herbie Hancock of the new generation,” Common says) and jazz drummer and hip-hop producer Karriem Riggins—an extension of their collaboration on his 2016 album Black America Again, including his track “Letter to the Free.”

Releases include “Optimistic,” a cover of Sounds of Blackness’ 1991 song, the video for which features real-life activists, past and present, to show the possibility for change over time. “I felt that 2017 was really tough on a lot of people. Coming in to 2018, I felt we needed a manifesto of optimism.”

More impetus for changing minds comes from his film company, Freedom Road Productions, and its recent projects, such as the South Side Chicago-based, coming-of-age drama series The Chi (pronounced “Shy”), created by Master of None’s Lena Waithe, with Common serving as executive producer, and playing a recurring guest-star role. The show debuted on Showtime in January, and was renewed for a second season while still on the air.

“Our vision for it was to give a new audience an entry into black life in Chicago, with rounded characters, and tell it in a universal, human way. It’s not just what you hear about: the statistics. ‘Oh those black dudes in Chicago, they’re just gangsters.’ I think storytelling is one of the greatest tools we have to break down the barriers of racism.”

It was during high school that Common formed

the rap trio C.D.R.; in 1992, while studying business administration at Florida A&M University, he was signed as the outspoken Common Sense, and debuted his first album, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, later that year.

Producer J Dilla, Common’s collaborator who died of a blood disorder in 2006, also inspired Chicago-raised Kanye West, who went on to co-produce Common’s Grammy-nominated album Be in 2005 with J Dilla. He and West still play basketball together regularly. “I’ve known him since he was 19—he was always speaking out. Some of my friends wanted to fight him. I always admired him,” he says. “There’s courage—honesty there, instead of being politically correct.”

Common roomed with J Dilla when he first moved to L.A. in 2004 to be close to auditions after he segued into acting. “JD was sick. I said, ‘Come on out here!’” he recalls. “I think he stayed alive longer because of the sunshine and good doctors.” In 2006, Common made his film debut as a mobster in the dark action comedy Smokin’ Aces; more recently he had roles in Suicide Squad (2016), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) and Girls Trip (2017). He is also starring in May’s The Tale, playing the role of supportive boyfriend to Laura Dern’s documentary filmmaker who is forced to reappraise her memories of a childhood relationship with a 40-year-old man. “It’s special. An uncomfortably moving film,” he says of the project, which was based on writer-director Jennifer Fox’s experience with sexual abuse.

He has often publicly shown his support for women and admits to liking the strong kind: His exes include Erykah Badu and Serena Williams; his daughter, Omoye Assata Lynn, was named after the revolutionary African-American civil rights activist Assata Shakur. “Back then, [Badu and Williams] took the heat for just speaking up. Now, it’s more celebrated.”

Most recently, he dated attorney-activist Angela Rye. Now single, he says he’d be open to a commitment again. “She doesn’t have to be [activist and scholar] Angela Davis. But I want a woman who treats human beings with compassion, shows love and respect for the waiter and the bellman.”

When he’s not working, expect to find Common at restaurants such as vegan eatery Crossroads and Lucques in West Hollywood. He eats clean but drinks wine: “I’m not a saint, I kick it. It’s all about the balance of life.” His other downtime activity is watching basketball. He was once a ball boy for the Chicago Bulls and often wears his basketball shorts under his jeans to “keep the game close.” Still in great shape from last year’s John Wick: Chapter 2, Common works out in West Hollywood. But there have been some recent changes to his appearance: He no longer wears reading glasses after laser eye surgery. And there’s about to be another. He’s late for Daronn, his barber. “I’ve got to get groomed for an event for Africa tonight,” he says. “I don’t want to show up [looking like] George Jefferson.” •

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“What would you pack in a suitcase today if you had to leave forever from a world that might never exist again?” performance artist Rachel Libeskind, a young blonde woman in a straw hat, croaks into a megaphone while crouching over a jumble of suitcases in the Sonoran desert dust. On a local resident’s property, a yellow corrugated iron structure is sprayed with the neon pink words: “Toxic Waste,” “Is the Threat Real?” and “Will We Survive?” In the circle of 25 occupied seats that surround Libeskind, a hipster Jesus in a long fur coat sits next to an old woman, her face like cracked sand, blinking into the glare of the Saturday morning sun, absentmindedly holding a limp stick of broccoli.

At Bombay Beach Biennale, all rational thoughts are left behind. This self-described “radical immersive art and culture” takeover has run yearly since 2016 on the eastern shore of Salton Sea—a man-made saline lake in the desert caused by an engineering disaster on the Colorado River in 1905. The abandoned and surreal fringe town of Bombay Beach serves as both inspiration and permanent three-dimensional canvas.

Three hours’ drive southeast of Los Angeles and an hour outside of Palm Springs, this former 1950s

resort that once drew Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys never fulfilled its promise of becoming the California Riviera. Algae bloom caused by agricultural runoff and overpopulation led the introduced tilapia fish to suffocate; at one time, millions washed up on the shores. The sulfurous whiff of decaying flesh on the wind is both the smell of the past and a looming environmental disaster on the horizon.

“This place is apocalyptic. It’s going to be uninhabitable in about 50 years because of the toxic fumes from the dust and the sand. And they will also blow across the coastal cities of California,” says Libeskind, the daughter of architect Daniel Libeskind, master planner of the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York.

Each one of Bombay Beach’s 100-odd residents has a different account of the town’s time of death. But some believe that art can be its salvation, in the same way Donald Judd’s minimalist works were to Marfa, Texas. In recent years, artists escaping Los Angeles rents have been buying up shacks here for as little as $20,000. Past the artificial ridge of the berm that shelters the town from the sea is the vast gray moonscape of the beach itself. “Save Me,” implores a red neon sign hovering above the water, erected a few days ago by Berlin-based American artist Olivia Steele.

The beach is an austere and (quite

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literally) moving gallery space, with the noise of waves and the wind battering your hair. Next to a giant Tesseract light cube by Steve Shigley and an installation of a hand of tarot cards emerging from the sand, stands a silver being—part alien, part android— in a full facial and body stocking, like a futuristic nuclear suit. (This place was once a testing ground for ballistics and a long-term storage place for atomic weapons.) “You think about what this might be like in 200 years,” says Libeskind. “It might be a Chernobyl.

People might have to come in hazard masks to see the ruins of art left on the beach.”

And by the circular laws of nature, the town’s death might also be the beginning of something. Still, no one can answer when I ask: the beginning of what? “I think we are bored of seeing art in white spaces,” says Libeskind. “The white box thing was radical in 1955.

It’s not been radical for a very long time. It’s over. It’s

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the last breath of the Larry Gagosians of this world, whose institutions will effectively be museums.” As if by some insider joke, we walk past a food truck selling barbecued bones called Larry G’s.

On its website, the Bombay Beach Biennale announces that its “only agenda is saving the sea.”

Counterintuitively, it hopes to raise awareness by running a self-funded festival-that-isn’t-a-festival.

“If it’s about keeping the spirit of creation pure, then I can’t imagine a better format than not trying to sell anything to anyone,” says co-founder Stefan Ashkenazy, co-owner of West Hollywood’s art-driven Petit Ermitage hotel.

Life and art merge on the avenues of Bombay Beach; the square mile of derelict shacks owned by locals are indistinguishable from the houses bought by the Biennale and gifted to artists to be turned into yearround installations, which include The Hermitage Museum designed by artist Greg Haberny, The Bombay Beach Opera House by artist James Ostrer, and The Bombay Beach Drive-In Theater, an outdoor film venue furnished with dilapidated cars and boats.

Invitees aren’t allowed to camp in town, so many check into a nearby RV park called the Fountain of Youth Spa, or commute from hotels in Palm Springs. Upon arrival, tickets are checked at The Ski Inn, where guests are given wristbands—signifiers that feel unnecessary in a realm where barricades

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are nonexistent. The evening ballet and opera performances (annual weekend highlights) are included on the official, if skeletal, schedule, but most happenings are fluid: The best way to experience the event is to wander and let it happen to you.

If anything, Bombay Beach is the anti-biennale of the Venice kind. Co-founder Tao Ruspoli, a Joshua Tree-based filmmaker and the son of Italian bon vivant Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, admits that the “Dadaist, surreal, absurdist” group art-town installation hopes to “take the art world down a notch or two and Bombay Beach up a notch.” (His friend Bella Freud, daughter of Lucien, designed the logo.)

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This meeting of cultures—diehard residents, weekenders from Silver Lake, L.A. artist transplants, members of the European beau monde—shouldn’t work, but somehow does. “There is a strange symbiosis between the locals and the new artist community; one cannot exist without the other,” agrees Ashkenazy.

Each year, the Bombay Beach Biennale works with the local community to earn their support for the festival and to collaborate on the planning of events.

Yet Ashkenazy, Ruspoli and a third co-founder, Johnson & Johnson heiress Lily Johnson White, now own more and more of the town. Ashkenazy won’t specify exactly how much. Each founder loosely curates their own properties. The resulting art is left for the town to use. The Bombay Beach Drive-In stays open all year long with a permanent projector and soon-to-launch website where locals can vote for the movies shown. There is currently a vacant position for town projectionist. Continued on p.102

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“It’s hard to feel that you are part of something anarchic with regulation and rules,” says Ashkenazy, dressed in a black velvet floral kimono and rose-colored sunglasses. “It’s also part of the spirit of this town. The people here are real renegades…The art world is a pretentious thing, and there is a joy in poking fun at it—and ourselves. The artists that come out here have the ability to not take themselves seriously.”

Tickets are limited to 500 and given away free to “those who are curious enough to find their way in,” says Ashkenazy. Food and drink is free and provided by the organizers through donations, though they encourage guests to bring their own provisions and invite locals to partake in vending, too. “The festival is the best thing that’s happened to this town for years.

Some of the people round here don’t want it. But it’s brought life back to us,” says Geordie, a weather-beaten former snowbird who settled here a few years ago and sells earrings made of guitar picks.

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Andrew—who goes by “Boz”—is a familiar persona in the tech world. A veteran Facebook executive, he is credited with the platform’s News Feed, Messenger and Groups products and its ads business, and currently works as the vice president of virtual reality and augmented reality at the organization. For him, taking risks is pretty much de rigueur—a quality that shows in the architecture dreamed up by Miller and greenlit by his dauntless client.

It’s a home of big, bold gestures. Just the pouring of the concrete foundation took nearly a year out of the threeyear build. The 39-by-19-foot pool is bound by two infinity edges and sits perched over the 45-degree hillside.

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Jeffers was brought in once the architectural design was nearly complete. “There was a need to balance out those aggressive statements with an organic feel,” he says. “We wanted it to be indoor-outdoor, contemporary modern, but not too slick.” The designer’s team brought in patterned rugs, furnishings with geometric shapes and organic, California-centric materials, with the help of the architect, to give the home texture and a sense of warmth.

In the great room, the furniture is substantial— nothing too dainty. A Holly Hunt sofa has a deep, inviting seat; the side chairs by Ironies incorporate curves. The Jiun Ho coffee table is made out of sandblasted oak with imperfect edges. “We wanted to juxtapose the architecture a little bit,” Jeffers says.

The galley kitchen is encased in bronze. Rooms such as the master and the playroom-office are accented with color and texture, a multicolored Kyle Bunting hair-on-hide on the walls, and headboards upholstered in a deep navy felt.

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Throughout the house, the couple added photography by Ansel Adams—a passion point for Boz. The Saratoga native grew up on a horse ranch and spent his family vacations camping in the national parks that Adams photographed. Adams’ legendary darkroom prowess and environmental activism also appealed.

(Boz is involved with the Peninsula Open Space Trust.) The house is certified LEED Gold, using gray water for all irrigation (no need to use city water for the plants year-round), rainwater is used for the toilets when available, a living roof adds additional insulation, and all of the heating and cooling is radiant.

For Boz, the study is his refuge, and Jeffers’ team took the themes they had worked with throughout the house and amped them up a notch. They selected Moyasu cypress walls charred using the Japanese technique shou sugi ban, and went big with a leather rug, wall pieces, vintage chair and pillows. The art is clever, tongue-in-cheek: a charcoal drawing of consecutive frames by Gonzalo Fuenmayor, and a photograph of a bookshelf by Phil Shaw. “The study is a masculine space—we just went for it and I love it,” he says. “It’s cozy and focused and unapologetically what it is.” •

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Love, Simon’s Nick Robinson graduates to the big time in the season’s louche looks—a little bit ’70s, a little bit Elvis and entirely unforgettable

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Nick Robinson was just 15 when he left his childhood home in Seattle to give the acting thing a try. “It was a tender time, I was a freshman in high school. It was a really big deal,” he remembers. His parents rented a small apartment in Burbank as the actor paid his dues with a supporting role on the Melissa & Joey show until his big break came along three years later with the soul-quenching, Sundance-tapped indie The Kings of Summer. “This movie reminded me why I wanted to be an actor,” he says.

Robinson, now 23, went on to land a string of coveted roles in Jurassic World, The 5th Wave, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Everything, Everything and this spring’s much anticipated Love, Simon, a John Hughes-tinged gay coming-of-age story with the backing of a mainstream studio (20th Century Fox). “[Love, Simon] wasn’t an immediate, ‘Yes,’ ” admits Robinson.

“But I’m so glad that I was convinced because it’s been a very personal journey and there have been a lot of very serendipitous things that have happened in my life that have sort of pointed me to the conclusion that this was a good decision.” While the film was in production, for example, his own brother came out as gay. “We were able to talk about it on a totally different level,” Robinson says.

Next, the actor stars in the noir thriller Strange But True and the William H. Macy-directed dramedy, Krystal. “On my short-term to-do list, I would like to spend more time in nature. I’m planning a backpacking trip either in [Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks] or Yosemite,” he says. Plus, one other thing: “I would like to keep making movies that speak to people.” • KEL S EY M c KI NNON

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Photographer Gianluca Fellini traveled to Bali last fall to heal himself after the loss of his mother.

“I needed a place where I knew I could do things I love…being close to nature, staying in the ocean, doing yoga, meeting people and hearing their stories,” he says. Fellini was returning to the paradisiacal Indonesian island for the first time since an influential trip from his native Italy at the age of 21, and found exactly what he was looking for—and something else, too: Deus Ex Machina’s seventh annual grassroots festival of surfing and motorbiking, Slidetober Fest. A devoted rider himself, Fellini had no choice but to pick up his camera and document the four-day happening, which lures adventurous athletes and

enthusiasts from all over the world for a one-of-a-kind experience spanning a motorcycle rally whose course winds behind dunes and across rice fields, to a surf competition in which competitors draw straws to find out which Deus board they’ll be riding. “Rather than just focus on the competition, I wanted to capture the atmosphere of how people engaged each other,” says Fellini, who has shot for the likes of Vogue and Vans and now helms his own nomadic production company, Blue Dream Escape. “Lately, I have been focusing more on conscious brands that allow me to have a [positive] impact,” says Fellini, who now plans to live in Bali part time. “It has all the possibilities of building a good life,” he says. • M EL I SSA G OL DST EI N

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the past decade at restaurants such as Delphine Eatery & Bar at the W Hollywood and Commerson in Mid-Wilshire.

Lyon currently prepares a handful of longstanding Employees Only menu classics including bacon-wrapped lamb chops and bone marrow poppers, alongside SoCal-inspired seasonal dishes.

(He’s particularly psyched about his new wood-burning Italian oven.) “It’s an opportunity to bring the bar and kitchen together in a way I’ve always dreamed of,” Lyon says. 7953 Santa Monica Blvd., W.H. 323-536-9045; employeesonlyla.com. • J E SS IC A R I TZ

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into Petite Ermitage. He hung the walls with his own collection of art, comprising Dalí, Miró, de Kooning, as well as several pieces that once belonged to his father, which he reacquired at auction. “But for me, hotels were this ultimate form of immersive art.” (Suite 406 of the hotel has been transformed by post-contemporary artist Greg Haberny into a habitable art installation.)

Ashkenazy saw the same potential to claim what is lost at Bombay Beach in 2014. Ruspoli had already bought property here, and Ashkenazy’s thengirlfriend, Arwen Byrd, had written a zombie apocalypse movie set in Bombay Beach. Together with Johnson White, their idea evolved into an art event with the “collective, communal spirit” of Burning Man. So is Bombay Beach Biennale one living, breathing art installation? Is it post-contemporary art?

Environmental art? A twisted take on traditional art fairs? Is it the culmination of a new site-specific Californian desert art movement begun by the likes of Noah Purifoy in Joshua Tree? Ashkenazy says he has no idea.

It’s Saturday night and the town is filling up now with more moustachioed men in fur coats, and women in ball gowns or top hats—there cannot be more than 300—ready for the Bombay Beach memorial parade: a mass town march to the beach holding pictures of late local legend Roger Herbert, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the spiritual leader of an Indian ashram. The main event of the evening is a performance of choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s “Closer” and Sebastian Kloborg’s “Credo:1877” by San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova and Kloborg at The Bombay Beach Opera House. The tiny, blue wooden Opera House, with doors that open out to a stage and flip-flops on the wall giving the optical illusion of bricks, was created by artist James Ostrer.

The walls are hung with nightmarish photographic portraits of humans clad in raw animal flesh, mounted on floral mattresses. The only single theme of the work produced at Bombay Beach, it seems, is that it refuses to frame itself as high art without undercutting itself.

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Ashkenazy, who “grew up surrounded by art and artists,” has good qualifications to be an art patron. His great-grandfather brought Henri Matisse to Russia, his Polish-Jewish grandfather Izador was a friend of Joan Miró and a collector of Monet, Gauguin and Picasso. His uncle Arnold was a friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and along with his father, Severyn, owned one of the largest art collections in California.

“Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, my father went bankrupt [in the 1980s] and lost quite a bit. I got to learn from that experience and seeing it all go away. It allowed me to create my own relationship with art.”

Born in L.A., Ashkenazy moved to China when he was 17, where, he explains, he studied and created “experiential works” for Shanghai nightclubs. After a 12-year career in aerospace defense, living between Russia and China, he returned to L.A. and bought a rundown hotel in 2014 with his brother Adrian, which they transformed

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accepting here. It’s classless, inclusive,” says L.A.-based ceramicist and sculptor Yassi Mazandi on Sunday morning when I meet her at The Bombay Beach Institute of Particle Physics, Metaphysics & International Relations—a gallery and performance space where last night’s revelers are playing boules. A few days ago, she erected her first giant sculpture, Nine, on a plinth in the empty patch of grass of the Bombay Beach Botanical Gardens imagined skeletal structure of a flower made from 250 pieces of foam glued together, painted and sanded down by hand. The 56-year-old says it isn’t only the challenge of working out here with only the bare essentials, battling against the environment that has brought her artistic process to a new place.

It’s also the spirit of the town. “It’s special not because it’s fleeting but because it’s struggling to survive. People have chosen to live here. But some of the people don’t want to be found.” Not all the residents are happy about the festival. “I’m leaving my piece here. I have no idea if someone will graffiti it or set fire to it.”

But, like the other artists, Mazandi says the biennale is “the beginning of something that has extraordinary potential.” She continues: “California has a habit of starting something, whether it’s herbal life or some crazy diet or surfing or Botox. There is something going on with how art is re-evolving, of how it is experienced. It’s about going into an environment that fully encompasses you.

There is a movement.”

Thomas Linder, an understated 32-yearold fiberglass artist from Downtown Los Angeles with a Jack Kerouac aura is less convinced about the value of the biennale.

“It’s just kind of this Burning Man vibe in a way, people that normally sign up for music festivals coming just because they want to be entertained. It needs a proper [gallery] curator; you need to curate the culture and then the right people come, rather than the other way around.”

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really is no master plan for what we are doing here. We are going to keep it amorphous,” Ashkenazy muses.

His main goal for next year is opening what he dubs “a very strange hotel called The Last Resort—the Hôtel de Ville of Bombay Beach. It’s going to be a playground for the different artists to build wild and weird rooms with extraordinary amounts of freedom,” he explains. “So many people in the hotel business are having a race over who is the coolest and the most chic. I’m excited to run a race that no one else is competing in: the one to the bottom.

Having the first hotel with zero stars.” bombaybeachbiennale.org. •

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Within two years of planting his roots in the Old Bank district with his Spanish-fusion eatery, Bäco Mercat (bacomercat.com (bacomercat.com), Josef Centeno also debuted a Tejano cantina and JapaneseItalian fine-dining joint—christened Bar Amá and Orsa & Winston, respectively—earning the Texas-born chef-owner the title of Downtown Los Angeles’ “culinary mayor” by Bon Appétit Appétit. The moniker stuck as Centeno continued to revive the neighborhood’s gastronomy scene with his vegetablefocused restaurant, P.Y.T., and active support of local urban farming. His latest venture, Prospect Pine, is a line of sustainable clothing and accessories that are naturally dyed with his restaurants’ ingredient scraps including turmeric, beets and black walnuts.

Here, Centeno shows us around his turf. • Tilt Coffee Bar opened last year and makes a delicious cortado, which is my go-to drink. tiltcoffeebar.com.

• These Days is a punk rock art gallery and store with an amazing array of books and artists’ works. thesedaysla.com. • Rice Bar is a small counter-service Filipino restaurant owned by Charles Olalia, an incredible talent. His longanisa is insane! ricebarla.com. • Max [Stefanelli] of Terroni just opened Dopolavoro market. It has so many delicious wines, anchovies, cured meats, cheeses, pastas and more.

808 S. Spring St., L.A. • Josh Spencer originally had The Last Bookstore where Bäco Mercat is now. His beautiful new version, on 5th and Spring streets, is [reportedly] California’s largest new- and used-book and record store. lastbookstorela.com. •

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The 26-year-old, best known for his role as Frypan in The Maze Runner franchise, is pondering the perfect soundtrack for his shoot. He ultimately settles on Michael Jackson—apropos considering Darden was discovered, at age 8, doing an impersonation of the pop star while attending Paul Newman’s The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut. “I started performing at his camps to raise money for kids with special needs and blood diseases,” Darden explains. “By the time I turned 15, Paul Newman was like, ‘I think this is something you should think about doing professionally.’” With the legend’s encouragement, Darden quickly landed roles in 2008’s Cadillac Records and 2012’s Joyful Noise, the latter of which brought the New Jersey native to Los Angeles. He will next appear in the Sundance drama Burden, a true story about a former Ku Klux Klan member (Garrett Hedlund) who moves in with a reverend (Forest Whitaker) and his son (Darden). The film also stars R&B singer and actor Usher Raymond. Despite the project’s dark subject matter, the cast let loose once filming ended. “At the wrap party, Usher and I danced to his song ‘Yeah!’” says Darden, adding that he hopes to release an E.P. of his own in the future. “Usher is one of my biggest inspirations of all time.

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