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CINEMA’S CREATIVE LEGACY

ART of the HOLLYWOOD BACKDROP

GOING VIRAL

THE LIFE & TIMES of TIKTOK

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Harry Styles is blasting into megastardom! The English musician and actor who got his start on X Factor and became part of the global pop boy band One Direction is now one of the world’s biggest stars as he rocks his solo music career and takes on new ventures in television and film. He has won American Music Awards, BBC Music Awards, MTV Music Awards, a Grammy, and many others, but it’s the positive energy and kindness he radiates that fans love the most. His recent Love On Tour has sold out venues worldwide since September 2021. We can’t wait to see where his career will take him. Read all about it in our feature story on page 24. Photo by Anthony Pham/Getty Images Vie is a French word meaning “life” or “way of living.” VIE magazine sets itself apart as a high-gloss publication that focuses on human-interest stories with heart and soul. From Seattle to NYC with a concentration in the Southeast, VIE is known for its unique editorial approach—a broad spectrum of deep content with rich photography. The award-winning magazine was founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife team Lisa and Gerald Burwell, owners of the specialty publishing and branding house known as The Idea Boutique®. From the finest artistically bound books to paperless digital publication and distribution, The Idea Boutique provides comprehensive publishing services to authors and organizations. Its team of creative professionals delivers a complete publishing experience—all that’s needed is your vision.

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FEATURE

VOYAGER 81

24 Treating People with Kindness:

82 A Roaring Twenties Riad: Josephine

One Song at a Time

Baker’s Legacy Lives On

LE MONDE 23

86 The Crown Jewel of the Middle East:

31 L’intermission L’intermission:: Hello Again

91 Petite pause: pause: The King Returns

34 Going Viral: The Life and Times of TikTok 38 Note for Note: Creating Community Through Song

92 The Timeless Art of Storytelling 96 Let Your Soul Shine in Bali

43 Petite pause: pause: A Barbie World

C’EST LA VIE CURATED COLLECTION 102

44 An Ambassador of Culture:

LA VITALITÉ

Supporting the Arts in South Walton

48 The Music of Food

VISUAL PERSPECTIVES 55 56 Hooray for Hollywood! 62 Doing Good Through Her Lens 67 L’intermission L’intermission:: Upside Down 70 Cinema’s Creative Legacy: Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

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106 Food Is Good: A New Perspective 109 L’intermission L’intermission:: Soaring to New Heights

VIE BOOK CLUB: THE READERS CORNER 111 112 Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George

115 Petite pause: pause: Reimagining a Star

LA SCÈNE 118 THE LAST WORD 123 AU REVOIR! 127

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CHIEF COPY EDITOR MARGARET STEVENSON

COPY EDITOR WENDY ANDERSON

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS HAILEY BETHKE, SALLIE W. BOYLES, EMMA CROWLEY, L AURIE CROWLEY, FELICIA FERGUSON, SARAH FREEMAN, ANTHEA GERRIE, MYLES MELLOR, CAROLYN O’NEIL, TORI PHELPS, SUZANNE POLL AK, NICHOL AS S. RACHEOTES, COLLEEN SACHS, XENIA TALIOTIS, LINDSAY TOBIAS, CATHY WHITLOCK

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RAZZ MATA ZZ and ALL THAT JAZZ LEGENDS and ICONS anyway). This social media platform has launched unknowns from obscurity to stardom and helped other stars and influencers stay relevant, reaching new audiences worldwide. Read all about it in Crowley’s “Going Viral: The Life and Times of TikTok” as she dives into the app’s inner workings and some of its biggest success stories. As usual in the life of a social platform that takes a firm hold, this medium is now a tool for brand-building in business as well as entertainment.

hen curating our annual Entertainment Issue, we wanted to be on point with all things contemporary and to give a well-deserved nod to the bygone eras whose great musicians and entertainers became legends. These stars can never be forgotten, and they help influence future generations, as well.

One of the most outstanding jazz performers of all time was Josephine Baker. This American-born French dancer, singer, and actress was the first Black woman to star in a major motion film, Siren of the Tropics, in 1927. Writer Anthea Gerrie shares how her story is being preserved in “A Roaring Twenties Riad: Josephine Baker’s Legacy Lives On.” This is a must-read on a jazz legend and her former home. An excerpt of the first paragraph lays the glamorous foundation: “Even in the middle of wartime, dancers dazzled. No star shined brighter in occupied France than St. Louis-born jazz performer-turned-spy Josephine Baker. She so entranced the pasha of Morocco he invited her to take refuge from the bombs of France at his palace guest house in Marrakesh.” We hope you enjoy it! Harry Styles is a megawatt sensation who has sold out Madison Square Garden with his current Love On Tour concert series, and we are thrilled he is our cover gentleman! “Treating People with Kindness: One Song at a Time” by Emma Crowley celebrates Styles, his career, and all he stands for as he shares that people should always be themselves and everyone deserves to be treated with kindness. He dances and moves with electrifying energy, commanding his stage, and you can see that he brings such love and joy to fans of all ages. We would be remiss in excluding the TikTok phenomenon, which doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere in the foreseeable future (until the next digital sensation comes along,

Speaking of stardom, the VIE team is gearing up for the reveal party of our fifth show house debuting in early fall. The Heritage – A VIE Legacy Show Home will be celebrated during a fundraising soiree featuring special guests Julian Lennon, Ashley Longshore, Chef Emeril Lagasse, and his son, Chef E.J. Lagasse. The evening is billed as Julian Lennon’s Solo Fine Art Photography Exhibit and Album Release Party for Jude. Proceeds from the silent auction and tickets will benefit Point Washington Medical Clinic, and we are thrilled to present this to the world! The custom home will be listed for sale with La Florida’s Gay and Jeff Landreth and will be ready for purchase the evening of the grand reveal. There is a lot of star power and gorgeous imagery in this issue; there is also a lot of happiness, which is what entertainment is supposed to give us. An escape. A thrill. And, most of all, joy.

Above: Lisa Marie Burwell, Jordan Staggs, and Tracey Thomas on set at Modus studio filming the documentary for The Heritage – A VIE Legacy Show Home (left). The magazine’s fifth show home will debut this fall with a star-studded celebration and fundraiser benefiting Point Washington Medical Clinic. The evening will include a solo art exhibit and album release party for VIE’s 100th Issue cover star, Julian Lennon.

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To start, I would bring my guitar. Although I am no Jimi Hendrix, I can get by enough to provide myself with music, which is my top priority in life. A guitar is a perfect tool for listening to the songs I already love, learning new ones, and creating some myself.

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IN THIS ISSUE, WE ASKED THE CREATIVES: ASSUMING ALL YOUR BASIC NEEDS ARE MET, WHAT THREE THINGS WOULD YOU BRING TO KEEP YOU ENTERTAINED ON A DESERT ISLAND FOR A YEAR?

1. My camera. I have finally been able to pursue photography. It’s intriguing how perspective and composition can greatly change an image. There are infinite possibilities in creating a story with photos, which will never cease to amaze me. 2. Brandon Sanderson’s novel collection. It’s hard to stop once you start reading them. Each story is somehow connected to the others. It’s fascinating how he can conjure these amazing stories. Every time you read them, you notice something new and another connection that deepens your love of the characters and the story. 3. My weight set. I love working out. It’s entertaining to see how far I can push myself. It keeps me busy, my body strong, and my mind clear so that I can maintain creativity in many aspects.

Lastly, I would bring a Polaroid camera to document my experiences and adventures. I enjoy stringing photos together to create stories that fill my time and nourish my creativity.

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PILAR TORCAL Illustrator and Visual Designer, “Visual Perspectives” @pilartorcal

Assuming that the basic needs would cover sunscreen and mosquito repellent products, the first thing that popped into my mind was to bring a soulmate to live this adventure with! Then, definitely notebooks and art supplies to draw, paint, and make sure we can write down all the ideas we have. I would love to go totally MIA and brainstorm crazy (hopefully successful) business ideas. Lastly, a portable movie theater with an outstanding sound system for watching movies and having dance parties. After these three things, my list would get really long—there’s nothing basic about me! But most importantly, I wonder—Could I make it without a phone and internet for an entire year?

Next, I would bring my dog for love and companionship, so I don’t end up like Tom Hanks talking to his volleyball, Wilson.

EMMA CROWLEY Writer, “Going Viral” and “Treating People with Kindness” @emmaloucrowley

My answer to the age-old question of what I would bring to a deserted island has always been the same: a fishing pole, a tarp, and a radio. But now that my hypothetical survival needs are met, and I am only responsible for my

1. I am a media and sports junkie, so access to the internet, cable, and an assortment of newspapers and magazines is a must! As a writer, I don’t read as much as I should and am always trying to catch up. A chaise, a cocktail, and a stack of biographical books and beautiful coffee-table tomes would keep me busy. And for background music, I would have to go with the Beatles’ Abbey Road, Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark, anything jazz, and Broadway soundtracks. For entertainment, you can’t beat The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. 2. I would use the time to finally finish that great American novel that is percolating in my head. 3. My cat Sophie and Brad Pitt and/ or Jon Hamm. Enough said! V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 19

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Le monde GOES ROUND AND ROUND

The fifty-ninth season at the Boston Ballet celebrates a return to the human experience of dance with a full six-program season for the first time since 2019–2020. The six programs symbolize different human conditions—courage, imagination, devotion, and more. It promises to be a season that takes dance and makes it personal for each audience member, encouraging all to explore the world around them and discover what moves them. “Our exciting season ahead includes ballets that ask us to dream bigger, dig deeper, and connect more intimately with the art on stage,” says artistic director Mikko Nissinen. “I am thrilled to show our audiences the humanity and raw beauty of our dancers with this incredibly diverse repertoire by some of the best choreographers of the past and present.”

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Harry Styles performing during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 22, 2022 Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Harry Styles

TREATING PEOPLE with

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By Emma Crowley

oung, vibrant, and full of energy, Harry Styles is on fire. With his eclectic discography weaving in Brit-pop, folk, and rock elements, he is selling out stadiums, spreading love, joy, and acceptance.

His chart-topping hits, including “As It Was,” “Watermelon Sugar,” and “Sign of the Times,” have solidified his status alongside the icons of music history. Boy band megastar turned multiplatinum solo success, emerging actor, and beauty brand creator are just some of the hats he wears.

Styles is currently experiencing one of his biggest years yet. With the launch of his beauty line Pleasing, lead roles in two movies coming this fall, a headlining spot at Coachella, and a world tour, he is one busy guy. After canceling his 2020 global concert series due to the pandemic, the aptly titled Love On Tour resumed in late 2021, providing fans with the intoxicating environment they craved during the lockdown. Following forty-two sold-out arena shows in 2021, Styles announced a whopping thirty-two more dates in 2022 with the release of his third album, Harry’s House. Styles’s connection to his fans drives his desire to make the most of his two-hour, nonstop, high-energy show. His fans want to see him live—and he delivers. A world-famous supernova now, it wasn’t always this way for Styles. Encouraged by his family in Cheshire, England, he auditioned for X Factor in March 2010. At age sixteen, he performed “Isn’t She Lovely,” a Stevie Wonder classic, for the judges. Although Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger loved the performance, third judge Louis Walsh was not so sure. He claimed Styles was “so young” and didn’t have enough “experience or confidence.” After being eliminated during the boot camp round, Cowell brought Harry, along with fellow bandmates Liam, Niall, Louis, and Zayn, back

to form the pop-royalty boy band One Direction, and the rest is history. After six years of global superstardom, One Direction came to an end, with its members going their separate ways to pursue individual projects. However, his triedand-true fans followed Styles as he navigated his new solo career. From the beginning, he has had millions of loyal, loving supporters. They buy his merchandise, go to his concerts, and promote his music on social media. Styles attributes the safe, welcoming community at his shows to his fans, who follow the mantra “Treat People with Kindness” or “TPWK,” coined by the artist himself. From a pin on his guitar strap to T-shirts worn by fans, the slogan organically took off. After seeing how his fans embraced his message of love and acceptance, Styles was inspired to write a song of the same name. Coming in as the penultimate track on his second album, Fine Line, the gospel-inspired “Treat People with Kindness” serves as the uplifting message of hope by which Styles lives. Proceeds from several merchandise products featuring the mantra were donated to organizations that promote inclusion, anti-discrimination, and humanitarian aid. Styles champions causes that are important to him and uses his celebrity status to engage with the world around him. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 25

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STYLES HAS EMBODIED KINDNESS IN THE WAY HE LIVES, WORKS, AND INTERACTS WITH OTHERS.

tyles has made giving back a staple through the course of his career. Throughout his debut solo tour, he raised $1.2 million and donated the money to over sixty charities, including Time’s Up, the Chile Fund Against Hunger and Poverty, and the Munich Refugee Council. Prompted by the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, he is again putting his fame and notoriety to use on his current tour by donating proceeds toward gun safety organizations. In keeping with his TPWK way of life, Styles ensures those around him feel free to express their true selves, whether through his lyrics or his gender-bending fashion choices. By wearing clothes that empower him, he is encouraging others to do the same. After years of wearing coordinated outfits during his boy band days, the solo star was suddenly free to experiment with clothing. He found catharsis in breaking down barriers and eliminating societal norms regarding his sense of fashion. No longer was he tethered to the bounds of male or female clothing, only choosing the pieces that made him feel good and following in the footsteps of superstars such as David Bowie, Elton John, and more. Because of this newfound freedom of expression, Styles, alongside Lady Gaga and Serena Williams, was asked to cohost the 2019 Met Gala, fashion’s biggest night of the year, and the style accolades don’t end there. In a historic December 2020 issue of Vogue, Styles was featured as the first solo male to appear on the cover—in a dress, no less. The floor-length blue Gucci gown acted as a statement of acceptance and tolerance not only for those around him but for himself as well. Whether twinning with Lizzo on stage in pink feathered coats or dressing up as Dorothy for his signature “Harryween” October 31 concert, Styles has established himself as a fashion icon and gained the love and respect of millions worldwide.

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Harry Styles at the 40th Brit Awards in London on February 18, 2020, where he performed his hit single “Falling” Photo by David Fisher/ Shutterstock

What is next on the docket for Harry Styles? Pleasing Heavily inspired by the psychedelic aesthetic of the 1970s, Styles’s Pleasing is a lifestyle and beauty brand that, according to its website, promotes “joyful experiences and products that excite the senses and blur the boundaries.” With ’70s music icon Mick Fleetwood serving as the face of the brand, Styles hit the jackpot with his groovy line of eco-friendly and sustainable products, including 12-free nail polish, skin care, and limited apparel. While Styles is relatively new to the beauty brand world, consumers are excited to see what fun, fantastical products are yet to come. Films Don’t Worry Darling: In this psychological thriller set in the idyllic 1950s, Styles is featured in his first leading role. Alongside Florence Pugh, Styles plays Jack, a loving husband with a mysterious secret. Directed by Olivia Wilde, the film will be released in September 2022. Styles performed at Wembley Stadium in London for Capital’s Summertime Ball 2022. Photo by David Fisher/ Global/Shutterstock Above right: Styles guesthosted The Late Late Show with James Corden in December 2019. Photo by Terence Patrick/CBS © 2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.

My Policeman: Based on the book of the same name and set in 1950s Brighton, UK, Styles plays Tom Burgess, a married policeman who falls for museum curator Patrick Hazlewood despite same-sex relationships being illegal at the time. Directed by Michael Grandage, the film is set to release in October of 2022. Marvel Styles officially joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a post-credit scene during 2021’s Eternals as Eros (aka Starfox). Because of Marvel’s infamous secrecy policy, it is unknown when viewers will get to see Styles as Eros again on the silver screen. However, comic lore suggests a bright future for the character.

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Harry Styles on the Coachella Stage in a custom Arturo Obegero sequin jumpsuit during the 2022 festival; his duet of “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” with Shania Twain during the performance gained worldwide recognition. Photo by Kevin Mazur/ Getty Images for ABA Opposite left: Styles and The Late Late Show host James Corden canvassed Brooklyn with $300 in search of a location to shoot his “Daylight” music video in May 2022. Photo courtesy of CBS © 2022 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Opposite right: Photo by Terence Patrick/ CBS © 2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.

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JUST REMEMBER TO ALWAYS TREAT PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS, AND MAYBE WE CAN ALL MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

Love On Tour Mini Residencies Styles will settle in and get cozy for extended stays in select cities during his Love On Tour. He will play fifteen shows in Madison Square Garden in New York City and Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Additionally, the tour includes several shows in Austin, Toronto, and Chicago. There is certainly something to be said about karma; what goes around comes around. Styles has embodied kindness in how he lives, works, and interacts with others. No wonder he is experiencing happiness, success, and goodness in return. Just remember to always Treat People with Kindness, and maybe we can all make the world a better place.

Visit HStyles.co.uk to listen, shop merchandise, or find tour dates. Emma Crowley is a recent graduate of Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts. With a degree in Communications and Media Studies, she is continually amazed at the power and influence social media holds and is always looking for ways to explore this medium. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 29

L’intermission

Hello Again Adele shines at the Brit Awards 2022 Photo by Cubankite/ Shutterstock

Adele triumphed at the Brit Awards 2022, winning accolades ranging from British Album of the Year to British Song of the Year and Artist of the Year. No one expected the singer-songwriter to debut her latest album, 30, in 2021, especially since she had been quiet since the release of 25 in 2015, yet Adele channeled her gift for vocals and songwriting to create her most soul-bearing album yet. From her stunning red-carpet look designed by Armani Privé to a breathtaking live performance of her hit single “I Drink Wine,” Adele has proven her career is far from halted.

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Going Viral The Life and Times of TikTok

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE EXPLODING IN MANY DIRECTIONS. WITH CONTENT RANGING FROM HAIR AND MAKEUP TUTORIALS TO FASHION ADVICE, COOKING TIPS, ORIGINAL MUSIC, AND EXERCISE VIDEOS, NO TOPIC IS OFFLIMITS. THE KEY TO SUCCESS DEPENDS ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT FACTOR—IS YOUR VIDEO WHAT THE MASSES WANT TO WATCH?

ince its inception, social media has provided the public with platforms to highlight talented individuals all over the world. YouTube allowed for the success of A-listers such as Justin Bieber and Kate Upton when videos posted to their channels went viral in 2007 and 2011, respectively. Vine, a six-second video app, showcased teenage Shawn Mendes, now a three-time Grammy-nominated musical artist. These stories seem to be few in a million; nonetheless, they inspire many around the globe to promote themselves online. Now, with the rise of TikTok, the latest social media powerhouse, the odds of making it big are seemingly within even closer reach. TikTok initially came into the social media world as a merger of two separate apps, Musical.ly, and Douyin, two video-sharing apps based in China. When Musical.ly

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and Douyin merged, the app was relaunched and rebranded as TikTok in August 2018. What makes TikTok special is its algorithm. Users on most social media apps, such as Facebook and Instagram, choose the type of content they want to see based on the people they follow or have added as friends. The content is controlled and relatively predictable. With TikTok, the app pushes content it thinks the user will like based on the posts or comments with which the user engages. For example, if a user constantly likes cooking videos, the app will filter in more cooking-based content on their signature “For You Page,” which is tailored to each account. So what does this mean for the entertainment industry? In four years, TikTok has already solidified itself as a giant in the social media world, nurturing some of the biggest emerging celebs on the scene. Record labels and television networks are paying attention and signing individuals who have established a following. No longer are they introducing new artists while spending time and money to promote them; these TikTok content creators come with a built-in fan base. Some have gone from posting dance videos in their bedrooms to starring in their own reality shows, or from singing short covers of their favorite songs to signing record deals. This may seem like far-off dreams to some, but to the likes of TikTok stars Charli D’Amelio and Tai Verdes, this is reality.

Pop sensation Lizzo has gained notoriety and a vast audience through TikTok and other social media platforms. Photo courtesy of HBO Max

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D Opposite left: Sisters Dixie and Charli D’Amelio Photo by DFree/Shutterstock Right: TikTok influencer Bella Poarch (@bellapoarch) Below: Fashion innovator Wisdom Kaye (@wisdm8)

’Amelio has amassed over 144.5 million followers on TikTok in her short threeyear tenure, making her the second most followed account on the app. D’Amelio amassed her fan base by posting herself dancing to popular songs and participating in trends that appealed to her younger viewers. Her meteoric rise to fame allowed her family to follow suit, each with their own account and fan base. While the whole family is the subject of a new Hulu reality show, Charli and her sister Dixie each have additional separate ventures that contribute to their multimillion-dollar income. These projects include sponsorship deals, concerts, and endorsements; Charli was even featured in a 2020 Super Bowl commercial.

Foodie influencer Ahmad Alzahabi (@thegoldenbalance)

While not as popular as the D’Amelios, Tai Verdes has gained over 2.8 million followers and 500 million streams of his music worldwide, thanks to TikTok. In early 2020, Verdes was sleeping on a friend’s couch, hoping to catch a break, when his song “Stuck in the Middle” went viral. He soon had several more tracks take off, establishing him as a TikTok legend. Verdes is now signed to Arista Records, has played at major music festivals, and is headlining a tour that started in July.

Photos courtesy of TikTok’s The Discover List

TikTok isn’t just there for the struggling artist. Celebrities are using the app to show a more raw and

Opposite right, top to bottom: Makeup artist Mikayla Nogueira (@mikaylanogueira) “The world’s favorite mom,” Tabitha Brown (@iamtabithabrown)

personal side (or at least that’s what they want us to think). Established musicians use every chance they get to promote their music, and it’s working. Charlie Puth documented his process of writing in a series of videos that began with the phrase “What if there was a song . . .” taking his now 18.4 million followers along with him in the studio as he wrote and recorded his latest single, “Light Switch.” The initial video sits at over 122.9 million views, which inspired thousands to stream the song the minute it was released. While artists can try to promote their songs, there is nothing that a creator desires more than to be a part of a trend. In the early days of lockdown, very rarely was the word TikTok not followed by dance trend. It seemed every day there was a new routine millions were learning across the globe. At the forefront of these videos was Doja Cat’s “Say So.” A short clip was used as the soundtrack for the dance, and now the song has been used in over 11 million videos. Now with over 25.5 million followers and a Grammy under her belt, Doja Cat continues making TikToks on her life, music, and everything in between. Lizzo’s newest hit, “About Damn Time,” represents the epitome of a TikTok dance trend. The disco-inspired tune, coupled with a dance choreographed by content creator Jaeden Gomez (@JaedenGomezz), has amassed millions of participants. Lizzo even incorporated the dance into her 2022 BET Awards performance and credited Gomez for the moves. The trend has even motivated industry giants such as Reese Witherspoon, Blake Shelton, and Selena Gomez to share their versions online. While these celebrities may think they are participating in fun dance trends just like the rest of us, they are doing much more for the original artist. Social media provides the perfect platform for free marketing.

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hen a dance trend goes viral, it promotes the song in ways that a record label or PR team could never dream of doing so quickly. Reaching all demographics, the internet allows anyone to take in a creator’s work at any time, and with TikTok’s algorithm, the odds of seeing a viral video increase exponentially. When celebrities with a high number of followers use a song in their video, it signals to the app that the music is worth promoting, giving the artist free publicity and notoriety. To an artist, if their song is used in a trend, whether for a fun dance or a comedy skit, it indicates their music has value. Music feeds the soul, encourages an emotional response, and can relieve stress— something much needed in the world today. Access to such a wide variety of music at your fingertips for free is a gift that is often overlooked or shadowed by the negative perceptions of social media. To utilize this gift and discover new genres and artists is to appreciate how connected we are through the digital world. So check out TikTok, get moving, learn a new dance, and explore this ever-changing world we call home. Who knows, you may discover the next Harry Styles—or it may inspire you to post your own videos!

Emma Crowley is a recent graduate of Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts. With a degree in Communications and Media Studies, she is continually amazed at the power and influence social media holds and is always looking for ways to explore this medium.

REACHING ALL DEMOGRAPHICS, THE INTERNET ALLOWS ANYONE TO TAKE IN A CREATOR’S WORK AT ANY TIME, AND WITH TIKTOK’S ALGORITHM, THE ODDS OF SEEING A VIRAL VIDEO INCREASE EXPONENTIALLY.

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CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH SONG

By JORDAN STAGGS | Photography courtesy of SOUTHERN SOUND MUSIC ALLIANCE

Music lovers know that connecting with your favorite hometown artist can be even better than seeing a famous megastar for one night only. When you find the band or musician who plays all the things you love while you can sit and sip or enjoy a bite in a groovy venue close to home, it’s magic you can enjoy on a weekly or monthly basis. It’s a chance to unwind and listen to live music while fostering community. That’s precisely the type of magic that Southern Sound Music Alliance is dedicated to creating along Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast.

ounded by South Walton, Florida, locals Naomi Alvarado and Jennifer Sundal, both of whom have musician husbands, Southern Sound Music Alliance is a booking and marketing agency for musical acts and an event production company. The concept seemed like a natural fit for the pair, who first discussed it in 2020 over cocktails at North Beach Social, Chef Jim Shirley’s local bayside hangout that features live music most nights of the week. Sundal, who has lived in the area with her husband, Donnie, since 1994, has been involved in the music industry since graduating from the University of Tennessee with a degree in fine arts and arts education. “Twelve years ago, I went full-time in booking and managing Donnie’s band, Boukou Groove. A few years back, I also helped 30A Horse Farm create a Friday-night concert series featuring some of the finest musicians from New Orleans—Ivan Neville, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., and Roosevelt Collier.” Sundal is also a graphic designer, creating posters, media artwork, and merchandise for bands and festivals. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 39

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’ve always loved music,” says Alvarado. “I’ve been booking gigs for my husband, Chris, since 2011 after he talked to Donnie about what it was like working as a husband-and-wife team. So it was a full-circle moment for Jen and me to team up. With our combined thirty-plus years of experience, we are in the unique position to represent both the musician and business aspects of the industry. I focus on the administrative and planning side of things, and Jen is fabulous when it comes to creativity and sales. We balance each other out really well; it was a no-brainer for us to work together.” Music, a universal language that people from all walks of life can love and relate to, is a natural community builder. “My dad always had—and still does have—music playing at our house, some good and some not exactly my favorite,” Sundal says. “But music is home to me.” It’s that type of power and love of music that Southern Sound Music Alliance also strives to harness by connecting bands and musicians with venues, fans, each other, and

“MUSIC, A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THAT PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE CAN LOVE AND RELATE TO, IS A NATURAL COMMUNITY BUILDER. ” even nonprofits in the area. Its primary goal is to produce events that highlight local and regional musicians, bringing attention to the incredible music, art, dining, and creatives in South Walton. The founders also have a heart for showing musicians how they can follow their dreams. “It’s important to us to help the next generation of artists build their careers as SoWal musicians,” Alvarado explains. “It’s possible to have a fulltime career playing music in South Walton, and we are living proof. It’s rare to have an area that highly values music, artists, and other creative ventures. We are lucky because you don’t find that everywhere. People come from all over the country and take the local music and art they discover home with them. They use their limited vacation time to come to our area, and we are fortunate enough to be here year-round.” Southern Sound Music Alliance’s first event, Summer Haze Music Fest, was another bright idea fostered over drinks at North Beach Social. “We were talking about all the great events that come to the area and ways we could bring a bigger focus to the local music scene,” shares Alvarado. “We have such a diverse group of talented musicians, without the sense of competitiveness you find in other music scenes. We want to bring that to as many people as possible.” 40 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

Above: The Steve Arvey Trio performed at North Beach Social for the Summer Haze Music Fest after-party in 2021. Above left: Southern Sound Music Alliance founders Naomi Alvarado and Jennifer Sundal Top and far right: Summer Haze Music Fest – Winter Edition at Gulf Place on November 20, 2021 Right: Donnie Sundal with Boukou Groove during Summer Haze 2021 Left: Biscuit Miller at North Beach Social for Summer Haze 2021

ummer Haze Music Fest was first planned as a full-day event on the outdoor stage at Gulf Place in Santa Rosa Beach, set for August 2021. Unfortunately, the main event was canceled due to the COVID pandemic. The after-party, planned as a day of fun and music at North Beach Social, went on as planned and was a blast, bringing renewed energy to the Southern Sound mission. Its founders decided not to give up on Summer Haze entirely. “We rescheduled the main festival for late November and named it Summer Haze Music Festival – Winter Edition,” Alvarado says. “The weather was perfect; plus, it gave people a chance to kick off their Thanksgiving week with a really fun community event. I loved seeing a crowd of locals loving all their favorite acts in one massive event.” Thanks to a phenomenal response from the community and the musicians and vendors involved with the Winter Edition festival, Summer Haze 2022 is on for August 21! Live music will be happening at North Beach Social and Farm & Fire—both owned and operated by Chef Jim Shirley Enterprises and located at the south end of the bridge on Highway 331 at the gateway to South Walton. Summer Haze Music Fest – Winter Edition will also return, with events at Distillery 98 and Idyll Hounds Brewing Company from November 18 to 20, 2022. “In addition to Summer Haze, we have teamed up with 30A Axe Throwing Company to put on the monthly 30A Axe Threauxdown concert series and a new Locals Late Night program every Saturday,” Alvarado shares. “These events will spotlight local groups and bring touring acts to introduce them to our area.” The 30A Axe Threauxdown also spotlights a different local charity each month, so attendees can learn more about their missions and ways to get involved. “There are so many important organizations out there, and we want to help connect them with passionate volunteers,” says Alvarado. “Our goal is to bring awareness to as many nonprofits as possible. Each year, Summer Haze will spotlight a different charity. Last year’s beneficiaries were the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County and Food For Thought Outreach. This year, we are working with Alaqua Animal Refuge in August and the Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center for the November event. We are always looking for volunteers to help with the festival!”

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outhern Sound is going one step further in giving back by donating a music scholarship and a scholarship for special needs kids looking to continue their education and job training. The latter is a mission from the heart of the Alvarados, whose son, Hayden, lives with Lowe Syndrome. “I am so passionate about helping other families facing challenges with their kids as they age out of the school system,” Naomi expounds. “Another event we helped put on this year was the Vision for a Cure Benefit Concert to raise funds and awareness for the Lowe Syndrome Association.” In addition to 30A Axe Throwing Company’s Threauxdown concert on August 17 by Deltaphonic, Summer Haze Music Fest is right around the corner on August 21 from noon until 9:00 p.m. at North Beach Social and Farm & Fire. The lineup includes Kelsey Eiman and Tylor Domina, Weston T. Hine, Duncan Crittenden and Reese Branton, Queens Ransom, Electric Duck Phat, Big Phun, Luke Langford, Boukou Groove, and The Iceman Special. The event will also feature a photo booth, a live painter, an auction for a Driftwood electric guitar, and more. “We’d love to keep expanding upon these two festivals and make them annual events people look forward to all year,” says Alvarado. “The dream is to build Summer Haze into an event that puts SoWal on the map in the way that 30A Songwriters Festival, Digital Graffiti, South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival, and so many others have done.” As they work toward that goal, the founders of Southern Sound Music Alliance also impress upon locals and visitors, no matter where they are, to support their area musicians however they can. This could include attending free and ticketed performances, buying merchandise, or sharing their music online. Alvarado urges, “No matter what your taste in music is, find any way you can to support your local musicians. They dedicate so much time to their craft in addition to what you see on stage, and a lot of that work goes unnoticed. Going to their shows, tipping to show your appreciation for their talent, and following and sharing them on social media are all ways you can show your support.” Sundal adds, “We are so proud of the talent that keeps our area busy with live music year-round!”

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Petite pause I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world! The iconic doll will take the big screen on July 21, 2023. Oscar-nominated actress Margot Robbie has been cast to play Barbie, and her costar Ryan Gosling will play Ken. The duo has been spotted Rollerblading through Cannes wearing iconic neon spandex athletic wear, and the behind-the-scenes photos have already taken the internet by storm. Other big names will also appear in the film, so mark your calendars! Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

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An Ambassador of Culture Story courtesy of WALTON COUNTY TOURISM

isit South Walton, the Northwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, and Destin-Fort Walton Beach recently teamed up to honor area Hospitality Heroes. During the event at Henderson Beach Resort & Spa, nominees from Walton and Okaloosa Counties were recognized for consistently going above and beyond when it comes to making our visitors feel welcome and at home. Among this year’s winners was Stacey Brady, Director of Marketing & Communications for Grand Boulevard at Sandestin. “It was completely unexpected,” she says. “It takes thousands of people to deliver a great experience to the visitors we have in this area every year. It’s hard work and it’s important. Restaurants, retail, hotels...whether you’re getting a massage or eating a meal… everywhere you go, you’re touching the hospitality industry.”

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At Grand Boulevard, Brady oversees communications and marketing for a multifaceted shopping, dining, playing, and staying operation with roughly 60 retail and restaurant tenants as well as three hotels. From assisting with staffing to spearheading traditional and digital media efforts, her day-in-the-life ranges from the big picture to small details, all revolving around building and cultivating relationships. During her tenure, she’s helped evolve the brand to encompass some of the region’s most celebrated events and partnerships.

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IT’S A WAY OF LIVING OUR CORE VALUE OF BEING A GOOD STEWARD AND GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. "One of my favorite things over the past 13 years with Grand Boulevard was creating the Coastal Culture event brand. It’s become an award-winning events calendar and filling it in has been a big part of what I do. We partner with a charitable organization for each event. It’s a way of living our core value of being a good steward and giving back to the community.”

Above: Stacey Brady is the director of marketing and communications for Grand Boulevard at Sandestin, a multifaceted shopping, dining, playing, and staying operation with three hotels and roughly sixty retail and restaurant tenants. Left and Top: Dozens of celebrity winemakers, distillers, chefs, and brewmasters converge at South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival to wine, dine, educate, and entertain guests as part of a three-day celebration. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 45

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mong the most anticipated annual events Brady has spearheaded—and the most involved—is the South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival, held on the last full weekend of April. “We literally build a village,” Brady says of the hundreds of tents and events-within-events. Dozens of celebrity winemakers, distillers, chefs, and brewmasters converge to wine, dine, educate and entertain guests as part of the three-day celebration, which marked its 10th anniversary this year and featured performances by renowned Nashville songwriters. “It’s for people who love the good life…and all proceeds go to the Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation, which benefits children in need in Northwest Florida.”

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n Mother’s Day weekend every year, Coastal Culture hosts the area’s longest-running arts festival, ArtsQuest, with artists from across the country. Featuring everything from photography to woodworking to jewelry, the event draws high numbers of attendees each year and benefits the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County. Coastal Culture also presents Theatre Thursdays, Thursday evenings late May through the month of July with Emerald Coast Theatre Company (another great nonprofit). Shakespearean comedy under the stars condensed into a kid-friendly, hour-long timeframe with audience interaction, it’s a crowd-pleaser locals and visitors love. “It’s really gratifying to work with all these organizations, and we make it a lot of fun,” says Brady. After two full decades in hospitality in South Walton, she still loves it. “If you’re going to work hard, it’s not a bad view,” she jokes, adding “our beaches get people to the destination, but our hospitality is what brings them back.”

HEAD TO VISITSOUTHWALTON.COM AND GRANDBOULEVARD.COM TO LEARN MORE.

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By Suzanne Pollak

he magic that connects music and food is that they exist in the present tense, but the memories can last forever. There are fascinating parallels between cooks and musicians; music and food can both lend to extraordinarily nourishing environments. Creating food and eating it, or making music and listening to it, are the same in that the instant you are experiencing, you are doing. It’s powerful, intense, only happening when it is happening and over when it’s over.

unpredictable. Music and meals build emotional bonds that cannot be recorded. Nevertheless, those bonds can last forever. The magic radiates outward in many ways; internally into people’s hearts, externally in their behavior.

The best experiences in the world come and go like clouds: ethereal, ephemeral, effervescent, ineffable,

Here are a few opinions from the experts in music and food.

No one needs to be a professional musician or a top chef to create everlasting experiences for fellow humans. But it is fascinating to hear what professionals say, as they are pros in creating experiences that move people. They think about it day and night.

usician Eric Dolphy said it best: “When you hear music, after it is over, it’s gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.” Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) talks about food and music being living, breathing art forms. “I think what makes music and cooking really similar is that you have to learn the basics to be able to do them, like any art form,” he said. “If you are a musician, you have to learn the chords. But the difference between a cook and a chef is someone who takes those same ingredients, makes it their own, and puts their personality into whatever it is. Like I can play one song with three cords, and another musician could play the same three chords, but we’re both going to come up with a different song, in the same way you can give two chefs the same ingredients, and they are each going to come up with a completely different thing. It’s still a living, breathing art form. All the preparation that goes into it and all the plating—it’s one beautiful little piece of art. It’s a beautiful thing that is totally meant to go away, like life. It’s like a metaphor for life.” John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls has epiphanies when he makes something out of nothing. He has said, “I think music and cooking both come off the cuff. I find a recipe, or someone will show me how to make something, so I will go and get all the stuff to make the food, and then, of course, I have to tinker around with it. I kind of do the same thing with a song. I’ll just be sitting there playing, and it’s the same way in the kitchen. I’ll be standing in the kitchen—and I always have to listen to Frank Sinatra when I am cooking. I have to! Frank Sinatra is blasting in the kitchen—and I am playing with the food—maybe this will be good, or maybe that will be good. Much like songwriting, nine out of ten times, it’s completely bad. Then I have to get in the car, go back

to the grocery store, and start over again. I destroy things constantly in the kitchen.” We’ve also heard from Grace Potter about what she wants to eat when she is in love. What is the food to feed people’s souls with a form of sustenance and a source of pleasure? “Spaghetti!” Potter says. “All day! It’s a love food. It is the most romantic food in the world because it’s just like twirling things around in your mouth—basically what love is, you know? It’s the most essential food. For me, it’s the tactile experience, like twirling the pasta, or if I am madly in love with someone who doesn’t know how to twirl pasta, watching his clumsy fingers trying to learn how. I love that so much; it’s one of my favorite things. It’s a Lady and the Tramp experience.” The late Tony Hendra, who played a band manager in the cult classic movie Spinal Tap, knew how to bring a table of people to silence with the first bite of every meal. The food he cooked created that kind of “Aha!” moment. The taste and silence made everyone snap completely into the present together. Grace Potter also says that the silence during a great meal is like live music. “Being handed something because it is hot and ready changes your conversation. I love it when a table goes silent because the food gets brought to them, and everybody takes a moment to really observe and smell. These are moments in time you have to catch. I think it brings people together. That’s why I love sitting down at the table and making things happen in an organic way, but also in a way where it’s like, ‘Listen, there is a timeline to this entire experience. The food will only be hot for twenty minutes at the most, so let’s share this conversation and put down everything else we are doing and enjoy this.’ It is powerful and very, very much like live music.”

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that goes into creating ephemeral daily dinners. Recognize the work, but also appreciate the outcome, in the present and later in your memories. All these magical moments add up to a life well lived.

Suzanne Pollak, a mentor and lecturer in the fields of home, hearth, and hospitality, is the founder and dean of the Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits. She is the coauthor of Entertaining for Dummies, The Pat Conroy Cookbook, and The Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits: A Handbook of Etiquette with Recipes. Born into a diplomatic family, Pollak was raised in Africa, where her parents hosted multiple parties every week. Her South Carolina homes have been featured in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section and Town & Country magazine. Visit CharlestonAcademy.com or contact her at Suzanne@CharlestonAcademy.com to learn more.

John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls in concert at the Roundhouse, London Photo by Michal Augustini/Shutterstock

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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA, designed by Renzo Piano Photo by Iwan Baan

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ut in praising Hollywood alone, you’d be selling short the most exciting new attraction to open in La-La Land in a generation—one that acknowledges how audience appetites have changed and grown. It embraces world cinema and American musicals, westerns, and film noir that packed movie theaters across the planet in the era before television brought entertainment home. Visitors can expect tributes to great directors of many nationalities, from Eisenstein to Almodóvar, celebrating more than a century of moviemaking. There’s also an unashamed nod to Tinseltown in the optional added attraction that allows you to collect your very own Oscar and be filmed making your acceptance speech! True, there is tribute aplenty to the city that made the movie industry, starting with its home in the iconic gilded building where the stars once shopped for their fancy frocks back in the day. Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Renzo Piano (a fitting choice given he has always said he would have become a filmmaker had he not found his vocation designing buildings) made the golden pillar of the 1939 May Company Department Store the project’s literal cornerstone. He integrated the vast site with a brand-new spherical structure at the intersection of Fairfax and Wilshire, two of Hollywood’s most important prewar shopping thoroughfares.

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A tribute to action star Bruce Lee in the museum’s Stories of Cinema exhibit Photo by Joshua White

he result is three-hundred thousand square feet of exhibition space set over seven stories with spectacular outdoor features. Walk over the Barbra Streisand Bridge, and you’re on the stunning Dolby Family Terrace, where the Hollywood Hills themselves are the star of a thrilling panorama. It makes a fitting finale to a day spent viewing clips of the world’s most iconic films and the props and costumes that made them so—everything from Citizen Kane’s Rosebud sled to the full-size shark featured in Jaws suspended in the stairwell. After all, the Academy had ninety-five years to build its collection of movie memorabilia, including acquiring the personal collections of Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, and other screen legends. Tom Hanks’s favorite museum collection predates cinema—it’s an assembly of the kind of optical toys and devices (think magic lanterns and shadow puppets) that inspired the pioneers of moving pictures to figure out a way to show real people in motion. 58 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

To get to the dedicated darkened spaces where many of the most precious objects are housed—they include everything from Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz to the space suit from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and the yellow dress Emma Stone wore in La La Land—visitors will first have to navigate three floors devoted to the story of cinema. Setting a time limit for viewing iconic clips may help you avoid running out of hours and energy to see the best stuff closer to the top of the building. A whole floor is dedicated to animation and its Japanese as well as American masters, which is even harder to tear yourself away from than the classic footage downstairs. Like the Academy, the museum, which cost nearly $500 million to complete, has already come under fire for being less than politically correct in its

content. For example, many visitors noticed the failure to pay tribute to the founding of the Hollywood movie industry by Jewish refugees from pogroms and persecution in Europe. The museum will address this with a new exhibition crediting their contribution, Hollywoodland, opening in spring 2023. The #MeToo movement has also had an influence, with the alleged harassment of Shirley Temple and bullying of a young Judy Garland addressed in captions, along with charges of exploitation of the little people who played the enchanting munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. Even the room where a backdrop gets a leading credit as a movie device—in this case, Mount Rushmore, featured as an extra character in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest—comes with a political narrative. The iconic monument in South Dakota, glorified in the movie, remains one of the country’s leading tourist attractions, but visitors learn that Native Americans have long felt its presence desecrates their sacred territory.

The David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Photo by Iwan Baan

A collection of iconic costumes from classic and contemporary films, part of the Stories of Cinema exhibit Photo by Joshua White

It makes a fitting finale to a day spent viewing clips of the world’s most iconic films and the props and costumes that made them so—everything from Citizen Kane’s Rosebud sled to the full-size shark featured in Jaws suspended in the stairwell.

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In addition to its gallery exhibits, the museum hosts screenings, series, talks, and educational programs and features a restaurant called Fanny’s. Photo by Iwan Baan

Some visitors scoff at the optional attraction known as The Oscars Experience, but there is a thrill to meeting your “producer” in the wings of a digital theater and being instructed how to hold your Academy Award up to a virtual audience. You will be filmed in the art of celebration and emailed a record of your performance as a souvenir. 60 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

Visitors can peruse the lineup of Academy Awards donated back to the museum by their winners and even record their own acceptance speeches in The Oscars Experience room. Photo by Joshua White

he vital contributions of ethnic minorities are also acknowledged; designers of the exhibit of statuettes donated back to the Academy left a space where the Oscar awarded to Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind would have sat had it not been stolen following its presentation and noted it was half a century before another Black actress won an Oscar. This August, a new exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971, will open, followed in the fall by a new gallery dedicated to blockbuster The Godfather and another in February about the evergreen Casablanca. Some visitors scoff at the optional attraction known as The Oscars Experience, but there is a thrill to

meeting your “producer” in the wings of a digital theater and being instructed how to hold your Academy Award up to a virtual audience. You will be filmed in the art of celebration and emailed a record of your performance as a souvenir. It’s smoke and mirrors and pure schmaltz—but isn’t that what the magic of cinema was built on during a dark time when it was the only form of escape into a fantasy world of glitz and glamour?

Visit AcademyMuseum.org to plan your visit. Anthea Gerrie is based in the UK but travels the world in search of stories. Her special interests are architecture and design, culture, food, and drink, as well as the best places to visit in the world’s great playgrounds. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, the Independent, and Blueprint.

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M arilyn Stafford, one of America’s longest-lived creative exports, always thought that if she found fame, it would be treading the boards. After all, she grew up performing in the Cleveland Youth Theater, which launched her contemporaries Paul Newman and Joel Grey on their acting careers. Stafford went on to sing for her supper in Paris, where she caught the attention of Bing Crosby and Édith Piaf.

However, Stafford was destined to make her career as an exquisite observer of the human race rather than a nightingale. Her fate was set more than seventy years ago when a camera was thrust into her hands by a film director en route to an interview with Albert Einstein at his Princeton home. It transformed the friend who merely wanted to ride with the crew into not only a “stills lady” for the day but a celebrity, fashion, and war photographer for a lifetime.

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“I wish I’d tried harder to capture his essence,” says the now-celebrated photographer whose fans think she did just that. Yet, despite her beautiful portrait of Einstein—and those that followed of celebrities including Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, and the late Sharon Tate, not to mention political figures including Eleanor Roosevelt and India’s leader Indira Gandhi— it would take more than seven decades since picking up that camera for Stafford’s talent to be recognized as an art form. She may have had her pictures published everywhere from Women’s Wear Daily and the International Herald Tribune to the front page of The Observer, but Stafford reached the grand age of ninety-six before her first one-woman show in a museum took place this year in the UK. “To me, it was a job; I never thought of it as art,” says the former Marilyn Gerson, speaking while busy boiling an artichoke for supper in her kitchen on

the English south coast where, until a recent illness, she lived independently. She explains she never even thought of picking up a camera during the singing stage of her career in Paris, where she arrived as a tourist in 1949 and soon found herself moving in rarefied circles. An impresario who overheard her sweet rendition of “Happy Birthday” in a restaurant encouraged her to try out for an elegant dinner club. There, she attracted the attention of Bing Crosby, who invited her to his table and later took her to the races. She went on to meet Noël Coward, Maurice Chevalier, and France’s own greatest songbirds, Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. “But the constant night work was impacting my health,” she explains, recounting how her life changed forever when she was introduced to two of the most outstanding documentary photographers of the twentieth century, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. The latter mentored her, taking her out on the streets as a decoy to distract the subjects he wanted to capture in candid shots by having her point a camera at them herself.

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living near, but not with, her partially sighted mother in the English coastal county of Sussex.

Lina remembers her childhood as eventful—despite her assignments from Vogue, the International Herald Tribune, and Women’s Wear Daily, Stafford brought her daughter from Paris to Rome when her husband’s job as a foreign correspondent demanded a move. Lina accompanied her on a new round of assignments to Lebanon, and they eventually lived in London after the marriage broke up. “I also went with her to visit my grandparents in Ohio, or they would come to us, and I still remember my grandmother’s matzo ball soup,” says Lina. She has jointly curated her mother’s exhibition with documentary image-maker Nina Emett.

If it were not for Emett and her sharp eye, admits Stafford, her stacks of pictures taken over forty years would still be under her bed. “I retired in 1980 so I could do other things,” she explains. She had lost her taste for shooting clothes and celebrities after the suffering she witnessed in Bangladesh, where she toured with Indira Gandhi but stayed on to photograph rape victims. “I could not face living in the fashion world full-time after what I had witnessed in Bangladesh.”

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s the fabulous British show of her work, which has now moved to the Isle of Wight off England’s south coast, demonstrates, Stafford morphed into one hell of a fashion photographer. She was decades ahead of her time in taking the models away from the catwalks to strike poses on the Paris city streets. “But what I saw on the streets was of more interest to me than the models and their clothes,” she confesses, remembering how she would run off after assignments to a back street behind the Bastille to photograph street children in the slums. Compassion for the less fortunate drove Stafford from Paris to the streets of Tunisia, where she captured photos of refugee babies and their mothers fleeing the war of independence in neighboring Algeria. “Perhaps they resonated particularly because I was six months pregnant myself,” she reflects. Her baby came early, and her daughter Lina has stayed close ever since, 66 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

It was a love for pictures telling stories that drew her to Emett, whom she met when the latter held her own exhibition—and was staggered by the massive talent of the older woman from the photos that had lain hidden under the bed for half a century. Emett now keeps Stafford’s archives and has helped her set up an annual award for those following in her footsteps. “There’s a two-thousand-pound prize for a woman photographer who, like my younger self, is seeking to create positive outcomes to global issues through the power of a camera lens,” Stafford explains. “When I took the Algerian refugee photographs, it was because I hoped someone would do something about their situation. I say very humbly that I still want to make the world a better place.”

Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography will show at Dimbola, the former home of Julia Margaret Cameron, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, until October 16, 2022. Visit MarilynStaffordPhotography.com to learn and see more.

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Everyone’s favorite sci-fi and horror series returned to screens this summer after a grueling three-year wait due to pandemic production delays. During the second half of Stranger Things 4’s release, which featured two final episodes debuting on July 1, Netflix temporarily crashed due to the influx of eager fans awaiting answers to what will happen in the Upside Down (the world’s alternate dimension). The show continued to surpass Netflix’s top-ranking series (including Bridgerton) and, during its first twenty-eight days, boasted more than 930.3 million hours viewed. This landed the record for the mostwatched English-language Netflix series, outranked only by the South Korean drama Squid Game.

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CINEMA’S CREATIVE LEGACY Art of the Hollywood Backdrop

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The first dedicated museum exhibition of its kind honoring the unsung heroes of Hollywood’s artistic DNA is now on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in South Florida. Art of the Hollywood Backdrop: Cinema’s Creative Legacy honors the artists who created monumental canvases for the camera, going back almost a century. These artists were the backbone of the film industry.

he exhibition is a concept by the museum, co-curated by Thomas A. Walsh and Karen L. Maness, who played pivotal roles among a group of passionate Hollywood insiders in salvaging these American treasures. The result is a magical portal that takes the terms “large-scale,” “immersive,” and “virtual reality” to a whole new level.

“These monumental paintings were essential to moviemaking for almost a century and were never meant to be seen by the public with the naked eye,” says Leonard Maltin, the renowned film critic, historian, and author. “Having this rare opportunity to experience these American masterpieces up close is long overdue.” This exhibition of twenty-two scenic backdrops, made for the movies between 1938 and 1968, celebrates an art form nearly forgotten. This is a well-deserved moment in the spotlight for the dozens of unidentified studio artists. Their uncredited craftsmanship made scenes of Mount Rushmore, Ben-Hur’s Rome, the Von Trapp family’s Austrian Alps, and Gene Kelly’s Paris possible. The show’s immersive components include interactive video reels created in Hollywood specifically for this exhibition, telling the stories behind each backdrop. Soundscapes have been engineered to surround visitors in the museum, including atmospheric sound effects related to the original movies and the scenic vistas. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 71

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rvin Lippman, the executive director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, says, “It is miraculous that these historic monumental paintings were not lost forever, as so many Hollywood treasures have disappeared. The concept for this show had its genesis with a CBS Sunday Morning segment that called attention to the campaign to preserve scenic backdrops that had laid rolled up in the basement of MGM’s studios.”

He adds, “Lynne Coakley, Karen L. Maness, and Thomas A. Walsh have played a significant role in preserving this inventory from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Their vision and partnership with the Boca Raton Museum of Art made this exhibition possible.”

With Walsh and Maness agreeing to be the co-curators of this first major exhibition of the Art of the Hollywood Backdrop, the museum project began to take shape. They accepted an invitation to visit the Boca Raton Museum of Art in the fall of 2021, thanks to Lippman, who had seen the television segment on CBS Sunday Morning.

Lynne Coakley heads J.C. Backings Corporation, which acquired over two thousand backdrops from MGM storage in the 1970s. In 2012, the Art Directors Guild Archives, then under the direction of Thomas A. Walsh as president, launched the Backdrop Recovery Project, a partnership with J.C. Backings. Their goal was to preserve the backings and make them available for study.

Twenty backdrops, including the famous Mount Rushmore, are being loaned by the Texas Performing Arts Hollywood Backdrop Collection at the University of Texas. In addition, a 1952 backdrop for Singin’ in the Rain and the tapestry backdrop for Marie Antoinette (1938) are on loan from the Motion Picture Academy in Los Angeles. Donald O’Connor danced his brilliant comic performance of “Make ’Em Laugh” in front of the backdrop from Singin’ in the Rain, and museum visitors will be able to take selfies in front of it, with a recreation of the sofa and mannequin from the famous scene.

One of the recipients of this cache of gigantic paintings was the University of Texas at Austin. Karen L. Maness, who serves as UT’s assistant professor of practice, saw the opportunity to use the artifacts as part of a learning laboratory where students could use them for visualization and inspiration to succeed in high-realism scenic painting.

The Marie Antoinette tapestry backdrop interestingly was reused in the auction house scene of North by Northwest (1959). Repurposing props and backdrops was a relatively common practice in the film and television industry of the time. Produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the latter film starred Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.

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O Opposite: A film still from The Sound of Music, showing the actual location, which was recreated with one of the iconic backdrops that the public will see for the first time in this exhibition, 20th Century Fox (1965) Left: North by Northwest (91' x 30'), Mount Rushmore, MGM Studios (1959) Below: Most backdrop painters in Hollywood were trained as professional artists but were uncredited, sometimes because of union agreements but often because the studios didn’t want their secret techniques leaked to competitors.

f the famous Mount Rushmore mural also used for North by Northwest, Maness says, “This is the granddaddy, the Babe Ruth of all Hollywood backdrops. Especially because it was such a key player in the telling of this story.” The backdrop is part of Texas Performing Arts’ permanent backdrop collection, the most extensive educational collection of Hollywood Motion Picture backdrops in the world. Maness worked on the backdrop to prepare it for the exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. This involved cleaning, sealing, touching up paint, and repairing tears. She also conducted extensive oral history interviews with the last surviving artists, their family members, and their acolytes to record and preserve their previously unacknowledged histories. “It was essential to capture these artists’ stories before they disappeared,” she says. Some of these artists came from a family tradition of the craft, with lineages spanning three generations of painters. The skill stayed within the family. Most were trained as professional artists, yet they remained uncredited, sometimes because of union agreements, but mainly because the studios wanted to keep a firm grip on the secret techniques handed down from master to apprentice on the backlots.

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he physicality of painting across these giant canvases was often overwhelmingly difficult. Some artists even suffered tragic consequences in the early years of this craft before the studios developed more sophisticated working platforms.

“This has become my passion project, to tell their stories,” Maness shares. “I will be their champion in this lifetime. Historically, as a woman, I would have never been allowed to work alongside them in that era. As a teacher, they have now become my masters. When you choose your mentors as ghosts, they can’t say no.” In the heyday of MGM, three shifts of scenic artists would work day and night to complete one backdrop. They painted the creations for the camera lens, not the human eye. It is a very impressionistic style of painting―not quite photorealism, but it snaps together as photorealistic when viewed from a distance. Up close, the backdrops look totally different. When visitors to the museum take selfies with their phone cameras, the resulting images will look very different from what they see in person in the gallery. This unique concept of “photorealism for the camera” was spearheaded by George Gibson. “This show is about the joy of reliving something you grew up with that you always thought was real,” says Thomas A. Walsh. “It’s about getting as close to that magical moment in time as you can, being in the same space with that giant, familiar scene. It is difficult for people to get their minds around the awesome size of these magical spaces until they see them in person. People are often shocked and surprised by the scale and visual impact of these massive creations. These are literally some of the largest paintings ever created in the world, similar to cyclorama paintings. Aside from the technicians working in the soundstages, no one else has set eyes on this collection. This is the first time the public can see it in person.” Throughout his career, Walsh has been a mentor to many. “After the digital/synthetic revolution took over filmmaking, the young designers today who are most successful in the computerized realm are those who continue to hone their real-life painting and drawing skills,” he says. “They know about perspective and really understand art, nature, light, and architecture. They can still be tactile. The idea that you can still get personal and dirty with your art is a revelation to many of the current generation. Those who do are better at their computer arts.”

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Hollywood’s most closely guarded creative secrets can finally be revealed through this never-before-seen exhibition.

alsh was born into a Hollywood show business family. His father, Arthur Walsh, was a contract actor and jitterbug champion at MGM Studios in the 1940s and went on to have a successful solo career as a nightclub comedian. Through exposure to his father’s world of live performance, Walsh began his lifelong journey in film and performing arts. He attended Hollywood High School and, starting at age seventeen, served as an apprentice to some of these Hollywood scenic artists. Today, Walsh is a leading production designer in the entertainment industry. He was president of the Art Director’s Guild when this recovery project started, and his vision was to ensure his guild’s members were seen and recorded. “Credit went to everyone in these classic films except the scenic artists who made the cinematic moments possible by creating the backdrops,” says Lippman. “The heroic efforts by these preservationists to recover the singular artistic knowledge of these masters is the heartbeat that underlies this exhibition at our museum. Hollywood’s most closely guarded creative secrets can finally be revealed through this never-before-seen exhibition, which we are proud to debut here in South Florida.” The show also features an Education Gallery created especially for this exhibition, showcasing historic tools of the trade used by these artists in Hollywood.

One of the most memorable experiences for visitors to the museum will be the opportunity to see up close the actual brushstrokes and dynamic hand-painted techniques that these artists used to create the necessary effects for the camera lens. “In this form of painting, the deadlines and physicality required speed and confidence. The canvas was attacked with wild abandon, not courted,” Walsh says. “Their unique industrial techniques permitted them to be Norman Rockwell at one moment, and then Turner, Rembrandt, or Vermeer at another.” As artists, they made motion picture artworks— with a brush, roller and sponge, spray guns and Hudson tanks, brooms, or just sheer tactile aggression—on a massive Ford’s River Rouge industrial scale and output schedule. “Bold, efficient brushstrokes pull forms into a loose realism that breathes with the energy of the artists who laid the marks on the canvas,” Maness expounds. “These monumental witnesses to cinematic history vibrate with impressionistic optical blending techniques, applied with pneumatic guns, to deliver fine points of color that pull together and hold up as realism for the camera’s eye.”

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A new headline-worthy feature film is lingering just beyond the treeline. Savage,, a full-length movie shot in Northwest Florida, promises to redefine Savage the horror genre by showcasing local creative talent and innovative storylines. “If you look at the horror films of the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s, it’s really all unlikeable protagonists being hunted by copy-and-paste antagonists,” explains writer, director, and producer Javan Garza. “So when jumping into this project, the main question for us was ‘How is it going to be different?’” Garza, a self-taught indie filmmaker with more than a decade of experience in production, is joined by lead actress and coproducer Dawn Hamil in bringing Savage to life. Furthermore, all the cast and crew members are residents of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, united by their desire to shine the spotlight on the Panhandle’s flourishing arts scene.

Savage’s plot follows Doe, a woman struggling to see what’s beyond the river bend after experiencing the enigmatic disappearance of her father. As she and her partner set off searching for him, they find themselves in the thick woods, far from civilization. Doe is haunted by vivid nightmares of what her father’s fate may be. She learns to navigate the deep woods of her past, all while refusing to stay down in a fight; the fierce female lead must rise to the occasion and go toe-to-toe with the monster lurking in the dark. Inspired by the Venezuelan folktale, El Silbón, Savage is different because its inspiration stems from

Latin American legends and cultural influences. “For Latin Americans, the supernatural is not just an idea out in the cosmos; it’s something that when you’re sitting at the dinner table, you can go, ‘Oh, I saw a ghost in the house the other day,’ and everyone would say, ‘That’s interesting, pass the potatoes.’ It’s very real,” Garza explains. “That’s something I hope to mine with this project that really hasn’t been tapped into to its fullest in the film industry. There’s a wealth of stories here just waiting to be told.” Members of the cast are equally as invested in the film’s success. Actor Joseph Bishop shares, “Being able to portray a character that is going through an event V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 77

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I hope the audience is terrified. I hope the audience is affected. I hope they see something in Savage that speaks to them as much as it speaks to us. in life and seeing him transition from a selfish nature to a selfless nature is a challenge for me,” but one that excites him nevertheless. Hamil fully embraced her role as the heroine by diving headfirst into intensive Krav Maga training to increase her mental and physical endurance and best embody her role. Whether responsible for music, makeup, acting, or behind-the-scenes production, each person on set is a critical factor in the final movie. The undeniable bond between the many people who made Savage a reality translates into the chilling experience the audience experiences while viewing the piece on the screen. “It’s fun having a team that has your back and allows you to create, to be silly, to push it as far as it will go, and then to dial it back and find what’s right,” Garza expresses. “I hope the audience is terrified. I hope the audience is affected. I hope they see something in Savage that speaks to them as much as it speaks to us.” The thriller is set to release just in time for spooky season, premiering in October 2022. Prepare for the reimagined horror story to take center stage, diving into the profound emotional experiences of isolation, survival, and loss while featuring some of Northwest Florida’s most eminent creatives.

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Built into the seawall along the Armação de Pêra coastline, the Red Chalet is a charming four-bedroom luxury residence. The Moorish architecture incorporates the rich surrounding culture, complete with a terra-cotta terrace perfect for afternoon drinks. Its charming aesthetic marries the comforts of the present with the glamour of the past while subtly including contemporary modern design. The property offers guests a chance to journey back to simpler times and enjoy life in a seafront setting.

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Riad Star offers a luxurious hotel experience in Marrakesh, Morocco. It is the former home of 1920s actress, singer, dancer, and activist Josephine Baker.

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ven in the middle of wartime, dancers dazzled. No star shined brighter in occupied France than St. Louis-born jazz performer-turned-spy Josephine Baker. She so entranced the pasha of Morocco he invited her to take refuge from the bombs of France at his palace guest house in Marrakesh.

Thus Riad Star earned its name even before it entered its current incarnation as a hotel that attracts all who feel a connection to one of America’s most legendary performers. “As a professionally trained ballet dancer, I was eagerly anticipating my stay in the house where Josephine lived,” says Jacqueline Gilbertson, a former Max Factor marketing director, now studying flamenco in Portugal. She recalls the magic of visiting the dress-up room Mike and Lucie Wood have installed at the riad in tribute to its famous former resident. “After welcoming me with mint tea, Ali, the house manager, took me to the costume room, where 1920s flapper dresses hung side by side with traditional Moroccan garments. “Dresser drawers were filled to the brim with fashion accessories from jewelry to hair ornaments, and there were lots of sparkly shoes.” Gilbertson may have just arrived off the plane from Lisbon, but she dived in, enchanted. “Ali patiently waited as I made my choices and took photos as I posed. It was such fun to dress up; I had an urge to dance the Charleston!” Considering Baker’s fame with French audiences, Americans who identified with her politics, and tourists from all over the world old enough to have seen her perform (I was lucky enough as a child to see her at a casino on the Côte d’Azur), it seems astonishing that Mike and Lucie Wood, who bought Riad Star fifteen years ago, had never heard of her. “We had no idea who Josephine Baker was until we learned about her from an elderly neighbor in Marrakesh,” confesses Lucie.

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Some Americans have made a special pilgrimage to the riad, like a group of ladies from Alabama who knew Baker was asked by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s widow to play a leading role in the Civil Rights Movement after his assassination. “She declined because she had just adopted twelve children and did not think it was the right time for her to take on that role,” says Lucie. She and Mike met two of those children at Chez Josephine restaurant in New York City, which they run in tribute to their mother. Another of Baker’s children brought his daughter to Riad Star to see where her grandmother lived during her years in Morocco. “She looked remarkably like Josephine trying on the dresses!”

he says that changed once they had Googled the American jazz dancer. “Mike and I became obsessed with her, although we named the house Riad Star because we saw so many stars every night looking up from the courtyard.

“But once we learned what she represented—a James Bond character as well as a performer—we fell in love with her and decided we had to bring a little piece of her back to the house to light it up with her sassiness and love of life.” Thus the dress-up room was born in 2013 after Mike and Lucie traveled to Paris for an auction of the last dress Baker wore for a performance. “This fabulous bright-red number, heavy with sequins, was authenticated by the Casino de Paris, where she danced,” says Lucie. “I kept bidding as other showgirls’ dresses worn in the chorus line at the Casino came up for sale. We needed two vans to get them all back. “We dry-cleaned them, sewed up those that needed it, and decided to make all but the most precious garments available to guests.” Many jump at the chance to don another persona as they pick a frock, pair it with a feather boa or bandanna, and wear it to dinner on the rooftop or around the pool. “On either side of the pool, there is a plain white wall where, at nighttime, we turn on projectors and bring Josephine to life with words, photos, and moving images,” says Lucie, whose work as a psychotherapist is heavily influenced by the power of storytelling. “We have dresses in every size from 8 to 22, and men’s evening clothes as well. I love how playful guests become when they dress up.”

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At Riad Star, the legend lives on in guest-room names like Charleston (the flapper dance she is credited with having revived interest in) and Jazz (decorated in sumptuous red, gold, and black velvets, complete with a purple saxophone that guests are invited to play at soirees). But only the vivid-hued Rainbow Room really reflects Baker’s love of bright color. “I am much more into creating the calm, peaceful spaces Josephine favored too,” Lucie reveals. “And even though I love the intricacy of the plasterwork here in Morocco and the atmospheric shadows it throws, the fact it’s white means it can be pretty peaceful as well.” Riad Star is awash in this white plasterwork, which adorns a complete wall, creating geometric star shadows.

Opposite top left: The Paradise guest room at sister property Riad Spice is draped in Moroccan splendor. Opposite bottom left: Props in the dress-up room at Riad Star Photo by Tanveer Badal Opposite right: Josephine Baker circa 1930 Photo courtesy of Glasshouse Images/ Shutterstock Left: Photo by Tanveer Badal Below: Riad Star features nighttime entertainment and a projection display of Baker’s history around the rooftop pool.

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aving acquired a collection of riads in Marrakesh over the past fifteen years, Mike and Lucie moved up to a new level of luxury with Riad Spice. There they have created a unique tented room on the roof with yard upon yard of silky pleated fabric Lucie likens to a jewelry box enveloping the sleepers.

Although she has been heavily influenced by the American designer Bill Willis, who is famous for his take on North African interiors—“I was lucky enough to meet him in Marrakesh before he died”—Lucie took English four-poster beds as her inspiration for this room. She enjoys “the luxurious effect of gathering yards of fabric into a central rose. Like Willis, I enjoy interiors that are very intricate, almost over the top, and although he didn’t do a tented room I know of, I’ve absorbed his style.”

Willis’s influence has lived on in the romantic riads of Marrakesh, where colorful rooms recreating the spirit of Scheherazade are plentiful, but only at Riad Star is it possible to channel the energy of Josephine Baker. “It was the highlight of my trip,” says an American ballet student turned businesswoman who found her dancing mojo in the dress-up room of the great jazz performer’s former home. No doubt, it will become a highlight for many more.

Visit RiadStar.com to learn more or book your stay. Anthea Gerrie is based in the UK but travels the world in search of stories. Her special interests are architecture and design, culture, food, and drink, as well as the best places to visit in the world’s great playgrounds. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, the Independent, and Blueprint. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 85

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oha is a city on the move. With a nod toward its rich heritage and an innovative eye on the future, it’s no wonder the capital city of Qatar is quickly becoming a popular Middle Eastern tourist destination. Move over, Dubai—your counterpart is just as modern, quieter, and offers a more authentic travel experience. A peninsula extending into the Persian Gulf from the border of Saudi Arabia, the once unassuming desert nation known for its fishing and pearl diving is now home to nearly three million residents, of which 12 percent are native Qataris while many more are expats from several nations. One of the richest states per capita in the world, we can credit Qatar’s vast oil-producing wealth for Doha’s impressive cultural landmarks and the colorful cosmopolitan skyline that towers over the Arabian Gulf. As a vacation spot, the city has it all: glitz and glamour, rich culture, exotic Qatari cuisine, scenic beaches, extravagant shopping, an array of luxury hotels, and adventures in the desert. And this November, the city can add international sports to its résumé with the FIFA World Cup 2022. Here are a few impressions of this enchanting city.

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ONE of the RICHEST STATES PER CAPITA in the WORLD, WE CAN CREDIT QATAR’S VAST OIL-PRODUCING WEALTH for DOHA’S IMPRESSIVE CULTURAL LANDMARKS and the COLORFUL COSMOPOLITAN SKYLINE that TOWERS OVER the ARABIAN GULF. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE JOURNEY Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” certainly applies to the flights on the national airline of the state, Qatar Airways. With its new standard of business class accommodations known as Q-suite (think mini-first class), the pod-like setting is your personal cocoon, and apart from answering nature’s calls, the only person you are sure to see is your ever-attentive flight attendant (who also turns down your seat into a fully flat bed at night). For those traveling with family or business associates, a Q-suite quad is available with movable panels that close at bedtime. Pajamas from The White Company and a leather toiletry case from Diptyque are nice touches. On the ground, Qatar Airways continues to amaze with the Al Mourjan Business Lounge (one of six lounges) located around an Olympic pool ten times the standard size. The overall experience begs the questions: When was the last time you took your time getting off a plane? Or you didn’t want the flight to end? Or when the words “flight delay” meant you were happy hanging out another hour in the lounge? Qatar Airways is the ultimate jet lag-free way to begin a trip to Doha. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 87

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DOHA BOASTS a VARIETY of WAYS to SOAK UP the LOCAL SCENE WHERE THERE is SOMETHING for EVERY TASTE and INTEREST THROUGH ITS STAGGERING ARRAY of MUSEUMS, MOSQUES, ART GALLERIES, SHOPS, and MARKETS. SKYSCRAPERS ON STEROIDS With Doha’s trademark futuristic skyline comprising myriad geometric shapes, colors, and sizes, Frank Lloyd Wright would be in awe if he could see it. The list of architects who have left their mark on the country’s capital reads like a who’s who of the best, from the legendary I. M. Pei (Museum of Islamic Art) and Rem Koolhaas (Qatar National Library) to the French architect Jean Nouvel’s acclaimed National Museum of Qatar, inspired by the area’s desert rose formations. The late Zaha Hadid’s designs for the upcoming World Cup stadiums, which mimic Middle Eastern references such as a dhow boat and an Arab tent, are nothing short of amazing. It doesn’t get any better for architects, interior designers, and those interested in all things beautiful.

CULTURE IN THE CITY There is no better way to understand a city’s people, history, and origins than through the lens of the culture. Doha boasts a variety of ways to soak up the local scene where there is something for every taste and interest through its staggering array of museums, mosques, art galleries, shops, and markets. One of the best ways to see the various mosques and cities within the city (such as The Pearl-Qatar, aka the “Arabian Riviera”) is through a tour guide and air-conditioned car, as temps can get up to 115 during summer days). A day at the museum affords the visitor a quick study. The Museum of Islamic Art (perched on a peninsula) features artwork and artifacts from the past 1,400 years. The National Museum of Qatar offers an immersive journey through the nation’s rich heritage. Katara Cultural Villages’ rooftop dining, an assortment of galleries, art studios, and an amphitheater that houses the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra are not to be missed. For those who love to shop, two diverse options are available. After the sun goes down, head to the Souq Waqif, where the Middle East meets Asia. Winding alleyways filled with spices, textiles, jewelry, and memorabilia await (note: the marketplace is most popular on Friday evenings). The open-air market also features the Falcon Souq and stables housing majestic (and Instagram-ready) Arabian horses and camels. Be sure to stop and savor Persian cuisine at 88 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

Offering everything from brightly colored textiles and crafts to jewels and al fresco dining, the marketplace is extremely popular with tourists and locals alike. Below left: An array of fresh spices is a mainstay at the Souq Waqif.

Located by the water, Katara Cultural Village includes a collection of museums, galleries, public art exhibits, a golden-domed mosque, and an amphitheater.

the ultra-gilt and jewel-clad Parisa. If you are looking for modern luxury and fashion, check out Place Vendôme, which offers five-hundred-plus stores from Hermès to Zara. Inspired by Paris’s eighteenth-century square on Rue de la Paix, the palatial feel signals this isn’t your run-of-the-mill mall.

DECISIONS, DECISIONS—WHERE TO STAY For hotel aficionados, Doha can be a mecca. Perhaps your biggest decision will be where to stay, as the city offers an impressive selection of five-star hotels, each more luxurious than the last. The stately St. Regis is a wonderful choice if grand luxury is to your liking. The hotel is located on the West Bay and offers direct access to the beach with private cabanas and water sports. Sea views are another plus, along with the Arabian decor touches and state-of-the-art technology. Opening this year, the Residences at St. Regis Marsa Arabia Island in the tony yacht-filled area of The Pearl-Qatar will be available for purchase or rent. Design enthusiasts will love the uniquely modern interiors at Banyan Tree. Created by the renowned interior designer Jacques Garcia of Hotel Costes fame, the lobby, with its sculptural interpretation of earth, water, and fire, is worth the stay alone. The room designs blend contemporary and Asian styles with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. For dining, don’t miss the authentic Italian restaurant Il Galante or Vertigo

Doha with its 360-degree views of the city. Situated in the cultural hub of Mushaireb, the property has its own garden oasis with more than 130 trees (and yes, they are banyan trees). A stay at Banana Island Resort Doha by Anantara is a welcome respite from the city. Only twenty minutes by boat from downtown Doha, the resort’s golden beaches, crystal clear waters, private over-the-water villas, and villas on land (complete with sea views and a private pool) are a huge draw. The vibe is relaxed and family friendly, where activities include a health spa, cinema, beach games, a dedicated kids club, and, for the adventurous, a wave rider surf pool.

SOCCER, ANYONE? If you are among the 3.5 billion soccer fans, no doubt you know Doha is hosting the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 from November 21 to December 18. Eight stateof-the-art stadiums—each seemingly more unique than the others—will host thirty-two teams for the world’s most popular sporting event. In addition, over one hundred new hotels were built this year, and Doha Metro shuttle buses will transport the soccer faithful.

Head to VisitQatar.qa to learn more or start planning your trip.

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Petite pause The King of Rock and Roll takes the stage once again! Austin Butler spent two years researching and transforming to bring the hipswiveling sensation to life in director Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. The movie debuted on June 24, 2022. With supporting performances by Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, and Richard Roxburgh, the film has received high praise from critics and has grossed over $189 million worldwide. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

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Richard Hamilton, author of The Last Storytellers, which recounts the decline of storytelling in Marrakesh. “The tellers had a huge repertoire— their fables, fairy tales, and creation myths borrowing from the rich traditions of the cultures that came to the city.” B Y X E N I A TA L I O T I S PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF WORLD STORYTELLING CAFE

Principal of these were Arabs from the Middle East, Berbers from North Africa, and people from sub-Saharan Africa. Over the centuries, their stories became part of the fabric of Marrakesh’s own narrative. Gradually the skill of the hlaykia became known and celebrated throughout much of the world.

“I tell stories because I see the impact they can have,” says Zouhair Khaznaoui.

hey can entertain, they can help us forget our troubles, they can bring laughter or tears. They can take us to places we will never, ever be able to go—ten thousand years into the future, ten thousand years into the past, into space. They can inspire. They can comfort. They can teach.”

Khaznaoui is a professional storyteller, a hlaykia, in Marrakesh—where the oral storytelling tradition, hikayat, dates from the city’s birth more than a thousand years ago. In those early days, the storytellers would take their positions on the main square, Jemaa el-Fna, to ply their trade. This was their stage, and each night they shared it with musicians and fortune-tellers, snake charmers and dancers, and with their audience, people who would weave among them, gravitating towards the halqa, or story circles, of those whose narratives enchanted. At the end of the performance, the listeners would pay what they could and disperse. The next night they would do the same, seeking out their favorite storytellers. “Sometimes the big epic stories would continue at the same time each day, for months and months, sometimes for a year or even longer,” says

In 2001, UNESCO proclaimed Jemaa el-Fna as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in recognition of its significance as a venue for storytellers. One of its goals was to offer protection both to the square and those who performed there, as UNESCO’s report carried a warning: the traditional practices they hoped to preserve, which had prompted them to list Jemma el-Fna, looked set to “suffer acculturation.” The caution proved prescient, and sadly, acculturation did indeed happen, causing grievous injury to the storytellers and the art itself. The arrival of modernity in the form of television, mass tourism, traders settling in Jemaa el-Fna to sell what they could to those tourists, and, most recently, cell phones drove hikayat to near extinction. In an article he wrote for the BBC in 2014, Hamilton recounted a conversation with a hlaykia where the man told him there was no longer space for storytellers, that their voices had been engulfed, swallowed by the merchants jostling for the tourist dollar. Hikayat was “nuanced,” said Hamilton. “It had not kept pace with the noise and general madness of Marrakesh,” and it was dying. When he wrote that article, there were very few hlaykia left in Marrakesh—Hamilton thought perhaps only two. All seemed lost, but then—just as in the best fairy tales—two remarkable interventions were set up by British people whose love for Morocco runs deep. First came Mike Richardson’s Cafe Clock in 2014, a lovely space in a traditional riad where locals and tourists can

Opposite: A hlaykia (storyteller) performs in the main square, Jemaa el-Fna, during the 2022 Marrakesh International Storytelling Festival. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 93

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meet for enriching cultural and culinary experiences. Vital to its work is its apprentice program for young storytellers: revered master hlaykia Hajj Ahmed Ezzarghani not only teaches his trainees the ancient stories but also how to tell them, how to build suspense, how to time the denouement—the essentials of the oral tradition.

It was great to see how much people appreciated the event. Stories are so important. They are part of our culture, but also of our future. They can help the world heal.

Mike Wood and Lucie Andersen-Wood, owners of the second enterprise, the World Storytelling Cafe, had planned to open a diner with two performance rooms—also in a riad—just before the pandemic hit in 2020. They had staff in place and had enlisted the help of John Row, a world-class teller whose connections in the appreciation, and for some of our tellers, that money was the difference between storytelling world span continents, and were feeding their families and not.” ready to open—when Marrakesh closed. “We had already started to develop a website, so when we went into lockdown, Mike and John put all their energy into the virtual cafe,” says Lucie. “We saw how the pandemic was hitting performers globally, so our project became bigger and bigger. Within a few months, we had two hundred tellers from around the world, all reciting their stories online and finding a potential income stream. We stuck to the performers’ traditional method of passing the hat around for gratuities, only it was a virtual hat. Audiences showed their 94 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

The online cafe is ongoing, with audiences logging in daily to hear stories live or look through the archive for a story they’d like to listen to. And in February, the World Storytelling Cafe finally celebrated its physical launch with its inaugural weeklong Marrakesh International Storytelling Festival. This brought forty of the world’s best-known tellers to the city to perform in cafes, riads, museums, and, of course, in the square. It was, says Khaznaoui (a former Cafe Clock apprentice who is now a regular performer at World Storytelling Cafe), a wonderful celebration, marking the city’s awakening after lockdown and the awakening of interest in hikayat. “It was great to see how much people appreciated the event. Stories are so important. They are part of our culture, but also of our future. They can help the world heal.”

Above: The World Storytelling Cafe organized the Marrakesh International Storytelling Festival to bring together people of all backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of oral storytelling that is part of the city’s proud legacy.

ucie agrees. “This is one of our key aims,” she says. “While it’s essential to preserve heritage and tradition, there is also a need to think about the future, and in particular to use stories to educate.” She also hopes to show women and other marginalized groups that they can have different roles other than the oft-stereotypical ones depicted in mainstream media. “I’m a counseling psychologist and psychotherapist, so I’ve seen how great an effect the stories we are told and the ones we tell ourselves can have on us. If you can help someone reframe their own narrative so that, for example, they view themselves as a survivor instead of a victim, you might enable them to change patterns of behavior that are holding them back.” In addition, the Word Storytelling Cafe encourages storytellers worldwide who’ve thus far been denied opportunities to come forward with their tales. “We want to see new writing. We want to hear the voices of all people, regardless of the color of their skin, their gender, their religion, and regardless of whether they are disabled or neurodiverse,” Lucie says. “This is a new chapter for storytelling in Marrakesh and around the world—an ever more colorful and enriching one.”

T h e n ext Ma r ra ke s h I nte r n at i o n a l Sto r y te l l i n g Fe st i va l w i l l b e h e l d Fe b r u a r y 1 2 -19, 2 02 3 . Vi s i t Wo r l d Sto r y te l l i n g Cafe.co m to l ea r n m o re. Xe n i a Ta l i ot i s v i s i te d Ma r ra ke s h as a g u e st of R i ad S p i ce ( R i ad S p i ce.co m ) . Rate s sta rt at $1 5 8 p e r n i g ht , i n c l u d i n g b rea kfast . G u e sts ca n a l s o e n j oy t h e fac i l i t i e s of n ea r by s i ste r p ro p e rt y R i ad Sta r ( R i ad Sta r.co m ) , i n c l u d i n g a s pa , h a m m a m , a n d co o ki n g s c h o o l .

Xenia Taliotis is a UK-based editor and writer who covers lifestyle, travel, wellbeing, property, and finance for a number of publications, including The Telegraph, Christie’s International Real Estate, Women’s Health, and VIE.

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SOUL Shine By Hailey Bethke | Photography courtesy of Soulshine

he most memorable experiences are often grounded in the connections we make, the quality of our environment, and the peace that emanates from each of us when we unplug and embrace the present. I had one such experience during my first trip to Bali in 2019. I was in Ubud, the island’s vibrant city known for its bustling arts and culture scene, when I arrived at Soulshine Bali, a barefoot luxury resort dedicated to togetherness. Much like what people say after reminiscing on their time in Bali, Soulshine carries magnetic energy that encourages visitors to turn inward while prioritizing well-being and joy. Michael Franti, the globally beloved musician, humanitarian, and activist, and his friend Carla Swanson are the founders of the resort. After visiting the island in 2007, Franti and his wife, Sara Agah Franti, fell in love with its culture and nature, cherishing everything from the rice terraces to the ancient temples. “The Balinese have a philosophy called Tri Hita Karana, which means ‘the three ways to happiness,’” Michael explains. “These three harmonies include the interactions between humans, humans and nature, and humans to spirit, which is the intention we built Soulshine around.” When founding the resort, Michael and Carla started with nothing more than their united vision to create a haven where people could hit the reset button on life. “It was almost like a Field of Dreams story,” Michael recalls. “If you build it, they will come.” V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 97

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ith Michael’s deep connection to music and Sara having spent ten years as an emergency-room registered nurse, they have always recognized the healing nature of music and the power of wellness practices. “It’s at the core of everything we do as a family,” Michael emphasizes. “And that includes Soulshine Bali. We created it to be a place committed to helping souls shine so that they can inspire others to do the same.”

“We believe that joy is as much a healer as meditation, massage, shedding tears, great food, and mindfulness.”

Soulshine Bali was the first hotel dedicated explicitly to yoga in the Ubud area, which is now recognized as a global hot spot for spiritual soul seekers and yogis alike. The resort was founded in 2011, initially containing only five rooms and a third-floor open-air yoga studio, with panoramic views of the rice terraces and a beautiful river that runs alongside the property. With the pandemic allowing for ample time to focus on expansion, Soulshine is excited to announce new offerings, including seventeen luxury rooms (three of which are penthouses), a third-floor villa with a private plunge pool, two new restaurants, a new pool club, and an organic spa. Michael’s passion for music can also be seen in the design elements sprinkled throughout the property, with guitars and turntables in each suite.

Most recently, the Frantis announced an exciting new immersive experience called Soulrocker Retreats, with dates set for March and December 2023. Soulrocker Retreats combine live music (including three performances by Michael Franti), yoga, fitness, and connecting with like-minded creatives for an expansive and enriching week. “Soulrockers are people who love life and have a tenacious enthusiasm for music, people, and the planet,” Michael explains. “Anyone looking to hit the reset button on life, enjoy my live music in the tropics, and have a great time is a prime candidate!” Michael and Sara share that their favorite part of hosting the Soulrocker Retreats includes the connections they form with guests who share their passion for music and genuinely care about the world as much as they care about themselves. “I’ve always written joyful songs that have allowed me to persevere through the greatest challenges in my life,” Michael shares. “Normally, I’m playing shows in front of thousands of people, so to sit in the pool or around the dinner table and share where my music comes from means a lot to me. The intimacy of spending time with sixty people over the course of a week means we have time to have conversations with each of them.” Soulshine’s prime location boasts unmatched proximity to the island’s natural wonders, allowing for experiences like world-class surfing and hiking through 98 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

terraced rice paddies. Sara and Michael love to offer optional activities around the island at all their retreats; from volcano hikes to water temple visits and sightseeing, guests can fully immerse themselves in Balinese culture. Back on the premises, they’ll dine at the Soulshine Restaurant, which serves a variety of organic salads, meat dishes, delicious vegan options, and smoothies, or at the Togetherness Lounge, which is a favorite for wood-fired pizzas, shared plates, and consciously crafted cocktails. Self-reflection, personal growth, solitude, and healing are often associated with the word retreat, yet Soulshine redefines its meaning. “We want you to think of all that plus one more major ingredient—fun!” Michael and Sara emphasize. Michael continues, “We believe joy is as much a healer as meditation, massage, shedding tears, great food, and mindfulness. Souls shine when they connect mindfulness with dance, music, play, laughter, letting go, enjoying nature, and togetherness. This is what makes whole health and inspires us to shine. So come to Soulshine with an open heart and an appetite for joy and be prepared to have a life-changing experience.”

To discover more about Soulshine Bali or to book a Soulrocker Retreat, head to SoulshineBali.com.

Above right: The Frantis have created a new yoga, music, and wellness event series called Soulrocker Retreats, which invites guests to Soulshine resort for a lifechanging week of togetherness, healthy habits, and live music. Left: Photographer Renae Saxby lounging on Soulshine’s terrace during a Soulrocker party

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Food is

GOOD A NEW PERSPECTIVE

You’ve seen them before. The ads that scream,

“LOSE 20 LBS IN 20 DAYS!” By L I N D S AY T O B I A S

ut what happens on day twenty-one after doing Beyoncé’s cayenne water cleanse? Most people gain all their weight back, building up for their next crash diet. As a Functional Nutrition Counselor, I deal with clients who have tried it all: keto, vegan, grapefruit diet, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, pleasure-free, and more. They look back on their fad diets longingly because they “worked so well before” and decide they may need more discipline or willpower. This could not be further from the truth.

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The more diets you do, the more you may believe that food is just a way to change your body. It isn’t. Food is information to your body; every bite you take gives your cells instructions. The sweet potato you had for lunch supported your vision and immune system. The blueberries in your morning parfait improved your cognition and lowered your stress levels with antioxidants. Food is medicine. It is also one of the most beautiful ways we can connect with others. The word companion comes from the Latin com and panis, meaning “someone to break bread with.” We are built to think about food as joy, community, and nourishment, not body manipulation. There are reasons diets don’t work

long-term—namely, they weren’t designed to! Some diets even have deadlines in the title—21 Day Fix, 75 Hard, Whole 30—reinforcing the idea that sustainability is not the goal here. The billion-dollar diet industry is the only thriving industry that consistently holds a 97-percent failure rate. Yet we still find hope in the next diet. Just. One. More. Here are three reasons why dieting doesn’t work.

1. Metabolic Adaptation

Weight loss is a stressor to the body. It challenges our body’s homeostasis (stability). When you first start a low-calorie diet, you will lose weight. The caloric demand on your body is much higher than the energy supply, so you are in a calorie deficit. Simple, right? While you may view your diet as positive or safe, your body may view it as a danger or a famine. Therefore, it will metabolically adapt to protect itself. If you stay in a deficit long-term, you will run out of the energy you need to function, so your metabolism will downregulate to suit your new low-calorie norm better. Dieters consider this a “plateau”—when you are doing the

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DIET CULTURE GIVES US THIS WARPED DEFINITION OF WELLNESS AS RESTRICTION. WE HAVE AN EVER-CHANGING LIST OF WHAT WE CAN’T EAT, LEAVING US CONFUSED, AIMLESS, AND AGITATED.

same thing as before, but weight loss halts, forcing you to eat less and less. When we do not give our body consistent, nourishing food, we teach it to store the little food we give it. The instructions we are broadcasting to our cells are simple: “Run on less energy!” When we experience this metabolic adaptation, our warm hands begin to cool, our emotional regulation begins to wane, our energy plummets, and we need constant sugar or caffeine to stay afloat. Libido also goes out the door, and our consistent morning poop goes MIA, keeping our body from being able to detoxify naturally. We struggle to concentrate, our brains feel foggy, the scale fluctuates, and we feel like if we aren’t dieting, we are gaining weight. Because the more extreme the diet, the more the body has to protect itself and adapt.

2. Confusion

Most diets categorize foods as “good” and “bad,” usually marked with appropriate green and red columns. If you have dieted for any period of time, you will learn that these good and bad foods are arbitrary; they are not fixed and change with whatever diet you are

currently following. Every diet is a list of rules that tells you to cut out another food group to lower your calories, ties a bow around the top, and sells a new guidebook. After going vegan, you learn to demonize meat; after going paleo, you shun grains; after going low-carb, fruit becomes the enemy; after going lectin-free, you never eat beans; after going Whole 30, you say no to anything with sugar. After your third diet, you will find guilt in any and all varieties of food. Usually, that guilt and shame are followed by a rebellion against the diet or your own body. Diet culture gives us this warped definition of wellness as restriction. We have an ever-changing list of what we can’t eat, leaving us confused, aimless, and agitated.

3. Zero Joy Necessary

In Japanese culture, satisfaction is a beautiful component of food and meal times. It helps people listen to their bodies and hara hachi bu, or eat until 80 percent full, allowing everyone to be present and joyful during meal times. In American diet culture, we have exchanged the culture, art, and beauty of food for convenience, rules, and rigidity. Most people think that if they find pleasure in their food, they are probably doing something wrong. There is a reason eating delicious food releases dopamine in the brain or that we have taste buds in the first place—we are built to enjoy and be satisfied by our food. Otherwise, we would not come back to it! The number one sustainability factor is also the most neglected factor in dieting: joy. If you enjoy what you do, you don’t have to be convinced to continue. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 107

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WHAT KIND OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE WOULD MAKE YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF? Do it differently.

What if you started by adding healing foods for your health rather than obsessively cutting foods out? What if the way you eat doesn’t have to have a name or be a formal diet? What if you could start by making goals of adding some produce (fruits and veggies) to every breakfast, then maybe to lunch and dinner? What if you started by asking yourself what you want to sustain? What kind of healthy lifestyle would make you proud of yourself ? What if you took the time to learn more about your food, so you weren’t sucked into marketing ploys by the newest diet plan? What if you demanded satisfaction and enjoyment from your health rather than perfection or stringency? I ask you these questions to broaden your view of health. These are all possible for you; you can be a diet culture dropout like me and the hundreds of clients I have worked with!

Lindsay Tobias is a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor, Holistic Health Coach, Exercise Physiologist, and the owner of Keep Your Plants On, LLC. She graduated from Liberty University, Precision Nutrition, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and the Functional Nutrition Alliance, where she learned to look at root causes of imbalance rather than symptom suppression. She teaches clients how to use food and movement as medicine and good habits for restoring energy, balancing hormones, banishing bloat, sustaining gut dysbiosis, and clearing skin. Learn more or book your consultation through HowToKeepYourPlantsOn.com. 108 | AUGU S T 2 0 2 2

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Soaring to New Heights More than thirty-five years later, Tom Cruise returns to his role as Captain Peter “Maverick” Mitchell to star in Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the esteemed Top Gun (1986).

“Son, your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash,” complains Captain Tom Stinger to Maverick in the original Top Gun, released in 1986. The fan-favorite quote perhaps ironically foreshadowed the success of Top Gun: Maverick, which is cashing checks left and right after becoming the highest-earning film of 2022 during the last week of June. The film has earned over $617 million domestically and more than $1.2 billion worldwide, championing it as one of the most successful motion pictures released post-pandemic.

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The soft hum of the engine is music to the soul as the legendary Riva Aquarama slices through the water. Publisher Assouline captures the wooden speedboat’s sixty-year luxury status through pictures and words from Michael Verdon, who brings to life the dolce vita charm. Since its beginning in 1962, the Riva icon has represented timeless beauty and is an extravagant trophy for owners. From basking in the warm Italian sun to speeding along the European coast, nothing is more entrancing than riding in the glistening mahogany of the Aquarama, the pride of Italy.

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CAME the LIGHTENING TWENTY POEMS for GEORGE

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usician, songwriter, and philanthropist George Harrison changed the world as a member of the Beatles and later as an award-winning producer for some of the world’s biggest stars. To his family, he was the world. Now fans can get an in-depth look inside the soul and relationships of Harrison’s life through a new book of poetry, Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George, written by his wife, Olivia Trinidad Harrison. In this homage, which was released by Genesis Publications on the summer solstice of June 21, 2022, she dedicates twenty poems to mark the twentieth anniversary of George’s passing. Came the Lightening sees Olivia examining the intimacy and emotional connection of their relationship in a memorable series of poems. She delves into the phenomenon of losing a partner and the passage of time. The poetry is accompanied by a selection of photographs and mementos curated by Olivia, including some never-before-seen images of herself and George.

Above right: George Harrison and Olivia Trinidad Harrison Photo by Michael Simon

As a contributor to the previously published books Concert for George, the revised edition of I Me Mine, and the bestseller George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Olivia Harrison is no stranger to writing beautiful words with an ethereal connection to love. Now, in her first departure from biographical nonfiction, this book is set to establish her as a new voice in poetry. V I E MAGAZ INE . COM | 113

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WORDS about OUR LIFE, HIS DEATH, but MOSTLY LOVE and

OUR JOURNEY to the END. livia says of the collection, “Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death, but mostly love and our journey to the end.”

Martin Scorsese, a longtime friend and the director of the 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, writes, “Olivia evokes the most fleeting gestures and instants, plucked from the flow of time and memory and felt through her choice of words and the overall rhythm. She might have done an oral history or a memoir. Instead, she composed a work of poetic autobiography.” Olivia Harrison first worked in the music industry in Los Angeles for A&M Records, where she met George and later helped run his Dark Horse record label. She also coproduced the Grammy Award-winning film of the 2002 Concert for George, which she organized in his memory. She received an Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2012 for her role as producer on the Martin Scorsese-directed documentary. She was also a coproducer on the recent multi-award-nominated documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. In late 2005, coinciding with the reissue of the album and film from the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, Olivia established The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF with an initial focus on programs in Bangladesh. The fund has also assisted children affected by civil conflict, natural disasters, or poverty in Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Angola, Romania, the Horn of Africa, Burma, Nepal, and Mexico. Olivia is a director of the Material World Foundation, a charity set up by George in 1973, overseeing its ongoing work in encouraging and promoting the exploration of alternate and diverse forms of artistic expression and philosophies. The foundation has lent its support to many established charities around the world. Olivia and the Material World Foundation also partner with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation to ensure the preservation of film history from across the globe. It has worked on restoring such diverse works as Charlie Chaplin’s The Count, the Mexican classic Enamorada, and the British film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George is now available in hardcover at all major booksellers. Special signed limited editions are also available through the publisher’s website.

Above: Author, activist, and producer Olivia Harrison Photo by Josh Giroux

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Right: Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George is now available.

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Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe in the new Netflix movie, Blonde. The film is based on Joyce Carol Oates’s best-selling novel and explores the blurry line between Monroe’s public and private lives. The movie was written and directed by Andrew Dominik, and supporting actors include Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody, Julianne Nicholson, Xavier Samuel, and Evan Williams. Blonde will be released on Netflix on September 23, 2022.

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BA L E N C I AG A 5 1 ST CO U T U R E CO L L ECT I O N P R E S E N TAT I O N In Paris on July 6, 2022, Balenciaga presented its 51st Couture Collection, Demna’s second for the House. It draws on and further develops the Balenciaga legacy using advanced technology and traditional techniques. Collaborations with artisans and industrial design visionaries lend another layer of technical craftsmanship and technological innovation. The star-studded event was followed by a VIP dinner at Hotel de la Marine. Photography courtesy of Balenciaga

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