CULTURE & ART TODAY
DECEMBER 2013
Mila Kunis
SURFING
THE BEST WAVES FROM LA TO OC
LETS LOOSE ON FAME, BEAUTY, AND HER RUMORED LOVE LIFE.
25 HOTTEST SPOTS TRENDING IN LA HI-TECH HOLIDAY
+THE BEST STUFF OF THE YEAR
OUR GUIDE TO THE COOLEST GEAR, GADGETS, AND MUST-HAVE SWAG
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SHOP LATEST STYLES AND NEWEST TECHS
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MILA KUNIS TELLS ALL
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socal President and Publisher RANDY DUNBAR, SHARON SALEM Editor SHARON SALEM
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Executive Editor JAMES MARCUS
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Managing Editor RAFIL KROLL-ZAIDI Deputy Editors CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA, CHRISTOPHER COX Senior Editor DEIRDRE MENDELSSOHN Editor Emeritus LEWIS H. LAPHAM
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Art Director SHARON SALEM Associate Editors JEREMY KEEHN, SAM STARK Assistant to the Editor RYANN LIEBENTHAL
STYLE Socal brings you Southern California’s newest lifestyle magazine for both men and women. We aim to inspire and intrigue our readers by capturing the latest trends, tastes, luxuries, designs, and culture from Orange County to the Greater Los Angeles Area.
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A LIGHTBULB MOMENT TAKE A LOOK INSIDE THE MIND OF EDITOR IN CHEIF, SHARON SALEM, AS SHE EXPLAINS THE BEGINNING OF HER CREATIVE OUTLET SHE CALLS SOCAL MAGAZINE.
One lightbulb moment can change your life forever. For some, it may occur at a young age. For others, and more commonly, it will hit later in your adult life, when you start feeling like there must not be anything left to give. Out of nowhere, it will tear you apart from the inside out. You will take time to decifer the extent and the meaning of this moment and you will think: Is this it? Might this be the ground-breaking decision that, once I make, will shape me into what I am supposed to be? That lightbulb moment approached me last year, around New Years. I left the country for a month to travel all of Thailand. It was perfect. I was able to escape the pressures of reality back home, and have some genuine time for myself. It suddenly hit me. I instantly felt richer, wiser... bolder. It finally clicked: No longer should it matter what others think I should do or what society’s expectations are of me. “Art won’t get you anywhere,” “There is no money in design,” “Go for business...” no longer ringing in my mind. Here I am a year later, far along in my third quarter in one of LA’s top design schools, Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing, happier than ever. With that said, this first issue of SoCal Magazine is a proud documentation of my progress and interests. It focuses on many things I value today, including the latest food, style, culture, and art-from photographs, canvas, and conceptual designs. I welcome you to join the SoCal Magazine community, where we share a common thread: creative freedom. Indulge in Southern California’s new foods, drinks, and finds in our Agenda section, our informative and intrigueing editorials, or upcoming styles and trends in our bimontlhy publication. I hope all our new and welcoming readers find interest in SoCal’s very first, December 2013, edition.
Sharon Salem editor@socalmagazine.com
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STRONG D R IN K S
TIS’ THE SEASON FOR TASTY TOMATOES
WHAT’S NEW AND BENEFICIAL ABOUT TOMATOES BY SHARON SALEM
omatoes are widely known for their outstanding antioxidant content, including, of course, their oftentimes-rich concentration of lycopene. Researchers have recently found an important connection between lycopene, its antioxidant properties, and bone health. A study was designed in which tomato and other dietary sources of lycopene were removed from the diets of postmenopausal women for a period of 4 weeks, to see what effect lycopene restriction would have on bone health. At the end of 4 weeks, women in the study started to show increased signs of oxidative stress in their bones and unwanted changes in their bone tissue. The study investigators concluded that removal of lycopene-containing foods (including tomatoes) from the diet was likely to put women at increased risk of osteoporosis. They also argued for the importance of tomatoes and other lycopene-containing foods in the diet.
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MONSERRATE ROJA American Amber / Red Ale ABV 5%
CANDELARIA CLASSIC Cream Ale ABV 5%
BOGOTA LAGER
CHIA WEISS
American Amber / Red Ale ABV 5%
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BOGOTÁ BEER COMPANY: PUB AND TOUR CERVECERO
DISCOVER THE LIQUID MAGIC IN THE BOGOTAS’ NUMEROUS FLAVORS BY SHARON SALEM eer is big business in Colombia: a whopping $6.2bn a year business to be precise. But for 37-year-old Berny Silberwasser the secret of his success has been keeping it small. “The funny thing is that we actually are the second biggest brewery in Colombia,” he says of the Bogota Beer Company which he founded in December 2002. “But the biggest one (Bavaria, a subsidiary of the London-based multinational SABMiller) controls 99% of the market. They produce around 20 million hectolitres per year; we have a plant that produces 14,000 hectolitres.” The Bogota Beer Company, however, is not trying to compete with such a giant. After all, the artisanal - or hand-crafted - quality of its products is one of the reasons why a dream that started with a $40,000 investment in second-hand brewing equipment grew into a business with an annual turnover of $12m.
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ZIPAQUIRA ABADIA Belgian Pale Ale ABV 6%
CHAPINERO PORTER English Porter ABV 5%
CAJICA HONEY ALE Cream Ale ABV 5.3%
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WINDOWS INTO THE SURREAL
PHOTOCREDIT PORTRAIT: IRVING PENN WINDOWS: CARLOS DIAZ
FIDM’S 5TH FLOOR WINDOWS CELEBRATE THE SURREAL WORK OF ELSA SCHIAPARELLI BY HAMISH BOWLES
adder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Elsa Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934. Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” (To Schiaparelli, Chanel was simply “that milliner.”) Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends—stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles sprouted from the
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fingers of chameleon-green suede gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for pockets. Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers (newfangled in the thirties) were everywhere. Love of trompe l’oeil can be traced to the faux-bow sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career and brought her quirky style to the masses.“Dare to be different,” is the advice she offered to women. Pace-setters and rule-breakers waved that flag through the sixties, the seventies, and beyond.
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TAJ WALL MIRROR Cata diemquo est? P. Catabus, cul tem quonsticie nondam ta maximus arem quis. An re, pertia conderem ocrum
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BAMBOO DEBRAH TAUPE BOOTIES Depost conius, pre cors me ta vem, sentiam aliem ut imus hos face intiam consula ne pereciam nostre, condium poptia? Egericapere coenihi lin
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OBEY TRAVELER BELT Fue tem elarter idemquodiur. Habis; norterena, nes oponon resicus?
TRIPLE-TIERED METAL SHELF An sendest emnonce contemneste parimus consultum inam prae conon te, popublis it venatiae pri in diem hos ad a ressid acciondet aursus Mae achuis am labussentris in terris adhuc
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Showbiz hottie speaks on what it’s like to be the most popular woman in Hollywood. BY SHARON SALEM PHOTOGRAPHED BY TOM MUNRO CREATIVE DIRECTER: SHARON SALEM
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ila’s got one of the most exquisite faces in Hollywood, comedic chops (even though she swears she’s not funny) and absolutely stuns on the red carpet (who could forget that lavender lace Elie Saab she wore to the Oscars?). But Mila Kunis would rather be at home in a pair of pajamas than spilling out of nightclubs. The star of July’s Friends with Benefits has recently become one of the hottest actresses around, despite having worked since the age of nine. She’s currently shooting Ted—Seth MacFarlane’s feature-film directorial debut about a man’s teddy bear that comes to life—with Mark Wahlberg, and she recently signed on to play a witch named Theodora in Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, also starring James Franco.
“I’ve never dealt with [paparazzi] on a level like in the last few months. It makes you become a hermit, because normal activities—like picking up laundry or sneezing—suddenly [make you] very self-conscious”
Comedic Kunis In Friends with Benefits, Kunis stars alongside Justin Timberlake—a welcome comedic turn after the white-knuckle intensity of her Golden Globe-nominated role in Black Swan. “[Friends with Benefits] was a perfect movie for coming to work at 4:45 in the morning—which would normally be miserable—because I knew I’d be laughing for the next 17 hours with people I genuinely liked,” says Kunis of the modern romcom. “The director, Will Gluck, and Justin are so sharp and quick-witted—they just want to have fun.” As for the movie’s plot, which revolves around friends hooking up just for sex, the actress isn’t a believer. “I think it’s realistic in theory and fails in execution because someone always gets hurt,” says Kunis, adding, “I don’t have personal experience in this department.” She and Timberlake shot sex scenes for two weeks, and she says they became easier as the days passed. But Kunis is far less comfortable with her current status as a sex symbol.
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“I’m flattered, but I’m not that person. Sophia
in a year, played a young Angelina Jolie in the film
Loren is a sex symbol,” she says. “If watching TiVo
Gia and ended up graduating from Fairfax High
and eating Pinkberry in sweatpants is sexy, then
School while starring on That ’70s Show. “LA gets
I’m your gal.” It’s her self-deprecating attitude and
a bad rap, but it’s what you make of it,” says Ku-
easygoing charm that makes Kunis even more at-
nis. “I have Ventura Boulevard down the street with
tractive—if that were possible. As her Black Swan
the best sushi in the world and friends whom I’ve
costar Natalie Portman once said, “She loves video
known since I was nine years old.”
games and Star Trek, but she’s the prettiest girl in
It seems for Kunis the only downside of LA living is the paparazzi’s newfound obsession with her.
any room.” When she’s not working, Kunis can be found hang-
“I’ve never dealt with it on a level like in the last few
ing with her dogs: Shorty, a 14-year-old beagle-cor-
months. It makes you become a hermit, because
gi-dachshund mix, and Audrey, a nine-year-old En-
normal activities—like picking up laundry or sneez-
glish bulldog. The actress, who had a breakthrough,
ing—suddenly [make you] very self-conscious,”
big-screen role in 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Mar-
she says. “I love the Internet, but it’s taken away
shall and voices Meg Griffin on Family Guy, loves
all sense of illusion. If you leave the house you’re
reading, cooking and watching TV in her North LA
screwed, and if you don’t leave you’re screwed.”
abode. “I watch just about everything, from Sister
She credits her strong family with keeping her sane
Wives and Dexter to Anderson Cooper 360° and all of the food reality shows,” she says. “Remember when Anthony Bourdain did the LA episode for No Reservations? I had been to every
“As beautiful as Mila is, you could believe that maybe she would cross paths with you in the real world.”
and grounded. “They’re so proud of my brother and me. I think they’re happy we’re happy.” In 2009, she appeared in the comedy film Extract with Ben Affleck and Jason Bateman. The film re-
single place except for that goat restaurant in East LA. I should go there.” The
ceived mostly positive reviews, and grossed $10.8
screen siren—who famously lost 20 pounds from
million at the box office. Roger Ebert, while critical
her already petite frame for Black Swan and hap-
of the film itself, wrote that Kunis “brings her role
pily gained it back via In-N-Out burgers, corn-truf-
to within shouting distance of credibility.” Direc-
fle pasta at Santa Monica’s Il Ristorante di Giorgio
tor Mike Judge commented that part of what was
Baldi and Russian food from her mom’s kitchen—
surprising to learn about Kunis was her ability to
loves food and is suspicious of anyone who doesn’t.
make references to the cult animation film Reject-
The last thing she made? “Pork stuffed with collard
ed. Judge said: “As beautiful as Mila is, you could
greens and a lot of different spices that you make
believe that maybe she would cross paths with you
into rectangular patties and bake in the oven,” she
in the real world.”After seeing Kunis perform in
says enthusiastically.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Judge wanted to cast
She becomes equally excited when discussing
her in the role of Cindy in Extract: “I just thought,
Los Angeles, her home since her family emigrated
‘Wow, this girl’s perfect.’ She garnered several pos-
from Ukraine when she was seven. After the ini-
itive reviews for her performance. Michael Phillips
tial culture shock and requisite teasing from fellow
of the Chicago Tribune concluded her performance
grade-schoolers, she became fluent in English with-
helped save the film and gave it “a shot in the arm.”
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It proved to be a rough start for the Kunis family, who arrived in their new country with just $250 in their
of Kunis’s career and soon landed the young actress in a number of high-profile TV commercials.
pocket. But Kunis’s parents, who both gave up profes-
Other opportunities quickly followed, with spot
sional careers to uproot themselves, were determined
work on a host of television programs, from NBC’s The
to make a better life for their
John Larroquette Show to The
children. Mark, a former me-
WB Television Network’s Sev-
chanical engineer, soon found work as a cab driver, while Elvira, who had taught physics in Ukraine, wound up running a pharmacy. “I didn’t understand the culture,” Kunis has
“We came to this country with literally nothing, and so any level of success is important to [me].”
enth Heaven. In 1998, Kunis (who had simplified her first name to Mila) caught her first big break when, at 14, she landed the role of Jackie Burkhart in the new Fox sitcom That ‘70s Show.
said about first arriving in the United States. “I didn’t understand the people. I didn’t
She was cast as a whiny, self-absorbed rich girl, allow-
understand the language. My first sentence of my es-
ing her to perfect and showcase her comic timing. Her
say to get into college was like, ‘Imagine being blind
work on the program soon led her to Fox’s Family Guy
and deaf at age 7.’ And that’s kind of what it felt like
cartoon, where she supplied the voice for the character
moving to the States. But I got over it pretty fast.” In
Meg Griffin.
an effort to help their young daughter meet other kids,
Even while she managed a busy television career,
Mark and Elvira Kunis enrolled Milena in a children’s
Kunis also branched out into film. In 2008 she landed
acting program at the Beverly Hills Studio. There, she
a breakout role as a hotel concierge named Rachel in
met Susan Curtis, a talent manager, who took the reins
the comedy hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Audiences
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and critics raved about her performance. More critical acclaim came her way for the 2010 thriller Black Swan, in which she co-starred with Natalie Portman. Her per-
MILA’S HOTTEST FILMOGRAPHY FROM PAST TO PRESENT
formance earned Kunis, who dropped 20
Baywatch (TV Series) — 1994-1995
pounds and trained for seven weeks as a ballerina, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award nominations for best supporting actress. That same year, she teamed up
Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series) — 1997 Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (Video) — 1997 7th Heaven (TV Series) — 1996-1997
with Denzel Washington in the post-apocalyptic Book of Eli.
Get Over It — 2001
In 2011, Kunis was back giving audiences a laugh with the comedy Friends with Ben-
MADtv (TV Series) — 2002
efits, which paired the actress with Justin
That ‘70s Show (TV Series) — 1998-2006
Timberlake. In 2012, she co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in another comedy film,
Forgetting Sarah Marshall — 2008
Ted, directed by Seth MacFarlane, whom
The Book of Eli — 2010
she’s worked with for years on the set of
Date Night — 2010
Family Guy (MacFarlane created the show). Despite all of her success, Kunis, who
Black Swan — 2010
didn’t know a word of English when she
Friends with Benefits — 2011
first arrived in the United States, says she hasn’t forgotten her roots. She lives in Los
Robot Chicken (TV Series) — 2005-2011
Angeles, not far from her parents, and when
Good Vibes (TV Series) — 2011
she visits, often speaks Russian with them.
Ted — 2012
“We came to this country with literally nothing, and so any level of success is
Tar — 2012
important to us,” Kunis has said. “[My parents] never wanted me to become an
Oz the Great and Powerful — 2013
actress because it’s such an unstable and
Blood Ties — 2013
unpredictable profession. When you’re immigrants, and you have to work hard for
Third Person — 2013
everything just to survive, it’s only natural
Family Guy (TV Series) — 1999-2014
that you worry about having a stable job and income. But I think now they’re more or less convinced that I’m doing pretty well and they don’t have to worry about my career prospects any more.” Film and television actress Mila Kunis came to fame on the sitcom That ‘70s Show. In film, she’s co-starred in such hits as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Black Swan.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 2008
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Book of Eli, 2010
Friends With Benefits, 2011
RICHARD AVEDON: A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of the photographers work. BY KELLY SMITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD AVEDON
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hat do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte
made his living primarily through work in advertis-
Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau,
ing. His real passion, however, was the portrait and
Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common?
its ability to express the essence of its subject.
They were a few of the many personalities caught
As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportuni-
on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more
ties to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad
than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have
range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present per-
filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His
sonal views of public figures, who were otherwise dis-
stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’
tant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized
characters has made him one of the premier Ameri-
by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many
can portrait photographers.
sought out Avedon for their most public images. His
Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon
artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and
dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant
authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is
Marine’s photographic section. Upon his return in
Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps
1944, he found a job as a photographer in a depart-
him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs.
ment store. Within two years he had been “found” by
Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a
an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing
unique style all his own. Famous for their minimal-
work for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of
ism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops. When printed, the images
other magazines. During the
regularly contain the dark
early years, Avedon
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“ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ACCURATE. NONE OF THEM ARE THE TRUTH.”
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outline of the film in which the image was framed. Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both. Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans. Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous. Avedon died on October 1st, 2004.
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