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PIZZA WEEK IS A HIT!

Word of the pizza paradigm spread quickly on social media reaching over 10k locals.

Pizza fans posted shoutouts to Braazo Pizzeria,

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April Fool’s Day brought a slice of fun to DTLA, as the first ever DTLA Pizza Week promised to fire up a buzz around DTLA pizza joints for weeks to come.

Top This!!! Hey DTLA!!! Through thick and thin, DTLA Weekly was hungry to showcase YOUR favorite pies – crust by crust!

But, we needed your help to find them!

Say, Cheese! To participate in this pizza lover’s scavenger hunt/pizza-eating photo contest, all you had to do was ORDER A PIZZA with your favorite toppings from your favorite DTLA pizza place, snap a photo* and post it on Instagram. Purgatory Pizza of Boyle Heights, South Park's Pizza Socale and the ever fashionable, Fashion District's Amante Restaurant. Special thanks to Downtown Center BID for getting behind the idea and helping to share our community's finest moments of delicious cheesiness.

HWH Luxury Apartments gladly ordered the Arts District's Pizzanista in bulk for their tenants in conjuction with the week's event; while regular people played 'Foodie for a Day" tagging @DTLAWEEKLY with their best pizza poses. The event proved to be a modest inaugral DTLA Pizza Week. Pizza joints were'nt overwhelmed or forced to stock up on extra ingrediants in anticipation of a mass orders, but the community proved they valued the idea enough and managed to bake up a few extra pies. More than anything, DTLA Pizza Week stood as more of a reminder of just how many pizza options there are in the DT. FALL of 2021, we still have loads of photos and pizza specials to share. COMING FRIDAY

Make Reservations this Friday, April 8th, to “DTLA Pizza Week Winner’s Extravaganza”. The event will feature wine sampling and a pizza eating contest. Amante Restaurant will be offering 15% OFF any Extra Large Pizza – TakeOut & Delivery.

The event is open to the public (with reservation) and being held at Amante Restaurant on 9th and Main, located in the highly fashionable Fashion District, from 6 -8pm. Space is limited. All Covid guidelines will be strictly enforced. #DTLAPIZZAWEEK

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Acquiring over 100k followers on social media in the last two years, Isaac Pelayo is a rising star illuminating his own path as a fine artist, creative musician, fashion visionary and well sought after tattoo artist.

Isaac Pelayo’s story is of one coming of age and taking his falling in line with his artistic destiny.

If Pelayo’s young life were a painting, it would begin with the marker his father gave him at just the age of two. His awkward movements due to developing muscles would soon be replaced by his skilled pencil’s varying pressures, winning him prestige since the tender age of 11.

As an adolescent, Pelayo’s ‘life painting’ would be covered with heavy strokes of slow drying oils, only later to be pierced with the sharpest tattoo’s ink.

As a young man in his early 20s, his painting would take on a new entrepreneurial spirit, selling originals and prints to famous collectors, producing earnings, and allowing him to buy his first home at age 24.

Pelayo has been in the limelight as of late due to his circumstances following a furlough at Disney, where he matured as a commercial artist/ apprentice to his father Anthony Pelayo, a prominent Los Angeles artist and show producer in his own right.

photos by Piertro Arrendondo

Yet, despite the two losing a steady income, when Disney closed its doors due to Covid, Isaac was able to turn his art, entrepreneurial spirit and internet savvy into a six-figure salary.

It was this fantastic journey that attracted the attention of Forbes and Business Insider Magazine. At age 24, Isaac Pelayo has already exhibited in several well-known galleries and museums, including MOLAA, The Trotsky Museum, and famed pop art surrealism giant, La Luz De Jesus Gallery.

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Pelayo’s work is hard to miss Art

This mastery behind Pelayo’s figurative faces and deliberate obstruction of people transcends time, beginning with his devotions to artists of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque Era with inspirations Leonardo Di Vinci and the playful Rembrandt of Dutchland.

Pelayo’s influences continue to traverse eras. Noted is the defiance of Salvador Dali and the resilience of Frida Khalo of the 1930s. These styles, including lessons learned from his father and Disney now resting upon the shoulders of a freestyle movement that began with America’s 80s and 90s urban street art. Recently, his work has been commissioned and used for several album covers by Buffalo, NY, Rapper Westside Gunn.

His collectors include Shepard Fairey, Benny The Butcher, Jeff Hamilton, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Hopsin, and J.J. Soria.

His “Saint Kobe” is on display at ESPN – Sports Center, with other works featured in the LA Times and many tribute videos by fans worldwide.

Music

Growing up listening to “90’s hip-hop, indie, jazz and classic rock”, Isaac’s music comes with a unique mix of old and new school beats. His most recently release single, titled “Complicated,” was produced by award-winning platinum producer Met James.

Tattoo

Isaac found Insta-fame after social influencers began crowning him as the go-to guy for inking IG and TIK TOK Famers, the likes of Jaden Hossler, Chase “Lil Huddy” Hudson, Tayler Holder, and Charly Jordan. Fashion

During the pandemic, Pelayo launched a “Street Baroque”, and this winter, there will be a clothing collaboration with Pelayo and Rich Hilfigers clothing company, called Tango Hotel.

As far as his clothing line goes, Isaac has a partnership with The Silk Cloud owned by Isaac Ruiz, son of Bobby Ruiz, owner of Tribal Street Wear out of San Diego. Apart from that, he is also creating a partnership in his father’s production talented 24 year old forging his own path. @isaacpelayo