Auction House
In December, among the lots in the Important 20th-Century Design auction at Wright in Chicago is a house to put them in. Four and a half years ago, Mark Haddawy, an owner of the Resurrection vintage boutiques, purchased Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 21 (above) in Los Angeles, sight unseen. Now, after essentially curating... More
Back to the Garden
Money may not buy you love, but $2.4 million can buy you prime real estate on “Love Street” – which is the name of a song Jim Morrison wrote about living in Laurel Canyon in the ‘60s. The Doors singer and his girlfriend rented a house near “the store where the creatures meet” (the Canyon... More
Rooms With a View
There are 31 hotels and motels surrounding LAX, and artist Zoe Crosher has stayed in all of them — except one, the Royal Comfort Hotel, and that’s where we’re headed in her silver 1980 Mercedes at 10:30pm on a Wednesday night. Since 2001, Crosher has been photographing airplanes coming in to land, through the windows... More
The Giving Tree
Like many boys, Roderick Romero was really into building tree forts when he was six. Several decades passed, however, before the lead singer of the band Sky Cries Mary, now 40, discovered in tree house building a passion akin to playing music. Invited to participate in an outdoor art show in a forest near Olympia,... More
Heart of Dixie
Seated at a long table at Musso & Frank, Lili Von Schtupp was looking up a number in her crystal-encrusted cell phone. “Oh, my God!” shouted Adonna Vichet, crossing the room clutching a glittering digital camera. “Swavski nines,” she said, referring to the size of the Swarovski crystals she’d glued to her camera. Not to... More
Bright Lights, Big City
Matt Dilling has no idea where his fascination with electricity came from. “I was never struck by lighting,” he says with a shrug, but he’s certain that his obsession with circuitry started at an early age. When he was three, Dilling asked his mother to decorate his birthday cake with an electrical plug made of... More
Now Voyager
As an author, musician, educator and religious seeker, Bhagavan Das has devoted the greater prt of his life to God, enlightenment, and good times. At 19, when he was still called Michael Riggs, the Laguna Beach, California, native began a seven-year spiritual journey through India and Nepal. He learned from mystics, spent weeks fasting in... More
Mind Games
Remember the first time you saw a strobe light, and your friends looked like robots in a weird silent movie? Totally trippy, right? You were experiencing a variation on the “flicker effect,” a neurological phenomenon in which pulses of light directly stimulate the brain, altering states of mind and, in some cases, inducing hallucinations. Nowadays... More
Willie Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin’
You know you’ve done something right in life when Ray Charles, Kris Kristofferson, Elvis Costello and Norah Jones are serenading you at your 70th birthday party. That’s just a sampling of the star-studded lineup at Willie Nelson’s “Live and Kickin'” hootenanny at New York’s Beacon Theater, which will air on the USA Network on Memorial... More