Each month on Melting Butter, a new Spotify playlist gets published with a tightly edited selection of the best new and classic tracks geared towards listeners with a sophisticated ear. To get notified as soon as they are released, make sure you subscribe to Twitter or Facebook. For many, Los Angeles evokes the kind of memory of feeling like […]
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Category Music · Tags April March, Blood Orange, Coup De Grace, Designer, Drake, Fall 2017, Fashion, Fashion Designer, Features, Glass Animals, LA, Lanks, Los Angeles, Marian Hill, Monster Rally, music, Nightmares On Wax, Olya Kosterina, One Week Wonder, Pacific Coast Highway, Road Trip, Southern California, Spotify, Spotify Playlist, The Blaze, The Flirtations, The Shapeshifters, United States, US, Woods
Posted by Jonathan Velardi on August 30, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Little of Downtown Los Angeles lends itself to the SoCal aesthetic that is so synonymous on the Westside of the city. The landscape is urban and industrial ”“ where the shadows of palm trees are not of real palms at all, but of cellphone towers in disguise. However dig a little deeper amongst the warehouses […]
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Category Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Food + Drink, United States · Tags California, Food + Drink, LA, LA city guide, LA Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Guide, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Restaurant Find, Restaurant Hotspot, SoCal, The Springs, United States, US, Vegan, wellness
Posted by Neeza Adenan on December 9, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis aren’t just people with exotic, cool sounding names; they’re also the powerhouses behind LA’s Bestia, a progressive, multi-regional rustic Italian restaurant housed in a converted warehouse in Downtown LA’s far eastern edge. Their ”˜from scratch’ approach has resulted in the most authentic ”˜clean-up rustic’ (coined by Menashe himself) Italian food […]
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Category Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Food + Drink, United States · Tags Bestia, Bestia LA, California, city guide, Downtown LA, DTLA, Italian, LA, LA Design Guide, LA Design Hotspot, LA Restaurants, Los Angeles, restaurant
Posted by Jonathan Velardi on November 30, 2015 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) “We’re thinking about putting on an annual exhibition where we invite a group of artists from another city to L.A. and see how it informs their practice”, Naomi and Anthony disclose in their enviable art-filled office as gallery dog Lou circles the desks. “It would be very relevant […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, Food + Drink, Hotels, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Features, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Los Angeles Hotels, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags 29 Palms Inn, Anthony Cran, art, Art Gallery, Cafe Stella, city guide, Curator, Daily Dose Cafe, Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Echo Park, Gallery, Joshua Tree, LA, LA city guide, LA Food + Drink, LA Shopping, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Naomi Wilding, Petty Cash Taqueria, Silverlake, Time Travel Mart, Urban Radish, USA, Wilding Cran Gallery, Wilding Cran Gallery Los Angeles
Posted by Neeza Adenan on November 4, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Enter Big Daddy’s Antiques; a vintage interiors concept store tucked away on an industrial back street in Culver City and you’ll become giddy with excitement just like a kid in a candy store. Only that kid is you (a vintage aficionado) and that candy store is a 20,000 square foot, one-of-a-kind superstore filled with beautifully […]
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Category Los Angeles, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags Big Daddy’s Antiques, Big Daddy’s Antiques LA, California, city guide, Concept Store, Culver City, interior design, LA, LA Design Guide, LA Design Hotspot, LA Shopping, Los Angeles, shopping, Vintage Furniture
Posted by Neeza Adenan on October 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Cassia, a modern French brasserie-style restaurant serving up Southeast-Asian food has been meticulously designed from what was once the Santa Monica Telephone building, a 1937 Art Deco landmark. This may sound like a bizarre mishmash for some, but it’s a concept that’s taking LA’s west side by storm. The brainchild of two of LA’s most beloved culinary couples […]
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Category Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Food + Drink, United States · Tags California, Cassia, Cassia LA, city guide, LA, LA Design Guide, LA Design Hotspot, LA Food + Drink, LA Restaurants, Los Angeles, restaurant, Santa Monica, South East Asian
On welcoming me into her West Hollywood home, it’s clear Valeria Sorci has acclimatised effortlessly to her new Los Angeles lifestyle. Relocating with her husband and two children from Rome a year ago to the beautiful Baxter-Hodiak House – designed by architect John Lautner for the actress, Anne Baxter ”“ Sorci has embraced the ”˜LA’ […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Features, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags Art Gallery, Arturo Bandini, Bottega Louie, California, Curator, Depart Foundation, Depart Foundation LA, Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Forage LA, Gallery, LA, LA art guide, LA Arts + Culture, LA city guide, LA Design Guide, LA Food + Drink, LA Shopping, Locando Portofino, Los Angeles, Market, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Mountains, Silverlake, The Secret Headquarters, USA, Vacation Vinyl, Valeria Sorci
Posted by Jonathan Velardi on February 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment
As Nicolas Libert guides me through the boutique-cum-gallery he founded with Emmanuel Renoird in Downtown Los Angeles, he recounts an anecdote: “when we first opened last year we were expecting a delivery. We waited and waited and realised the courier had in fact attempted the delivery; he read the name of the space ”“ Please […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, Food + Drink, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Features, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags Architecture, Art Gallery, California, Concept Store, Curator, Downtown LA city guide, Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Emanuelle Renoird, Flax Foundation, Gallery, Grand Central Market, LA, LA Arts + Culture, LA Food + Drink, LA Shopping, LA travel guide, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Conservancy, Los Angeles Theatre, Market, Nicolas Libert, OHWOW, Perch, Please Do Not Tell, Please Do Not Tell LA, shopping, Tour, USA
Posted by Jonathan Velardi on November 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) In deep and darkest Downtown Los Angeles, or so the Westside would have you believe, resides the tallest and brightest concept store in the city. Perched on the twelfth floor in the historic Pacific Mutual Building on Pershing Square, little will prepare visitors to the light-filled boutique-cum-gallery. Glass […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Shops, Shops, United States · Tags Arik Levy, Art Gallery, California, city guide, Concept Store, contemporary art, Downtown LA, DTLA, Fashion, LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Arts + Culture, Los Angeles Design Hotspots, Los Angeles Shopping, Menswear, Modern Art, Please Do Not Enter, Please Do Not Enter Los Angeles, USA
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on June 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) It’s a safe bet to say that if you’re reading Melting Butter you’re likely a prolific explorer; traveller and probably to some extent, rather aesthetically inclined. If I’m right, you’re a lot like me so I’m pretty sure this app I’m going to tell you about will make […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, Food + Drink, Hotels, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Features, Los Angeles Food + Drink, Los Angeles Hotels, Los Angeles Nightlife, Nightlife, United States · Tags Ace Hotel, Bakery, bar, Bar Ana, Bottega Louie, Bread Lounge, Caña Rum Bar, Cafe, Cartography, city guide, Co-Working Space, Cocktail Bar, Creative, Curator, Daniel Chin Yee, Designer, Downtown, Downtown LA, DTLA, DTLA Arts District, Eat Drink Americano, Entrepreneur, Grand Central Market, Gym, Hotel, Jennifer Puno, LA, LA Arts + Culture, LA Food + Drink, LA Hotels, LA Nightlife, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Made With Map, Map, Market, Pamper, Photographer, Puno, restaurant, Sports Club, The Unique Space, travel guide, Unique Space, USA
