Hints and tips:
...Arwa Haider I’d like a return to more daytime raves, I think ... Lilah Raptopoulos Oh, cool. Arwa Haider More daytime parties, matinee raves....
...It was 2016 at Roosterfish on Abbot Kinney, a gay bar that doubles as “a community centre” for locals like Wasson who like to play pool....
...I’m thinking they’d go nicely in the bedroom. The beauty staple I’m never without is a hot shower....
...“Luxury brands meant nothing to the people I knew,” says Kinney....
...The eggplant “parmesan” sandwich was enough to keep me coming back every day during my LA stay, and I wish they’d open up a restaurant in Paris or London – I’d happily become a vegan if they did!...
...I’d died and gone to Top Gear heaven....
...Mami Wata’s products, designed by co-founder Peet Pienaar, have a pan-African aesthetic and are anything but what you’d expect to find in a typical surf store....
...I’d also love a new Dyson V10. Upon re-entry from an expedition, vacuuming is my way of getting reacclimatised....
...After Sleater-Kinney achieved their own punk celebrity, she found herself on the other side of the coin....
...Properties are going for prices you’d expect for smarter neighbourhoods such as beachside Marina del Rey — and I now couldn’t afford what I could six months ago.”...
...I’d make my choice and watch as it was carefully rolled up with brown paper, then carry it home and rush up to my bedroom, unroll my purchase and excitedly dream up an artwork that would be, must be, amazing...
...Its owner, Ajit Vikram Singh, introduced me and my friends to writers we’d never heard of, from Naguib Mahfouz and Chinua Achebe to Simone Weil and Toni Morrison....
...I’d recommend the grilled octopus or fried sardines. — I try to visit Uncle Boons when I have time off. Thai food isn’t what I’m used to but they do it so well....
...“I’m sure we’d be cooking underground if there was a war.” The sociable Frenchman says he has never felt so cut off from his customers, friends, staff and family: “I think the isolation is the worst.”...
...Rumble’s HIIT-inspired boxing classes are an absolute blast, and dragging yourself to the gym on those days when you’d rather just stay in bed feels that much less laborious....
...He invited me to dinner one night with Ansel Adams. This is in maybe the mid-1970s. Ansel had been, in fact, very helpful to me without my knowing it....
...“They were a pretty incredible group,” says Steppenwolf’s current artistic director Anna D Shapiro. “Stars don’t align like that very often.”...
...MTN, 1305 Abbot Kinney Bvd, Venice, CA 90291 (mtnvenice.com). A recent “find” is Snaps + Rye, a Danish café on Golborne Road – a lovely place to meet friends....
...In 1948, shortly after he had introduced instant photography to the public, Land hired the West Coast landscape photographer Ansel Adams as a consultant....
...This phase culminated in a Yosemite panorama that pays homage to — and simultaneously undercuts — the dean of the transcendent landscape, Ansel Adams....
...“I’d read Hegel and Feuerbach, but I had to catch up on oriental philosophy and mysticism,” he laughs....
...Gjelina, 1429 Abbot Kinney Boulevard (+1310-450 1429; gjelina.com). Gjusta, 320 Sunset Avenue (+1310-314 0320; gjusta.com). Irene Neuwirth, 8458 Melrose Place (+1323-285 2000)....
...It’s the latter that define Saariselkä’s raison d’être....
...From £330; victoriagrant.co.uk The last thing I bought and loved was a prism-shaped crystal from a boutique in Abbot Kinney in Venice, LA, which hangs in my window....
...Not what you’d expect from soft serve, it’s less McDonald’s, more Michelin....
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