FROM PERKS
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? That all depends. If it’s a rich black walnut tree that ends up in the workshop of Princeton Audio where they design, engineer and build these beautiful hi-fi Bluetooth speakers by hand from said wood. Then yes, many wonderful sounds.
BARLEY & ME
The Whiskey Extravaganza. It’s a night of endless whiskey tastings happening tomorrow in Downtown, full of prized scotches and whiskeys from all over the world. We’re telling you now so you can remember it the next day.
POP VULTURE
New York. It’s all about LA these days. Exhibit Q: New York Magazine’s Vulture Festival, which takes over the city this weekend with celebrity-laden panels, TV show and movie premieres and scattered parties. Whether or not it leaves probably depends on the weather.
PIE OF THE TIGER
Something’s new at the Line Hotel. It’s Roy Choi’s Pot Pizza Joint, a weekend-only spot serving gooey, saucy, thin-crusted, square-shaped, deep-dish pizza slices to one and all. Great. Now we’re all out of adjectives.
INK BIG
Soon, the Natural History Museum will have its own tattoo parlor. It’s probably because there’s a huge exhibit on the history of tattooing kicking off there on Sunday. Or maybe they just have a really deluded curator.
BEAK SHOW
The weekend’s all but shot. Work is pending. Sunday night is the disease, and Jason Fullilove is the cure. The chef is preparing family-style fried chicken dinners with all the fixings—greens, mac and cheese, biscuits, fried okra and dipping sauces—to see each Sunday through its untimely end. Always untimely.
MAN ON FIRE
So says one writer, who has suspiciously strong opinions on the matter. In other news: we tried out Steven Soderbergh’s new interactive storytelling app, Mosaic, to mixed results. And we also found you the Napa Valley of weed. You’re welcome.
Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.
