June 2012 - LA Times Magazine

If music be the food of love, play on--an issue dedicated to the love of music and the arts. An LA swan song

Tom Schnabel and Jordan Peimer riff on world music, audience pleasers...and what doesn't sell in L.A.

Ever since Chuck Berry’s country boy who plays guitar “just like ringin’ a bell,” the name has been rock ’n’ roll gold

Jazz is only the beginning for Esperanza Spalding

The Urchin Leather Beanbag Chair cradles you in...cones?

Menswear styles come and go, but the iconic Schott Perfecto lives to tell

There's some bloomin’ great menswear taking root this season

Lyrical, dulcet, symphonic—perfumers find harmonic convergence in musical jargon

Blake Lively makes her move as the quintessential kick-ass chick in Oliver Stone's gritty Savages

A pilgrimage to Martinique finds cane consummated as a heavenly spirit made from freshly pressed sugarcane wine

One house in the hills of Echo Park proves itself a model of adaptable architecture

Karen and Quinn Hatfield show off the venerable fortified wine’s culinary side

She's selling out concerts and inspiring fervent devotion, but Japan’s Hatsune Miku is virtually a star

by Jean-Philippe Delhomme

A trio of new labels is home to L.A.’s best dance music