Charli XCX sits on a white leather couch. There’s a white iPhone in a neon pink bunny eared case a touch away from her and she’s toying with a small ring in her fingers. There’s a table in front of her with all the necessary pre-show requirements–crushed lemons, hot water, tea, bottles and bottles of water–and she has a simultaneously laid back yet anxious air about her likely because she’ll be performing in a few minutes. She has big black hair that acts like a sort of gothic lioness mane, which is swept to her right side (and she is keen to keep sweeping it to her right whenever it creeps its way over her eyes). She’s dressed like a Spice Girl styled by Fairuza Balk in The Craft: she has on black platform sneakers, a short black school girl skirt, a black half t-shirt, and a blue denim jacket, which–if you look closely–has brightly colored little flowers inside of it.
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What happens when you take two talented people, place them in a kitchen, give them a basket of delicious ingredients and a camera? Magic, that’s what. At least if those two people are Dana Point’s Sara and Hugh Forte, the food blog dream team behind The Sprouted Kitchen.
The Sprouted Kitchen started, in part, because of Sara’s passion for eating well. She has long preferred whole, healthy foods prepared with seasonal, organic and local ingredients (when possible). In the blogs earliest moments, Sara quickly developed the belief that food is as much a practical need, as it is a gift and art from. Needless to say, the recipes she creates radiate with her desires for how food should be, which makes her work all the more wonderful.
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Sister Crayon are Oakland chilled out electronic duo Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez. They have gone through various incarnations and have landed in a trip-hoppy, jazzy, West coast version of Portishead space that’s full of emotions and moody beats. They’ve recently released a little EP–Cynic–and they’ve embarked on a tour to support it. They’re actually going to be in LA May 8th at Downtown’s Low End Theory so we had a little chat with Lopez about the group’s visit down South (even though they haven’t arrived just yet).
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In anticipation of the Los Angeles Music Video Festival, we spoke with four directors who will be presenting music video pitches to band Five Knives for the RedBull Records sponsored Life’s A Pitch contest. Each director will present a video idea and, whoever wins Five Knives’ vote, will get two days to make the video. To give an idea of who these directors are, we had a quick chat with each of them about their style and what they bring to this competition. Thus, meet DJay Brawner of Anthem Films.
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In anticipation of the Los Angeles Music Video Festival, we spoke with four directors who will be presenting music video pitches to band Five Knives for the RedBull Records sponsored Life’s A Pitch contest. Each director will present a video idea and, whoever wins Five Knives’ vote, will get two days to make the video. To give an idea of who these directors are, we had a quick chat with each of them about their style and what they bring to this competition. Thus, meet Robert McHugh and T.S. Pfeiffer of Pier Pictures.
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