Los Angeles Lifestyle

Here's what's popping up in L.A. this week: drinks with Christiaan Rollich, BBQ with Adam Perry Lang and naughty North Pole dancers:

Friday, Dec. 14

Delicious Pizza will host the J Dilla Apparel Collection Pop-Up Shop at Delicious Pizza Cafe at 6601 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Four new and exclusive, limited-edition designs will go on sale at the pop-up and will not be produced again. The Dec. 14 Pop-Up Shop, open from 4 to 10 p.m., is the first in a series of J Dilla Apparel events that will feature exclusive new designs.

This collaboration represents the long-standing relationship between J Dilla (aka Jay Dee) and Delicious Vinyl, as well as Dilla’s extended family, younger sibling Illa J and childhood best friend Frank Nitt (Frank n Dank). Nitt will serve as the brand ambassador/consultant.

Uncle Paulie's

Uncle Paulie's

Saturday, Dec. 15

Meat master and BBQ expert Adam Perry Lang (APL Restaurant) is popping up at Uncle Paulie’s, the Italian-American deli on Beverly Boulevard, and slinging a collaborative sandwich all day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. as part of the deli’s annual Holiday Toy Drive.

The featured sandwich offers smoked mortadella, fresh mozzarella, broccoli rabe and Calabrian chilies,on a soft Kaiser roll for $12.

Lang is planning to bring his big-rig BBQ to smoke the mortadella on-site.

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Bols Genever with apple, pecan and IPA from Christiaan Rollich at Tavern

Aaron Cook

Also on Saturday:

Christiaan Rollich is teaming up with Bols Genever this month for a very special Christiaan's Bar, from 6 p.m. to closing at Tavern L.A. There will be traditional Dutch treats such as tostis with speck and Gouda bitterballen croquettes.

Representatives from Dutch Spirit Bols Genever will be there, with Rollich pouring flights of its Genever and shaking up some delicious cocktails utilizing all the products that Bols has to offer:

Flight of Bols Genever through Centuries Genever 1820, aged Genever and 100% malt Genever Cocktails 

Redlight Negroni Bols 100% malt with all house made campari & sweet vermouth

White Bull Damrak gin and sage with lime & hefeweizen

Death in the Gulfstream Bols Genever with demerara and angostura bitters

Brazilian Coffee Bols 100% malt and passoa with espresso

McIntosh Bols Genever 1820 and poached apple with pecan and IPA

Black Tail Bols Aged Genever with house-made allspice dram and bitters

Wednesday, Dec. 19

Shimmy for Santa with the North Pole Dancers Burlesque from L.A. ladies Miss Ashley Hayward and Miss Isabelle Marie with comedic appearances from Bad Santa and tunes from 8 p.m. to late. If you think you’ve made the naughty list, join in at No More Heroes in drinking El Silencio Mezcal festive cocktails while peeping some festive holiday performances.

After a student was assaulted in the bathroom of a California State University building, classes were canceled and authorities were asking students to stay away from campus Wednesday.

The university sent out an emergency alert to students around noon.

Any students who were off-campus were told to not come to class.

University police said a student was physically assaulted in a second-story bathroom of the Bell Tower building.

The attacker was described as a woman, 24 or 25 years old, wearing a gray shirt, black pants, and gray Converse sneakers. She had a silver handgun and was last seen running from Bell Tower.

Students were asked to call 911 if they spot the woman as opposed to calling CSUI police.

University police said more updates were to come.

Source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Channel-Islands-Campus-Assault-handgun-Stay-Away-499200081.html

The wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is to launch a new line in clothing bearing the name of the jailed Mexican mob boss, convicted earlier this year of smuggling huge amounts of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the United States.

"I have a project for a line of clothing... It is my goal to promote my style and Joaquin's," said Emma Coronel, the 29-year-old wife of the former Sinaloa cartel boss, on her Instagram account, where she has more than 100,000 followers.

Coronel said she was calling for interested designers to make contact via her lawyer Mariel Colon, one of the defense attorneys who represented her husband.

She also invited suggestions from her social media followers for the clothing line, which will feature Guzman's name and initials, JGL.

The outfits sported in court by Coronel, who has twin seven-year-old daughters with Guzman, came under close scrutiny during the cartel leader's three-month trial in Brooklyn, which ended in February. She favored black with tight-fitting pants that emphasized her curvaceous physique, as well as blazers and high heels.

By contrast Guzman, 61, prefers colorful shirts, baseball caps and sneakers. The shirts he was photographed wearing when he met US actor Sean Penn in 2016 at his Mexico hideout became best-sellers for Los Angeles clothing makers Barabas and are still listed on the firm's website as "El Chapo Shirt".

A woman claiming to be Guzman's daughter, Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman, launched her own brand of clothing, jewelry and liquor in January under the brand name "El Chapo 701", the number referring to the gangster's ranking in the 2009 Forbes list of the world's richest people.

Coronel's announcement made no mention of the existing clothing line with her husband's name attached to it, nor to trademark issues it could prompt. Guzman was convicted on February 12 of smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana into the United States over a quarter of a century. He is due to be sentenced in June and could face life in prison. (AFP)

“Horrors of Malformed Men” (1969, Arrow Video) Amnesiac medical student Teruo Yoshida flees the asylum in which he finds himself imprisoned and immediately finds himself accused of murdering a circus performer. By chance, he discovers that a man to whom he bears a strong resemblance has died, and through means better seen than understood, adopts his identity. The upside to the masquerade is his indulgence in the dead man’s life, from his wealth to his wife and mistress. The downside comes, as much of prolific cult director Teruo Ishii’s film does, seemingly from nowhere, as Yoshida and others travel to a remote island, where the dead man’s father, (butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata), a web-fingered mystic, is intent on creating monsters from unwilling subjects. Long unavailable to Western audiences, and for a time, banned in its native Japan, “Horrors” – adapted from a story by Japanese author Edogawa Rampo – is utterly bizarre, to say the least, slipping from experimental film to exploitation and surreal comedy without regard for cohesiveness or comprehension; for those who enjoy having their third eye scrubbed clean by their entertainment, Ishii’s film will rest comfortably in their collection somewhere between Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jess Franco and “Who’s Crazy?” Arrow’s Blu-ray includes commentary tracks by Mark Schilling (comprehensive, and culled from the previous Synapse DVD) and Tom Mes (doing his best to make sense of things), as well as appreciations from directors Minoru Kawasaki and Shinya Tsukamoto, and interviews with Ishii and screenwriter Masahiro Kakefuda.

“The Swarm” (1978, Warner Archives Collection) Scientists and the military work overtime to stop a colossal squadron of killer bees from decimating the Southwestern United States. Ludicrous mix of ecological horror and disaster epic from “Towering Inferno” producer Irwin Allen, who also directs; his primary focus appears to be conceiving ways to kill off his cast, which here includes Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda and a love triangle involving Olivia de Havillland, Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson, all doing Herculean work to keep a straight face. Only a fraction of them reaches the end of the picture, which for Warner’s Blu-ray, runs 156 minutes with the addition of 40 minutes of scenes not included in the theatrical release; for camp/badfilm fans, the expanded running time for this already delirious and overlong thriller may require multiple pinches to dispel disbelief. A promotional featurette and the original trailer round out the disc.

“Strait-Jacket/Berserk!” (1964/1967, Mill Creek Entertainment) You may recall the episode of “Feud: Bette and Joan” in which Jessica Lange’s Joan Crawford is overwhelmed by a raucous audience at a film screening; the picture in question is William Castle‘s “Strait-Jacket,” which is packaged in Mill Creek’s unfortunately titled “Psycho Biddy” double bill with the 1967 Crawford chiller “Berserk!” Both are overripe potboilers that hinge largely on Crawford’s second-inning career as a horror icon, and she doesn’t disappoint in either case. “Strait-Jacket” is the more enjoyable of the two, with a script by Robert Bloch that pilfers gleefully from his own creation, “Psycho,” right down to the switcheroo ending, and a bombastic Crawford performance that seems to touch on all of her screen personas (’20s Vixen, ’40s Woman of Character, ’60s Matron in Hysterics). Diane Baker, George Kennedy and an uncredited Lee Majors all run afoul of Joan’s axe (but is it hers?) at some point, and director/producer Castle keeps the pace brisk and the blood flowing. “Berserk!” from producer Herman Cohen (“I Was a Teenage Werewolf”) is essentially a catalog of grisly murders at a circus run by Crawford’s domineering ringmaster. The killings are unpleasant to consider (woman sawed in half, spike through the head) but executed in largely bloodless form, and the behind-the-scenes drama is unremarkable (some illicit affairs and Judy Geeson as Crawford’s wayward daughter), leaving Crawford to hold interest by alternately snarling at business partner Michael Gough or slithering over new tightrope act Ty Hardin. Cult/camp aficionados will undoubtedly agree that Miss Crawford succeeds in that regard. Both titles on Mill Creek’s Blu-ray are widescreen.

“The Cyclops” (1957, Warner Archives Collection) A search for a missing test pilot in Mexico detours in a valley (played by Bronson Caverns) where high levels of radiation have created an array of enormous animals, as well as a one-eyed, dyspeptic human giant (with vocalizations by Paul Frees). Absurd creature feature fun from Bert I. Gordon, who specialized in oversized flora and fauna (see “The Amazing Colossal Man,” “Village of the Giants“); “The Cyclops” is one of his lesser efforts due to a sillier-than-usual script and wan visual effects – the rear-projection process occasionally renders the Cyclops transparent – but the cast seems to be in on the joke (especially B-movie favorite Gloria Talbott and a scenery-consuming Lon Chaney, Jr.) and the Cyclops’ makeup, created by Jack H. Young (who worked on “The Wizard of Oz”) is E.C. Comics-style ugly. Warner Archives Blu-ray includes a previously excised face-off between the Cyclops’ eye and a flaming spear, as well as a textless theatrical trailer.

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Source: https://thelosangelesbeat.com/2018/10/movies-till-dawn-mad-monster-party-3-swarmed-and-malformed-edition/

Patrick Corbin, among baseball’s most reliable starting pitchers last season, has agreed to terms on a six-year, $140 million contract with the Washington Nationals, sources said Tuesday.

The deal, which would strengthen a rotation already topped by Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg, is pending a physical.

Free agency’s foremost starter when Clayton Kershaw opted to re-sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers in early November, the left-handed Corbin was in the National League’s top 10 last season in innings pitched, strikeouts, WHIP and ERA.

When the contract becomes official, it will be the 13th-highest total value for a pitcher, behind, among others, Scherzer’s $210 million and Strasburg’s $175 million. The Washington Post was the first to report an agreement.

As the winter market stretched into December, Corbin was drawing significant interest from some of the game’s wealthier franchises. The New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and Nationals identified Corbin as a potential linchpin for their 2019 season and beyond. The Yankees would have certain appeal, as Corbin grew up outside Syracuse, New York, as a Yankees fan. He recently met with those franchises. The Nationals, also engaged with free-agent outfielder Bryce Harper, ultimately came with the best offer. It is unclear how, or if, the Corbin contract will impact the Nationals’ further pursuit of Harper.

Corbin, 29, had the best season of his career in 2018, when he was an All-Star for the first time in five years. He also threw as many as 200 innings for the second time. Leaning harder on his slider, his best pitch, which he threw more than 40 percent of the time, Corbin retook his status as an emerging ace, delayed four years because of a damaged elbow that required Tommy John surgery in 2014.

He threw a one-hitter against the San Francisco Giants in mid-April, losing the no-hit bid in the eighth inning and launching a comeback season that saw career bests in ERA (3.15), strikeouts per nine (11.1) and hits per nine (7.3). He struck out 246 batters and walked 48, the first time in his career he’d struck out more than a batter an inning. That he won but 11 of his 33 starts reflected poor run support from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Only two qualified National League starters – Jacob deGrom and Aaron Nola – received fewer than Corbin’s 3.82 runs per game.

In a game starved for pitching, Corbin would be viewed as a good middle-of-the-rotation bet who might also exceed those expectations. Among the reasons for his 2018 uptick was better fastball command. Also, a dependable changeup has made him more effective against right-handed hitters (.213 batting average against, .259 on-base percentage against) than against left-handed hitters (.239, .309). Over most of Corbin’s career he’d been more vulnerable to righties.

Corbin was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels with the final pick of the second round in 2009, out of Chipola College in Marianna, Florida. He was traded a year later with three other players to the Diamondbacks for Dan Haren. He debuted in the major leagues with the Diamondbacks in April 2012, and in 2013 he was 14-8 with a 3.41 ERA in 32 starts. Near the end of spring training in 2014, Corbin was diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow. He did not pitch again until the middle of 2015. He carried a 4.03 ERA over 189 2/3 innings in 2017, then returned to his pre-Tommy John form last season.

At least a third of big-league teams sought starting pitching over the winter, many of those in position to spend in free agency. Dallas Keuchel, Charlie Morton, Nathan Eovaldi, Hyun-jin Ryu and J.A. Happ also were available, none with the same 2018 momentum as Corbin.

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Straight from the “Here’s Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” Department, Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown’s vital United Skates works as a celebration, lament and exciting overview of its subject: the roller rink as African-American community center. With rousing footage of skaters acing stylish tricks, the directors survey the past and present of roller-rink culture. They tell the story of the time the Bloods and Crips reached a peace accord on the neutral ground of one Los Angeles skate palace, and link New York, New Jersey and L.A. rinks to the rise of hip-hop. We glimpse a young Queen Latifah working a crowd, and Salt-N-Pepa note, in an interview segment, that an act performing for skaters had to be especially powerful because the audience was already annoyed that the show was interrupting their skate time.

Meanwhile, the filmmakers survey life today on the rink scene, charting the differences in skate style between different cities. L.A.’s skaters favor fluid, gliding maneuvers, while anyone hoping to keep up in Chicago, where the DJs blast specialty James Brown remixes geared to what’s called “J.B. skating,” must master moves such as the big wheel, the low shuffle and the gaga. Skaters demonstrating techniques for the directors’ cameras make for continual highlights. And much of the present-day free-skate footage, shot at what have come to be known as “adult nights” at skating rinks, also proves invigorating, an invitation to relish the momentum, the joy and the peacocking pride of grown-up skaters.

In the fast-changing landscape of the L.A. restaurant scene, it's rare for restaurants to have the longevity they once did. However, one group of restaurants that started in Southern California has managed to stick around for 60 years. Starting with the Reef in Long Beach in 1958, Specialty Restaurants Corporation (SRC) is a family-run business that is still innovating: The Green Room, SRC's new lounge and cocktail concept inside the Castaway, opens to the public today.

In addition to restaurants around the country in cities like Miami and Cleveland, SRC has 10 restaurants across Southern California, eight of them in the Greater Los Angeles area: the Reef in Long Beach, Castaway in Burbank, Whiskey Red's in Marina del Rey, the Proud Bird near LAX, 94th Aero Squadron in Van Nuys, the Odyssey in Granada Hills and Luminarias and Monterey Hill in Monterey Park. Each of these restaurants may have its own carefully crafted menu but they are all "view-oriented restaurants providing unique settings and memorable experiences," says John Tallichet, SRC's current president-CEO and son of founder David Tallichet. "[They all have] large square footage with lots of amenities including event spaces, outdoor patios, open green spaces, parking lots and, in some cases, private beaches or luau grounds." Castaway, for example, is in the hills and overlooks the San Fernando Valley, the Reef sits on the water in Long Beach and Proud Bird is nestled next to the runways of LAX.

A rendering has emerged for a proposed multifamily residential development in East Hollywood, courtesy of KFA Architecture.

The project, which is being developed by Reseda-based Skya Ventures, would replace a duplex and a fourplex at 1317-1325 N. New Hampshire Avenue with a seven-story, 92-unit apartment complex.  The proposed development is being entitled with Transit Oriented Communities affordable housing incentives, and would set aside 11 units for lower-income renters.

According to the KFA website, the building's design includes a three-level podium, with upper levels wrapping around a courtyard.  The project is located near major activity hubs - including the cluster of hospitals at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard - but also single-family homes and small apartment buildings, thus necessitating a project that relates to both scales.

The proposed development is slated for completion in 2022.

Two mixed-use developments featuring apartments and retail are planned a block west near the intersection of Vermont and Lexington Avenue.

It was just another regular morning. Antonella Bellina woke up, made herself some breakfast and decided she wanted milk in her coffee. But, when she took the first sip, a foul taste took over her mouth: the milk was way past expiration date.

What could have been just a ruined breakfast actually sparked a business idea that would change the course of Bellina’s life. Having worked as a researcher in the Italian textile industry for over 10 years, she thought: “what if we converted sour milk into fiber?”. After all, the protein in wool is very similar in structure to casein, the main protein found in milk -- and an estimated 30 million tons of dairy go to waste each year in Italy alone.

The idea wasn’t entirely new. In the early 1900s German chemist Frederick Todtenhaupt was already attempting to turn milk byproducts into a silk substitute, but his efforts came to no fruition. It was only in the 1930s that Bellina’s compatriot, engineer Antonio Ferretti, managed to produce fabric from milk.

Backed by Mussolini, who was more than interested in achieving economic self-sufficiency, Italian company SNIA Viscosa began producing milk-based fabric at large scale in the mid 1930s and even sold patents to other countries, including Germany, Belgium, Japan and England. The innovation was celebrated in this 1937 film by the British Pathé, which says “in the future, you’ll be able to choose between drinking a glass of milk and wearing one”.

However, the new product was far from perfect. It wasn’t as soft or durable as wool and threads came out when ironed. As a result, Italy’s milk-based fabrics soon went out of fashion, unable to compete with upcoming synthetic options which were not only more resistant, but also considerably cheaper.

Cut back to 2019, when the world is threatened by global warming and alternatives to oil-based products such as polyester are much needed. It makes a lot of sense to give milk-based fabrics a second chance. That’s exactly what Bellina is doing as CEO and Creative Director of Duedilatte, a Tuscany-based fashion label which has managed to achieve a much softer and resistant version of the material. In addition to giving a second life to what most people consider waste, milk-based fabrics require much less water to produce: to make 1 kg (2.20 pounds) of milk-based fiber one needs 1 liter (0.26 gallon) of water, while the production of 1 kg of cotton requires 50 liters (13.2 gallons) of water.

FashionUnited spoke to Bellina to learn more about her business.

How does the process of converting milk protein into fiber work?

The process is actually very similar to making cheese. We extract casein from the milk and then dry it until it becomes a powder. Then we spin this powder into fiber in a machine that resembles the one that makes cotton candy. The resulting fiber is white in color, but we can dye it. Duedilatte uses natural dyes only, such as strawberry or coffee. The liquid material we’re left with after extracting the casein from the milk can be used to feed farm animals, nothing is wasted. Here in Italy there are places where you can collect sour milk for free, so basically we only pay for transportation and the production process in our lab.

How did the market and consumers receive your product?

It was hard to enter the market even though the textile industry here in Tuscany is very expressive. We had to do a lot of research before finding Spinning Factory and Fabric Factory, two companies which not only believed in my product, but also had the necessary equipments to make it. We’re still a small company but little by little we’re scaling up our production. We’re even developing a collaborative collection with a big Italian brand, but I can’t disclose any details yet. You’ll soon hear more from us!

We started five years ago, but the first three years were dedicated to research and development in the lab. It’s only from last year that the market seems to have understood what milk-based fabric is and the advantages it offers. It’s hypoallergenic, antibacterial, softer on the skin, it even hydrates your skin. Not to mention, of course, the fact it’s 100 percent natural.

In terms of fashion, what does your label offer and where is it sold?

We decided to start with T-shirts, because they’re unisex and the fabric is in direct contact with the skin, so people can actually feel the difference. Now we’re expanding to offer baby clothing as well, as we believe the properties of our material are ideal for babies’ sensitive skin.

For the moment, our clothes are only available in Italian boutiques, but we’re planning on expanding in the rest of Europe soon.

Besides expanding to other European countries, what are the company’s plans for the future?

We want to expand not only our production, but our product offering as well. We also never stopped researching, the idea is to continue innovating with new fabrics and blends. We also want to sell our fiber to other companies interested in developing milk-based collections.

[Editor’s note: Uniqlo uses a mix of acrylic, rayon, polyester fibers and milk protein in its Heattech line]

Pictures: courtesy of Duedilatte. Interview: Gislene Trindade