Emma Courtland

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4 Japanese Valentine's Day Chocolates for Guys

Emma Courtland
Valentine's gifting is especially tricky for women. You want your gift to tell him how you feel, without telling him how you feel. (Not because you're cryptic or unsure of how you really feel, but because he's not a heart-shaped box kind of guy and lacy pink things don't fit......
Will Oldham

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Sells His Own Organic Coffee

Emma Courtland
Be still, our hearts: Will Oldham, the musician/actor otherwise known as Bonnie "Prince" Billy, is selling his own blend of organic Kona coffee. The Bonny Billy Blend, as it's called, is a limited-edition blend of Kona Rose Coffee sold in half-pound and pound bags exclusively through Oldham's record label, Drag......
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Oreo Cameos by Judith Klausner: Cookie Art with a Message

Emma Courtland
Generally we're of the seen one Oreo cameo, seen 'em all camp. Not in the case of Judith G. Klausner's collection. The artist's series of relief portraits carved in Oreo cream reflect more than just wonder and goodness, they make a statement about the relationship between feminism and industrialism, then......
Back to the Roots

Grow Your Own Mushrooms: Urban Farming in a Box

Emma Courtland
Back to the Roots is the kind of grow-your-own mushroom kit company that makes you wonder what you've been doing with your life. Founders Nikhil Arorahe and Alejandro Velez first got the idea in 2009 during their last semester at UC Berkeley when, just two months before their undergraduate commencement,......
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Spread on Melrose: Is it a Sex Food Shop?

Emma Courtland
"We're making couture for your insides," Spread owner Andrew Schiff responds with total commitment. It's a good, quotable answer: Spread is place to pamper your digestive system. But it's not the answer we came for. In the few weeks since Spread opened on Melrose, we've become increasingly convinced that it......
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Food Gadgets for Hipsters: The Bicycle Wine Rack

Emma Courtland
If there is one thing hipsters love more than cheap wine (read: irony), it is expensive gadgets for transporting cheap wine on their bicycles (read: elaborate irony). Thus, the bicycle wine rack. Just in time for Cinespia's summer screening series and other seasonal hipnik picnics, this system of leather straps......
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Food Party Hostess Thu Tran at Everything Is Festival Tomorrow

Emma Courtland
Tomorrow kicks off five days of found footage feting known as the Everything is Festival at Cinefamily. It's a celebration of diggers, curators, and collectors as much as the weird, funny, campy, boogerfaced footage they unearth. Along with Joe Dante's four-hour legend The Movie Orgy (1969), a Q & A......