In the opening frames of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, we’re introduced to the Paiva family of Rio de Janeiro, through a montage of scenes of ordinary life in that fabled tropical city.

These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.

New to the hospitality business, Hetal and Dhruma Shah started Sipeos last year as an “online shop of adult non-alcoholic drinks.” As of last month, Sipeos has since expanded into a cafe and ...

WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

ILLEGAL BUSINESS Prices of weed have plummeted lately, but that doesn’t mean the differential between legal and illicit is any less stark. When legalization proponents sold voters on Prop.

WITH EASE Curating the anniversary album spanning 50 years’ work, Cockburn says song selection took a mere 30 seconds. ‘It’s all singles that went to radio. There was no choosing involved.

SIMPLIFY ‘To enjoy horror,’ Mattson said, ‘you have to think of the victim as something that doesn’t have complex humanity.’ Set around a “full-contact” house of horrors in mid ...

GOOD VIBES ‘The vibrations of a love song can heal us,’ Powell says. ‘When you’re in a state of deep love, you are the love, as well as the loved one.’ The songs on Mae Powell’s debut ...

COMFORT If you’re having a particularly stressful or dispiriting day, Lorena Menjivar’s grilled pupusas are the perfect remedy. Every restaurant is home to some form of comfort food.

POWER TRIO Evangelista usually performs with Grex, the free jazz–inspired band he leads with Scampavia, drawing on folkloric melodies for a musical conversation. The first time Karl Evangelista ...

OLD-WORLD CHARM Now remodeled, Bartavelle Coffee and Wine Bar’s take-out window and doorway summon the presence of a European side-street cafe. At Bartavelle Coffee & Wine Bar, a mother and son ...

Admittedly, the best trends in home improvement during 2020 resulted from being locked up like pandemic prisoners in our homes. Even so, shelter-in-place incarceration and the necessity of clean ...