{"id":103,"date":"2021-11-02T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test1.local\/?p=103"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:46:12","slug":"canyon-love-an-iconic-neighborhood-keeps-its-spirit-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/canyon-love-an-iconic-neighborhood-keeps-its-spirit-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"103\" class=\"elementor elementor-103\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-394ba047 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"394ba047\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5f12f6b2\" data-id=\"5f12f6b2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13af6420 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13af6420\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>By Robin H. Phillips<\/p><p>Throughout the pandemic, and especially during the stay-at-home orders, Americans found creative ways to support one another. In New York City people went outside every evening and banged pots and pans together in honor of the essential workers. Italians danced on their balconies, and throughout American neighborhoods, signs placed on lawns proclaimed, \u201cWe are going to be okay,\u201d and \u201cWe are in this together.\u201d<\/p><p>One community in Los Angeles came together in a way that paid special homage to the history of its iconic neighborhood\u2014Laurel Canyon. Smack dab in the middle of Los Angeles, just a quick jaunt from the touristy excitement of Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, lies this cozy enclave high in the hills. To understand it best today, it helps to glance back.<\/p><p>Growing up in the 70s, I remember hearing the catchy sounds streaming through our station wagon\u2019s speakers. I didn&#8217;t know it then but these were the bands of Laurel Canyon\u2014The Byrds, Crosby Stills, Nash, and Young, The Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, and The Monkees to name a few. Artists, musicians, film and music industry talent, they were (and still are) drawn to Laurel Canyon, and their creative energies feed off each other. Several books and films document the overflowing talent there.<\/p><p>Today, as you wind your way up Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the first thing you spot is the Laurel Canyon Country Store. Here since 1929, it is perhaps a place more musicians and artists have walked through than any other corner market. It\u2019s around the bend from Rothdell Trail AKA Love Street \u2013 so named for the song its famous resident Jim Morrison penned about his neighborhood. Every day for the past 25 years, the \u201cma and pa\u201d of the Canyon\u2014Lilly and Spike\u2014are out on the patio operating Lilly\u2019s coffee cart. Spike is the artist responsible for the iconic art and designs painted and seen all around the store and Canyon.<\/p><h3><strong>Love Thy Neighbor <\/strong><\/h3><p>One relatively new Laurel Canyon resident \u2013 Amanda Kloots \u2013 became an almost overnight Instagram celebrity during the early days of the pandemic for a heartbreaking reason. Her husband, actor, singer and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was stricken with Covid-19. In social media, Kloots began to chronicle her<\/p><p>husband\u2019s battle and in doing so, developed over half a million followers who clearly felt a kinship as they, too, were trying to comprehend this awful new world. Kloots, a talented performer, former Rockette, and successful fitness instructor, had followed her husband Nick to Laurel Canyon so he could embark on a singing career\u2014off the Broadway stage. Sadly it never happened, and Covid claimed Nick in the summer of 2020.<\/p><p>During this time, Kloots\u2019s Instagram showed videos of people singing to her, often from a truck in front of her home. While I watched many of these touching musical tributes, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder who were these people supporting Kloots? In her book \u2013 <em>Live Your Life<\/em> \u2013 written with her sister Anna, Amanda shares much about her experience losing Nick and she highlights, among others, Molly and Trevor, Jono, and Tori.<\/p><h3><strong>The Makers of Magic <\/strong><\/h3><p>Every community has a few residents who are actually the ones making the magic happen. They are the planners and the doers. I had the privilege of spending the day with one of Amanda\u2019s aforementioned angels\u2014Molly Tuttle. \u201cThere are so many folks here doing wonderful things,\u201d Tuttle says humbly. \u201cAnd I think we are creating a little joy for the Upper Lookout Mountain area.\u201d A native northern Californian, Molly came to Laurel Canyon ten years ago with her son Woody and husband Trevor who is in film and television directorial work and story design. Molly is a talented artist and graphic designer, and while that is her day job, she has a lifelong passion for music. In college at Chico State, she was the \u201coriginal number one fan\u201d of the rock band <strong>The Mother Hips<\/strong>, and she used her talents to help promote them and celebrate them every chance she could. \u201cFinding the sounds and artists around us and sharing them with others has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember,\u201d says Molly.<\/p><p>With her son a new student at the Canyon\u2019s Wonderland Elementary\u2014Molly met the \u201cPTA moms,\u201d one of whom was Tori Horowitz. The two women hit it off and Tori invited Molly to join them in planning a benefit concert called \u201cRock the Playground.\u201d The event\u2019s goal was to raise funds to keep the playground open on weekends for the Canyon kids. Molly jumped right in to help and created a special graphic poster for the event\u2014something she\u2019d done since her college days. For Molly, these posters are deeply meaningful. \u201cFirst there is the anticipation of the event, then there\u2019s the event itself, and then when it is over, we have this amazing artistic object that allows us to reminisce forever,\u201d she explains.<\/p><p>Like most Canyon residents, Tori\u2019s backstory has some jaw-dropping elements. \u201cMy former LA roommate, who managed bands like The Smashing Pumpkins and the Cocteau Twins, told me Rick Rubin was looking for an assistant and I should meet with him about the job,\u201d she says. Much to her surprise, she got it, rented a \u201cfunky little house on Walnut Drive in the Kirkwood bowl,\u201d and never left. \u201cI have lived in the same three block radius for 25 years,\u201d she says. Today, as a successful real estate agent with Compass, operating Canyonhaus, a popular Instagram page, she is the go-to agent for properties in the Canyon. She\u2019s also one of Molly\u2019s biggest fans. \u201cMolly is one of\u00a0 my all-time favorite people and may have lived here in another life,\u201d she tells me. \u201cMolly seems to belong here in so many ways. Her style, her voice (metaphorically and literally &#8211; she can sing!), her creativity, her spirit. The way she can bring people together. I don\u2019t know what the Canyon would be for me without her. She\u2019s my Canyon soul sister.\u201d<\/p><h3><strong>The Canyon Calls<\/strong><\/h3><p>Molly started sprinkling her \u201cmagic canyon dust\u201d on Nick Cordero while he and Amanda were still living in New York but were visiting Cordero\u2019s buddy Zach Braff, who also happens to be friends and neighbors with the Tuttles\u2014Braff and Trevor worked together on <em>Oz the Great and Powerful<\/em>. The little Upper Lookout Mountain crew was soon hanging out. \u201cI met Nick and knew immediately he had to move here, and I reminded him of that every chance I got!\u201d says Molly. In fact, it was Molly that Cordero beckoned to weigh in on the bungalow he found on Love Street. Molly says she locked eyes with Cordero that day and told him, \u201cthis is your new home!\u201d She and the neighbors had made them a part of their Canyon family.<\/p><p>That family, specifically the Tuttles, has special traditions. \u201cThey are so important to me, and as soon as we moved in, Trevor and I decided to start our own traditions. We created \u201cWoody\u2019s Cocoa Stand,\u201d which, over the years, has become a much anticipated Christmas Eve event, complete with neighborhood kids as carolers.\u201d What started as a handful of people grew in size each year. Fellow school parent, actor Jack Black, stopped by the last one. \u201cYou never know who you might see in the crowd,\u201d Molly says with a wide grin.<\/p><p>Another common occurrence at the Tuttles is a well-planned living room concert. \u201cWhat is better than having live music in your own home?\u201d asks Molly. I remind her most of us would have no idea. \u201cWell you should!\u201d she says with a laugh. I can\u2019t help but agree, and note how the 60s Canyon spirit lives on through them. \u201cPeople are motivated to do things in Laurel Canyon and any reason to create an event or an experience, people tend to show up,\u201d explains Trevor.<\/p><h3><strong>Memories with Music &amp; Art<\/strong><\/h3><p>\u201cKnowing how alone and awful Amanda was feeling, how helpless we all felt, I got the idea to send her a singing telegram,\u201d explains Molly. Molly\u2019s dear friend, longtime Canyon resident Jono Hart, was also trying to think of ways to connect his neighbors during lockdown, and bring a little joy into Kloots\u2019s sad situation. \u201cMolly is the great enabler,\u201d says Hart wryly. \u201cI was thinking basically the same thing she was,\u201d! In a few hours, the Tuttle\u2019s truck was rolling toward Amanda with a singing group perched in the back. They surprised her, singing <em>You\u2019ve Got a Friend<\/em>, written by former Canyon resident Carole King. It was captured on video, streamed, and both Carole King and James Taylor shared it. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit more \u201cminstrelly\u201d than anything. One person has an idea and the players fall into form. Stone soup where everyone just shows up with the right puzzle piece,\u201d says Trevor.<\/p><p>The neighbors also organized another performance to celebrate the publishing of Kloots\u2019s <em>Live Your Life<\/em>, with special guest Finneas, singer\/songwriter\/producer and brother of Billie Eilish, who performed from the Tuttle truck <em>What They\u2019ll Say About Us<\/em>, the song he wrote for Nick and Amanda. \u201cWe try to open our homes as much as our hearts,\u201d says Hart.<\/p><p>Another important friend in this Canyon group is Gary Calamar. A California native, he managed bands and then became a DJ at the influential station KCRW. Today he is a music supervisor for TV programs such as <em>Six Feet Under<\/em>, <em>True Blood<\/em>, <em>Dexter<\/em>, and <em>House<\/em>. \u201cI met Nick and Amanda and baby Elvis first at Woody\u2019s Cocoa party and then at the Tuttle\u2019s Thanksgiving. Nick was a very cool and talented guy. I also have a music licensing company called Laurel Canon and we started working with Nick\u2019s music shortly before he got sick,\u201d explains Calamar. \u201cI was able to place his beautiful song \u201cLive Your Life\u201d in an HBO movie.\u201d Calamar also points out something I already know &#8212; that Molly is an impressive artist. \u201cWe have worked on several musical projects together and she always knocks it out of the park with her art,\u201d says Calamar.<\/p><p>Hearing about their soir\u00e9es, I can\u2019t help but think of Gertrude Stein, and Calamar sees the same parallel but another one as well. \u201cI always tell Molly that she reminds me of Mama Cass as she is always bringing people together,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd Graham Nash described Cass as, \u201cThe Gertrude Stein of Laurel Canyon\u201d because her house seemingly recreated Stein\u2019s salon at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris in the 1920s. And that\u2019s how I feel about Molly.\u201d<\/p><p>One such artist who has performed in the Tuttle living room is LA folk singer\/songwriter Jamie Drake. Drake is an accomplished musical talent whose 2019 album has been streamed more than 14 million times on Spotify. \u201cThe Tuttles are a walking vortex of magical manifestation,\u201d explains Drake. \u201cMolly invited me to join in on a concert in her home, opening for \u201cExpandards,\u201d a musical project of Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco, and Isaac Koren,\u201d Drake shares. \u201cThe beauty and the mystery of the Canyon calls to me too. My heroes once walked those streets with their guitars and I long to join them.\u201d<\/p><p>The Canyon embrace is keeping Kloots there as well. \u201cAfter living in New York City apartment buildings for 19 years, I never knew what a neighborhood community looked like. In New York sometimes you never see or know your neighbors,\u201d she explains. \u201cLaurel Canyon is a special, magical place. The magic comes from a history of these creative people and now the souls that are keeping it alive. Those souls are Molly, Trevor, Tori, and Jono,\u201d says Kloots.<\/p><p>As our time together winds to a close, Molly points out Joni Mitchell\u2019s house and I can\u2019t help but think of her lyrics in <em>Ladies of the Canyon<\/em>, \u201cPouring music down the canyon, Coloring the sunshine hours, They are the ladies of the canyon.\u201d And so, the Canyon spirit endures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b28775 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"4b28775\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ed43c9a\" data-id=\"ed43c9a\" 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