Light Culture

Light Culture

By David HershkovitsSociety & CultureBusinessArts
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Light Culture episodes

  • Kenny Scharf, Artist
    In a career that spans 40 years, Kenny Scharf has gone from wunderkind pal of Haring and Basquiat to art world drop out to OG working in a reconstituted LA studio making one masterpiece after another. We talk about finding inspiration in head shops. Performing with Ann Magnuson and Club 57. His psychedelic Cosmic Cavern. Recycling for arts sake. Hanging with Warhol. Miami when it reminded him of the East Village. And much, much more so listen up.

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    43 min
  • Chelsea Leyland, DJ and CBD Activist
    Chelsea Leyland is one of the bravest people I know. At one time the fashion world’s favorite DJ, Leyland shifted focus after discovering that CBD could free her from the anti-convulsant drugs that as an epileptic she had been taking for most of her life. Today she’s a CBD activist, telling her story and working to educate the world about the help that’s available to the many millions of people afflicted with this condition, if only the government and medical profession got on board.

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    43 min
  • Cannabis Greatest Hits 2019
    David Hershkovits reviews the year with special guest DJ Kibbitzer. What he really thinks about the year in pot from Fab 5 Freddie to Ricky Powell, Danny Fields, AJ Sour Diesel and beyond.

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    55 min
  • Psychonaut Daniel Pinchbeck
    Sting, Russell Brand and Ellen Page would all agree that Daniel Pinchbeck is one of the most important voices in the new psychedelic revolution. His latest book When Plants Dream -- Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and The Global Psychedelic Renaissance couldn’t be more timely. Whether it’s microdosing or purging your guts out under the influence, Pinchbeck finds hope that the psychedelic experience will be more than a self-help product in the wellness toolbox. For him, it is the key to saving the world from its own destructiveness.

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    40 min
  • Isaac Mizrahi’s Wicked Ways
    Award-winning fashion designer, TV talk show host, Project Runway judge, singer, costume designer, author. Whatever, it all adds up to Isaac Mizrahi. We talk about the good old days when Madonna, Robert DeNiro et al would come to his shows and Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui made their marks. Why he likes Xanax and thinks department stores going out of business is a good thing. Don’t expect the expected. It’s Isaac Mizrahi.

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    40 min
  • High Society Poster Boy Peter Davis
    Peter Davis grew up with the Trumps and other prominent New York families, but he’s always been an individualist. From his days as a punked out, green-haired skateboarder, he’s had a rebellious streak that crossed over into the wild world of downtown New York where he snuck into clubs, smoked weed and connected with a new reality. We talk about what it’s like being editor-in-chief of L’Officiel USA, his oddball collections, his views on fashion and weed, the luxe cannabis market and how he’d brand a company targeting elite spenders.

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    38 min
  • April Pride on Women & Cannabis
    April Pride is an emerging star of the new cannabis culture. We talk with her about the intersection of cannabis and sex, how the new cannabis magazines targeting women get it right, post-partum pot and the many other ways that women can potentially benefit from normalization.

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    41 min
  • SHERBINSKIS’ Sweet Game
    In the world of Cannabis, no brand stands out like SHERBINSKIS. It's been called the Supreme of cannabis. As well as the Louis Vuitton of cannabis. SHERBINSKIS, aka Mario Guzman, spans the high and the low, his foot in the door to become the breakout brand of the cannabis revolution. His widely loved Sunset Sherbet, Gelato, and Mochi strains have been name-checked in hundreds of rap songs.

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    35 min
  • Cannabis Crusader Keith Stroup
    Keith Stroup has been fighting for marijuana reform for almost 50 years. As a founder of NORML he’s not quite ready to take a victory lap, but he’s gratified to see the fruits of his labor. We talk cannabis then and now and follow the story from the War on Drugs to Jimmy Carter permissiveness to Reagan's Just Say No to impending legalization.

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    39 min
  • How to Be a Cannabis CMO"
    Can a marketing whiz who’s worked for halo brands like Nike and Beats By Dre make it in the Cannabiz? Can what he learned there be applied to the wild west of cannabis where the playing field is uneven and different rules apply. As CMO of Cura Cannabis Jason White is ready for the challenge. We find out how China changed him, how marketing to women and seniors is all the rage and what it's going to take to establish a brand in an industry on the brink of national legalization.

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    40 min

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Hi, my name is David Hershkovits. As a founder of Paper magazine, I have been a long-time supporter of cultural disruptors from the alternative worlds of skate, hip hop, graffiti and streetwear scenes…