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Oishi Barrio Featured Performer: The Real High Class

Be the highest version of yourself Navy Veteran Branden Carcamo is trying to educate and break stigmas.   As lead graphic designer for elevated cannabis collective brand The Real High Class, the Los Angeles native strives to be mindful of messaging when creating.    Carcamo is conscious of the negative stereotypes that cannabis can carry and he and TRHC are trying to be the living proof that people around cannabis culture can be productive and even leading figures in their community.    For this reason, Carcamo and TRHC’s owner Darren Bitterolf (the pair have known each other since high school) have taken great pains to give back to their community in Pomona and where TRHC is based in Long Beach...

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Oishi Barrio Vendor Archive

Garments For No One When you hand make every article of clothing that carries your name, it’s natural to feel like a small part of you goes into each piece. For L.A.-based Garments for No One Creative Director Dennis Lopez, each piece is personal and honest. GFNO makes high-quality clothes at reasonable prices for people to be inspired by or as Lopez likes to say, “those looking for the hidden gems.” Your next hidden gem is waiting for you at Oishi Barrio. "For us, all around it was a fantastic event! Most people who stopped by gave us a lot of positive feedback. The event for us was great!" - Dennis Lopez, Garments for No One. ilaments Lisa Ila Rocha...

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Oishi Barrio Featured Performer: Margeaux

Tucked away in the bottom levels of the Aratani Theatre in JACCC Plaza in Little Tokyo, sits a treasure trove of auditory amazement in an enchanting place called Margaux-Land. The high empress of this phonic paradise is DJ, activist for Transgender & LGBT workplace rights, and the Aratani’s lead production engineer Margaux “Mago” Morales.Morales picked up the “mago” nickname for having the reputation of being able to fix anything audio-related, and if you play over 60 instruments as Morales does, people start to believe the legend.Simply put, Margaux is magic, and magic is Margaux.The 59-year-old has lived more than most of us can dream.Grammy credits on B.B. King Records; she did it. Play with Guns N’ Roses; she did it....

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Oishi Barrio Featured Vendor: Julie's Records

Getting outside the algorithm Like everyone who got through the past year, Julie’s Records Founder Julie Acosta was forced to adjust to the new world because of the pandemic. For the fourth-generation Angelino, who immersed herself in the thriving Los Angeles music scene by going to at least one concert a week before the shutdown, the enforced separation from live music and the music community itself forced Acosta into action. Acosta took part in virtual shows and used streaming services like Spotify, but these weren’t enough to fill the void and she started digging for records more frequently. She also started putting her record collection on sale at socially distanced get-togethers and pop-ups.  For Acosta, records were a way of...

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Oishi Barrio Featured Vendor: Labellatini

The Cheat Codes Labellatini has her hands in a lot of things. But at this moment, the Los Angeles DJ christened Isabel Reyes at birth sits pensively in her Zen garden nestled in the hills of Highland Park.  The tranquility stands in stark contrast to the usual flurry of activity the Ventura, California native normally undertakes. The DJ, activist, teacher, Twitch streamer, and producer is currently in high demand and enjoying her most fruitful spell since she learned to DJ under the world-famous Beat Junkies at their Institute of Sound school. Reyes shared that her fears of becoming disconnected from the community that had supported her and nurtured her since she started out during the pandemic were the catalyst for...

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