Andreas Tzortzis

The 20,000-Hour Rule Before Banksy and Shepard Fairey could command hundreds of thousands of dollars for their work, street art was far too low-brow for the rarefied tastes of the art market. And Joe Lewis couldn’t get enough of it. Together with friends, the conceptual artist opened up Fashion Moda in...

Think Global, Act Child-Like It would be easy to pigeon-hole AGEIST friend Lola Faturoti as an African fashion designer. But she’d have a problem with that — with any labels, really. Though she grew up south of Lagos, Nigeria, she moved back to London at 17. A couple of years later,...

We Should Be Doing So Much More with Our Lives Sometimes, early in the morning, Steve Radenbaugh’s friends get texts from him. Typically, they’re of a beautiful sunrise, the photo taken from high up in the Santa Monica mountains where he’s ridden his bike. “You guys are still between the sheets,...

Dress and Act Your Age There’s New York in the late '70s, and then there’s AGEIST favorite Irene Bilo’s New York in the late '70s: nights at Studio 54, days spent hanging out with Andy Warhol, Halston and Grace Jones. The Montreal native actually moved to the metropolis to study theater,...

Devour Everything When he was a teenager in North London, Hambis Charalambous used to persuade his friend to take him to Heathrow Airport. He’d get a coffee and watch the people arrive and depart, dreaming of the day he could do the same. To America, specifically: the land of big,...

An Acting Gardener Cidele Curo is a gardener. But that’s not where her story begins. It begins with the 20-something-year-old newly arrived New Yorker taking the resume of a working 90-something-year-old actor, sticking her headshot on it and passing it off as her own. The gamble worked. She went from magician’s assistant...

Beauty and Strength in Commitment “The only certainty in life is the passage of time. So ask yourself how you can benefit from it. Then the passage of time can really be kind of fun.” Growing up next door to Jimi Hendrix in Greenwich, it took Doug 58 years to leave...

A director at Yale, serving on the Fulbright Scholarship Committee, she decided when she was 54 to quit her New York life, move to Spain and build a house. “It takes a long time to work out how to live. If I have been holding back, then the time...

Your Neighborhood Grocer After decades of neglect, the rise of downtown LA is unmistakable. Loft conversions and the steady growth of cool boutiques and restaurants have set real estate prices rocketing. AGEIST noticed that among the pacemakers is Urban Radish, an organic, deli-style market that sees itself as much as...

Creating Community Yuval Bar-Zemer was a music student in Israel who made his way to New York one summer to work with a friend, painting offices and getting his mind blown by the jazz scene in the Village. From there, he soon ended up in LA where he became an...