Melissa Etheridge has always written what she feels, and what she feels at this time, at this time of her life, is released. The legend of folk-rock, better known for its rough hymns of the 90s (Cue “Come to my window …“), I just finished recording a new album that will come out next year. An issue that permeates throughout its lyrics? Librando.
On Sunday Funday, the people of Los Angeles give us a play per game of their ideal Sunday in the city. Find ideas and inspiration about where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on weekends.
“It's a lot about letting you try to make everything perfect,” says Etheridge. “Stop trying to change other people to make me happy because it doesn't work that way.”
She talks to us, yes, we are on tour with the Indigo girls, an occasion that describes as the last girl of girls. “He has brought many women: grandmothers, mothers, daughters,” says Etheridge. “It's music you remember and feel really incredible.”
The tour makes a stop next week at the Greek theater, which will feel like a kind of return home for the artist who has lived in Los Angeles during the last 43 years. Etheridge and his wife Linda Wallem, along with the young adult children of Etheridge, have established themselves in the Calabasas area and find comfort in the many charms of the neighborhood. Today, Etheridge, who says he has had “many incredible Sundays” in the city, describes a perfect one. Start with a walk near home and then venture in the center of the city for brunch and art, and is in Studio City for a fried heavenly sponutter.
This interview has been slightly edited by length and clarity.
7 am: wake up and walk
We love getting up, and the first thing we do is walk. Let's go for a mile and a half, and it's really lovely. And we love all our neighbors, and it is a really fantastic place.
8 am: coffee with extra love
Then we would go to LA LA LA LAND KIND CAFE in The common ones In Calabasas. What is special is that [employs] Breeding children. The owner is a really special guy who puts a lot of love in the place. And it's so, you can ask for “extra love” and they will say: “Oh, we love you!” When we go. They have a coffee with butterfly milk, you know, blue and green. Very crazy, beautiful drinks. So we will collect coffee and then we will go to Hank Bars And get some bars for children.
9 am: Upload the songs of the car
After leaving everything at home, we are going to the center. On Sunday at nine o'clock, you can reach the center in a reasonable amount of time. I have the music in our car. We love listening to the Chris Stapleton channel in Sirius XM. And we are listening to my new album that I just recorded that it will not come out until 2026.
10 am: a quiet brunch
We will go to Girl and goat. Chef Stephanie Izard has these cookies and chicken. Incredible. It's not too fun because you just don't want to be too fun for Brunch. You want, oh, feel When you have finished. So that's what we will do. That is, as, from 10 to 11 am, from 10 to 12. I am not rushing. It is a beautiful restaurant.
Noon: see what is exhibited in downtown Los Angeles
Then we will see the exhibitions or facilities that have in the center. The last time we were, it was “Luna Luna”. Really great. Once, it was the King Tut exhibition.
3 pm: A quick stop in Atrium
Then we will get the children. On the way back, we stop at one of our favorite cannabis stores, Atrium In Topanga [Canyon Boulevard] – Our other favorite is Coast to coast In Canoaga Park, and get some because we go to our favorite movie theater later tonight.
3:30 pm: Time pass in my favorite musical patio
We go through Norman's rare guitarsThat is in Tarzana. It is not open on Sundays, but if this were a dream, it would be. [Owner Norman Harris] It has an exquisite collection that everyone has bought, from Tom Petty to George Harrison and Bob Dylan for me.
Sometimes I exchange a guitar with [Norman]Sometimes I will show me a ridiculously expensive guitar just to look at it, and then I will tell you that I can never buy it. Something is always happening there. I sat in the middle of the store with my friend Ashley McBryde and sang songs. It's just a really great place. Only in Los Angeles
5 pm: one night in the cinema
We will arrive at our favorite cinema, CinépolisWhere we are going to watch the last movie. They serve dinner and drinks in the theater, and it is a very fun night. The last movie we saw was “Thunderbolts”. It's very great. God, I love Florence Pugh. My children were skeptical about Marvel, but they really liked. It is good not to have to cook or clean a Sunday. So far, today we have eaten 10,000 calories.
8 pm: the dessert of all desserts
So, if we could pack all the fun, we would go by 101 to Studio City, where chef Antonia Lofaso has the Black Market Liquor Bar. She has a dessert called Fluffernter. Oh my God. It is a fried fight. It's so good. Then we would go for dessert there. Then we were driving home.
10 pm: The night ends under the stars
We have a small well of fire outside in our backyard. And we love sitting and looking at the stars and using some of those things we obtained in the atrium.
I constantly think, oh, I'm going to move from Los Angeles and travel all over the world. And I swear, every time I return, I think, this feels at home. This is home.
