{"id":781,"date":"2012-03-07T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/03\/the-roots-of-stew.html"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:52:00","slug":"the-roots-of-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/03\/the-roots-of-stew.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talented as he is,\u00a0he&#8217;s become one of Los Angeles&#8217;s least likely success stories: A hipster cult figure, the toast of Silverlake and Highland Park, who moves to New York and suddenly hits, with a Broadway show and a Spike Lee film. But Stew has always been unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-y_KYHB5sSxY\/T1e737i8EII\/AAAAAAAABRA\/YSXobPZcSa8\/s1600\/stew:h.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"188\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-y_KYHB5sSxY\/T1e737i8EII\/AAAAAAAABRA\/YSXobPZcSa8\/s320\/stew:h.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a>In today&#8217;s paper, I spoke to Stew about the figures who&#8217;ve inspired him from outside the familiar pop and rock worlds. He came up &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2012\/03\/stew-mark-stewart-making-it.html\">here<\/a> &#8212; with a wide-ranging mix, from Godard to Alfred Brendel.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite quotes from Stew didn&#8217;t find its way into my story due to lack of space. &#8220;Some people said about me and Heidi, the reason you guys are still good is you never got too famous. That&#8217;s the single most important thing &#8212; if we&#8217;d gotten big when we were 25 we&#8217;d be sitting by the pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talented as he is,\u00a0he&#8217;s become one of Los Angeles&#8217;s least likely success stories: A hipster cult figure, the toast of Silverlake and Highland Park, who moves to New York and suddenly hits, with a Broadway show and a Spike Lee film. But Stew has always been unpredictable. In today&#8217;s paper, I spoke to Stew about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,40,30,97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"category-indie","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-theater","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}