The Playboy Jazz Festival is a cultural institution. Veteran LA hipsters abound! The bowl is filled with fricques of all kinds from jazzsters to booty queens. This year’s party at the Hollywood Bowl was great as usual. The two days of nonstop jazz for eleven straight hours each day is mildly raucous in a mature adult kind of way. The scene is all about lounging, eating and drinking, listening and boogying to live-as-it-gets music. (more…)