Events

Bar Open regular hours

1-11pm

6 wines by the glass and our Eagle Rock White Sangria

and

Art Opening - 4-6m

Super Heroes at Home

Photography by Gregg Segal

     We met Gregg Segal a couple years ago when he was photographing our store for a magazine. Now, if you're getting us press and making us look great, you can have a show anytime you want, but Gregg'swork is just gorgeous, with a sly twist of humor that fits in at CoWineCo perfectly.  But Gregg's work in his own words is a hell of a lot more interesting than our babble. 

"Tourists expect to find the Hollywood they’ve seen in movies as they make their way to Grauman’s Chinese Theater but instead are greeted by costumed entertainers, some dressed as icons like Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson, others as super heroes such as Batman and Superman. The people wearing these costumes are much like the tourists in that they have a shared reverence for the fantasy of Hollywood. Many have come with hopes of making it in the industry – but their freelance work on Hollywood Boulevard may be as close as they come to realizing their dreams. Masquerading as icons and posing for pictures with tourists from all over the world affords them an illusory sense of stardom. More than anyone else, they define contemporary Hollywood, conveying the community’s aspirations and its fringe-level reality.

I followed the super heroes home to highlight the contrast of the fantastic and mundane. Though in costume, the super heroes are unmasked by the ordinariness of their apartments and their routine chores. While I photographed Batman, a family pulled over to take his picture. He strode up to them with super hero confidence and the children approached him with awe. He was Batman because he was Batman to them. Then later, in his apartment, when he’d taken off his mask and cape and was reheating leftovers in the microwave, he was merely ordinary. I could see what it was that drew him back to Hollywood Boulevard."

Please join us for the Super Heroes At Home Opening

Saturday, August 23rd, from 4-6 pm

gourmet cheeses from Auntie Em's Marketplace

wines by the glass ranging from $6-$15/glass