Barry White Pizza VS. Berry White Doughnut

Over the 10 plus years of writing reviews for this here blog of mine, I've been asked a few times if I review cupcakes that would pair well with a certain concert, band, artist or venue.

The answer is simple, no.

In some cases I've reviewed and/or hightlighted cupcakes that are sold at Music Festivals and in other cases when I've interviewed bands or artists I've asked what cupcake flavor they perfer but for the most part I keep my concert and cupcake reviews separate. 

Breaking free from an unhealthy, unofficial business partner who merely supplied professional concert photos for my reviews and relocating to entertainment industry meca Southern California posed their own obsticles in terms of visability, exposure and coverage opportunities. Not to mention a busy work schdule that keeps me on the road more often than not. 

I've had to get creative with my creative output. Carving out blog content from festivals I work and places I travel to for work, as well as finding other music related things that I draw inspiration from, rather than only reviewing concerts and cupcakes has been the theme of Sweet Sound Bites lately. Being a full-time music festival worker and working music festivals around the country has been the saving grace of this blog. 

Barry White Pizza at Evel Pie Pizza in Las Vegas 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

In this double food review I happened to find two different foods while traveling for work with the same (but different) name of a famous musician. Barry White Pizza from Evel Pie in Las Vegas and the Berry White Doughnut from Good Company Doughnuts & Cafe in Washington D.C. In May I was in Vegas to work Insomniac's Electric Daisy Carnival also known as EDC. Before exhaustion set in, I happily took myself to a pizza joint I'd been eyeing since I started working the festival post pandemic. I was excited to be awake and present enough be able to try Evel Pie Pizza before the big rave this year. 

There was already a line when I arrived about 20 minutes after they opened. Evel Pie is reimminiscent of a dive bar and a mix of what I imagine the infamous Gilman Street punk venue in Berkeley was like. Black walls covered in stickers, posters, old flyers, garfetti and barely illuminated by the low glow of neon bar lights. I enjoyed the punk, thrasher theme as well as the odes to daredevil punk legend himself, Evel Kenevel: from the memorialbilia on the walls to the black and white, checkered, race flag parchment paper that lines the pizza boxes. There's also marquee outside that lights up at night just like music venues do. (Turns out every 2nd and 4th Thursday there's live music at Evel Pie!)

Evel Pie Pizza in Las Vegas 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

As I waited to place my to-go order I checked out the pizza's on display that are sold by the slice. When my eyes fell on the Barry White Pizza there was no looking back. It wasn't the iconic name that got me at first but the fact that this pizza has ricotta cheese on it. Ricotta has become one of those menu deal breakers for me in the same vain as chorizo, chipotle, Manchego cheese and jam.  If it has it, I want it.
The fact that this pizza is called Barry White justified me getting it since it was an opportunity to write and post a review of it because of it's connection to music.
I got it and a second, different, slice to-go in order to eat en route the back to the hotel to get ready for work. Ain't no rest for the wicked, or the evel in this case.

 

Not only is the Barry White pizza called Barry White because of the big dollops of white, velvety ricotta (White like his last name and velvety like that famous bass-baritone voice of his) but there's also no red sauce on this pizza. I couldn't tell if there was a white sauce (usually ranch) on it or not as I gobbled it up. It wasn't anywhere near too greasy, in fact it was perfectly greasy enough and the contrast of the toasted mozzarella paired with the creamy ricotta is chef's kiss worthy. Of course my ricotta loving heart and stomach wanted more ricotta, more of it might have over induldged the simpilcity of this tasty piece of pie. In sin city, at $6.25 a slice you'll hit the jackpot at Evel Pie. What happens in Vegas usually stays in Vegas but I had to share. The only Evel Pie location is in Las Vegas so you'll have to take a gamble and go there to try it for yourself. 

Barry White Pizza at Evel Pie Pizza in Las Vegas 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

In June, work brought me to Washington D.C for the return of Warped Tour! There's no telling if and when there will be free time for any type of exploring or if you'll be lodged in an area that has anything around but I always do a google search of things I might want to check out while in a new place. Those things usually always include food and nature and one of the go to foods I search near me is not cupcakes, it's dounuts. 

Barry White Doughnut from Good Company Doughnuts and Cafe in Washington D.C
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Good Company Doughnuts and Cafe was one of the first places to pop up in my search while in D.C and it was only a five minute drive away from where my team was staying. After perusing their doughnut flavors on their instagram page and being delightfully surprised at seeing that they had a Barry White doughnut, I knew this was the place.

Two of my co-workers agreed to leaving the hotel a few minutes early on the morning of 

load-out/travel day which was my last chance to check this place, and it's doughnuts, out. I assured them it would be a quick trip because already knew what I wanted. As I tend to do, I ended up getting two different ones and ate the Berry White Doughnut before we hit the road. 

Barry White Doughnut from Good Company Doughnuts and Cafe in Washington D.C
photo by Nikki DeMartini

The Berry White doughnut is a play on the singer's name because this raised doughnut is a topped with a tart mixed berry glaze, hence berry not Barry. It's also filled with a white chocolate buttercream and voila! The Berry White Doughnut.

 Goodness!

Eating this doughnut felt like getting serenaded by Barry White himself. The balance of sweet and tart is spot on and there was no skimping on the rich and creamy filling. It's such a delectably fresh frosting filling that I'm pretty sure I blacked out momentarily while eating it before the sugar hit my veins. 

Barry White Doughnut from Good Company Doughnuts and Cafe in Washington D.C
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Barry White Doughnut from Good Company Doughnuts and Cafe in Washington D.C
photo by Nikki DeMartini

The Berry White Doughnut from Good Company Doughnuts is the best filled donut I've had the pleasure of eating. This flavor is one of the speciality flavors in the month of June, presumably because June is the peak of berry season, so get there if you can and get this doughnut.

Remi Wolf @ WeHo Pride's Outloud Music Festival 2025

Lizzo, Remi Wolf, Kim Petras, Paris Hilton, Honey Dijon, Tommy Genisis,  and a whole bunch of Drag Queens sashayed across the stages at WeHo Pride's OutLoud Music Fest last weekend to kick off Pride month 2025! Last year the event went out with a big bang as LGBTQA+ iconic superstar Kylie Minogue closed out the show, so needless to say there were some big shoes to fill this year. 

Remi Wolf @ WeHo Pride’s Outloud June 1st, 2025
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Less than one month before the festivities in WeHo this year, JJLA annouced that due to medical reasons Lil Nas X would no longer be playing Outloud Music Festival. 

The Sunday night headliner slated to close out the show experienced partial facial paralysis which is a symptom of Bell’s Palsy. The onset of Bells Palsy can be caused by stress. On top of headling a music festival, Lil Nas X  is a homosexual black man in American during the current Trump administration, it's not hard to understand why might be stressed. The reason and diagnosis of his face paralysis is not clear.

 

Though a stretch from the sparkly pop, queer icon status sensations Outloud attendees have grown accustom to seeing headline the show, the soul-funk pop songstress Remi Wolf stepped up to the occasion. She's made a name for herself in the indie music scene yet is a rising star in the queer comunity: Remi Wolf's counter culture style and pyschedelic sound would offer some diversity to the inclusionary event. 

The 29 year old singer/songwriter from Palo Alto, California took to the stage half an hour after Hilton hotel hieress turned reality TV star turned DJ turned singer Paris Hilton. A flamboyant juxtoposition to round-out Outloud 2025, if you will, on the first official night of Pride month this year. 

Remi and her full band were a few songs into the set by the time I made it to the main stage crowd which had dwidled down considerably since Paris's set. I often wonder how artsists feel performing to smaller crowds in bigger settings and like think they're humbled to be playing to loyal fans as well as some potenial new ones. Though admittedly not the most familiar with her repotire, Remi Wolf has been on my live show bucket list for a little bit. A bit of a lull in my busy work day at WeHo Pride meant I could see what the buzz is about for myself. 

Remi Wolf @ WeHo Pride’s Outloud June 1st, 2025
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Almost as soon as setting eyes on them while they were playing the "Frog Rock" I sensed something was off. Remi was working the stage while singing but she wasn't working the crowd. Then by mid song she was gone leaving her band to finish the song. It was unclear to me if this is how the song goes or if it was a special live version or if it was something else entirely. The answer came as soon as a teary eyed Remi Wolf reappeared on stage visably and vocally unhappy. The singer's in-ears were not working properly which meant she couldn't hear herself while she performed. She was met with uplifting chants of her first name and encouraging applause before she qued the next song.  

Admist dropping a few F-bombs in frusteration she proceeded to rip the in-ears out, telling the crowd she would do her best to carry on with the rest of the show while also graciously thanking all of us for being there. Explaining the situation as her "worst fucking nightmare" she told the crowd that the next song "Is kind of about this. Sometimes you can feel like hot, goddamn shit and sometimes you can feel like the most ugly beast in the fucking world and that's ok because that's the duality of this fucking life we've been given." The song was "Sexy Villian" off her 2021 debut album, Juno. 

Remi Wolf @ WeHo Pride’s Outloud June 1st, 2025
photo by Nikki DeMartini

How brave of her. What we witnessed was an artist being real with the people there to experience her craft first hand. That frustration was pain she felt for not being able to give us her best and not having any control over it. It's unclear if her in-ears not working was a technical mishap from the festival side or not but from my perspective, I thought she sounded fine. It also wasn't lost on me that right before her, Paris Hilton was so obviously lipsyncing her entire set with no major hiccups, yet a singer and a live band had different fate. The headliner closing out the festival no less. Not to discredit Paris and the fun had watching her performance but sorry not sorry, Paris Hilton is no artist and Remi Wolf is; furthermore, she's probably had to work harder and sacrafice a lot more to get to where she is than Paris ever will. 

I saw a few folks singing along to "Sexy Villian" and the front lady was right, there probably isn't a more apropos song in her catelog for that moment we all shared that night.

Once the song was over, I slowly started to make my back to work but was stopped in my tracks when my ears heard the oh so familiar start of Fleetwood Mac's, "Dreams". Remi Wolf was taking a stab at a great and I was all for it. Again Remi Wolf showed folks at Outloud just how brave she is: it wasn't the best and it wasn't the worst.  Another woman singing the lyrics "women they will come and they will go" at a Gay Pride celebration was another thing in the few minutes of the Remi Wolf set I saw that wasn't lost on me. Remi Wolf does indentify bisexual after all. And on that note, it was time for me to get back to work. 

In another uncontrolable twist of fate, Remi Roo as I like to call Remi Wolf's Insanely Fire 1970's Pool Party Superjam at Bonnaroo, featuring Outloud 2025' Friday night soft open headliner Maren Morris, was suppose to happen in THIS tent on Saturday June 14th. Unfortunately the beloved festival in Manchester, Tennesse was canceld for the third time in the last five years (since promoter Superfly's involvement with the festival ended and became souly a Live Nation and  C3 Presents  show) on Friday the 13th. 

It is said that things happen in threes...
Hopefully some good luck is heading Remi's way soon. I for one hope I'm lucky enough to catch a one off show of hers sometime soon.

The Knocks & Dragonette Revelation Outloud

 In April the New York City eletro duo, The Knocks joined forces yet again with Canadian electro dream-pop sensation, Dragonette with their single "The Hero". It's a shoe-gazey sort of love song with shiny synths and Sorbara's nasally vocals simplistically blending with the chunky melody. It's sprinkled with dance breaks yet as a whole it's a break from the more dancey tunes these two artists give us. 

The Knocks & Dragonette Revelation ablum cover art work

Last week they released "Dreams" and revealed their up-coming forth collab, Revelation, due out in June. These co-collaborators take their own individual style and create a new sound of their combined efforts. They've already solidified a place in electro-dance-pop haventwith the release of four of the nine songs from the album. Dancefloors float to cloud nine when DJs spin their songs and if it's a dancefloor in a queer community club? Forget about it, The Knocks and Dragonette are angels. 

Days before their new album drops they are both slated to play Outloud Festival at WeHo Pride 2025!

On the eve of Pride Month, Saturday May 31st, The Knocks and Dragonette grace the SummerTramp Stage! Dance the day and night away all weekend long at this designated dance stage at WeHo's Outloud Festival and don't forget to catch these two performing new music for you to dance to. Set times should be annouced soon!

 It had been years sinc seeing Dragonette live when they performed at JJLA's Utah Pride Festival in 2023 and they were as spunky as I remember. Sorbara's energy is carefree and fun, much like her fasion sence and her beaming smile is infectious. Seeing them team up on stage with The Knocks is sure to be a good time had by all in the warm California sunshine surrounded by people celebrating love. 

The Knocks have a few more shows lined up this Summer playing the Surf Lounge in NY on June 13th, Eelectric Forest Festival in Michigan on June 19th, Dreamland Theatre in Massachusetts on July 3rd, Backyard Music Festival in British Columbia and Summer's Last Block Party in Chicago on September 20th. 

 

Thirty Years of Green Day

 Last week the boys from Berkeley known as the members of the beloved, world acclaimed punk rock band Green Day got a star on Hollywood Blvd. They invited fans out to celebrate the unveiling on May 1st in front of Amoeba Recod Store on Hollywood's own boulevard of broken dreams, Hollywood Blvd. After decades of Green Day giving us timeless tunes from rompus, angst fuled, misfit to society driven turned outspoken, political viewpoint, punk athems, it rocks to see these punks get a star. Unfortuntaely I wasn't able to make it to the big celebration but I did make it to the Green Day pop-up down the street from their star a couple days later. 

Green Day Kerplunk Kandy Grape Slurpee at 7-11
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Participating 7-11 stores have a Green Day Punk Bunny Slurpee flavor, Kerplunk Kandy Grape and on Saturday May 3rd and Sunday May 4th proof of purchase of this slurpee got you into the at the pop-up location on Hollywood Blvd. 

Punk Bunny is the name of Green Day's coffee company because even rockstars need a side-hustle these days. 

I got to the 7-11 right across the street from where the pop-up about an hour after the pop-on opened at noon on Sunday. There was about 10 people waiting by the two Slurpee dispensing machines because apparently the Green Day flavor was out and we needed it as our ticket in. A generous fellow customer randomly took it upon himself to pre-purchase 5 slurpees for the people waiting and I happened to be one of the 5 that got one of those. Soon enough I was on my way, Kerplunk Kandy Grape Slurpee in hand. I don't remember the last time I had slurpee. When I was a kid a loved a good Slush Puppie, the ice is chunkier and the syrup is different: thicker and probably more sugary and "bad for you". This one wasn't bad though, defintely sweet, not tart like a green grape so the Kerplunk Kandy Grape name is very fitting. And it's green...it is the Green Day Slurpee. The 7-11 was out of the branded Green Day Slurpee cups and there was only one size of Slurpee available which was definitely way more than I wanted. I drank about half of it while I waited in line with other Green Day fans. If it had been a warm day in LA and not the ucharcteristically overcast day that it was the slurpee would have been more enjoyable. I was just happy to be there. 

Outside the Green Day pop-up on Holly Blvd 5/4/2025
photo by random Green Day fan 

Years ago a younger co-worker not so polietly pointed out the Gen X menatlity of it not being "cool" to wear the band shirt of the band that you're going to see as an outdated way of thinking. 
 "Oh your one of those" was the comment they made about it.

While this Xennial has yet to fully shake my "outdated way of thinking" and unable to shake the  comment my co-worker made, I felt a little silly sporting my new Green Day Dookie shirt I recently got.
That quickly dispated though as more and more people getting in line for the pop-up were wearing Green Day shirts. 

The pop-up itself was a little dispointing but again, I was just happy to be there. With a work schedule as busy as mine I miss out on doing a lot of things I want to do and concerts I want to see. I had just worked both weekends of Coachella, did I see any of Green Day's performace live? No I did not. 

Green Day pop-up on Hollywood Blvd 5/4/2025
photo by Nikki DeMartini

One wall of the pop-up was plastered with old pictures of the band and old flyers for shows which was fun to look at. Another wall was covered with shelves of vinyl records of which I was tickeled to see Master, the early first EP from Yeah Yeah Yeahs that is so much more punk sounding than anything they've ever done since, right next to Dookie itself (the album!).

There was a huge Slurpee dispensing machine that looked like a slurpee in a Green Day Slurpee cup which staff was handing out small samples from. This was silly to me because everyone there had to have bought a Slurpee to be there. They were still handing out small 7-eleven patches, Green Day slurpee patches and Punk Bunny Slurpee baseball hats but all of the t-shirts had already been given away. It wasn't even 2:00pm by the time I got inside and all giveways were as supplies lasted with the pop-up hours being from 12:00pm-6:00pm. 

After the pop-up I took a stroll to Amoeba an there it was, the Green Day star on the walk of fame. How fucking cool is that?! I grew up in the Bay Area and I grew up listening to Green Day so I think it's very cool or as the French would say, tre cool. I can remember me and my cousins waiting for the debut of the "Welcome to Paradise" music video to air on MTV on a tiny TV in my cousin's kitchen. It's safe to say I was an instant fan and have been ever since. 

Green Day star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 5/4/2025 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

In 2023 when I saw that they were re-issuing Dookie on light-blue vinyl for the 30th Anniversary I jumped on it! It is one of my favorite records to spin. 

Though I didn't get a chance to break away and see any of Green Day's headlining performace when I worked Coachella this year, I did get to see them at one of their Saviors Tour shows last year. 

Green Day at Oracle Park in SF 9/20/2025 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

It wasn't just any Green Day show either. It was the Dookie 30 Year Anniversary, the American Idiot 20 Year Anniversary and it was at Oracle Park in SF. The same park (maybe a different name back then) me & one of my best friends, Becky handed out Green Day American Idiot/LIVE105 stickers out to people as they left the American Idiot Tour show there twenty years ago when we worked on the LIVE105 street team together. There we were, twenty years later, at  the Green Day Saviors show at Oracle Park where she now works. I cannot discribe how full my heart was at this show, it felt as though it would burst. 

The boys from Berkeley played "Dookie" first, cover to cover and it was just...so good. The park was packed and everyone was loving it: on the field, in the suites, up in the nosebleeds,  you could feel the good vibes in the air! The stage design blew my mind. Inflatables covered the stage to recreate the Dookie album cover art and it was flawless! Billie, Mike and Tre have always put on a great show fully of energy that always comes across sincere everytime I've seen them anyway. It was no different when they rocked the stage on September 20th, 2024. These dudes are getting old, just like the rest of us and they're still delivering, still playing for hours, still jump kicking around and that is no small feat! 

Green Day at Oracle Park in SF 9/20/2025 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

After playing Dookie cover to cover they did an antic they've been doing for years which is pluck a fan from the crowd to sing a sing with them on stage. Ashley was the lucky fan that night and "Know Your Enemy" was the song. They played a few tracks not found on either of the anniversary albums they were on tour for before moving on to play American Idiot. 

Green Day at Oracle Park in SF 9/20/2025 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

The stage design changed when they played American Idiot with the same type of infatables used to recreate that album's cover art. Of course it was cool looking but the Dookie stage design took the cake for sure. 

Of course Billie had a lot to say about Trump and MAGA but he also had a lot to say about the Oakland A's being relocated to Las Vegas and his major displeasement with the team's owner, John Fisher. 

The whole show was so good. One of my favorite parts is when everyone left the stage and Tre Cool came out in a silky leopard print robe and preformed one of my all time Green Day favorites, "All By Myself" all by himself. 

My favorite part of seeing Green Day in 2024 was seeing them with Becky. We both love Green Day and have for forever. We're both so busy now in our adult lives that being able to go tot this show together was a real treat, one I will cherish for forever.

Green Day at Oracle Park in SF 9/20/2025 
photo by Nikki DeMartini

It's The Return of Sleigh (fucking) Bells!

Can you believe it's been three years since we heard from Sleigh Bells? That ends tomorrow with the release of their sixth album, Bunky Bunny Birthday Boy!

Sleigh Bells 2025 
photo by David Perez 

Back in January the duo teased with an early release off of the up coming new album "Wanna Start a Band." The single's deep riffs, catchy hooks & front woman Alexis Krauss's signature, contrast, soft-touch vocals are a call back to their roots. 

Sleigh Bells Bunky Bunny Birthday Boy album cover art 

The sound that has come to be famliarized as Sleigh Bells since their 2008 debut: fast and loud with some sugar and plenty of spice is back! The track tells the story of how the duo met and formed all those years ago in New York when singer Kruass waited on guitarist Derek E. Miller when he asked her the track title question (and the rest is history). 

Sleigh Bells 2025 

All of the press photos and videos so far for the reurn of Sleigh Bells are filled with bright, bold, bursts of color and glossy trinkets, candy and vibrant imagery. Seeing their latest lewk is like looking at a David La Chapelle photo and what's not to love about that?
It's fresh, it's fun, it's in your face. 

These noise-poppers also annouced a slew of North America tour dates! They hit the road on May 7th at The Cresent Ballroom in Arizona and will slay shows around the country until mid June.
Don't miss the party!

Sleigh Bells 2025 North America Tour Dates 

- May 7th: Cresent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ
- May 9th: The Observatory Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA
- May 10th: Belly Up - Solana Beach, CA 
- May 13th: August Hall Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
- May 16th: Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
- May 17th: Hollywood Theatre - Vancouver, BC
- May 19th: Neptune Theatre - Seattle, WA
- May 21st: Summit - Denver, CO
- May 23rd: White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX
- May 24th: Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
- May 25th: Mohawk - Austin, TX
- May 28th: The RITZ Ybor - Tampa, FL
- May 29th: Plaza Live - Orlando, FL
- May 30th: Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- June 1st: Terminal West - Atlanta, GA
- June 2nd: The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
- June 3rd: Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
- June 5th: 9:30 Club, Washington DC
- June 6th: Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA
- June 7th: Webster Hall - New York, NY
- June 10th: Axis Club Theatre - Toronto, ON
- June 12th: The Metro - Chicago, IL
- June 14th: Fine Line - Minneapolis, MN
- June 15th: Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI 

Reshaping Music Production for Women and Gender-Expansive Artists & Producers

Founded in 2007 in New York , Gender Amplified, the non-profit organization celebrates women and geneder-exspansive musicians and music producers. Founder and President Ebonie Smith's mission is to  raise visability for these marginalized artists and their crafts with the goal of building actual inclusionary equity within the music industry. 

March is Women's History month and March 8th has been dubbed International Women's Day since 1977. It is a global day of recgonition celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women along with raising awareness for gender equality. 

International Women's Day is not just a day to souly celebrate women's achievements -- it is a call to action for inclusionary gender equality along with addressing on-going challenges regarding women's rights worldwide. 

In Bloom EP cover-art

In the land of the free and home of the brave, American women are watching their rights stripped away from them, some of which were fought for and were granted as recently as the 1970s. 
 In a cowardist move in a coutry accelerating towards grotesque proportions of opression and supression,  Apple and Google silently removed International Women's Day from their calendars on March 7th, 2025. 

It's dishearting to say the very least but we will not be silenced.
We know what day it is. 

Something positive for the Women's Rights Movement as well as the Black Lives Matter Movement and  the LBGTQ+ Rights Movement also happened on March 7th, 2025. 

Yesterday Gender Amplified shared the collaborative debut, In Bloom. 

The three track EP is a dreamy, buoyant collab intertwining up-and-coming artists and producers. It's out now thanks to Warner Music Group's independent distribution branch, ADA. 

Along with the full release, the organization also dropped the bubbly, glitchy anthem "Trick Mirror" featuring Caro <3 and Dance Artists Center. Listen to that single here.

Gender Amplifed's International Women's Day celebration doesn't stop there!

On March 20th supporters and soon to be supports can attend an intamate listening party in New York, the city that never sleeps, therefore will never be silenced. 

Happy International Women's Day! 

Buy Local Honey: Punk Rock Ranch Bee Co.

 I spent last weekend in Redlands Califonia and took advantage of the warm weather by finding local Farmers Markets to support. There was one item in particular that I needed which I do my best to only buy from farmers markets and that is local honey. Along with the list of health benefits that you get from ingetsing local honey, buying local honey helps support local bee populations. Bees are pollinators which means without them there wouldn't be as many flowers, fruits, vegetables and as wide of variety of plants. 

The Farmers Market at The Grove School takes place on Saturdays from 8am to 12:00 noon. One of the first booths I spotted was a local honey vendor.  I perused the other local offereings before finding my way to the honey booth.  There was homemade kimchi, baked goods, coffee, produce and more.  When I got to the honey booth I was delighted to see that the name of the vendor is Punk Rock Ranch Bee Co. and I was further delighted to see that they had a wildflower honey option.
In that moment, my punk rock heart couldn't be happier.
A 16oz. jar goes for $15.00 which intitally sounds like a pretty penny for honey, however, 16oz should last a bit plus the health and environmental benefits make it totally worth it. 

Punk Rock Ranch Bee Co. Wildflower Honey
photo by Nikki DeMartini

Owned and operated by Chris and Angie Turkett, Punk Rock Ranch Bee Co. is based out of Mentone, CA. Along with selling pure raw honey and beeswax and they specialize in safe honeybee rescue, removal and relocation. These honeybee lovers also teach beginner beekeeping workshops and they offer field trip tours of their partnership nursery so kids can learn how produce is grown and how honey bee pollination makes argiculture thrive. 

Today as many Americans participate in the economic blackout by not spending any money at large corporations including and not limited to Amazon, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, fast food chains, gas stations, etc. etc. etc. it is important to remember to support small businesses. Farmers markets usually take place over the weekend or close to it and a quick search should turn up any that are close where you're at. 

In true punk fashion, buying small is an act of resistance in and of itself because it breaks social norms that want to control us. If conformity not your cup of tea, by local honey and keep shopping small, punk!