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.