Gary Domasin

Gary Domasin is a multi-talented professional based in the Los Angeles area, currently working as a hairstylist, adjunct lecturer at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and an advice columnist. TheMag4.com AskUncleGary.com CutColorBlowDry.com

Barbers & Salons

The 5 Most Stylish Men of Southern California

Southern California pulls men toward looks you would not find in New York or London.

Food & Drink

5 Best Rooftop Venues in Southern California

Summer is when these rooms earn their rent. Long sunsets, warm nights, and views that run from the ocean to the mountains.

Bikes & Hikes

The Best Coastal Bike Rides in Southern California

The hiking gets most of the attention around here, but some of the best ways to see Southern California happen on two wheels and flat ground. The coast is lined with paved paths that run right along the sand, most of them easy enough for a beginner and long enough

Farmers Markets

The Best Farmers' Markets in Southern California, Day by Day

Southern California grows food year-round, which means somewhere nearby there's a great farmers' market open almost any day you want one.

Unsolicited Advice

What Not to Do...

I need your wisdom before I accidentally end up on an HR poster titled “What Not to Do at Work.”

Barbers & Salons

Ben's Barber Shop: A South Pasadena Tradition That Carries On

The man who built that reputation is gone, but the shop he made is still open and still busy.

Food & Drink

The Best New Restaurant in Los Angeles Is in a Former Church

Hermon's, an American chophouse in a 1903 banquet hall on the edge of Northeast L.A., is doing something almost subversive: it's just very good.

Food & Drink

The Best Brunch Patios in Southern California

The hard part is picking where to go. Here are nine patios worth the drive, spread from the desert to the coast. For each one, I noted what to order and how to land a good table.

Bikes & Hikes

The Electric Frontier: LifeRush Adventures Wants to Take You Somewhere You Didn't Know You Could Go

A Santa Monica e-bike and adventure company is opening up Southern California's mountains and coastline to people who'd never ride them otherwise.

Food & Drink

Sit Down. Don't Open the Menu. There Isn't One.

Omakase means "I'll leave it to you." The counters across Southern California are worth trusting with that decision.

Food & Drink

The Bars You Have to Look For. That's the Whole Point.

A short, opinionated tour of Southern California's hidden rooms, the ones behind the bookcase, the kitchen, the unmarked door, the second restaurant.

Events

After Dark, All Are Welcome

There is a version of Disneyland that most people never see.

Home

The Eyes Have It

For over 25 years, Image Optics has been the quiet secret behind Hollywood's most iconic faces. Now, they're fitting yours.

Barbers & Salons

Your Hair Called. It Wants to Look Like It Has Somewhere to Be

As Vogue reported at the top of the year, the effortless beachy texture that has defined the last several seasons is packing its bags. What's replacing it isn't stiff or precious — it's polished. Intentional. The kind of hair that looks like you made a decision and meant it.

Art & Music

One Night, $1.1 Billion, and Nicole Kidman Staring Into a Golden Sculpture

Christie's just had the kind of evening that makes you want to buy a Brancusi. You can't, obviously. But still.

About

Let's Go Somewhere Worth Going

Let's Go Somewhere Worth Going From the Editor · Inaugural Issue

Art & Music

Golden Hour at the Norton Simon

There is a particular quality to late afternoon in Pasadena, when the light turns the color of weak tea and good bourbon at the same time, and the Norton Simon’s sculpture garden does its best impression of a place where nothing has ever gone wrong.

Unsolicited Advice

What do most people misunderstand about getting older?

Most young people think that getting older is a decline. It isn’t. It’s a refinement. We’re sold a narrative that aging means becoming less relevant, less desirable, less capable.

Unsolicited Advice

Red flag...

Hey Uncle Gary, I just started dating a man who has only a couple of close friends. My friends say it's a red flag. Should I be concerned that something is weird about him? Signed, Concerned Dear Concerned, In a world obsessed with visibility, noise, and social currency,

Events

Southern California Has Plans for You This June

Pride parades, solstice festivals, a concert under the stars, and a theme park after dark. June across So Cal is not a month you sit out.

Events

Updated Southern California Calendar for June 2026

Everything happening across Southern California this June, in one place.

Palm Springs

Every Thursday Night, Palm Springs Closes the Street and Opens Everything Else

Palm Canyon Drive shuts down to cars every Thursday evening and becomes something far more interesting. This is the Palm Springs the locals actually live in.

Art & Music

The Curtain Is Up. Southern California's Theater Season Is Not Waiting for You.

From Pasadena to Hollywood to Costa Mesa, the stages across Southern California this June are offering the kind of evenings that remind you why live theater exists in the first place.

Food & Drink

The Best Meal in Southern California Might Come Through a Window

No reservation required. No dress code. Just some of the most extraordinary food in the region, served from the side of a truck by people who mean it.

Farmers Markets

The Farmers Markets are the Best in Southern California

No reservation required. No parking valet. Just extraordinary food, the people who grew it, and a Saturday morning that earns the rest of the weekend.