Join Us Dec. 5+6

The Ivorys will be at the 

8th Annual UNIQUE LA Holiday Market: December 5 + 6

Cost: $10 at the door (cash only), Kids 12 and under are free. Online tickets available in November.
 
Admission includes these Amenities & Perks:

• Unlimited re-entry for both days
• Free drinks and snacks from GT's Kombucha, Boxed Water, LUNA and more!
• Free gift-wrapping for the holiday season!
• Free DIY craft projects all weekend long
• Free quick-n-chic manicure stations and a barbershop lounge
• Free photo booth portraits with Oh! Snap Studios
• Kick up your feet in one of our multiple Lounges
• Baby Changing Station and private lounge

Where: The Penthouse at California Market Center, 110 East Ninth St.
Hours: 11am-6pm (both Saturday & Sunday)
Parking: There is secure, underground parking at the California Market Center for a $6 flat-rate. There are also numerous outdoor parking lots surrounding the building. We encourage shoppers to carpool, take public transit or Uber.

The Ivorys at Unique SF

We are excited to be going back to SF this coming September for Unique SF at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion. Hope you will join us! See you there.

UNIQUE SF FALL MARKET: SEPTEMBER 19+20 AT FORT MASON!

Cost: $10 at the door cash only (Kids 12 and under are free) or skip the line and buy pre-sale tickets here!

Admission includes these great Amenities & Perks:

• A copy of PULP, our quarterly periodical 
• Unlimited re-entry for both days 
• Free drinks from GT's Kombucha, Boxed Water & more! 
• Free snacks from Luna and Nature's Bakery! 
• Grab a meal in our Cafe featuring Bel Campo or get an artisanal cocktail at the Bar 
• Free DIY craft projects all weekend long 
• Free photo booth portraits! 
• Kick up your feet in one of our multiple Lounges 

Where: Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion
When: September 19+20
Hours: 11am-6pm (both Saturday & Sunday)

40% Off for the 4th!

Wednesdays Words: Follow Your Advice

Following Your Advice

"If you knew someone in your own situation, what advice would you give that person? What course of action, what priorities, what strategies would you suggest?

Think about that, and then think about this. Are you, right now, following your own advice?

It’s easy to know what to do when you’re not the person who has to do it. When you actually have to implement the advice, things get complicated and uncomfortable.

Yet good advice is good advice. And you are well positioned to give yourself good advice.

Yes, it will involve some real work to do what you know must be done. Fortunately, as difficult as it may be, you can absolutely do that work and follow the advice you yourself would offer.

So go ahead, be brutally honest and give yourself the advice you need to hear. Then take it to heart, put it into action, and make the progress you know you can make."

— Ralph Marston

Goods + Grub this Friday

GOODS + GRUB DETAILS!

Come out and join us and the good folks of Comfort L.A this Friday May 8th @8:30pm for a night of good music, good food and some giveaways!

First 10 people to show up wearing an item from The Ivorys will receive a FREE order of Comfort LA's popular fried chicken.

If you're not one of the first 10, not to worry, everyone that night that places an order will receive a free print from The Ivorys (while supplies last) and a raffle ticket which will give you a chance at winning one of our mystery boxes.

Comfort LA is located at: 1801 East 7th St. DTLA 90021- (In the Artists District between Mill & Mateo)#theivorys #comfortla

To Pimp A Butterfly

If you haven't yet you should.

Watch and listen to Anthony Fantano do a pretty good job of breaking it down HERE.

April Fools

Rihanna pranks Jimmy Kimmel and its pretty hilarious #aprilfoolsday.

Click photo below for full prank video.

Wednesday's Words: Why You Must

Why You Must

Instead of coming up with reasons why you cannot, come up with reasons why you must. Focus on your purpose, not on your doubts.

Make sure that purpose is authentic, and truly means something to you. If you merely follow someone else’s dream, you won’t like where you end up, even if you somehow manage to get there.

There’s a reason why you care about the things you care about. It’s because you are the person who can give life and meaning and substance to those things.

Admit who you are and what you love. Admit your passions, your interests, your preferences and your desires.

Embrace and celebrate your uniqueness. Feel the driving strength of your most genuine purpose, and let it give energy to everything you do.

Remember always why you must do what you must do. Remember, and find the inspiration to make it happen.

— Ralph Marston

Kanye West Performs 'All Day' at the Brit Awards

Kanye West performs 'All Day' at the Brit Awards. 
Click the image below to watch!

Enjoy.

Favorite Oscar Moment

One of our favorite Oscar moment came when Common (Lonnie Lynn) and John Legend (John Stephens) won The Academy Award for 'Best Original Song' for their song 'Glory.'

“The spirit of this bridge connects the kid from the South Side of Chicago, dreaming of a better life, to those in France standing up for their freedom of expression, to those in Hong Kong, protesting for democracy...This bridge was built on hope, welded with compassion and elevated with love for all human beings.” - Common

Wednesday's Words: Empathy

Empathy

You have your own perspective, and it is well-informed and valuable. Yet you do not know it all, and it’s a good idea to avoid the assumption that you do.

Other people may often frustrate and annoy you, and you may wonder how they could be so ignorant, immature, misinformed or whatever. But you only see a very small part of their perspective, and cannot possibly know everything that goes into their decisions.

Being overly judgmental rarely does anyone any good. Look for opportunities to replace judgment with empathy.

By all means, live and act with excellence, and expect excellence from others. When others fail to live up to your expectations, find ways to offer help rather than to cause hurt.

Seek to understand, and to encourage genuine understanding in others. Let go of the need to lecture and to rant, so you can spend more of your precious life in a positive state.

Make connections instead of judgments. And make the best of every situation and of every person you encounter.

— Ralph Marston

Kendrick Lamar- "The Blacker the Berry"

Click image below to listen...

Wednesday's Words: Tell Yourself

Tell Yourself

Tell yourself something often enough, and it becomes truth for you. What are you telling yourself over and over again?

If you tell yourself again and again that you can’t do something, you’re never going to do it. Even when you are perfectly able, you can convince yourself you’re absolutely not.

As you look at your world and make your way through it, whatever you’re repeating to yourself will have significant consequences. That can be a big burden, or a grand opportunity.

There’s no benefit in deluding yourself to believe you have superhuman powers. Yet there’s great benefit in constantly reminding yourself of the real and accessible powers you do have.

You can think, you can act, and you can focus your actions toward a specific purpose. You can feel, understand, create, adapt to new situations, build, improve, love and enjoy.

When you think to yourself and talk to yourself, think of all the good you’ve done and all the good you can now do. Remind yourself, again and again, that you can, and you will.

— Ralph Marston

Take 30% Off for Valentine's Day

Wednesday's Words: The Sooner You Start

The Sooner You Start

Taking action and doing the difficult work are not what get you down. Delaying, procrastinating and avoiding action are what get you down.

The way forward is to do something positive and useful. Do something, and remind yourself for the ten thousandth time what a joy it is to make a difference.

When you know it must be done, and still you don’t do it, your own disappointment in yourself grows with every passing moment. Put a stop to that disappointment by putting yourself into action.

As difficult and complicated as it may be, the task is never as bad as the avoidance of it. Just start, just keep going, and just get it done.

Enjoy the experience of putting your skills to work. Enjoy the sense of purpose that results from making your time count for something.

Drink in the satisfaction of turning what you must do into what you have done. The sooner you start, the better it will feel.

— Ralph Marston