{"id":520229,"date":"2026-01-16T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:26:17","slug":"how-to-have-the-best-sunday-in-l-a-according-to-richard-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520229\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Richard Marx"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Richard Marx keeps circling back to one word during our interview: elegance. <\/p>\n

The descriptor works for the artist\u2019s latest album, \u201cAfter Hours,\u201d a collection of originals and standards that sees the 62-year-old Marx channel his inner, swinging Frank Sinatra. But Marx also uses the word to detail his life with partner Daisy Fuentes, with whom he wrote the light-stepping Latin-tinged new number \u201cMagic Hour.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorite, if not favorite word, these days,\u201d Marx says. \u201cI just want to live my life more elegantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sunday <\/a> <\/p>\n

In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.<\/p>\n

How does that manifest? The hitmaker, who rose to fame with the now timeless ballad \u201cRight Here Waiting,\u201d never hopes to miss a small indulgence such as a nightly martini. Marx was born in Chicago but says he has fully acclimated to the Southern California lifestyle. It\u2019s on the hiking trails, for instance, where he does his best songwriting, and it\u2019s around the firepit where he and Fuentes share their deepest conversations. <\/p>\n

Splitting time between two homes \u2014 one \u201cin the deep Valley\u201d and another in Malibu \u2014 Marx these days appears intent on aging gracefully. It\u2019s partly what drew him to record an album that lovingly pays homage to the likes of Sinatra and Dean Martin. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I recorded this album, I dressed up,\u201d he says. \u201cI put on a suit like Sinatra used to do. It makes sense, since in the last dozen years since I met Daisy \u2014 she\u2019s sort of old-school \u2014 we\u2019ve tried to be as elegant about everything as we possibly can.\u201d <\/p>\n

Marx shares with us his ideas for a most elegant Sunday in L.A.<\/p>\n

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.<\/p>\n

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8:30 a.m.: Sun and meditation <\/b><\/p>\n

I start every day when I\u2019m in California with an iced coffee of some kind, sitting in the sun for 20 minutes. No sunscreen, just 20 minutes of vitamin D. I don\u2019t look at my phone. This is my 20-minute meditation with a little caffeine and the sun on my skin. That\u2019s so important to me. <\/p>\n

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9:30 a.m.: Brunch at home or in Malibu<\/b><\/p>\n

Daisy is a really great cook. She\u2019s great across the board, but her breakfast and brunch talent is off the charts. So usually on a Sunday we\u2019re going to stay home and she\u2019s going to make some brunch. If we go out, one of my favorite Sundays, even when we\u2019re here in the Valley, is to drive over the hill and go to the Malibu Country Mart<\/b> <\/a>or stop in the Marmalade Cafe<\/b><\/a> or the Carbon Beach Club<\/b><\/a>, which is in the Malibu Beach Inn<\/b><\/a>. There\u2019s a couple places we love in Malibu. There\u2019s a place called Ollo\u2019s<\/b> <\/a>that has great breakfast. It\u2019s in a strip mall with Ralph\u2019s. <\/p>\n

11<\/b> a.m.: More sun on the trails<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m addicted to hiking and so is Daisy. There are some really great hikes out here in the Valley \u2014 Las Virgenes<\/b><\/a> \u2014 but my favorite hikes are in Malibu, whether it\u2019s Solstice Canyon<\/b><\/a> or the Westward Beach<\/b><\/a> hike. It\u2019s not a challenging hike physically, but it\u2019s probably the most gorgeous hike. What\u2019s the point of being in California if you\u2019re not outside? Sunday is a day I need to be out hiking in the sun and sweating. <\/p>\n

About 30% of the time I\u2019m writing in my head, even if I don\u2019t want to be. It happens. If Daisy is with me, I love to not take my phone because I like to be unencumbered and to not think about it. What will happen is then I\u2019ll have to have her open her voice notes and sing a melody into it. I\u2019ve written so many songs in the great outdoors. I saw an interview with Sting where he said that lyrics hide behind bushes and trees and under rocks. He goes outside too. I knew I liked Sting. <\/p>\n

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2:30 p.m.: Time to chill with a book<\/b><\/p>\n

And then it\u2019s really just a matter of relaxing, getting some time to sit with a great book in the afternoon. I always have a couple books going at the same time. I haven\u2019t been reading hardly any fiction for a while, but I just started reading Scott Galloway\u2019s book, \u201cNotes on Being a Man.\u201d He\u2019s an investment guy and he\u2019s got companies, but he\u2019s become really big on social media. He\u2019s an interesting guy, and I\u2019m totally into that book. I\u2019m almost finished with Charlie Sheen\u2019s memoir. I saw the documentary, which I thought was amazing. His story is fascinating, and the quality of that filmmaking, especially in the use of the old movie footage, I thought was world-class. So I\u2019m finishing Charlie\u2019s book. Those are the two I\u2019m reading right now.<\/p>\n

4:30 p.m.: Pre-dinner martinis <\/b><\/p>\n

As great a cook as Daisy is, we like to go out for dinner. Our favorite thing is to go someplace for martinis and a little bite of something and then another place for dinner. With more martinis. I can\u2019t focus enough on the martinis.<\/p>\n

If I had to pick one martini spot, it\u2019s Lucky\u2019s <\/b><\/a>in Malibu. First of all, it\u2019s an incredible martini, but they do a whole presentation. They bring it over to the table and shake it at the table. It\u2019s a generous pour. You usually get a little sidecar. Being vegetarian, it\u2019s a little challenging, but it\u2019s a great place for us. There\u2019s also a place called V\u2019s<\/b><\/a>. It\u2019s a local place that\u2019s been there a long time. They have a tiny little bar when you first walk in the door with a couple little hi-tops. That\u2019s a really nice place to stop and get a quick drink and maybe a flatbread.<\/p>\n

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7<\/b> p.m.: Dinner and a scene<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to sound so obnoxious saying this, but I really love Craig\u2019s<\/b><\/a>. I love going there. We feel at home there. They take good care of us. If I\u2019m going to Craig\u2019s for dinner, I\u2019m looking forward to it all day. I always run into people I know. It\u2019s a hot spot of activity. It\u2019s just about feeling comfortable. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a scene-y place, but I got s\u2014-faced at Craig\u2019s with Rod Stewart one night. We got so drunk together. It was just the two of us, like 2\u00bd years ago. We\u2019ve become really great friends, and we had a driver, of course, but it was such a fun night and I\u2019ve had so many fun nights at Craig\u2019s, with my family and friends. It\u2019s an industry place, but it happens to be my industry so it\u2019s really fun for me, especially when I run into someone I haven\u2019t seen for a while or I meet somebody who I admire. <\/p>\n

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9:30 p.m.: Relax on the balcony<\/b><\/p>\n

Daisy and I, we talk. We have endless conversations. I still have so much to tell her, and so much I want her to tell me. We\u2019ve been together 12 years, and one of my favorite things is to come home, and we have a firepit outside our house here or in Malibu we have a beautiful balcony overlooking the beach. In either of those places we\u2019ll just sit and talk for hours, until we\u2019re sleepy. There\u2019s not a lot of going to the movies or going out. Once we come back from dinner, we love our time to wind down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Marx keeps circling back to one word during our interview: elegance. The descriptor works for the artist\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[13978,1582,276,231665,69645,143373,2385,24355,231666,10035,1815,2961,231667,224,5337,29168,17820,34107,582,6620],"class_list":{"0":"post-520229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-book","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-couple-place","12":"tag-craig","13":"tag-daisy","14":"tag-day","15":"tag-dinner","16":"tag-elegant-sunday","17":"tag-frank-sinatra","18":"tag-interview","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-late-album","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-malibu","24":"tag-p-m","25":"tag-richard-marx","26":"tag-sun","27":"tag-time"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115904537431593991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}