LA “God Is Dead. I Believe In Topaz” If you ask any fun-loving person in Los Angeles who the best Jumbo’s Clown Room dancer is, they’ll be able to come up with an answer. Madeline Connors 11 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
LA Little Weirdos Wait To Die “I feel like performing live is practice for living and dying,” Mitski declares several songs into her sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl. She goes on to explain that in performance, she experiences it all: ecstasy, joy, awe. Madeline Connors 9 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
LA At Koreatown’s LA Chess Club Singles Arena, Players With No Game LA CHESS CLUB Apt 503 Lounge Los Angeles Aug. 22, 2024 My mother thinks I’m a chess prodigy. I don’t have the heart to correct her. Like most Madeline Connors 27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
LA Are You Okay, My Love? St. Vincent w/ Eartheater & Maiah Manser The Greek Theater Los Angeles Aug. 16, 2024 Halfway through her concert at Griffith Park’s Greek Theatre, I decide St. Vincent is Madeline Connors 22 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
LA The Zoo Roars Like Las Vegas and housewife-based reality television, it’s impossible to stroll through a zoo without a pang of moral discomfort — the slow, swelling realization that beneath this spectacle throbs Madeline Connors 19 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
LA Sparks & Mystics: Women Even Out The Score LOS ANGELES SPARKS versus WASHINGTON MYSTICS Crypto.com Arena Los Angeles July 2, 2024 It’s early summer, and the girls are down bad. The Los Angeles Sparks are in Madeline Connors 15 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
LA Tonight The Dead Shall Not Rest CINESPIA: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? Hollywood Forever Cemetery Los Angeles June 29, 2024 I find Cinespia annoying. Sure, it’s a Los Angeles rite of passage — like eating Madeline Connors 10 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
LA “I Don’t Want To Live Like This, But I Don’t Want To Die” VAMPIRE WEEKEND, ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US TOUR Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles June 11, 2024 When I was 15 years old, I ran away from my hometown of Sonoma, California. Madeline Connors 18 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
LA Million Dollar Babyface SUKEBAN: JAPANESE FEMALE PRO-WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP Trinity Auditorium Los Angeles May 30 “Call her babyface,” proclaims an announcer in a black velvet suit and Ray-Bans. He looks slick, like a Japanese Madeline Connors 5 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
LA Paint The Town Red, In Flames ED RUSCHA/ NOW THEN Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles Through Oct. 6, 2024 Ed Ruscha imagines a Los Angeles where LACMA is burning. It’s surprisingly serene. Madeline Connors 31 May 2024 · 2 min read
LA Couldn’t We Pretend It Was 2008 For Just 1 Night? CRIME WAVE: AN INDIE SLEAZE PARTY Los Angeles Jan. 25, 2024 The indie sleaze event was advertised as a comedy show/birthday party; it took place in a secluded warehouse Madeline Connors 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Reporting Live from Hell SQUID GAME: THE TRIAL EXPERIENCE Television City Los Angeles Ongoing since Dec. 6, 2023 I am not the first person to say this: we are living in hell. It’s Madeline Connors 5 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
LA I Fell In Love With Jenny Lewis All Over Again Jenny Lewis Joy’all Ball Tour Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles Dec. 8, 2023 The soap dispenser in the women’s bathroom was malfunctioning at the Jenny Lewis concert at the Madeline Connors 13 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
LA A Podcast Far Gone: Why Are We Pretending This Is Good? HOW LONG GONE El Rey Theater Los Angeles Nov. 11, 2023. Occasionally, there are men who are so untalented, so uninteresting, and so entitled that they insist on starting a Madeline Connors 16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA Reviewer Kneecapped — With Irish Infatuation KNEECAP The Echo Los Angeles Oct. 16, 2023 Here’s my brisk impression of the Irish: I think Conan O’Brien is perhaps the funniest person ever to live. I Madeline Connors 20 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA News Flash: Instagram Is Not Real Life DEPTHS OF WIKIPEDIA Annie Rauwerda The Regent Theater Los Angeles, Oct. 5, 2023 I like the Instagram account Depths of Wikipedia. It’s a curation of the best the internet Madeline Connors 10 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA Stuffy Museum Honors The Pope Of Trash JOHN WATERS: POPE OF TRASH Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Through Aug. 4, 2024 Introductory remarks from Daniel Crook Sept. 21, 2023, at Multiple Maniacs screening John Waters was kicked Madeline Connors 3 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
