LA Cookbook for the Recently Deceased Brittany Menjivar departs Tinseltown for Halloween Town and gets her Edward Burger Hands dirty. Brittany Menjivar 27 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
LA A Question For The (Sub)Culture Brittany Menjivar enters the Void to get slizzard at the Subculture anniversary party in Mid-City. Brittany Menjivar 22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
LA We Lived to Tell A. J. Urquidi splurges on emo guyliner at his mall’s Hot Topic before watching Saosin play their timeless debut record live in Garden Grove. A.J. Urquidi 22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
LA This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth WALLOWS with BENEE, Kia Forum, Inglewood, September 12, 2024. A band’s homecoming can’t help but be special: musicians fresh-eyed from sleeping in their own bed, an audience studded Emily Quintanilla 16 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
LA Queer History Redux: “They Learned To Stop Interrupting” The rich queer history of Los Angeles has long been overshadowed by that of San Francisco and New York. Elissa Saywell 13 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
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 3 Straight Shows, Lost To Gothic Night Dear diary, I’m embarking inadvisably upon a three-day marathon of unrelated shows around Greater Los Angeles, including on workdays. A.J. Urquidi 7 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
LA You’re Invited, If You Dare The title of the Dare’s 2024 debut album poses a question: What’s Wrong with New York? Here’s my take Brittany Menjivar 7 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
LA Place Out Of No Place On a scalding Saturday afternoon — peak heat wave in Los Angeles, temperatures around 107 outside — a small crowd of art writers gathered around a seersucker-suited Hilton Als inside the main gallery at David Zwirner. Melissa Seley 26 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy INTUIT DOME ART PREVIEW Intuit Dome Inglewood We made long, slow shadows, watched them bleed into the pallid concrete. For what felt like an hour, we’d be waiting for Eli Diner 23 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
LA Queering The Way SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND THE IMAGI-NATION OPENING RECEPTION Fisher Museum of Art at University of Southern California Los Angeles Sept. 5, 2024 A map at the Melissa Saywell 20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA Unhinged Freak-Out Scramblers, Grizzled & Reunited SOUL COUGHING PLAY THE SONGS OF SOUL COUGHING The Bellwether Los Angeles Sept. 13, 2024 They said it would never happen, admitting as much on their tour announcement and promo A.J. Urquidi 18 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA Shaking Up The Scene The Big One: Issue Two Launch Party The Earl Los Angeles September 6, 2024 It seems the season of earthquakes is upon us. After a series of small tremors, a Brittany Menjivar 16 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA Out of the Closet, Over the Hedge BANANA REPUBLIC/FRATRICIDE Tom of Finland House Los Angeles Aug. 22, 2024 The Tom of Finland House is separated from Laveta Terrace by a tall green hedge. It’s not Brandon Sward 12 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
LA Keeping an Opa Mind LONG BEACH GREEK FOOD & MUSIC FESTIVAL Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Long Beach Aug. 31 – Sept. 2, 2024 In the Aquatic Capital of America™, it’s easy to A.J. Urquidi 6 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA Outside The Lucky Few A Painting Retrospective by Kevin Bouton-Scott Towne Square Los Angeles June 23, 2024 On Fourth Street in Los Angeles where it becomes Skid Row, east of San Pedro Street, there’ Eli Diner 4 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
LA The Dog Ears of Summer Friday Night Mixer A Good Used Book Los Angeles August 23, 2024 Certified bibliophiles will know that there are two distinct varieties of used and rare bookstores. Some stock autographed Brittany Menjivar 30 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
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