LA Tricky Business SESSION Gattopardo Glendale Sept 20 – 22, 2024 You enter a room in “The Angus Street Hotel.” A dozen or so chairs cluster close to the bed. You take a seat. Jack Skelley 30 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
LA Down(town) in the Underground LABYRINTH MASQUERADE Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Aug. 16 – 17, 2024 Last Thursday night, I posted an urgent inquiry to my Insta story: “Where can I buy a masquerade mask? Brittany Menjivar 28 Aug 2024 · 3 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 Friday Night Is For The Good Boys FOURTH FRIDAYS: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Retro Row Long Beach Aug. 23, 2024 For small-business patrons, Long Beach’s 4th Street Corridor (a.k.a. Retro Row) has become the A.J. Urquidi 27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
LA Mortal Coil Shuffle LABYRINTH WALK Christ the King Lutheran Church Torrance August 15, 2024 During a recent downward spiral, I drove south to Torrance for a labyrinth walk at Christ the King Lutheran Tosten Burks 26 Aug 2024 · 2 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 I Would Do Anything For Indie Sleaze Amid all this talk about indie sleaze, there’s woefully little nostalgia for the exuberant indie pop of the late aughts and early 2010s. Think back: which bands played on Brittany Menjivar 20 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
LA Mulholland Drive In 4K: “Don’t Drink All the Coke!” MULHOLLAND DRIVE IN 4K Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Los Angeles July 25, 2024 Like the memory of its brunette leading lady, my relationship to David Lynch’s 2001 Los Audrey Serrano 11 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
LA At New Palestine Movie Night, Genuine Love Stories RESISTERE The Other Space Los Angeles July 17, 2024 New ways — that is, cinematic ways — to look at Palestine could be more accessible in a city experiencing a repertory resurgence. Tosten Burks 9 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
LA Revenge Of The Horror Comic EC COMICS LAUNCH PARTY Revenge Of Los Angeles July 23, 2024 It was a dark and stormy night when I discovered EC Comics. Perusing my college library’s bookstacks during Brittany Menjivar 6 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
LA Who Took the Gothic from the Cookie Jar? AMERICAN GOTHIC READING Night Gallery Los Angeles July 25, 2024 The United States is definitely haunted. I mean, the whole country is built on an “Indian” graveyard. And it has Brandon Sward 30 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
LA Straight From La La To Never Land PETER PAN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL Pantages Theatre Los Angeles July 12 – 28, 2024 On Wednesday night, I headed toward the second star to the right and straight on till the Brittany Menjivar 24 Jul 2024 · 3 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 A New Genus of Genius GIVE ME THE MACARTHUR GENIUS GRANT Hollywood Fringe Festival Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre Los Angeles, June 29, 2024 Whom or what do you envision when you hear the word “genius” Brittany Menjivar 18 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
LA At Gallery’s Estate Book Sale, Patrons Refuse To Pay For Their Own Art (Why Should They?) ALLAN SEKULA/SALLY STEIN GARAGE SALE The Brick Los Angeles June 23 – 29, 2024 Pedants will tell you that there really is a Melrose Hill somewhere, with an actual hill. Eli Diner 16 Jul 2024 · 4 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 Death Blows THE WIND Brain Dead Studios Los Angeles June 25, 2024 I grew up around earthquakes and wildfires, not hurricanes or tornadoes, so I never really learned to fear the wind. Tosten Burks 8 Jul 2024 · 2 min read