The Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan is an impressive document.
An exhaustive 284-page collection of proposals, possible funders, problems, m...
Parker Woods asks me to meet him at a teahouse in northwest Portland. I walk upstairs in the restored house to find a living room sprawl of teenagers and college students bent over their laptops in deep concentration with handmade mugs full of assorted teas. It’s silent. He arrives not much later and we talk shop, we talk Portland, we talk Tumblr, we talk photography....
We all know the story. Patient Zero appears mysteriously and the world is infected with the zombie virus, leaving few intrepid human beings behind to band t...
My mother grew up in a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania. Art wasn’t exactly part of the daily curriculum and she didn’t finally step into an art museum un...
Eagle Rock is spitting distance from my house, and yet I really only ever find myself there to chow down at Auntie Em’s on Sunday mornings. Marc Walloch liv...
Alex Israel's Untitled (Flat) behind Jean-Antoine Houdon's Diana chasseresse (Diana the Huntress), ca. 1782
The Huntington Library was my playground as a ki...
At this juncture, it is perhaps worth mentioning my Los Angeles River story.
I write fiction. A lot of it. Ever since I was fifteen, I’ve written scenes ...
Directly across the river from Frogtown, the Bowtie is a resplendent space that introduces the Los Angeles community to the LA River. With Clockshop's biannual LA River campout, Angelenos begin to see the river in a new light....
Lucy Redoglia is looking for a basket. Usually something materializes when she’s stuck on a particular song lyric or quote, but in the whole collection on displ...
