Best Coast, the California based, surf rock group, has just released a new studio album for the first time since 2015. It’s called “Always Tomorrow,” and it fo...
First generation kids in the U.S. can feel torn between two worlds – caught between their cultures of origin and the pressure to be “American.” Ampersand’s Vic...
In German novelist and playwright Gustav Freytag’s book, “Technique of the Drama,” he defines the fifth and final act of a play as the “catastrophe.”
“The c...
r for Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of the Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Cats” dropped in July, I screamed – partially in shock that the thing even existed, partially in terror at the digitally altered cat-human creatures that were on my screen....
You might recognize sisters Aly and AJ from one of their acting projects. Maybe “iZombie” and “The Goldbergs,” if you’ve been watching cable in the past few years; “Phil of the Future” and “Cow Belles” if you were a Disney kid in the 2000s. ...
The crowd for Sleater-Kinney is a sea of leather and flannel, dyed hair and blunt bangs. There’s an anticipatory bustle as people gently jostle each other on t...
People are cackling on Hollywood Boulevard. They’re at Junior High for “That’s So Gay,” a stand-up comedy night founded and hosted by comedian Stevie Wain. In ...
“press space to honk”
This is the first control you learn
in developer House House’s 2019 release, “Untitled Goose Game.” It’s the most
important contr...
Sí, yo quiero comer más pan.
“Yes, I want to eat more bread,” I
type into the Duolingo text box.
I am doing Duolingo because I want to get better at Spa...
Victoria Alejandro is a writer and musician from Ontario, California. She graduated from Columbia University in 2018 with a B.A. in English, and her creative work focuses on issues of memory, time, and the body. She’s excited to write about pretty much every form of art, regardless of medium, and loves to challenge classical ideas of “fine art.”
