What is stopping the Internet and our society from turning art, like it does most things, into a one-note, generic slush? What does hyperconnectivity mean for the artist?...
In a pandemic, Friends can take the place of our actual friends. Gossip Girl can take the place of actual gossip with your actual girlfriends. The Office can t...
I managed to beat the rush hour traffic and make it to the Ruby Theater a few minutes before curtain. A few costumed audience members lingered outside with devil horns and fluffy halos. I forgot that it was almost Halloween, and felt out of place in...
I grew up taking trips to Massachusetts to see family. The drive itself even was entertaining, as the skyline shifted to trees and the air grew cool. I would e...
A couple years ago, I went to my nonna’s house to start transcribing her recipes for future use. The ingredients for her food are simple, but the dictation was ambitious. We made her polpette together as the broth for her tortellini in brodo simmered on the stove. ...
My first summer in Los Angeles has been one
without movies. It’s been an ironic turn of events for me, because I travelled
here from the interior of the country with the specific intention of writing
about them.
I grew up with the modest comforts...
Zoe Young had a typical middle school experience. She wore braces, her parents drove her and her friends around everywhere, and she had her fair share of awkwa...
California has a unique quality where people from around the world can find ingredients with similar flavors to their own countries. It’s never the same, but t...
“When I woke up, it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from m...
