Like a generation of millennial women, I deeply identify with Andrea Sachs. The plucky heroine of The Devil Wears Prada endured a journey many of us know well;...
A young photographer called Simin emerges through double doors carved into a forbidding mountain face somewhere in the desert in southwestern U.S., climbs into her 1980s Mercedes-Benz and coasts into town to collect the townsfolk's dreams. ...
Singer UMI — Tierra Umi Wilson — released her debut EP, Love Language, in time for the cuffing season when freakish temperatures slump our attention toward pumpkin spice lattes, comfy cozy sweaters, and finding a bae with whom to cuddle up. ...
I am a Christian. My editor thinks it matters what sort, and I guess it does. The reason it might matter is that the sort of Christian I am is evangelical, and these days evangelicals are mostly known for voting for Trump (I didn’t), preaching prosperity (I haven’t), and taking mission trips to Mexico (I might’ve). They aren’t known for mysticism. ...
This essay was originally published at The Muse on Jezebel on November 6, 2019. Republished with permission.
Global income inequality has been on a steady r...
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 Victoria Alejandro's sound portrait, we hear from Wain about the importance of a comedy sp...
When military vets come home from war, they don't always come all the way home. In LA, an all-veteran theater troupe called the Warrior Bards updates classic G...
This essay was originally published in NYLON on October 18, 2019
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine how a film about a young boy in the Nazi Youth could ...
One of the most vivid visual memories of my first weeks in Los Angeles: Driving on the I-10 in the dirty pastel-hued sunset and catching a fleeting glimpse of something on the other side of the guardrail. It looked like a palm tree but not quite a p...
