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My Best Advice? Don’t Come to LA

Vivian Medithi is an Iowa native who recently moved to Los Angeles. Since moving to the Golden Coast, he’s been exploring not just the tourist traps but the local haunts, trying to understand just what makes the city tick. In this piece for Annenberg Radio, he discusses what makes L.A. so different from other cities he’s lived in, as well as the ways he’s assimilated into Angeleno culture....
CULTUREFrom Where We Are

To the Buddha Bowl and Beyond

The vegan lifestyle is an art.  Each ingredient for meals is selected with a particular mindfulness to what the body needs to thrive. Sometimes you find yourself borrowing recipes like the Japanese Buddha bowl for variety....
FoodFrom Where We Are

‘Two Sisters’: One Year After the Las Vegas Shooting

A young girl and her sister are sitting side-by-side in a Parisian outdoor scene, framed by swirling greens and icy blues. Lush trees tower over a shimmering lake in the distance, setting the two against a pastel backdrop. The older girl dons a cherry-wine colored bonnet and keeps her equally crimson lips pursed in a Mona Lisa half-smile, eyes transfixed on something outside our view. Her young sister clings close beside her....
ESSAYSVISUAL ART

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: Redefining age and activism

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez has spent nearly his whole life fighting for the environment, well 67% of it to be exact. That’s an easy calculation to make because Martinez is only 18 years old. Known professionally as an indigenous climate change activist, hip hop artist, writer, and public speaker, Martinez began making a name for himself at age six, when he started speaking out at environmental rallies in his hometown of Boulder, CO. In the intervening years, he seems to have been working as fast as he can checking off what, for many, would be bucket-list items....
INTERVIEWSMUSICPerformance

Gyro Italiano

The pizza at Michael’s Pizzeria is questionable. The crust is inconsistent—sometimes you get a Chicago style, other times it’s of the crunchy cracker variety. They have a dozen toppings to choose from, but really, plain cheese is the safe bet. After all, you wouldn’t want to pay more than $10.00 for cardboard. ...
ESSAYSOFF THE CUFF