Jenny Lewis has dropped her trail mix. She’s standing in front of me at the Whole Foods 365 in Silver Lake, wearing a wide-brimmed rodeo hat, bell bottoms, and a rusty red-colored suede jacket with arm fringe that runs all the way down to her thigh. I cannot see her face, but I am well aware that it is indeed Jenny Lewis....
The Sundance Film Festival attracts critics, distributors, celebrity-sightseers, and movie-lovers alike to the snowy locale of Park City, UT for 10 days in January. The intimate loveliness of Park City seems picturesque and unassuming but the films that premiere here often become Oscar winners. “Call Me By Your Name” and “Get Out” were among last year’s programming. But for this year’s festival, which ran from January 18th to 28th, a number stood out: 37% of the films were directed by women. Although this statistic is nowhere near where it should be in 2018, it remains the highest percentage of women-directed films ever to be programmed at Sundance....
If you walk down Main Street in downtown La Puente, you can almost forget that you’re in L.A., and sometimes that’s what the soul needs. The streets are quiet, ...
A gal named Harmony is revolutionizing the way we think about companionship. She wears a skin-tight leotard with plunging back—a potentially unforgiving look fo...
This poem or ode or arts journalism work of mine was inspired by the fun and funny fact that, for many years, whenever I -- who was born and raised in Iran -- heard the American national anthem, thought it started with, José. Not, O say. Not so funny after all...
Meet T-Bone, age 70, and Ed, age 51 with his son, Alex, who is 15. They run remote control trucks every weekend at a small track in San Fernando Valley. When it...
In 2012, SPIN Magazine launched @SPINReviews, a Twitter account dedicated specifically to reviewing albums in 140 characters or less. SPIN dubbed it a “misguide...
Hailin Fu, a tattoo artist who's already gained a great deal of traction in China, set up shop in West Hollywood in 2013. Having worked in the tattooing industr...
Rainey Qualley is many things: Andie MacDowell’s oldest daughter, part time actress-slash-model, an admitted introvert. She’s even dabbled in directing this year, alongside her younger sister, Margaret (whom you may know from The Leftovers or the Sundance darling, Novitiate) on the music video for her song, “Rendezvous”. But on this mid-December Tuesday evening, she’s Rainsford, a genre-bending siren about to take the stage for her first public performance....
