Top Bunks and Aisle Seats goes international as Ampersand's Music Editor, Ashley Eady, interviews Edris, a Cuban-born singer-songwriter and USC alumnus!...
When I was a toddler, my mother would often swing me to sleep back and forth in her arms, singing folk lullabies that originated from the Vietnamese countryside...
Behind rows of thin vertical windows of the imposing Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center, inmates awaiting trial are housed. Many are immigrants w...
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The refugee crisis dominates discussion among world leaders and for good reason. According to the UNHCR, we ...
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https://soundcloud.com/carra1000/five-awful-people-youll-meet-at-the-qa
Going to a Q&A is a bit like going on a safari, but instead of looking o...
“Who is you, man?” might be the last question that Chiron, the protagonist of Barry Jenkins’ new film Moonlight, wants to hear. For a gay black man raised in the Miami projects, he’s spent years crafting the mask that enables his survival, tenuous as it may be....
A few years ago, I lucked into half of a cheap, barely-legal back house tucked away on a steep hill off Sunset in Echo Park. My packrat ways have left me b...
Join us for the Ampersand Salon on April 10th to experience art, music, film, dance, theatre and literature in the unique setting of the The Velaslavasay Pa...