There is greenwashing – when companies try to make it seem as if they’re not really destroying the environment – and there is pinkwashing: pandering to sexual ...
When push came to shove for Nipsey Hussle, he decided to fight. He bought back his block one store at a time, showing black and brown people the key to keeping our city in our hands. It started with The Marathon Store, but it was so much more than that. When I saw the video of the 33-year-old artist, community activist, father, and mogul lying bloodied and dying in front of his own place of business, I felt a part of our city dying along with it....
One might be forgiven elsewhere in the country for thinking of weed smokers in prototypical terms, couchlocked and snackish, dazed day to day. But here in California, where marijuana has been a source of public debate and policy for years, it becomes clear there's no single type of cannabis consumer. From grandmas doing monster dabs on youtube to patients with chronic pain, the face of pot has changed dramatically over the past decade.
So it seems inevitable we get Weedrave, a 12 hour rave for the self-professed stoners among us. Founded by Michelle Lhooq, a journalist with bylines at the L.A. Times and GQ Magazine and a book about weed due out next spring, the 12 hour event featured panels, rooftop yoga, CBD tonics, a dab bar, THC gummy samples, and a free pre-roll and bite-size edible with the purchase of a ticket. Performing DJs included False Witness, Kosmik, Mesmé, and Kokonut, among others....
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....
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....
As a filmmaker and a woman of color, Ana Lydia Monaco wants to make people proud to see themselves on screen.
She seeks to create honest female characters whose stories resonate with Latinas and broader female audiences....
Gathered on the carpet outside a movie theater are Kristin’s castmates, their bodies stretched out among set-pieces, suitcases full of costumes and props, their language peppered with equal parts exuberance and expletives. This is Kristin’s makeshift dressing room: she balances a lighted, three-paneled mirror on a plastic folding chair, her half-costumed body perched before it. Tonight, she is portraying a corset-and-fishnet-wearing mad scientist called Dr. Frank-N-Furter....
Asking what a city “is” can be futile, when trying to be accurate. Ask me what New York City is and immediately I’ll tell you: men in suits walk out of the subw...
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....
