Dia de los Muertos is a way for us to celebrate life through death. To reconcile with our eminent mortality. To connect with those no longer with us....
Raul Morales, chef of Taqueria Vista Hermosa, sits in a table across from his bustling food stand in Los Angeles’s Mercado La Paloma recounting his first moments in this country. Morales came to the United States from Mexico when he was 19 years old, temporarily leaving his wife and children in Michoacan....
This piece was originally posted on Film School Rejects.
Ava DuVernay is having a moment. At a time when privileged auteurs are being paid exorbitant...
For the price of a one-month Netflix subscription, you can roll out a mattress in the back of your pickup truck and enjoy a screening of two back-to-back, big-s...
Most Sundays, the graffiti writer who goes by the moniker SCENT is out walking the industrial areas of Los Angeles. He’s a photographer or a flicker as...
A zine is a tiny book that you make on your own. It can be about anything. People capture the story of their lives in zines, little diaries and time capsules folded down the center. An abridged version of “magazine" or "fanzine", zines have been reproducing the voices of people on the fringes since their punk-rock inception....
Parker Woods asks me to meet him at a teahouse in northwest Portland. I walk upstairs in the restored house to find a living room sprawl of teenagers and college students bent over their laptops in deep concentration with handmade mugs full of assorted teas. It’s silent. He arrives not much later and we talk shop, we talk Portland, we talk Tumblr, we talk photography....
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...
Resonant Residents is an Ampersand series exploring the physical spaces that inspire musicians. We aim to discover why they do what they do where.
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