Post-Election Statement
The only way to live forever is through history, memory, and shared traditions. We commit to highlighting all the ways you create meaning in YOUR life. All the beautiful things. Whatever waits for us on the next page is a reality we can and will face together.
In Gumbo, I Trust
Gumbo is all of these things; it’s a Creole stew emblematic of every culinary culture in Louisiana, specifically in New Orleans, one of this country’s greatest port cities. It’s a literal melting pot and tells some of this country’s truest histories. As a result, my trust is earned.
Two Angelenos Meet Inside Lana Del Rey’s L.A.
One local and one transplant discuss the Lana Del Rey's connection to Los Angeles, the city as a lover, and their own connections to this baroque-pop narrative. For irony’s sake, they meet outside of Los Angeles. In Pasadena.
How To Be A Witch in Los Angeles
Here are the ingredients for a specific kind of spell, one that will transform you into a witch of Los Angeles. Happy haunting!
A Love Letter To JAWS (1975)
Tourism has talons and these talons dig into communities in unflinching ways. Therefore, these places are complicated. Tourism touches most parts of the planet, but certain areas get more heat than others. This leaves locals stuck inside some twisted catch-22. What IS the cost of closing a beach? In the case of JAWS, the cost is four lives and 24 hours of income lost.
Origin Story Pt. 2: I Am From The In-Between
Coastal culture, port culture is uniquely transferable. The people who exist where water and land meet are a specific kind of people. They swashbuckle, they swear, they are hearty deviants. They run rampant on the wings of waves and flagrant sexual innuendo. They are salty bohemians, accepting of every walk of life that arrives into port.
All Hail, Kalo ~~ All In A Weekend’s Time
My name was called and a tiny, black box with a golden chalice embossed on the front was presented to me. It was no short of a wedding proposal, from where I was standing. Still a ring inside that box. Mine? Piping hot, dripping in a vanilla maple glaze, yet to cool and turn matte.
Steam be damned, I bit into the single best thing to grace my palette in a long while.
brat Summer: A Case for Charli XCX Changing the Course of History
A British pop star dropped a vomit green album of bangers this summer and she may have just saved democracy. The Brits have played their final hand against us, revolutionaries across the pond. One if by land, two if by Charli XCX.