Newsha Tavakolian’s album, Look (2013), can be viewed as the culmination of the developmental process her photographic language had to undergo under the restrictive politics of Iran. The students’ uprising…
On May 9th, 2017, President Donald Trump fired F.B.I Director James Comey. This poem is an erasure cut directly from the President’s letter informing James Comey of his termination. —…
Compton-born Dr. Robin Coste Lewis was just appointed the new Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Winner of the 2015 National Book Award and a Provost’s Fellow in Poetry and Visual Studies…
Editor’s note: This column is part of a new series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can find the original Call for Submissions here. Art…
Jack Mueller moved water, moved digital trillions. No less to more than a guess, Jack was the new molecule of free speech, changing worlds by changing meanings. In his life,…
[art by Kristen Stone] Hello! My Name Is Maybe Henry Milks, aka/fka Megan Milks, for now. I am pleased to introduce you to Name Tags, a new column devoted to…
The Towers was written and produced as a commission for Steve Turner in Los Angeles, CA. This one-act play follows three women famous for serving time in towers—Rapunzel, Saint Barbara,…
Photo via: Yitz Woolf — Ruth and Ibtisam hugging. Picture this. A Jewish mom in Jerusalem gets breast cancer and joins an Israeli-Palestinian breast cancer support group. She meets a Muslim…
Artwork: “The Evidence of Things Seen” / Chris Barnard / 2016-17 / Oil on canvas over panel / 81 x 54 in. Armillaria, more commonly known as root rot, is an…
The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix, which started airing on February 3rd, was eagerly anticipated and met with favorable reviews. I binged the whole thing in two days. It was…
Featured photo — “a city through a jungle” — from author Katie Simpson. Each night my dad made the same toast: “to another day in paradise.” Our glasses clinked as we…
Photo via comingsoon.net. As a young girl, I watched fairytale “happily ever after” endings, and I wondered why none of the princesses fell in love with another princess. I wanted to…
While Little Rock artist and art teacher Laura Raborn generally focuses on figurative oil paintings, the weeks before the November 8th Presidential election impelled her to create collages incorporating Donald…
by which I think you mean—you’ll correct me if I’m wrong—that the arts aren’t really, if we get down to it, necessary. With that, I’m inclined to agree. Neither is…