As a filmmaker, journalist, and film programmer, I attend festivals all the time. Sometimes one of my films is playing; sometimes I’m there to review films. The most recent festival…
I don’t know if it’s because of living on an island, but water has always been a source of inspiration for me. As a result of this, I have always…
An arm raised may be asking a question, may be calling a cab, may be the up arc before the downswing of a conductor’s baton or a police baton, before…
“My Plastic People” is my most ambitious and personal project so far. It has become an essential part of my identity as a street photographer and as an artist. These…
What I know about grief, but what I choose to ignore until it becomes relevant, is that sometimes take a shower, brush your hair, put on make-up, get dressed become…
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…