Bob Simmons
Aug 25, 20201 min read
New Documentary Film: The Poster Boys
A new feature length documentary by Bob Simmons San Francisco's '60s psychedelic poster scene is legendary but Austin, Texas also...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 5, 20202 min read
WHY NOT? / What is Real?
Editor's Note: Due to a software glitch, this piece will appear both here, as a stand alone article and also as a part of the Coronavirus...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 3, 20204 min read
WHY NOT? / Movie and a Pizza
I think the last movie I saw in a theater was ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Loved it. Since then, thousands of people have asked me...
Michael Taylor
Jul 17, 202010 min read
A Little Magic on the Boulevard
We were exhausted as darkness fell on Hollywood Boulevard, our third location of a long day that started out on a helipad atop a building...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
Jun 7, 20207 min read
Field Notes / Black Nature Writing ~ Stories of Braver Solos
This column is about walking alone in nature. Mostly with an inclusive idea of what constitutes “nature”—the degraded urban wilderness of...
James BigBoy Medlin
Feb 26, 20209 min read
Flickers
— or A Salute to Character Actors — or How Hollywood Screwed Up My Life Before I Even Got There On November 20, 1944, the whole world...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Feb 14, 20207 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Most Integrated Space in the U.S.A.
1: Some data A majority non-white U.S.A. is widely predicted in more or less a generation. That doesn’t mean someone in 2045 (my...
Trilby Beresford & Abid Rahman / Hollywood
Jul 4, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Years
The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will shift to previously...