Angel Futzmania
Tony Kelly
Look, it’s suburbia. What do you expect? We cosmopolitans have long extended our wings of social inclusion, but it’s time that Squaresville’s narcoleptic ponces did as well. Sure, we’ll continue to numbly humor our housekeepers at our chic Hollywood Hills bungalows with promises of one day taking them for a loop in the private jets we flee the...
Karyn Campbell
Mexican Photojournalist Mauricio Palos’ Images of Immigration
If your name is Juan, or whatever, and you’re deported, or found incarcerated at the El Paso, TX ICE Detention Center, then you’re likely to receive a small tube of Maximum Security Gel Toothpaste and a coloring booklet called American Symbols. In this 8-page...
Maxwell Williams
The Transcontinental Breadth of a Contemporary Master
Does contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley really need another article written about him? There’ve been so many, too many to keep track of. Perhaps he is the most written about artist of his time, thanks to crossover appeal into the worlds of hip hop, bourgeois art, sport, and celebrity. N.B. in each...
Gregg LaGambina
Yu Tsai
The Key to a Larger Secret |The Mystery of Jessica Chastain’s Emerging Stardom
She is the key to a larger secret. She is important. There are stories inside of her that she will suppress with a bat of her eyelashes or a giggle. There will even be a taunt or two, a challenge posed, a hint, a scent, a flash of the secret she knows that...
John Logan
Stevie and Mada
The Temperate Man
A description of the acting prowess and social relevance of ahmad Kaabour, a Lebanese songwriter with virtually no profile in the English-speaking world, might seem a little out of place at the opening of an article about a Venezuelan movie star on the cusp of international superstardom. I assure you that it...
Joshua Neuman
Yu Tsai
Gods of Waves
I’m at the cozy Kafe K in Santa Monica shaking the ginormous right hand of Australian-born actor Chris Hemsworth when I have the piercing realization that this many adoring eyes haven’t been affixed my way since I was in a baby carriage.
Hemsworth’s hand will soon be seen carrying the most famous...
Matthew Bedard and Mui-Hai Chu
Jonathan Ho, Alex Farnum, Dorothy Hong, David Grant
Prime cuts from the Best of Butchery
Ah, there’s nothing quite like a dribble of juice from a côte de boeuf running down your chin. And as the retail scene will show, butchery is as fashionable as ever, with the rise of quote-unquote rockstar butchers. However, we can’t look to the future without looking to the past. Historically, butchery...
