Over the past couple months or to be more accurate years, numerous commentators have bemoaned the apparent narcissism […]
Author: Ryan Reft
When one thinks of San Fernando Valley, visions of ranch home subdivisions, shopping malls, and valley girls bound about the mind. […]
Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” remains perhaps the quintessential neo-noir. Set in the 1930s, the movie depicts Los Angeles and […]
In a recent New York Times editorial, Nicolas Kristof returned to an old saw, one he visited in […]
On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed what became, in retrospect, one of the most influential […]
“Creative people have always gravitated to certain kinds of communities such as the Left Bank in Paris or […]
Eight years ago, the avant-garde group/collective the Dirty Projectors released Rise Above, an album that bandleader David Longstreth […]
When Donald Trump bellowed his now-famous screed against immigration, accusing Mexican migrants of crime, disease, and more or […]