New Stories July 20-24, 2015: Lots of DJs and Xena
My profile of Mija is in this week’s print edition of L.A. Weekly. This week was nearly all about the DJs. My profile of Mija, whose DJ career took off after an impromptu set with Skrillex last year,...
View ArticleNew Stories: Robot Parties, Electro Music and Much More
Empire of the Sun plays an Absolut party in Los Angeles. (Photo: Liz O.) There are days when I really love my job. Take last Friday, for example. An editor at Paper Magazine contacted me to see if I...
View ArticleGet Your Copies of Cosplay in America Vol. 2 and Hi-Fructose Vol. 37
I had five DJ gigs in the past month. It’s probably been a decade since I played that much in a four-week span. Every gig was a blast, but the Halloween weekend ones were something special. On the...
View ArticleTop 10 Assignments of 2015
As I write this, there is less than half a day left of 2015 and I’m still trying to finish up all the end-of-the-year odds and ends. It’s been a wonderfully odd year and I’m optimistic about 2016....
View ArticleNew Stories: September 11-17, 2016
Patrick Martinez in his studio. (Photo: Liz Ohanesian) It’s been a while since I’ve updated this thing. Right now, the goal is to update on Sundays with a recap of my stories that ran over the past...
View ArticleStories: September 18-24
The most exciting thing that I had the chance to do last week was head to Sotheby’s in Century City to check out a slice of David Bowie’s art collection. I was practically born a Bowie fan, so seeing...
View ArticleStories: September 25- October 1
On Thursday, the new issue of L.A. Weekly hit the streets with Warpaint on the cover. I wrote the story. Almost five years had passed since my last cover story for the Weekly, so this was an exciting...
View ArticleDJ Gigs for October 2016
This week, I’ve been in a deep writing hole trying to finish stuff that you will, hopefully, have the chance to read soon. In the meantime, check out L.A. Weekly‘s Best of L.A. issue. I wrote a few of...
View ArticleStories: 10/17-10/23
Two years ago, I started checking out the new wave of virtual reality projects and wrote about them here and there for L.A. Weekly, Paste and The Robot’s Voice. Two months ago, I started work on a big...
View ArticleMy 15 Favorite Assignments of 2016
Years from now, kids may read about 2016 in history books as the year that David Bowie died and the whole damn world spun out of control. Or, maybe they won’t, but that’s certainly how I’ll remember...
View ArticleA Brief Update
It’s time to start updating this website again. A lot has happened since my last post, but that’s all history now. Here’s what’s current. New Story: “Can Virtual Reality Help Stop Sexual Harassment...
View ArticlePre-Order Hi-Fructose Vol. 47 (Plus, This Week’s DJ Gigs)
Volume 47 of new contemporary at magazine Hi-Fructose is on the horizon and I have two stories in it. For this issue, I interviewed L.A.-based artist Ken Flewellyn, who merges hip-hop and traditional...
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