L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
We Dropped a Bomb on You: The Best of Slake I-IVRobert Oshatz
Originally published in Treats! magazine. ROBERT OSHATZ has a lot of problems. And they are beautiful. Or, at least, they are by the time he’s done with them. Every one of the Portland-based architect’s signature structures—from the floating Fennell Residence on the Willamette River to the Chenequa Residence, tucked into a West Wisconsin hillside like […]
Shaun Tomson – Magic and Loss
Originally published in Huck Magazine, photos by Kevin Zacher. THERE WAS A TIPPING POINT IN SURFING HISTORY when the door of possibility was busted open wide. And Shaun Tomson dealt the final blow. As the first South African World Champion, his transgressive energy helped legitimate surfing as a professional sport. But the determination he showed […]
Paul Westberg, All Shook Down
This article was originally published by the LA Weekly, February 24, 1999. Before you head out the door to meet Paul Westerberg for dinner, you might want to skip reading the liner notes to All for Nothing/Nothing for All, the 1997 Replacements compilation of near misses and never-meant-to-be’s. Otherwise you could end up sitting at […]
Christian Bale and the Art of Extreme Acting
Originally published July 3, 2007 in the LA Weekly Christian Bale is an actor who may be as well known for what he does to his body as he is for his body of work. He’s done extreme things to that body in the name of art. Turning it as hard and sharp as an ice […]
Who’s That Girl? Lauren Weedman’s Search for Home
Originally published in the LA Weekly, 2007 “DID YOU EAT MY NAPKIN?” asks Lauren Weedman when I return from dousing myself with cold water in the bathroom. No, but it’s a fair question seeing as how I have eaten all of our bread, plus the calamari-in-marinara-sauce appetizer, my chicken ravioli, some of the better bits […]
Citizen Beck
Originally published September 27, 2006 in the LA Weekly When I moved here 10 years ago, Beck’s Odelay was a constant companion, like the sun, the smog and the Tapatío sauce in which I’d drown my tacos. Being a newbie, it seemed necessary to me that I digest Odelay, in the same way that other […]
The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy
Originally published in the LA Weekly THE HILLS ARE THERE in front of us, the sun behind, and he’s getting smaller and smaller, framed by the burnishing light, the water, the sand, the hills. I remember for a moment how much beauty is still left in this world. And now here’s my wave, lifting me […]
Stecyk – Father of the Now
Originally published in the New Times Los Angeles Surf, skate and street-art legend Craig Stecyk spawned the “extreme” generation, but these days he’s an absentee dad. Click here to read the article originally published in the New Times: Stecyk – Father of the Now
