Short Takes

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  Love Me Once, Love Me Twice

  Madeleine Connors attends a Jenny Lewis concert at the Hollywood Palladium and finds her just as lovable the second time around.

  Dec 13, 2023

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  Nostalgic for Nostalgia

  Sarrah Wolfe attends a Devendra Banhart concert and finds that, sometimes, the charming musician can be exactly as charming as he seems.

  Dec 12, 2023

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  The Dilemma of #Instapoetry

  Alessia Degraeve explores what is gained, and what is lost, when poetry ventures off the page and onto the screen.

  Dec 8, 2023

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  From Guyana with Love

  Brandon Sward traces the lines between race, sexuality, and colonialism in Vishal Jugdeo’s “Caribbean Television” at Commonwealth and Council.

  Dec 6, 2023

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  Heroes Don’t Die, They Just Sparkle in the Sky

  So bad it’s good, or all the way around to bad again? A. J. Urquidi ponders this and more at a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s sophomore film.

  Dec 5, 2023

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  I Used to Be Disgusted, and Now I Try to Be Amused

  Jack Skelley went to the Poetic Research Bureau and found two writers finding themselves in mass-cultural epiphanies.

  Dec 1, 2023

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  Tuning In to TV Girl

  Brittany Menjivar braves hoards of TikTokers and first-time concertgoers to report on “America’s favorite indie band.”

  Nov 30, 2023

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  Crown Jewel

  David Diaz time-travels to a special moment in New York history, finding it as vibrant now as it was then.

  Nov 28, 2023

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  Phantom of the Frida

  Emily Ann Zisko spent a night at the opera, darling, and found herself among skeletons and ghosts, feminists and revolutionaries.

  Nov 22, 2023

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  Gen Xers, Square-Dancing Dudes, and All

  Brittany Menjivar finds the perfect balancing point between twentysomethings and their parents in a Violent Femmes mosh pit.

  Nov 21, 2023

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  Choose Your Own Hamletmachine

  Siena Foster-Soltis joins the audience, votes, and—expectedly—witnesses the victory of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

  Nov 17, 2023

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  Too Far Gone

  If you're gonna build a career on proximity to coolness, maybe start by ascertaining whether you are—in fact—cool?

  Nov 16, 2023

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  Ultra-Casual

  Jack Skelley stumbles right up to the razor’s edge of Los Angeles’s alt-lit scene, and perhaps tumbles into the ether.

  Nov 15, 2023

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  Born Sick

  The church is the Hollywood Bowl, the priest is Hozier, the hymns are pop anthems, and everyone is very, very gay.

  Nov 9, 2023

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  Always an Angeleno, Never a God

  BOYGENIUS with 100 GECS and SLOPPY JANE, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, October 31, 2023. Emo-folk supergroup boygenius joined hyperpop scoundrels 100...

  Nov 6, 2023

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  Honk If You Love Geese

  A. J. Urquidi treks to Orange County to report on the nexus of country, glam, psychedelia, post-punk, and noise rock.

  Nov 2, 2023