Los Angeles
The Adventurer
Photographer Zoe Crosher grew up around planes and airports — her mother was a flight attendant, and her father was a diplomat. So it isn’t surprising that when Crosher moved to Los Angeles, she gravitated towards the neighborhoods surrounding Los Angeles International Airport. She found what she considered the real spirit of LA in little […]
Svetlana Explains it All
Playwright and performer Iris Bahr is a shape-shifter. Her recent one-woman show “Dai (Enough)“ cast her as everyone from a Palestinian mother to a retired Israeli soldier, all sitting in a Tel Aviv caf where tragedy is about to strike. She takes the stage at The Getty as Svetlana, a Russian immigrant and world-traveled prostitute. […]
Quetzal
East L.A. fusion rockers Quetzal show how they’re pushing the boundaries of Chicano music to a new level of cool. Bandleader Quetzal Flores and his wife, vocalist Martha Gonzalez, tell Kurt why politics is something they can’t help but sing about. They perform two incendiary, hip-shaking songs.
Palm trees and power lines
Gaze up above any low slung building in LA and this is the view. Greetings from the other side of the Pacific Rim– Los Angeles! This winter/spring Kurt Andersen has a special residency at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and we’ve got some LA-based stories and interviews in the works. I finally […]