Short Takes

They Learned to Stop Interrupting
Melissa Saywell explores Long Beach’s queer history at a Circa Festival event.
Melissa SaywellOct 12, 2024
Sunday Scaries
On the Lord’s Day, Madeleine Connors hits up Jumbo’s Clown Room and finds that there is no God, only Topaz the dancer.
Madeleine ConnorsOct 11, 2024
You Can Scream All You Want
Madeleine Connors joins the little weirdos watching their best American girl Mitski at the Hollywood Bowl.
Madeleine ConnorsOct 8, 2024
What’s Wrong with L.A.?
Brittany Menjivar is in the club while you’re online reading her review of the Dare’s show at El Rey.
Brittany MenjivarOct 5, 2024
Each New Day, I Get Another Year Older
In unearthed journals, A. J. Urquidi attends three consecutive shows around L.A. and is, perhaps, still out there now, lost to the gothic night.
A. J. UrquidiOct 3, 2024
More Than Just a Fun Trompe-l’Oeil
Brittany Menjivar connects with nepo baby pyromaniacs and rizzmatic chefs at the second installment of the Honorable Mention screening series.
Brittany MenjivarOct 2, 2024
Place Out of No Place
Melissa Seley paints a picture of Alice Neel, through the eyes of Hilton Als, at David Zwirner in Los Angeles.
Melissa SeleySep 26, 2024
What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy
Eli Diner probes his Dome trying to Intuit why anyone would sink four billion dollars into the L.A. Clippers infrastructure.
Eli DinerSep 21, 2024
Queering the Way
Melissa Saywell explores the influence of science fiction fandom and occultism on the early queer rights movement at the opening of “Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.” at USC.
Melissa SaywellSep 20, 2024
It Is 9:00 P.M. and You Are Listening to Los Angeles
A. J. Urquidi stops going rub-a-dub and instead shakes his Super Bon Bon for Soul Coughing in Downtown L.A.
A. J. UrquidiSep 18, 2024
Shaking Up the Scene
Are YOU prepared for “The Big One”? Brittany Menjivar shelters in place at their second issue launch party in Koreatown.
Brittany MenjivarSep 14, 2024
Out of the Closet, over the Hedge
Give Brandon Sward a home where butch lesbians roam, where a beard and top surgery display—a.k.a. the Tom of Finland House in Echo Park.
Brandon SwardSep 12, 2024
Keeping an Opa Mind
A. J. Urquidi o-lives his best life on Labor Day weekend with the Greeks and geeks in Long Beach.
A. J. UrquidiSep 5, 2024
For the God of Love, for the Love of Florida
As Florida enters peak hurricane season, Cherith King reflects on Lauren Groff’s 2018 depiction of her home state and its residents.
Cherith KingSep 1, 2024
Outside the Lucky Few
Eli Diner joins the vandals, metalheads, and nitrous ballooners in viewing Kevin Bouton-Scott’s Downtown L.A. painting retrospective.
Eli DinerAug 31, 2024
The Dog Ears of Summer
Brittany Menjivar grabs her jacket and spine and spends Friday night with her nose in A Good Used Book in Historic Filipinotown.
Brittany MenjivarAug 30, 2024