By Ashley Huggins Sometimes, living in by downtown Los Angeles feels more like living by a pound. Every evening, without fail, my apartment mates and I are treated to the lovely sounds of cats crying outside our windows. It seems that there’s an alarming number of cats in this city, both domesticated and stray cats adventuring outdoors. This makes me both sad and happy, … [Read more...] about (Blog Post) Snapshot of LA: Cat Cat City
Archives for March 2012
Boy Meets Bar: No Sun on Sunday
-Andrew Ramirez * What’s not to love waking up to an LA all slicked-over and gray on a not-so-sunny Sunday when your gas has just been shut off? I’m enjoying myself because despite missing a few key ingredients—one dead oven, four clicking but ultimately flameless burners, and an absence of hot water that makes for a shower like an Alaskan hose-down—what is available … [Read more...] about Boy Meets Bar: No Sun on Sunday
The Last Part of the Deer
by Jeremy Lambert * * “Shit.” He dropped the match. “Shit,” he said again, snuffing out the tiny flame with a loafer. Bud struck another one, lighting his cigarette with a faint crackle as he sucked in the smoke. He looked down at the previous one lying on the floor of his porch, right between his feet. The heat from it had felt good until the flame licked … [Read more...] about The Last Part of the Deer
Point, Click, Kill.
By Josephine Marat Imagine yourself returning home one evening, opening your laptop, and logging on to YouTube. You become bored with all the mindless video clips, and you’re about to shut down your computer when you see a thumbnail for what appears to be footage from a new spy flick. The film has been shot with an infrared camera and there is no audio feed, giving it an … [Read more...] about Point, Click, Kill.
(Blog Post) Trailer Trash: In Space, Every One Can Hear You Scream
By A.J. Serrano The marketing team behind the highly anticipated summer release Prometheus is either extremely smart or incredibly stupid. My opinion on the matter changes daily. Let me explain. Prometheus marks director Ridley Scott's first return to the science fiction genre in thirty years-a genre that he single-handedly turned on its head with his films Alien (1979) … [Read more...] about (Blog Post) Trailer Trash: In Space, Every One Can Hear You Scream