By Andrew Ramirez Late Thursday afternoon, two weeks before Halloween and about six months after the Craig's list killer had been apprehended, my friend Max and I were in my truck on the freeway, then some side streets, and finally a narrow road, winding up Beverly Hills in a nice neighborhood. Max had a ripped piece of paper with an address scrawled on it. “We're here,” … [Read more...] about What We Talk About When We Talk About LA: A Steal in Beverly Hills
What We Talk About When We Talk About LA: My Thief
By Andrew Ramirez My Thief was a small Orphan who didn't have Shoes and didn't like Ray Bans Sunday, like all Sundays, is a good day to have late breakfast, a shower, a nap in the shower, a deep stare into the fogged mirror. It is also a good day to spend an extra minute brushing your teeth. Listerine tastes good. If you floss weekly, chances are you floss on … [Read more...] about What We Talk About When We Talk About LA: My Thief
D&D and The American Dream
By David Slagle An array of multicolored dice lay on the table in front of you, serving as makeshift paperweights for the scrawl-ridden sheets of paper that blow in the wind of your friend's basement ceiling fan. The rainbow of dice colors is matched by the variety of dice shapes. There are run of the mill six-sided dice as well as polyhedral dice, from pyramidal four-sided … [Read more...] about D&D and The American Dream
Mass-Produced Masterpieces
By Kathleen Meek In Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Benjamin discusses the change that has taken place in art since the invention of mechanical reproduction and the way this change has affected society's interaction with art. Benjamin states that the mechanical reproduction of works of art has caused a "decay of the aura" of … [Read more...] about Mass-Produced Masterpieces
The Silent Messenger
By Bryan Carberry James Lewerke was raised by his mother in Wauconda, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. In the summer of 2004, James moved to the upper-middle-class town of Valparaiso, Indiana, 20 miles southeast of Gary, to live with his father. In August of that year, Lewerke, 15, enrolled in the 9th grade of Valparaiso High School, where teachers described him … [Read more...] about The Silent Messenger