Nest Egg Publications, Inc. The first half of his long drive to work was full of twists and turns. A few minutes on one road, a few minutes on another. He cleaved to these twists and turns, apprehensive that an unaware moment, one easy directional error, would send him into a winding, confusing labyrinth. Throughout …
On the Importance of a Print Literary Journal Born in South Central Los Angeles A few days after a photograph of us graced the front cover of the California section of the Los Angeles Times, me and the Founding Editor of Dryland, Viva Padilla, decided to throw a little celebration at one of our favorite …
When I started Cultural Weekly, I thought it was going to be a blog. I was lucky enough to grab the URL CulturalWeekly.com, and I just started posting stuff. But six months later a friend asked if he could guest post. I said yes. Then it happened again. Over time, Cultural Weekly transformed into a …
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He says, This is a Bar.
This is a room full of Whiteness. Whiteness doesn’t notice the people are all white. Whiteness does notice and just doesn’t care. Whiteness does notice and is very happy. Whiteness does notice and feels very safe. Whiteness anoints these words on itself: Indigenous. Intellectuals. * Some months ago, I met Tom Lutz, main man of LARB, at a Big City Forum …
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As the 114th Congress continues its review of copyright law, the Copyright Alliance and CreativeFuture are proud to join forces in sending letters to Congress affirming core copyright principles held by the creative community. Over 1,200 members of the Copyright Alliance and over 350 members of CreativeFuture signed the letters, demonstrating broad support among creatives …
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UPDATE: We have changed the location for the entire duration of DTLAB. It’s now at happening at Les Noces Du Figaro – 618 S. Broadway Ave., LA CA 90014 *** I am a few minutes from heading out of town with Judeth for a few days. She just finished an amazing 6 year run as …
In June, we will celebrate a year of our PUBLISH! project. It’s been an interesting, exciting, frustrating experience that presented us with important lessons about visions and long term focus. We kicked off Phase 1 of PUBLISH! in June of 2013, on a rainy weekend in New York. This first year has been what we …
Portland-based poet Wendy Chin-Tanner’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous journals including The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge, The Saint Ann’s Review, and The Raintown Review. She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, staff interviewer at Lantern Review, co-founder of A Wave Blue World …
The cultural (and creative) revolution is here! Amazon, in its bid to upturn the publishing apple cart, has given creative artists everywhere the tools we need to rock the culture wars — to take our ideas viral, find an audience and make a living from the arts. Once frowned on and derided as a bastion …
And just like that, it’s already nearing the end of the second week of 2014. How do I know? Because there will be a bunch of drunk bridge-and-tunnel folk (yes, every major city has a bridge and tunnel crowd, no actual bridge and tunnel required) stumbling around the neighborhood for ArtWalk, talking too loud and …
Happy New Year! Yay, 2014! And all that jazz! Here in DTLA, good old King Eddys Saloon got all old school and opened at 6am on New Year’s Day to take care of the late night/early morning party people. And the great friends at Grand Park pulled off an amazing NYE party. Me? It was …
What’s going to happen to culture next year? Here are our predictions. Will you add yours?
With the end of the year coming up, like the rest of you, we are thinking about the future, the road ahead of us. I read this piece yesterday. Don’t Start a Company, Kid: The first few years of a company’s existence are a terrible awkward adolescence. You will work like a dog. You will …
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