The senior editor of Los Angeles Magazine, Elina Shatkin, tells us about a new work of theater in development: an autobiographical musical written and composed by Jackie Chan. Brace yourselves.
Small Talk
Reyhan Harmanci on staying in Europe on the cheap
New Euro budget hotels where you might just have to make your own beds…and desks… and…
Reyhan Harmanci on the most delicious encyclopedia
Reyhan Harmanci, Deputy Editor of the new food & culture magazine Modern Farmer guides us to La Tacopedia: Enciclopedia del taco which may be the world’s most delicious reference book.
Modern Farmer’s Reyhan Harmanci & the Joys of Chicken Rentals
Reyhan Harmanci, Deputy Editor of the new food & culture magazine Modern Farmer, explains how to have all the fun of a chicken coop - but pay a little less scratch.
Sadie Stein on Diphthongs and gherkins
Sadie Stein, Deputy Editor of the Paris Review, brings us the results of a lexical battle royale: “Diphthong” vs. “gherkin.”
Words even older than tubular
Sadie Stein, Deputy Editor of The Paris Review, shares a story close to her bookworm heart: two-hundred core words have been in use for up to 15,000 years… including the word “worm.”
Kentucky Fried Chicken Gets into the Poetry Business
The Paris Review's Sadie Stein explains why KFC-China is launching Operation Thunder - a poetry offensive.
Smells of 2012 with Apology’s Jesse Pearson
Jesse Pearson, editor-in-chief of the new culture/lifestyle outlet Apology Magazine, tells about the smells of 2012…and a hot new cologne called “shame.”
Patt Morrison shares good and bad news
LA Times columnist and KPCC-FM Special Correspondent Patt Morrison shares a new scientific finding that’s the ultimate case of good news, bad news.
Rocking their way into the record book
Amber Bravo, senior editor of music mag The Fader, talks about a recent spate of rockers breaking records instead of hotel rooms.