Culture
How To: Win Film Festival Gold on a Shoestring
Affordable technology, low-to-no cost distribution channels like YouTube, and a proliferation of film festivals have all lead to the...
Culture
How To: Be a Real Life Superhero (With or Without the Cape)
So you want to make the world a better place? Maybe start with your block, or your neighborhood. Maybe start with an awesome costume. You don’t...
Culture
Walter Mosley on Writing Tips and the Promise of the iPad
Fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, historical fiction—Walter Mosley (of Easy Rawlins fame) has spanned just about every genre. The master...
Design
Towers of Hope Rise on California Beaches
Folks headed to Los Angeles beaches this Memorial Day weekend will find an unusual burst of color in the sand—158 painted lifeguard towers lining...
Culture
Eight Steps to Creating Art Camp on the Cheap
You don’t have to live in a major metropolitan area—with easy access to cultural institutions, galleries and museums—to expose kids to the...
Education
Do-gooder Gaming
How can video game developers help move the world forward? Martin de Ronde, founding director of OneBigGame, a nonprofit video game publishing...
Culture
Six Tips to Become a Craft Show Superstar
In an age where consumers have become as comfortable with e-commerce as they have with e-mail, the prospect of maintaining a presence in the...
Culture
Open Sourced Tools for Wired Museums
Think museums are musty repositories of history? Think again. Major metropolitan museums are becoming petri dishes of innovation. Take the...
Culture
Everything Has Meaning: A Q&A with Mr. Brainwash
I first met Thierry Guetta, otherwise known as Mr. Brainwash, in 2006 at the opening of the elusive British street artist Banksy’s Los Angeles...
Culture
Not Your Mama's Concert Tee
The record labels have missed the boat again. If these bloated behemoths had devoted the same amount of time and money to find creative in-house...
Culture
Bringing Theater to the Street
Accomplice is an unusual theater experience– part game, part mystery theater, part walking tour (through little-known labyrinths specific to each...
Culture
The Tastemaker: A Q&A with Garth Trinidad
The award-winning Los Angeles radio DJ Garth Trinidad—the long-time KCRW host, known for his smooth, genre-mixing music—took a few minutes...
