With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
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Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, West Kensington
The ambient stalwart and prolific guitarist combine forces to create sweeping odes to the natural world, friendship, and the things that make no sense at all.

Arcade Fire, WE
This sixth album often finds a veteran band charging atop vigorous, surging melodies and not being afraid to just lean into the groove again.

Norah Jones, Come Away with Me [20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition]
The full-bodied anniversary collection paints a wilder portrait of Jones’ debut, displaying a surprising angularity and nervous energy.
Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

He’s been quietly uploading them on the New Beverly Cinema site.

Oh, to be a safely quarantined millionaire singing about having no possessions.

Ben Gibbard // Death Cab for Cutie // Hollywood Bowl // photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Music in the time of coronavirus.

The Big Ass Honky Tonk & Steakhouse is staying open despite warnings from the mayor.

FKA twigs / photo by Rozette Rago
“this is insane, i’m so honoured and so confused…”

The Canadian-Italian music video director on her career and second feature film, “The Turning.”

The triumphant return of mom’s spaghetti, and a lullaby for Martin Scorsese.
First he brought you Fyre Fest; now he wants to do your taxes.

Normcore never goes out of style.

And it ain’t cute. Who asked for this?

The filmmaker said he doesn’t need to actually watch “Joker”; he “gets it.”

Keep It Pics by Kim Newmoney for Crooked Media
Ira Madison III, Louis Virtel, + Aida Osman on nostalgia, Twitter, and 2019’s media landscape.

by Cindy Barrymore
No offense, Lizzo—but what the hell fits in there?

But how predatory was the song to begin with? A brief investigation.

Megan Thee Stallion is apparently a horror buff and aspiring screenwriter.

He’s been dissing them on Instagram.

He’ll be playing the villainous Riddler, who else?

Taylor Swift – Lover
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We ranked ’em pre-“Lover,” so now it’s time for a follow-up.

Their newly announced streaming list of movies/TV is a nostalgia fever dream.

The rapper has officially distanced himself from his hit song with Robin Thicke.

The filmmaker talks her seminal debut, how she dealt with that rape scene, & what female directors are up against.

Do you feel held by him? If not, it’s either the bear suit or counseling.

Lana Del Rey at Lollapalooza 2016 / photo by James Richards IV
Following Lana Del Rey’s dig at NPR, this is refreshing.

Ranking all the times Zach Galifianakis antagonized hot/wealthy people.

She’s practically an architect.

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Universal Studios invites you to confront your murderous doppelgänger.

An entirely subjective list of the songwriter’s greatest hits on what would have been his fiftieth birthday.

Unshaven, gruff, and lonely seamen. What more could you ask for?

They sang “I Like America & America Likes Me,” and Healy had a semi-meltdown onstage.

All your money will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to be poor.

Before the sparse crooner released his first new album in six years, he rose to Instagram stardom by way of writing haikus.

Why post blurry Fourth of July vids on social media when you could post screenshots from these classic works of cinema?

The grandson of Jacques Cousteau and the world’s foremost shark photographer chat.

He’s the only person to have scaled Yosemite monster-wall El Capitan without ropes, a feat detailed in the Oscar-winning doc “Free Solo.”

A pair of English rising superstars on their music careers, collaboration, and YouTube success.

Brooklyn’s power pop foursome have a visual for their second album’s title track.

The show is over, but fashion is furever. (Like, fur pelts. There are a lot.)

The writer/comedian is really nice. Like, suspiciously nice.

Is this the best cast ever assembled?

He just wrote a dope tune about Elmo for the fiftieth anniversary of “Sesame Street,” and he has a long history of songs before that.

Lizzo / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Her ass is all over social media, and no one’s complaining.

The singer-songwriter talks her first solo album in six years, “There Will Be No Intermission,” and how her fans and becoming a mom influenced her music.

The couple just made a $1.25 million donation, but some headlines didn’t acknowledge her.

The filmmaker was in full-on sass mode last night. And for good reason.

Phoebe Bridgers / photo by Natasha Aftandilians
They’re both in the news right now; he as the accused, she as an accuser.

“The Notebook” is pretty dumb, but Rachel McAdams makes it kinda wonderful.

Our non-human Oscar picks might be more awards-worthy than the actors who drank, ate, and wore them.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their shitty holidays.

The writer-comedian’s book, “Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together,” is out now.

Ten new non-verbal ways to express yo’self.

The documentarian speaks about his deep-dive into the famous couple’s fraught romantic history.

Here are our fan requests.

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“Hail, Satan?” premiered at Sundance last weekend. But don’t worry—these guys don’t actually worship Satan.

A “New York Times” poetry review said this guy’s words are no good. Here’s why that’s crazy.

The Hulu show was like a tender, sympathetic antidote to the fast fury of Fox News.

Eat your heart out, Academy.

On the artist’s elegant-goth style, his wide-ranging influence, and his non-existent love life.

Our FLOOD 9 cover story on the offbeat (and oft-beat) actor and first-time director.

The five leads of Jonah Hill’s new film are, for the most part, skateboarders first and actors second. But being a skater doesn’t mean just one thing anymore.

We fear sharks but love shark movies. So what are they really about?

Filmmaker Josephine Decker and breakout star Helena Howard discuss instinct, improv, and the power dynamics of a director-actor bond.

“Lake Tear of the Clouds” skims lazily over fields of grass, Murr’s voice aloft on the breeze.

The Twitter maven, comedian, and writer for “The Good Place” has been awards-scheming with her webseries “An Emmy for Megan.”

Jonah Hill and Director Gus Van Sant behind the scenes on the set of DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT
On the inscrutable filmmaker’s career, his penchant for troubled, self-medicating men, and his biopic on cartoonist John Callahan.

Now splitting her time between acting and music, the “Gemini” star is conducting to her own tune.

How the viral story “Cat Person,” incels, and Ian McEwan’s book—plus its adaptation starring Saoirse Ronan, now in theaters—all connect, with insight from the film’s director Dominic Cooke.

With each day Puth is saddling closer and closer to Bieber territory—meaning he’s heading in the wrong direction.

Regardless of how “Beetlejuice 2” turns out, Tim Burton’s breakthrough is a lively movie about death that stands the test of mold-covered time.

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Long before it became a Disney blockbuster, “A Wrinkle in Time” was a book—and Meg Murry a heroine—familiar to brainy girls the world over.

You know who the unsung heroes are? Those inanimate objects who aid actors and directors in their quest to make us feel something.

The actress stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest and Raoul Peck’s “The Young Karl Marx”—both roles in which she plays wife to great men who need her much more than they realize.