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.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

L.A. Witch, DOGGOD
The tension between the bright, post-punk guitars and the darker aspects of the psyche expressed in the lyrics create something new and interesting for the LA trio’s third LP.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Death Hilarious
The UK stoner-metal outfit’s fifth studio album is another collection of pummelling, heavy thrills, the sound of grimy darkness being warped into something transcendently fun.

Glare, Sunset Funeral
Transfixing from start to finish, the South Texas shoegazers’ debut is a dynamic, undulating audio portrait of the ups and downs of existence.
Lizzie Logan

We come to the third best, cousincest “Godfather” before the day of its 30th anniversary.

Revisiting Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation—with its too-attractive Elizabeth and .gif-able hand flex—fifteen years later.

A scientific investigation into the cinematic dad rock tune that would not die.

Looking back on fifteen years of Cameron Crowe’s half-baked rom-com and, of course, the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” trope.

How three monumental events in 2020 have reshaped the race-conscious Disney favorite on its 20th anniversary.

Recently revived by Netflix, we revisit the original 1995 hangout movie for its 25th anniversary.

Revisiting the rom-com—which is problematic for reasons you might not expect—fifteen years later.

Less profound than personal, we revisit Miranda July’s debut feature 15 years later.

Love it or hate it, this “SNL” adaptation is unquestionably unpleasant to watch with your dad.

Re-re-revisiting the comedy classic in the era of quarantine.

The songwriter bridges the gap between character and audience in “Bridesmaids” and Hustlers.”

Noah Baumbach’s prickliest film turns ten.

Guess who’s coming to the foreign exchange program? A DCOM, 20 years later.

Fifteen years later, “Phantom” joins the tradition of bad movies that feel good to hate.

On the tenth anniversary of the actress’ untimely death, her legacy lives on—though not as potently as it should.

Twenty years later, we reconsider the deceit, intrigue, and blame at the center of Anthony Minghella’s film.

These are the Disney Channel Original Movies that need to be seen to be believed.

The romance-fantasy-biopic-drama about J.M. Barrie and the creation of Peter Pan turns fifteen.

Spike Jonze’s melancholy adaptation of Maurice Sendak children’s book turns ten.

The downer fable about unhappy white people turns twenty.