Autostraddle includes “How to Win Tinder” on Best of 2015 Longreads!
Wow! Autostraddle named me & Eve Peyser‘s long-form essay “How to Win Tinder” as 215 of the Best Longreads of 2015 — All Written by Women. We are in the “Essays & Opinions” section <3...
View ArticleAmazing mention in The New Yorker!
Image via New Yorker I am so honored the the essay “The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic” that I co-authored for Hyperallergic a few years ago with Kate Durbin is in today’s New Yorker! read Haley Mlotek’s...
View ArticleCameron Esposito on standup comedy: ‘It’s a rock show, at the end of the day’...
If there were a gay lady comedy version of Sheryl Sandberg’sLean In, it would most definitely be written by L.A-based comedian Cameron Esposito. A lot has happened to the Chicago-born Esposito since...
View ArticleThe celebrity DM is the great equalizer / DailyDot Entertainment
It’s not every day that we hear about a gay lady couple with a 32-year age difference. So goes the story of actress Sarah Paulson and her much older lady love Holland Taylor, whose relationship first...
View ArticleIn Review | Cat Art Show 2: The Sequel / CRAVE
Cat Art Show 2: The Sequel at Think Tank Gallery was exactly what you’d expect it to be: a collection of various portraits, interpretations and visualizations of more than 75 artists’ portrayals of...
View ArticleJosh Gondelman on Twitter pep talks and honest comedy / DailyDot Entertainment
Hey it’s Josh Gondelman Some comedians don’t take shit from anyone. Josh Gondelman is truly an exception. In fact, he’ll hold your shit if you hand it to him and ask nicely. Gondelman recently hosted a...
View ArticleMiranda July on Why Catherine Opie is Into Elizabeth Taylor’s Stuff / CRAVE
Miranda July took to the stage at the West Hollywood Council Chambers the other weekend with an air of curiosity, lucidness and vulnerability. For her lecture “Artists on Artists: Miranda July on...
View ArticleThe many faces of Lauren Lapkus / DailyDot Entertainment
Lauren Lapkus’ Netflix Special Not every comedian can boast that they’ve performed 70 different characters. Lauren Lapkus can. One of Lapkus’s standby characters, Whitney Peeps, opens her 30-minute...
View ArticleExhibit | PDFW: Performance. Drawing. Film. Writing. / CRAVE
Exterior view of PDFW at Slow Culture Gallery, LA. When someone is applying to art school, they usually decide to focus on a specific medium. It’s one way to hone in on the bigger picture of what their...
View ArticleBreasts, Bernie, and face tats: Exploring the video art of Andrew DeYoung /...
Filmmaker Andrew DeYoung was just chilling on the Internet one day, when Kate Berlant’s “Lampshade Susan” video popped up on his Facebook feed. After being stunned by her brilliance and hilarity, he...
View ArticleWhat these 4 TV shows tell us about texting and dating / DailyDot Entertainment
Don’t sweat that text reply from the person you’re crushing on. If we’ve learned anything from these four streaming TV shows, it’s that if the cutie is interested, they’ll text back. Sometimes it...
View ArticleExhibit | Eric Yahnker Plumbs the Depths of American Dumbness / CRAVE
Eric Yahnker, “Exceptional Suicide”, 2015. Dumbness is everywhere. Donald Trump, the parody-proof candidate, is just one example of our fascination with the pervasiveness of dumb as it plays out in the...
View ArticleWhoHaha is a new comedy channel for emerging female voices / DailyDot...
There’s a lot of funny content on the Internet, but you have to know where to look. Is Twitter your short zinger jam? Is it video you’re looking for? You might just want to go right to WhoHaha, a new...
View Article‘Broad City’ animator Mike Perry sends out psychedelic color splashes /...
Wordplay is an art. Sometimes it takes the form of puns on Twitter or weaves its way into standup jokes. Other times, the words themselves become ecstatic visual experiences. Artist Mike Perry, who...
View ArticleWhat Is the Lesbian Dick Pic? / New York Magazine
To the extent that there’s a defining image of the current era in sex trends, it’s the dick pic. It’s increasingly normal to find that people who date — or maybe even just know — men have a few...
View ArticleExhibit | Carmen Argote Explores The In-Between Spaces of Familial Memories
Carmen Argote, “Brincolin”, (2016). There is a misty sentimentalism nestled into every aspect of Carmen Argote’s art practice. For her solo exhibition Mansión Magnolia at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery,...
View ArticleExhibit | Lawrence Weiner’s Conceptual Wordiness / CRAVE
Installation view of Lawrence Weiner’s show at Regen Projects LA Lawrence Weiner is into words — big, broad words that unabashedly cover gallery walls and floors, taking up the maximum amount of space....
View Article‘Grace and Frankie’ season 2 wins with magnetic best frenemies / DailyDot...
Grace and Frankie on the beach, chillin’ Love isn’t always about romance. Sometimes it’s a purely platonic matter. Often it has to be kept secret for many years. This much became clear in the first...
View ArticleIn Review | Giorgio Andreotta Calò and His Venetian-Californian Dream / CRAVE
Installation view Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s recent solo exhibition 5122.65 Miles at Depart Foundation, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, was named for the distance between Venice, Italy and...
View ArticleSam Richardson from ‘VEEP’ on TV’s Hottest Political Sitcom / MAXIM
Credit: HBO It’s hard to hate a do-gooder who is charmingly oblivious. Take Richard Splett, played by Sam Richardson plays on HBO’s hit political cringe comedy hit Veep.Splett is an idealistic...
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