David Sedaris

The Coachella Valley comes into bloom with Desert X and Modernism Week. But some of the Desert X artworks raise questions about development in Palm Springs.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp encourages a group hug for this week’s art fairs

Director Adam McKay on the history and heart of former Vice President Dick Cheney in "Vice".

Tosh Berman’s memoir,  Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World , is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world: reinvented to be here.

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A new documentary at the Santa Barbara Film Festival tells the story of local resident and beloved ocean filmmaker Mike DeGruy, a man who explored our world’s oceans and brought the…

Edward Goldman talks about the fascinating and challenging photo exhibition by Sally Mann at Getty Museum, and a studio visit with LA photographer Jenny Okun.

Mary Ruefle reads the entirety of her glorious and gruesome essay about shrunken heads, the title essay in her book My Private Property.

Jeff listens to the spaces inbetween words to see if the answers to his problems are buried there.