The best days don’t necessarily start with a plan. My day began with a breakfast sandwich made by my neighbor and a spur-of-the-moment trip to Santa Barbara. We had been talking about it for weeks, but a recent heatwave made it feel urgent. After all, eighty degrees in Santa Barbara…
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I Tried a Chakra Reading in LA — Here’s What Surprised Me
Healing my Millennial burnout, one woo-woo experiment at a time. Yes, that’s me with a singing bowl on top of my head, bracing myself to be shaken like a dinner bell from an old cartoon. You’re probably wondering how I got here? So was I. Like a lot of people,…
The Return of VistaVision: What’s Old Is New Again
Why Supporting Old Formats and Physical Media Still Matters in a Digital Age This week, I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another, projected in glorious VistaVision at Quentin Tarantino’s newly restored Vista Theater in Los Angeles. Sitting in a historic theater, watching a brand-new film in…
Burnout, Starting Over — and Van Gogh’s Bedroom
What does Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles have to do with burnout, moving cross-country, and starting over? Apparently everything.
Twenty Years Without Peter Jennings
His death marked more than the end of a broadcast era. For me, it was the loss of a voice I trusted — and the beginning of finding my own. Twenty years ago, I was heading into my senior year of high school. I was set to graduate a full…
Seeing the Backstreet Boys at The Sphere? Here’s what you need to know
Millennials, trust me when I say we needed this.