Wrote this cover story about the Rio Grande Valley's own Grupo Frontera 🇲🇽 I hope you'll give it a read!

“In the devil-may-care catharsis of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift dismantles the top-selling product she has become and reclaims the vulnerable person inside of it.”

I gave The Tortured Poets Department a late-night listen for Vogue Magazine ✍🏼

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I’m launching a newsletter!! I present to you LA Art Spot. This newsletter will explore art through the people, places and things that make up the vibrant scene. You can subscribe here (la-artspot.beehiiv.com/subscribe) for just $1 per month. Keep reading to learn more. 🧵(1/10)

For the past six months I've been asking people what stories they want me to write about LA. Just about everyone asked me: 'Can you find out what's going on with the Olympics?' I just launched my new newsletter and I hope you'll subscribe.

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THE GANNETT CEO’S COMPENSATION INCREASED 14% LAST YEAR WHILE MEDIAN EMPLOYEE PAY *WENT DOWN*

DON’T SCAB

Who says criticism is dead

Spend the money on redoing the existing galleries, which offer all the joy of walking through an overstuffed art fair.

“Ohana is already making a statement, materially, that mental health care should not be secret, that better care is found in community, and that children deserve the best design.”

Great jam from Alexandra Lange

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Can’t name another journalist with this kind of resume. Murrow, maybe?

🙏😘

Yesterday was my last day at the LA Times. It’s been a great ride.
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“David’s series has spent nearly a quarter-century constructing one of the great L.A. stories, and it nails the milieu gloriously: a realm of tremendous ease and perpetual irritation.”

From the great Boris Kachka

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This morning Long Beach Post and Business Journal CEO Melissa Evans began making calls to striking Long Beach Media Guild members informing them they’ve been laid off. We have been locked out of our company email accounts. Reach us at [email protected].

In this week’s newsletter, I have a look at the new Amazon doc “Frida.”

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Had to cut a couple hundred journalism jobs at the Washington Post to find the budget for fixing civility, but we finally made it work.