The Gangsta Gardener of Los Angeles
Known around the world as the Gangsta Gardener, Ron Finley transforms overlooked spaces in South Los Angeles into gardens, food, and community. His garden is
You’re Still Standing
“When the worst that can happen has come and gone, and you’re still standing, remember that you won.” – Joan Bauer, Almost Home
When Peace Becomes Invaluable
The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into gardening, baking, reading, and long walks. Not because life got boring… but because
Trucking in the ’70s
Being a trucker in the 1970s meant spending long days and longer nights behind the wheel during an era when trucking still had a rough,
They called it growing up. I called it giving up.
“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence.
200 Motels
Kristin DeBell (Sitting on a TV set) is from an archive of a shoot by Helmut Newton published in Playboy in 1976. The piece was
How Pepsi Beat Coca-Cola to the Soviet Union
For much of the Cold War, Americans and Soviets may have disagreed about nearly everything, but there was at least one American product that managed
Wendy Carlos’ Custom Moog Synthesizer
Wendy Carlos used a custom-built Moog Modular synthesizer based on the Moog IIIc system to record her landmark 1968 Grammy-winning album, Switched-On Bach. Carlos met
As long as we don’t die…
“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” – John Green, Paper Towns
The Wild Ride That is Cronenberg’s Rabid
What a strange film. I don’t have a whole lot to say about it, save that I enjoyed what I saw. I accidentally stumbled onto
Monet Goyon 500cc Supersport
Seen here is a rare 1930 Monet Goyon 500cc Supersport, one of the first built by Raymond Guiguet for the Grand Prix Autodrome de Montlhéry
Tropical UFOs
Night had fallen. I must have been six, and even back then it was hard for me to get to sleep. At our place we
