by Alicia | Apr 12, 2016 | Daily Dot, Writing
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 feels like the days of being unavailable or unreachable are over, but in...
by Alicia | Apr 9, 2016 | Daily Dot, Writing
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 decided that he had to seek out more of her. So he did what any...
by Alicia | Apr 4, 2016 | CRAVE
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 art is about; to major in every medium because the student can’t pick one is problematic. The same issue plagues the...
by Alicia | Apr 4, 2016 | Daily Dot, Writing
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 Netflix special The Characters. At the beginning of her episode, Peeps strolls out of her dressing...
by Alicia | Mar 29, 2016 | 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 Catherine Opie,” she spoke about artist Catherine Opie’s latest show 700...