by Alicia | Oct 26, 2015 | Daily Dot, Memoir, Writing
It was a Thursday morning. I’d already filed two stories and was trying to wind down my extremely active brain before hitting a new assignment. I had hit “refresh” on my email approximately 23 times for the sheer compulsion of it, and I finally felt done. I was ready...
by Alicia | Oct 22, 2015 | CRAVE
Zoe Crosher’s new body of work LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds at LAX Art (on view through October 24) offers an uncannily beautiful approach to L.A.-specific detritus with a DuChampian appeal toward the question: What is contemporary art? Here’s the gist: Crosher...
by Alicia | Oct 22, 2015 | CRAVE
There are events and world happenings that we all wish we’d been alive to witness. My dad fondly recalls his tripped-out visit to Woodstock, and though he has no photographs from the event, when he talks about it I feel like I was there. Rather than wander down a...
by Alicia | Oct 21, 2015 | CRAVE
“Sleeping less than seven hours per night on a regular basis is associated with adverse health outcomes, including weight gain and obesity, diabetes . . .” I saw this text printed on the screen of another writer’s computer at this café where I was...
by Alicia | Oct 19, 2015 | CRAVE
I’ve never been catfished, and I haven’t seen the movie Catfish either. There’s a fear of online identity that is perpetuated by the internet, that place where people say things that aren’t fact. There are horrifying catfishing cases like one in which a Tuscaloosa...
