by Alicia | Sep 16, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — It took a while for me to actually sit down and stop flipping through the channels and start leafing through Sara Cwynar’s gorgeous book, The Kitsch Encyclopedia. Published by Blonde Art Books, a project of Brooklyn-based curator/publisher Sonel...
by Alicia | Sep 12, 2014 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Somewhere, somebody is looking for you. They are waiting at a café on Sunset Boulevard, gazing at the screen of their smartphone, anticipating the tiny ding of a bell that lets them know a message is waiting. They are using Miranda July’s new iOS app Somebody,...
by Alicia | Sep 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — The name Andy Warhol is synonymous with Pop art, a movement often written off as apolitical and shallow in its engagement with American culture. Reflections of this assumption are all contained in Little Red Book #296, an album of 18 images that...
by Alicia | Sep 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Laura Parnes’s four-disk video series Blood and Guts in Hollywoodexposes the idealized teenage dream for what it is: A boring, vapid fantasy of “love” that is marketed and sold to an audience of young dreamers searching for their soulmate in the...
by Alicia | Sep 5, 2014 | DailyWorth, News, Writing
My story on money management apps is featured in the Wall Street Journal. It originally ran on DailyWorth. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-top-money-management-apps-2014-08-14?reflink=zacks http://www.dailyworth.com/posts/2815-7-of-the-best-money-management-apps...
by Alicia | Aug 31, 2014 | New Voices, News, Writing
Season Two of The L-Word, Showtime’s lesbionic answer to HBO’s Sex and the City and its own male-oriented Queer as Folk, moved beyond dramatizing the sexual exploits of a group of Los Angeles friends and started tackling, of all things, Jewish identity. Jenny Schecter...
