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Echo Park Folk

Sylvia J. Adams

Sylvia was born in Texas, lived for 2-years in Korea, then for a briefer stint in Germany, before returning back to the States. While attending UC San Diego, she met Rickey Kim, the Founder of Evil Monito Magazine, started off as their Music Editor and how holds the position of Editor-in-Chief. Sylvia is an avid cinephile, whose taste ranges from Yakuzas to Nouvelle Vagues. She has a predilection for 3-letter scrabble words and succulents from Madagascar.

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Editorial
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Welcome to the neighborhood of Echo Park. A visual reference point for consciously clad hipsters, flanneled Cholos with a penchant for →

Geographical Existentialism

by Kevin Biggers

Kevin Biggers

Kevin was born and later abandoned in Seoul, South Korea in 1985. Shortly thereafter, two kind merchants from northern New Jersey adopted him, hoping he'd one day play professional football. So much for vicariousness and big dreams! As punishment, Kevin's parents forced him for extended periods of time to watch L'Avventura on loop, which became more pleasure than punishment. He graduated from University of Southern California in 2007, and now spends his weekdays developing and doing strategic marketing for kid-oriented websites. He is writing a novel about solipsism. Facebook Friend him, if you have a heart.

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Interview with T. C. Boyle
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For many a novelist, personal geography can be an unwanted poetry. →

Ambassador of Ethio-Jazz

by Sylvia J. Adams

Sylvia J. Adams

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Interview with Mulatu Astatke
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Mulatu Astatke, 67, an inimitable multi-instrumentalist, composer, and community builder; is one of those rare individuals →

Rebirth of Cumbia-psych

by Ethan Holtzman

Ethan Holtzman

Ethan Holtzman moved to Topanga Canyon when he was two years old. During his childhood years, he caught blue-belly lizards and foraged for edible fungi. He grew up singing folk songs with his family around the potbelly stove, the sole source of heat. Eventually he bought an accordion and studied under the late master, Milton Mann. He currently plays a Farfisa in the band, Dengue Fever, and tours the world.

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Interview with Chica Libre
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Surrounded by snow-capped volcanoes, I wiped the jet lag off my brow and took a moment to catch my breath—a belabored process due to high elevation →

Townfolk

by Phil Chang

Phil Chang

Phil Chang enjoys watching Gary Busey clips on YouTube and earnestly wishes he could do the Roger Rabbit. The internet has taught him not to publicly write things that he will regret, or of things that won't apply in a week. Life has taught him to value the people behind great ideas.

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Interview with Blue Scholars
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Keeping it local is a whole different ballgame when you call Seattle home. →

Downtown’s Turf War

by Erin Barajas

Erin Barajas

Erin Barajas, loves Los Angeles. Born and raised in the city, she's lived everywhere from South Central and the LBC to Venice Beach and her home in Silverlake where legend has it, the cult flick, “Heathers,” was written. Now living in Eagle Rock, Erin writes about fashion for California Apparel News as their Manufacturing Editor. Until she strikes it rich with a million-dollar idea, she spends her time reading novels in her tub and making up names for fictional bands. She has a very rich interior dialogue.

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Interview with Mario Gonzalez
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Downtown Los Angeles is home to a new kind of turf war, the likes of which hasn’t been seen here for decades and – as is fitting in the world’s most cinematic city →

the daily

Q&A: Sunil Pawar

Occupation and Position.
Painter Decorator * King Creative * Champion selector my job is to make things look fresh

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Nouns

Nouns No Age
Sub Pop Records
(2008)

“Shh, man…keep it down or they’ll hear us,” a voice cautions as the opening track starts up on No Age’s latest effort, Nouns. At the moment the song begins →

via Sam Sundos 14 hours ago