In the Los Angeles Times, Jeffrey Fleishman profiles two young Angelenos trying not to break down as they try to break into show business.
Aaron Gilbreath
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Flights
One woman looks at her life of air travel to explore her drive to keep moving and taking risks, despite airplane anxiety.
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A Real Life Look at the Crazy Odds and Tortured Dreams of Making It in La La Land
La La Land made the spoils of the spotlight look seductively attractive. This portrait of two of LA’s countless talented aspirants brings you back to earth.
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I’m on a Boat, Y’all! (With Canada’s Hyper-Conservatives)
In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.
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Living In These Curated Times
At The Baffler, Thomas Frank looks at the pros and cons and history of what we call “curation.”
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My Week at Sea with Canada’s Alt-Right
If its sounds like a nightmare to be stuck on a boat full of followers of Canada’s conservative media provocateur and Breitbart acolyte Ezra Levant, well, you’re in luck: one liberal writer took that trip so you won’t have to.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Curated
From content to coffee beans to stylish, DIY scarves at the corner boutique, everything in America seems curated now, so how did the larger culture appropriate the job of an art gallery? And how does this process influence politics and our sense of truth?
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Mixing Business and Family in the LA Lakers Empire
At ESPN, Ramona Shelburne tells the complex family drama between the president and other stakeholders, which include her siblings.
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How Did the Lakers Get Here? The Inside Story of the Buss Drama
The Los Angeles Lakers’ president and owner, Jeanie Buss, is running the franchise the way she believes her father, Dr. Jerry Buss, intended, but off the court, the siblings who inherited stakes in the team from their father are playing some strong offense.
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The Face of Mass Deportation
At Guernica, journalist J. Malcolm Garcia profiles forty-eight-year-old Sixto Paz, a roofer with a family and no criminal record who moved into a church to avoid deportation.