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Nov 5, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Diana Ruzova
Award-winning LGBTQ+ journalist Nico Lang (they/them) has written a debut ethnography, American Teenager (Abrams Books, October 2024), which profiles eight young people in various stages of gender affirming care. The book sheds light on what it’s like to be a transgender teenager in America today, both the challenges and the deeply relatable heartwarming mundanity of the human condition.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Diana Ruzova
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
la.eater.com | Diana Ruzova
A line stretches out the door of the Coop during lunch and dinner. With only two employees — owners Mike and Christina Fransen — orders on a busy night can take up to an hour to prepare, but regulars don’t mind. For over 50 years, the 440-square-foot, standing-room-only pizza joint has sat largely unchanged on the corner of Exposition and National in Palms, surrounded by dingbat apartment buildings, traffic from the I-10, and an elevated train platform.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Diana Ruzova
7 hours agoIt’s been 18 years since Bravo came to San Francisco to shoot the first season of “Top Chef,” and while producers once wondered if the “food competition docuseries” could even work at all, the show has become an institution. In the time since, food has taken over television, from industry dramas …
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May 27, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Diana Ruzova
LOS ANGELES — Fleeting landscapes of the natural world and the body in motion are currently tucked away on a dead-end street in an industrial area of Downtown Los Angeles. In three solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Clare Woods reinterprets the still-life genre through oil on aluminum, Coco Young shows pastel-toned, oil-on-linen pastoral scenes, and Márcia Falcão presents curvaceous figures on canvas and paper.
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May 14, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Diana Ruzova
This story is part of Image’s May issue, Homemaking, about home and the many ways we choose to make it. I can barely remember a time when we didn’t live where we worked. Our first property manager job was for a 30-unit apartment building between Beverly Hills and Pico-Robertson. My parents didn’t speak English but got the job anyway because they knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy.
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May 13, 2024 | 
full-stop.net | Diana Ruzova
Katya Apekina is the author of two novels, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (Two Dollar Radio) and her latest, Mother Doll (Abrams Books). Mother Doll is a ghost story. A historical dive into the Russian Revolution. A pearl necklace of intergenerational matrilineal trauma. “The baby will have shards of all of us in it whether Zhenichka likes it or not,” says the ghost of Zhenia’s great-grandmother Irina, referring to Mother Doll’s pregnant protagonist’s unborn child.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Diana Ruzova
In Nicolette Polek’s debut novel Bitter Water Opera a young film professor named Gia is in the midst of a crisis. She has left her job and her boyfriend and is in a fit of despair ignoring phone calls from her mother and sleeping 15 hours a day. In the opening pages of this slim imaginative novel, Gia is visited by the ghost of Marta Becket—the eccentric ballerina and owner of the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley, California.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Diana Ruzova
LOS ANGELES — Summer Wheat’s Fertile Ground is a lushly mystical garden. Featuring brightly colored large-scale paintings and three sculptures, her third show at Nazarian / Curcio showcases her attention to intricate detail and the labor of art-making, reflecting the female-centric labor depicted in the paintings themselves. In these works, the Oklahoma-born, Brooklyn-based artist leans into modernist abstraction, ancient art, and Renaissance etchings, as well as mythology.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
laist.com | Diana Ruzova |Michael Goldsmith |Scott Horsely |Anthony Victoria
Topline: Fusion food used to mean cringe and eye-rolling; today chefs are bringing playfulness and innovation to combine cultures and create brand new dishes. The back story: Chef Wolfgang Puck and others created "California cuisine" by combining American dishes with an Asian influence. By the time we arrived at pan-Asian corporate restaurants dishing out Chinese kung pao chicken, Japanese sushi, and Thai lettuce cups all on one glossy menu, fusion had become an icky word.
