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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Diana Ruzova
Marriage has been ingrained in me since I could form memories. That my purpose in life is to get married and have babies. I know this sounds old-fashioned and maybe that has something to do with the fact that I was born a girl in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, but I’ve spent my life toggling between the tradition of marriage and the liberal Los Angeles ideologies I internalized. I’ve often found myself wondering if it is even possible to be a good writer, an artist and be married.
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1 month ago | 
thecreativeindependent.com | Diana Ruzova
Prelude Rosie Brand artist, naturalist Rosie Brand is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator living on Tongva land: Los Angeles, CA. Brand’s ceramic sculptures emerge from an intuitive exploration of the natural world, as she transcribes the tactile languages of other-than-human intelligence. Born in the United Kingdom, she moved to Los Angeles in 2016.
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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.
