Paula Mejia

Los Angeles

LA Contributing Culture Editor at SFGate

🇨🇴 Writer/editor for hire | Contributing LA culture @sfgate, words @GQMagazine @TheAtlantic others | adjunct @uscannenberg | Past @latimes @TexasMonthly

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All-American Rejects Frontman Tyson Ritter Has Started An OnlyFans. We'll Let Him Explain What He Means By “Full Frontal Rock n' Roll”

2 days ago | gq.com | Paula Mejia

The All-American Rejects, a constant presence on rock radio in the early aughts with hits like “Swing, Swing” and “Dirty Little Secret,” are used to filling big rooms. But ahead of their next album, due out later this year, the Oklahoma-bred quartet has been drawn to more intimate spaces. It began about a month ago, when the band accepted a last-minute offer to play a house party near the University of Southern California.
'It used to be crazy': How LA's trendiest street fell into decline

6 days ago | sfgate.com | Paula Mejia
Why Gen Z Doesn't Like Opening Bar Tabs

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Paula Mejia

To the chagrin of bartenders, many 20-something bargoers prefer to close out and pay after every single drink, no matter how many they might order during an outing. Late one Saturday night at Bar Lubitsch, a West Hollywood cocktail bar known for its kitschy, Soviet-era décor and frosty vodka drinks, Scott Korinke and Nolan Marks wriggled themselves from the sweat-drenched dance floor and made their way to the bar counter.
Sí, Sydney Sweeney quiere venderte su agua de baño usada

1 week ago | revistagq.com | Paula Mejia

Internet es incapaz de ser normal con Sydney Sweeney. Cuando presentó Saturday Night Live el año pasado, los medios conservadores se jactaron de que su escote significaba “la muerte del woke”. Después de que se hiciera viral una foto suya tomando el sol en un barco, los comentaristas se deshicieron en comentarios extraños y lascivos sobre su cuerpo.
Sydney Sweeney Will Sell You Her Used Bathwater

1 week ago | gq.com | Paula Mejia

The internet is incapable of being normal about Sydney Sweeney. When she hosted SNL last year, conservative media figures crowed that her decolletage signalled “the death of woke.” After a photograph of her sunbathing on a boat went viral, commenters chimed in with bizarre and lewd remarks about her body.
A desperate Calif. agency opened a morbid merch store. It was a hit.

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Paula Mejia

In the early 1990s, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office held a seminar about forensics for those working in the industry. The symposium was a fairly run-of-the-mill affair, save for the souvenir coffee mugs that participants received at the end, which prominently featured the department’s logo.
World's oldest neon McDonald's sign damaged in Calif. construction snafu

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Paula Mejia

Late last week, the preservationist and author Chris Nichols had stopped by the McDonald’s in Downey when he noticed something strange. The loping original neon sign outside the Googie-esque restaurant — the oldest continually operating McDonald’s in the world — looked as though someone had taken a hacksaw to the golden arch’s feet. The sign’s legs appeared to have been cut open and stuffed with rebar and bricks, with concrete poured into the bottom.
Bad Bunny's Sketch Shows What Men Really Talk About

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Paula Mejia

There’s a low-stakes thrill in eavesdropping on strangers from afar, especially if the exchange descends into chaos. Yet a sketch in last night’s season finale of Saturday Night Live—which revolved around two couples at a bar boisterously fighting for a preferred table as two men watched nearby, whiskies in hand—raised the stakes of voyeurism in fascinating ways.
The Couples Are Talking Past Each Other on SNL

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Paula Mejia

Now“Saturday Night Live” closed out its milestone 50th season with the help of Scarlett Johansson as host and Bad Bunny as musical guest. Johansson, who is married to “SNL” cast member Colin Jost, returned for a record-breaking seventh time, the most of any female host in the show’s history.
The wildest thing you can do? Keep going. Just ask Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Paula Mejia

The Martin N-20 nylon-string classical guitar known mononymously as Trigger resounded so thrillingly throughout the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Friday night that it practically stole the spotlight out from under its longtime companion: Willie Nelson. Yet the 92-year-old Texas icon has been performing music with Trigger for so long — since 1969, to be exact — that the pair co-exist not as musician and guitar but as a single organism.