by Jessie Schiewe | Feb 27, 2025 | Features, The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times Encino, CA – February 20: Seth Fonti holds a painting of his family’s home by artist Ruth Askren at his family’s temporary housing on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 in Encino, CA. Fonti and his family lost their home in the Palisades...
by Jessie Schiewe | Feb 27, 2025 | Favorites, Features, Lifestyle, Recent, The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times At the southern edge of the Mojave Desert on an unusually warm Saturday in February, dozens of people mill throughout the living space of a 2,300-square-foot three-bed, two-bath house with a connected two-car garage. A couple gliding...
by Jessie Schiewe | Dec 7, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, SF Weekly
SF Weekly In 1976, a commercial showing a man in a wife-beater zooming down the highway while chucking trash out of his dingy, white convertible flickered across television screens throughout Tennessee. In the background, a tune by country singer Ed Bruce played,...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 23, 2020 | Favorites, OK Whatever, Weird
Could I learn more about my favorite actor by poking around his old Victorian mansion? OK Whatever I know a lot about Nicolas Cage. I know, for example, that he has a fondness for flamboyant jackets. He’s worn zebra-striped blazers on dinner dates and gold leather...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 23, 2020 | Favorites, Lifestyle, OK Whatever, Weird
Abilify treats depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, but it can also lead to compulsive gambling, shopping, eating, and sex. OK Whatever Last week, Fareed Khalil* bought a figurine for $150. The week before that, he spent a similar amount on a...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 23, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, OK Whatever, Recent, Weird
Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased. OK Whatever Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a...
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