In the spring of 2008, a series of articles touted a Los Angeles real estate mogul and his ambitious revitalization project for the city—one that carried a decidedly dystopian influence. Holding up the now-iconic image of a geisha superimposed over plans for his downtown high-rises, Sonny Astani unveiled his

Two years ago, I discovered something startling: I could remember more from a movie I’d dozed off in than the entire week preceding it.  The film was Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, a work of slow cinema that follows a woman (Tilda Swinton) as she searches for the source of

I never expected to fall in love with a Hallmark show. Having lived most of my adult life abroad, my only real brush with the brand is a faint memory of walking into a card store in the '80s, all ribbons and racks of sentiment (the building that once