Email Author Skylaire Alfvegren

2011 Stories by Skylaire Alfvegren

• Your Holiday Heart on a String

  published December 15, 2011

  There are certain L.A.-only things that need to be taken back, reclaimed from the eye-rolling urbanites and creepy novelty-record-collector types... More >>

• Those Darn Kids

  published December 22, 2011

  Silent night, bloody-carnage-from-hell-kept-from-U.S.-theatrical-distribution-for-more-than-a-decade night! Our friends at Cinefamily have... More >>

• Merry Contrarian Everyone

  published December 22, 2011

  There are movies individuals of a certain stripe go out of their way to avoid: blockbusters like Avatar and Titanic, for instance.... More >>

• Bing, Bing, Bing Those Christmas Bells

  published December 15, 2011

  The 1977 television special Bing Crosby's Merry Olde Christmas may live on in infamy, thanks to Bing's famous duet with David Bowie. But it... More >>

• How To Raise Hell and Influence People

  published December 15, 2011

  Occupy L.A. is not gone, and not forgotten. Last Monday, thousands paid a visit to the port of Los Angeles. While Occupy Long Beach was due for an... More >>

• For Those About to Squeek/Clack/Blurt

  published December 1, 2011

  There used to be something of a noise/avant-garde experimental music scene in Los Angeles. Japanese men into bondage who electrified fluorescent... More >>

• Dude, Where's My Flying Car?

  published November 24, 2011

  Here we stand on the edge of 2012, a year rife with tide-shifting portent, and, no, we have no flying cars. We do not eat meals in capsule form.... More >>

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  Occupy L.A. Eviction: The View From the Inside

  published Nov 30, 2011

  Editor's note: Freelance journalist Skylaire Alfvegren has been attending Occupy L.A. general assemblies since they first began two months ago. She previously covered the Nov. 17 arrests of 46 occupie... More >>

• Occupy L.A.: The Revolution Is Being Televised

  published November 24, 2011

  "Mic check! MIC CHECK!" The now-familiar chant of Occupy Los Angeles protesters unable to hear the speaker wafts through the crisp night... More >>

• If You Can Make It Here, You'll Want To Move To New York

  published November 17, 2011

  "What social, political, economic and historical forces made [Los Angeles] and its cultural scene flourish?" Zocalo Public Square asks in this... More >>

• Who's Your Zombie?

  published September 22, 2011

  At every turn, there seem to be new and exciting monsters to be frightened of, not all of whom have placed their hat in the ring for the 2012... More >>

• Your Dia Will Come

  published September 22, 2011

  America, you are deranged. Instead of lauding and cherishing your elderly, you lock them away in horrible institutions. After death, you pump... More >>

• Storytelling Is Not a Crime

  published September 22, 2011

  You wouldn't necessarily think a mother's suicide would kick-start a career in comedy, but then Josh di Donato (pictured) isn't your typical... More >>

• Best Macabre Display

  published September 22, 2011

  Over the span of four years, Dr. Paul Koudounaris traversed three continents to photograph and document reliquaries fashioned from human remains.... More >>

• That's Weird

  published September 22, 2011

  It appears the idea of Halloween worms its way into the collective psyche earlier and earlier each year, and today the Hive Gallery and Studios... More >>

• And the Photoplay Goes to ...

  published July 7, 2011

  A scant 270 people attended the first Academy Awards ceremony, held at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929. Prior to the establishment of... More >>

• Hooray for Culver City

  published June 30, 2011

  It's a remarkable little stretch of street — the International Society of Krishna Consciousness with its buffet and discount copies of... More >>

• Vincent Price Museum Re-Opens in East L.A. Happy 100th Birthday, Dr. Phibes!

  published Jun 23, 2011

  "Imagine growing up watching the person you love most being bludgeoned, immolated, dunked in boiling wax ... or doing those things to other people," remarked Victoria Price, the willowy daughter of V... More >>

• No-Buck Chuck

  published June 23, 2011

  The Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts wants to enhance the quality of your life, and those of the other 3.999... More >>

• The Culturists Win

  published June 16, 2011

  In countries most familiar to Americans for harboring terrorists or being falsely accused of stockpiling WMDs, we might not think there's much... More >>

• Gene Genies

  published June 9, 2011

  If you've recently found out that your great-grandmother is a real McCoy — as in the Hatfields feud — as this writer did, and can trace... More >>

• The Play's the Thing, Kids

  published June 2, 2011

  Do you believe that subversive theater should be available and comprehensible to people of all ages? Do you feel your 7-year-old is overdue an... More >>

• Good Vibrations

  published May 26, 2011

  Who knew hippies could be so ambitious? Begun as an eco-friendly alternative to the L.A. nightclub scene in 2000, Lightning in a Bottle, the... More >>

• What's New, Mexico?

  published May 26, 2011

  Mexico is a beautiful country: diverse, superstitious, contradictory. A wildly popular weekly television program features viewers' UFO videos, and... More >>

• Armegeddon Outta Here!

  published May 19, 2011

  There was a day when the faithful gathered, Bibles open heavenward, convinced Judgment Day was upon them and the Savior would appear any second.... More >>