Austin’s Megafauna make feral prog-punk with (of course) mega-intensity, the kind of thing that switches from heartbreak to mindmelt in the time it takes to touch toe to guitar pedal. Case in point: minute 2:44 on 2012 track “Love Project,” where guitarist and singer Dani Neff... More >>

Art is often as much a method of making connections — this leaf inspiring that poem inciting that song — as it is a linear blast of pure creativity. The Westside Connections Series was born in a rather canny observance of this effect. An initiative of the L.A. Chamber Orchestra,... More >>

It’s been a hectic five years since Seattle chocolatier Autumn Martin founded Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery, a purveyor of organic American comfort desserts (a pleasant pleonasm if ever there were one). As if becoming pastry master at Seattle’s Canlis restaurant and head... More >>

Artist Won Ju Lim studied architecture before she studied sculpture and began her career in the early aughts with crisp, colorful models of stacked cities and local landmarks. Her Broken Landscapes series, which she exhibited for the first time circa 2007, felt darker. She would re-create local... More >>