Liz Ohanesian

In February of 2012, Miguel Ordeñana got a surprise, something he would later describe as being "like seeing Bigfoot or chupacabra for the the first time." The L.A.-based biologist was working on the Griffith Park Connectivity Study. It was a project with very little funding, and Ordeñana was putting in......

On a muggy Wednesday evening in the San Fernando Valley, Continental Art Supplies' best customers pack the Reseda Boulevard shop for an invite-only event, filling baskets to their brims. For decades, Continental has been keeping students and professionals stocked with pencils, paper, oils, pastels, watercolors and brushes. Now, just weeks......

From Picasso to Peanuts...

It's Saturday evening and Fickle Wish is dripping with pink. Inside the Little Tokyo boutique, which specializes in street fashion and indie art from Japan, the color radiates from the walls in a variety of shades and fabrics, from shocking pink backpacks to sunset-hued skirts. It burns bright off of......

I'm racing through time with a stranger. We met just moments before we each ducked into separate cubicles at the IMAX VR Experience Centre on Fairfax and reconvened in a virtual space where billions of years of evolution are condensed into less than eight minutes of fast-paced animation. The stranger......

"There's just not a pipeline for these unique and diverse voices ... If you create a pipeline, they will come."...