November 2014 volunteer in the spotlight: Olga Verkhotina Occupation: Olga lives in Los Angeles where she works in nonprofit marketing and event planning. "'Communications,' you can say. I work at [...] Continue Reading
Surrealist cinema: Making sense of confusing imagery
We all have that one friend who keeps asking questions during the movies. "What just happened?" "What did they say?" "Why did he do that?" Now imagine taking that friend to see a surrealist film. [...] Continue Reading
Getting there: L.A. stories
An argument could be made that every city in America is modeled after either New York or Los Angeles. Pre-war and post-war, pre-car and post-car, classical and modern. If New York is a grown-up [...] Continue Reading
Featured video: A natural spectacle
Our featured video this month for the American independent documentary "Levitated Mass" introduces us to a natural spectacle: the 340-ton granite boulder that serves as the protagonist in Doug Pray's [...] Continue Reading
Volunteer Spotlight: Rita Bell
October 2014 volunteer in the spotlight: Rita Bell Occupation: For 12 years, Rita has worked as a paralegal at Dowling Aaron Inc. in north Fresno. "I do legal research. I do a wide variety of stuff. [...] Continue Reading
3 Hollywood Halloween films that won’t die
"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out." Happy Halloween, everybody! It's time to tap your inner strange and become someone else for a night (or a whole month). Are you secretly a pixie, goblin, or [...] Continue Reading
Volunteer Spotlight: Colby Tibbet
September 2014 Volunteer in the Spotlight: Colby Tibbet. Occupation: "I'm a student and a freelance journalist. I'll be graduating from Fresno State this year with a degree in Mass Communication and [...] Continue Reading
Meet Aubrey Plaza, a deadpan delight
Interviews with comic actress Aubrey Plaza -- one of the young stars of our Oct. 10 movie, "Life After Beth" -- are gold. She's extremely deadpan. Some of her best interviews have come from [...] Continue Reading