Contributors
Bobby Solomon is a designer from Los Angeles and the founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Fox Is Black, an art, design, and culture blog that he’s been running since 2007. The site saw a boom in growth thanks to The Desktop Wallpaper Project, which is currently has the largest crop of desktops for your electronic devices custom designed by the biggest and best artists and designers in the world. He likes to concentrate on the future rather than the past, drink Intelligentsia coffe, play video games, and hang out with his dog Dottie and his boyfriend and partner, Kyle Fitzpatrick.
Kyle “Kyle” Fitzpatrick is a homosexual former military brat who decided to settle in heaven (a.k.a, Los Angeles). With a love for horror films, champagne, short shorts, and CAPS LOCK, he works as a writer, comedian, and actor. He owns an English Setter named Dottie, a Toy Fox Terrier named Scooter, lives with his boyfriend, Bobby Solomon, and collects magazines with Lady Gaga on the cover.
Justin Sullivan is a freelance editorial and advertising photographer in Los Angeles. He’s lived in Eagle Rock and Pasadena, and currently resides in the historic core of Downtown LA. Aside from photographing the wonderful creatives we feature here, Justin likes going on adventures with friends, cooking, riding bicycles, and making things better.
Scott Ener Grover makes photographs in Los Angeles, California.
Carren Jao is an art, architecture and design writer from Manila currently enjoying some Los Angeles love and sunshine (among many, many things in LA!).
Alec Rojas is music, culture, and food writer from Los Angeles. As much as he loves this town, he has left for extended periods. First it was Nashville. Then it was Chicago. He does this mostly to brag about the greatness of LA to people who would never visit. Most of them never visit. Working in the legal field, he is an auteur of fiction, weekending, and all things musical. His proudest accomplishment is finishing War and Peace, Les Miserables, and a bacon chili pastrami burger in a month.
Jon Setzen is a LA-based Creative Director and designer. He’s best known for the hundreds of rock posters he’s made over the years and his work has been shown in NYC, LA, Japan, Denmark and the UK. Being rather new to LA he’s still mesmerized by the perfect weather in this town. He’ll never turn off a Smiths song (even Golden Lights), never turn down a good taco and is stockpiling Ilford film. He also runs the Los Angeles chapter of Creative Mornings. He lives in Silverlake with his wife, two sons, two cats and a goldfish.
Monica Sotto is an Art Director / Art Department everything for film, television, commercial, music video and new media in Los Angeles. Sheʼs a native Angeleno by way of Pasadena and the eastside, and attended the University of Southern California to study film production. She lived and worked in Chicago once; it was great but too cold, and the move back to LA was the best choice ever. Monica has an affinity for words that start with the letter B: boys, bourbon, bears, beards, bands, boobs, bars, best friends, books, babes, beers…the list goes on. And oh yeah, she loves making stuff, music, the macabre, leather, clever bitches, and fuzzy things
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Danielle Lehman is a freelance writer and lover of Los Angeles. She is the Editor of BudgetFoodie.com, where she blogs about her favorite cheap eats, dives, street food, and hole-in-the-walls. She is also the Editor of Urbandig.com, an iPhone app featuring the best places to eat, drink, shop, and hang out across the US and Canada. She spends most of her time (and money) sampling new restaurants in LA and buying travel books from The Traveler’s Bookcase. Her bio photo is a sad attempt at trying to look like a “hipster” – she mostly shops at the Gap.
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Hallie Parker is a Culver City gallery assistant by day and an East-LA art-enthusiast by night. Originally from the East Coast, Hallie moved to Los Angeles for college and forgot to leave. On weekends she can be found wearing a fanny pack while walking her pit bull, Nora, in Elysian Park, or watching reruns of The Golden Girls with her cat, Baudelaire.
Hallie Parker is no relation of Dorothy Parker. She has a soft spot for book store/cafe hybrids, alternative art spaces, dresses with pockets and the Beach Boys.
Northern California native Angelique Groh moved to Los Angeles ten years ago from New York City. A resident of Eagle Rock, she enjoys uncovering the city’s the hidden gems, which can range from the lush grounds of The Huntington Botanical Gardens to a dungeon in Van Nuys – where this photo was taken. Some of Angelique’s LA favorites include drive-thrus, the 2 Freeway, vegan cupcakes from Earlez Grille and fruit beer at Wurstküche. She is the founder of CHARM SCHOOL, an art and culture PR consultancy in Los Angeles.
Tim found himself in the loving online music community about two years ago, and hasn’t been able to tear himself away since. Tim runs music blog Smoke Don’t Smoke, which tries it’s best to promote good sounds and pleasing musical projects by people that without the internet might have a hard time getting there stuff listened to. Just hoping you find something you like. He occasionally helps put together shows for these great bands in the Echo Park area. When he’s not appreciating music, he’s either being a corporate stiff at Fox, browsing Netflix, and/or high-fiving his girlfriend.
Dorothy “Dottie” Dog is a seven year old English Setter who lives in Hollywood. She loves going for hikes, watching birds (specifically pigeons), and lying around on cold surfaces. She collects toys that look like birds and prefers to hang out with people over other dogs. She loves Los Angeles because it’s never too hot or too cold and it doesn’t rain (because she hates walking on wet grass).
Cori Clark Nelson is an actress and writer getting it done from her Los Feliz carriage house. After stints in Atlanta, Chicago and NYC, she has proudly called LA home for seven years. Give her an LA hour (like a New York minute but, seriously, what’s the rush, it’s gorgeous out) and she will have you agreeing that LA is the most accessible city around. A perfect LA day would include coffee and a coyote sighting in Griffith Park, thrifting at the Rose Bowl, oysters and beer at The Reel Inn followed by a show at The Troubadour.
Kristi Ryan is an unnatural red head who is proud to call Los Angeles her home for the past three years. Raised in Memphis and educated in Austin, she has an inherent affinity for cowboy boots, football, and public intoxication. When she’s not manning her desk at Anonymous Content, she can be found cooking and dancing around her tiny kitchen with her french bulldog Bowie.
Erin Adorian Neel is a native Valley girl and student who moonlights at a fabulous regional theatre in Pasadena. In her spare, non-theatre time, she enjoys episodic television and complaining about (all) things. She wholeheartedly believes that LA can become a theatre city and she really, really needs you to believe it, too.
Zachary Urbina is a Pasadena native and third-generation Los Angeleno. His narrative nonfiction and photography have wiggled their way into print and web publications since 2006. Prior to that he worked in film and television production. Zack is also a bit of a science geek and remains a semi-regular fixture of the LA-area AeroAstro community.
Madex is a film editor and founder of Madex’s Guerrilla Drive In. He currently lives in the hills of Silver Lake with his Fiancé, Artist Erin Burrell. He possess a vast knowledge of bad films, fine films and films meant to be viewed outdoors while screaming at the screen. He’s obsessed with finding new hidden treasures in Los Angeles and loves to share them with other Angelenos. He’d never turn down a good puppet show nor would he bail on a good hike. He secretly collects PEZ, has a soft spot for Godzilla, listens to vinyl records and likes to meet people who adopt pitbulls.
As an art, food, film, and language aficionado, Caitlin Johnson felt as though she was destined to settle in Los Angeles. Here, she spends her time exploring her neighborhood and everyone else’s, meetin’ folks, and choosing which amazing local event she will attend almost every single evening. Caitlin collects bottles, postcards, zines, and Choose Your Own Adventure books.
