Building Design: An Interview With Frances Anderton Of KCRW
Frances Anderton is Los Angeles biggest supporter of architecture and design. We thought we were but, boy, she takes the cake. She’s a radio personality and writer who is super passionate about her work: we are proud to share this LA architecture and design champion’s story.

A Stay At The Parker
We went to Palm Springs last weekend because we love Palm Springs. It’s a dream place to visit. Anyway, we had the rare opportunity to stay at fancy pants place The Parker in the desert and it was heaven. You guys need to go there if you visit. (Moreover, the place is super gay and we toured a lot of their gay bars: read about that here.)

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A Perfect Fit: An Interview With Steve Chiotakis
For May’s Featured Interviews on LAIY, we’re focusing on a handful of the talented folks over at radio institution KCRW. The first of a few interviews was with writer and radio personality Steve Chiotakis. He’s a super nice, super talented guy who didn’t ever think he would live in Los Angeles but, now, is one of the city’s biggest fans. For those of your public radio lovers, you may remember Steve from his work on the Marketplace Morning Report.

Big & Small
Out in Mount Washington is a little house that is the execution of a lot of big ideas. It’s called Big & Small and it was made by Anonymous Architects. It’s a brilliant exercise in efficiency, minimalism, and communication with the outside world. This is one of the many dream homes we wish we lived in.

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Pharaohs
We didn’t have a Featured Interview so, instead, we spent Monday focused on music. One of the acts that we were most excited to share was from Pharaohs, an LA electronic band who have recently put out a super stellar LP. They feel kind of like The Crystal Ark but without the South American influence and we’re super excited to see where this band goes.

The Service Station
There has been this vacant, abandoned gas station in Los Feliz for some time that, very recently, has flipped into a really rad event space. It’s called The Service Station and they’re going to be hosting movies, events, pop-up stores, art happenings, and more. It’s a fascinating story of how they came to be: this is definitely a place you’re going to want to visit–or apply to your an abandoned gas station near you.

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The Business Of Creativity: An Interview With Sonja Rasula
Unique USA is a rapidly growing by Americans, for Americans craft and goods destination that all started in LA by way of a little shopping destination for handmade goods called Unique LA. Who started it? Sonja Rasula, a woman who has done everything from build websites to be a personality on Trading Spaces to writing for various magazines. Her passion now is to help makers become successful. She has a super fascinating story and lots of great things she’s up to.

At The Presses With Ophelia Chong
Ophelia Chong is an artist, creative director, writer, and tons and tons of other creative things. Most recently, she’s a professor of Photography at Pasadena’s Art Center. We recently had the chance to hang out with her as she worked on a new project at the school’s letterpressing facility. It was a cool day of making that we got to document. What a neat process!

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