HeyJaredJust A City
dispatches that I hope will chip away at the public memory of what LA is and isn't + occasional cultural commentary
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Becoming half-human, half-bird (opens the original)
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Artist Ruoyi Shi gave a satisfying answer when I asked her why she thinks we look up at the sky so much: the human body can learn to swim, but it can never learn to fly. It’s no wonder we want to know what birds know.I first reviewed Ruoyi’s work in 2024 as part of a group show at GOBI, a gallery space near East Hollywood dedicated to representing Korean and
This is not an LA restaurant review... (opens the original)
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I swore it was snowing when I first got into Minneapolis in the last week of May, particularly in the area close to the Mississippi River. From the car, I saw gentle flurries of round, downy shapes drifting through downtown. Confused, I searched r/Minneapolis on Reddit and learned about the phenomenon: the summer snowfall was actually cottonwood tree seedlings! They looked ethereal floating along the setting sun that warmed my face in between the Archdiocese-coded buildings. Since then, I’
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