Hunting Voices Lost in Death
"I'm a facilitator between worlds."
-Cathreena Garrett
Co-founder of the GHOST Rescue CREW
Business thrives within marijuana industry
Her grass green hair is neatly pulled back, ruby red eyeglasses rest mid-bridge, a medallion with bronze leafy fingers rests atop the opening of a tight pink tank top and light snatching stud crystal earrings sparkle energetically as she talks business.
The company is 420 Nurses, a combination of word play off medicinal marijuana and a numerical sequence synonymous...
Form & Function
The sun rises on the canyon and with it comes not the sounds of birds singing but the whirring of drills.
Hammering echoes over the hills that are covered in grasses nearly waist high in some spots. A breeze caresses the curves of the hill and causes the grass to wave lackadaisically in cool of this early Saturday morning. The...
3D Printer
Located in the Applied Technology building at Pierce College a 3D printer sits in Assistant Professor Elizabeth Cheung’s room. The lights above the printer give it a glow of attraction.
Cheung, holding a jet-black 8-by-8 plastic tray, pulled open the translucent door and placed the tray in the printer. She pressed Start and the tray began to move back and...
Snitches Get Stitches
Kobe Kendall (L) dives during quidditch practice while trying to pull the velcroed Snitch from Jackson Schulz’s (R) shorts in Irvine, Calif., on Oct. 3, 2021.
Quidditch is familiar to most as a broom-flying, cape-wearing game of dodgeball, but the league sport played by muggles is a little less known than its magical...
Mother Plucker
Photo by: Sonia Gurrola
Five blocks from MacArthur Park, on a gloomy secluded street east of downtown Los Angeles, you will find the Mother Plucker Company. Entering the concrete building there is a showroom full of feathers. Willy Zelowitz, a true artist, is the owner of this magical feather shop.
Over 40 years ago with a $40 bag of feathers, Zelowitz...
Fashion With A Purpose
Millions of pounds of plastic waste is created globally every year. With only a small portion being recycled at facilities, the rest is sent to landfills.
The creators of Wolven Threads decided to do neither, and put recycled plastic into the fabric of their clothes.
Wolven Threads is a sustainable brand that gives back to the earth and to the...
The Seductive Art
Behind the black curtain of Bar One in the San Fernando Valley that keeps her hidden from the crowd, Lola Chan changes from conservative clothing she wore entering the club to her lacy and seductive costume that will be revealed to the waiting patrons. The sound of anticipation grows as the entertainment is about to begin. The lights dim...
City of sewage
If you thought cleaning rotten eggs sitting in your fridge was bad, think again. An aroma of urine and feces roams the underground city known as the sewers. Four hundred million gallons of raw sewage are being pumped into Hyperion Treatment Plant a day making it the city’s largest wastewater treatment plant. Located in southwest Los Angeles, the...