Editorial
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Still Life with Large Artist
“This city vexes me,” says Mohammed, catching my eye in the rear view. We’re barred by yet another dead-end sign…
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Child of the Cataclysm
“As far as true folklore is concerned, I can hardly think of any story that is as important or influential…
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A Roll of the Dice
The Boat Our captain, Abun, pilots the boat perched on a little red plastic chair that has been bolted down…
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The Forgotten Archives of Artist Rick Sharp
There was barely enough elbow room to wiggle inside Rick Sharp’s makeshift loft holding a career’s worth of his surfing…
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Writer at Work
In 1992 “Playing Doc’s Games” appeared in The New Yorker. A two-part, 39,000-word story in which journalist William Finnegan plunges…
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Will the World’s Greatest Surfer Please Lie Down?
He appeared from the mist of a raging Hawaiian swell, paddling in from the horizon at Sunset Beach. He’d thought…
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Navigating by Heart
A bunch of summers ago Barry McGrath, an Aussie friend of mine who has lived in the southwest of France…
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Pretty Much
Wilshire Boulevard’s full on, where the swank, minimal Roberts-Tilton Gallery is staging for the opening of their new show. The…
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Infinite Games
“There’s never been a kneelo who wasn’t eccentric. Peter Crawford was a cross between Dennis the Menace and Mick Jagger,…
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September Tsunami
For those of us on the East Coast, the last dregs of summer bring the big waves generated by hurricanes…
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A Night at the Cantina
ARRIVALS June 17, 1997, Pavones, Costa Rica I’m watching through my camper’s open door as the first wave of a…
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A Semi-Search for Nowness
Road slices from the film, Sprout, imbued with the full measure of the filmmaker’s trademark curious appeal. Based on a…