Torched Talks with LA Commons' Karen Mack

What's planned for arts and culture in 2028? Join us at Friday, May 23 at noon on Zoom

Alissa Walker May 6, 2025

Dying to host the Olympics

During this week's budget hearings, councilmembers repeatedly asked if improvements around Olympics venues were taking precedence over obligations to their constituents to deliver safer streets

Alissa Walker May 2, 2025

Torched turns 1

Heading into year two

LA got burned. By the fires, yes. But also by a self-induced fiscal catastrophe

Alissa Walker Apr 29, 2025

Supergraphics

3 articles

Colorful posters by Corita featuring whimsical type are mounted on a brick wall over flat files

Doing and making are acts of hope

When you can't find the words

When the news renders you speechless, you can always find a response that Corita already ripped from the headlines

Alissa Walker Mar 14, 2025

Bold black and red graphics making stripes and shapes in the SFMOMA lobby, with museum signage beyond

RIP BSS

A supergraphics superhero

"I liked working big and moving around. It was absolutely fearless work"

Alissa Walker May 15, 2024

A bright orange scaffolding with the Olympic rings at the center covered in bright fabric panels and glittery sequins.

1984

An invasion of butterflies

"Somehow I saw in my head the sky and the ground sprinkled like confetti — sprinkled with all magical stuff that shimmered and that expressed joy"

Alissa Walker Apr 15, 2024