Mariella Rudi
Multi-media journalist.
Reporting on Los Angeles since 2009.
The New York Times
For 'Dinner In America,' Theaters Offer a Second Helping
An angsty rom-com starring Kyle Gallner and Emily Skeggs has catapulted from crickets to cult status since going viral on TikTok in the past couple of months.
doubleblindmag.com
Panic! At The Death Café
A taste of grief at the death café, a kaffeeklatsch dedicated to the inevitable.
Los Angeles Times
Inside the secret poker games opening doors in L.A.’s art scene
Uncovering the whispers of an ultra-exclusive, high-stakes “art game” involving L.A.’s major artists, dealers and collectors going back decades.
Los Angeles Times
Looking for L.A.’s art cool kids? They’re hosting exhibits in laundry rooms and garages
It's a new spin on a nearly century-long L.A. tradition of domestic galleries that rely on word-of-mouth, neighborly trust and consummate hosts.
Vulture
Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on Denial
Something of a cult figure in the flash-fiction community, Blackburn writes stories that orbit the themes of youth and friendship, family and duty, sex and care, faith and memory, and that are often set in Southern California dreamlands.
LA Review of Books
A People’s History of Slime: On Two New Books About Ooze
By its own definition, slime is hard to grasp.
LA Review of Books
On Kate Flannery’s American Apparel memoir
I was 17 but power dressing as a ball-busting Reagan-era businesswoman in high-waisted pleated trousers and penny loafers.
Los Angeles Times
Assembly required at the DIY ‘Ikea Residency’
At Ikea Burbank, the mega-chain’s largest in the nation, an underground crew is at work on a new scheme for the prefab utopia: artist’s haven.
The New York Times
‘Scary Movie 3’ at 20: Still Kills
Two decades and a college degree later, I’m afraid to say, “Scary Movie 3” still kills me.
doubleblindmag.com
The Greatest Psychedelic Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
The author would die two days after publishing his first and last novel. He was 29. It’s usually the first thing that’s revealed.
VICE
Crenshaw Skate Club takes London
A 14-year-old Tobey McIntosh built Crenshaw Skate Club, a niche but burgeoning fashion brand underpinned by a homegrown, grassroots mission: to represent and empower inner-city skaters.
Los Angeles Times
L.A.’s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries
The reading was more of a house show in more of an uncovered garage. Nitrous-filled balloons and chaos-theory fashion dotted the buoyant crowd, who treated the writers as rock stars, and the literary event turned out more of a parenthesis than the main point, which was to party.
lithub.com
The Hard Won Lessons of Lesley Arfin’s 'Dear Diary' 15 Years Later
On teen bluster and the indie sleazy Vice book that shook us all in 2008.
VICE
Daniel Sachon’s photos are an homage to femme camp and hysteric glamour
Daniel Sachon has just had the last 10 years of his life stolen.
VICE
Zamar Velez captures celebrity in vivid technicolour
His photos look like they’ve been plucked straight out of a late-90s music video – poppy West Coast scenes blasted with direct, on-camera flash – borrowing the era’s bright and overexposed style to reflect his own gigawatt energy.