The Pe-dant-iks: Sublime for a Time
Everybody had a band in the 80’s. I was in the Pedantiks, a downtown NYC pop band that played at a lot of clubs. Every gig was party, and it was sublime for a time. The original lineup was…
MySpace ‘On Skid Row’
Willie Brown recently attributed the homeless situation in San Francisco to the same thing he attributed it to decades ago when he was mayor; a perpetual bureaucratic obsolescence that serves some and underserves others, to paraphrase. The dismantling of the…
Rise of the American Favela
Stephanie Arnold Williams and her sister Dionne Leslie at the White House.
Enter The Temple – documentary
Enter the Temple is a short documentary inspired by “At the Border with the Patron Saint of Transmutation” (Red Canary Magazine 2022) that focuses on Pastor Albert Rivera, founder of the Agape migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico.
At The Border
At The Border is a long-form written piece, photography and stand-alone video I did for Red Canary Magazine. The subject here is Pastor Albert Rivera who I first interviewed for another long story for Los Angeles Magazine in 2018, The…