LA culture since 1978

Los Angeles
Joined November 2008
Ten years of filth, horror and glamour, and the Boulet Brothers are still raising hell. Before “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula” became a global phenomenon, Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet built their following in Los Angeles’ underground queer nightlife scene, launching a horror-infused drag pageant at the now-defunct Faultline leather bar in Silver Lake. Now, with Season 7 premiering Oct. 27 on Shudder and AMC+, the Emmy-nominated horror hosts are celebrating a decade of exterminations and gloriously twisted television. The new season channels the grainy VHS aesthetic of ’80s horror, with campground massacres, Troma-inspired challenges and a soundtrack featuring Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Ministry. And their legendary LA Halloween Ball returns for its 26th year, still built on that same DIY spirit that once turned egg beaters and fans into animatronics overnight. With Poppy headlining, it’ll be killer — all proving the Boulet Brothers have no plans to rest in peace.
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Stephen King’s “Carrie” returns in a new TV adaptation, now streaming on Prime, from filmmaker Mike Flanagan, who revisits the story of a bullied teenage girl discovering her telekinetic powers amid social media, viral humiliation and a culture of normalized cruelty. Starring Summer H. Howell as Carrie White and Samantha Sloyan as her mother Margaret, the series offers a contemporary take on King’s 1974 novel. When the homeschooled Carrie attends public school for the first time, her classmates turn a vulnerable moment into a viral spectacle, showing how online harassment can follow someone long after they leave the classroom. The series also explores the TK gene, connecting Carrie to a lineage of powerful women, and every episode Flanagan didn’t direct was helmed by a woman: Kate Siegel, Axelle Carolyn, Hiromi Kamata and Kyra Sedgwick. Both Flanagan and Stephen King were skeptical about revisiting the author’s first novel, until King saw the plan. “Actually, I really like this,” Flanagan recalls him saying. “I think this could be very, very relevant.” laweekly.com/the-power-of-ca…
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For Alison Wonderland, slowing down has never really been part of the plan. The Australian-born, Los Angeles-based producer and DJ has spent more than a decade building a career in dance music, while raising two kids, touring globally and running her own label, FMU Records. Now, she’s entering a new chapter: releasing music entirely independently and reclaiming ownership of her creativity. “I’ve never been able to own my own music,” she says. “It would be really nice to have ownership of my creativity again.” That independence comes with pressure, but Alison Wonderland says she knows what she wants, and what she doesn’t. After years of fighting to be taken seriously, she’s still driven by the same restless instinct that has pushed her career forward. “I’m sick of trying to prove myself. That’s probably my biggest insecurity.” laweekly.com/alison-wonderla…
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