Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein
Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein is the director of communications for the California Native Vote Project. He spent more than five years as the senior director of video for sports and features for the Los Angeles Times and has worked as an editor at Spin, Los Angeles Reader, and Orange Coast. His work as a documentary writer-producer has appeared on VH1, ESPN, the Food Network, and NBC.
Dashboard Dining in the Golden State
Food influencers are filming every bite—from their cars.
MacArthur Park
In The Rent Collectors, Jesse Katz excavates Los Angeles’s urban underside.
The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss
Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color reimagines 1950s Hollywood.
Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
In Corporate Rock Sucks, Jim Ruland traces an independent label’s rise and fall.
Tales of the City
Katherine Seligman’s At the Edge of the Haight is a novel about San Francisco’s unhoused.
Chicano Batman’s Musical Stew
This band from East L.A. merges Brazilian Tropicalia, Colombian cumbia, psychedelia, and garage rock to produce a wholly unique sound.
Miss Christine: The Fast Life of a Rock Legend
Christine Frka was a muse to Alice Cooper, a secretary to Frank Zappa, and a member of a pioneering all-girl band. The glamour goddess-icon of the Laurel Canyon music scene died at the age of 22.
Los Angeles’ Wild Gift
Forty years on, the band X finally gets credit for its punky place in history