Santi Elijah Holley
Santi Elijah Holley is an award-winning journalist and the author of An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created. He is a regular contributor to Alta Journal.
Pop Punk: 5 Essential Albums
Stage-dive into these classics.
Crowd-Surfing in Southern California
From Anaheim to La Jolla, these five venues carry on SoCal’s punk legacy—nurturing new bands while honoring icons from X to Blink-182.
Pop Punk: The Club That Banned Green Day
924 Gilman has propelled bands from the fringes of all-ages shows to mainstream acceptance.
Alice Coltrane’s Lost Ashram
The jazz musician’s community has been destroyed by wildfires, but its legacy of spiritual devotion remains.
L.A.’s TikTok Apostle
Kathryn Krick offers her nearly two million online followers some of that old-time religion: faith healing, breaking of curses, and casting out of demons.
The Old Man and the Sea
Solidly middle-aged, author Santi Elijah Holley decided to learn how to surf. What could go wrong?
Fear and Pogoing in Las Vegas
The Punk Museum is something unpredictable, but in the end, it’s right.
The Cop Watcher
After George Floyd’s murder, William Gude began making videos of the LAPD. Initially, he captured COVID-policy violations, but he soon widened his lens to document all types of police misconduct. He’s been harassed, intimidated, and arrested—and in an unrelated case, his son was murdered. Yet he keeps recording.
More Oregon Bookstores
Powell’s Books, Bloomsbury Books, Rebel Heart Books, and 4 more Oregon independent bookstores we love.
Oregon: Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
An old-world charm awaits those who enter this literary paradise.
Tupac in the Afterlife
Twenty-five years after his murder, Shakur looms larger than ever as new fans connect his lyrics and legacy to Black Lives Matter, social inequity, and poverty.
Bukowski by Bus
The problematic defender of Los Angeles’s downtrodden loved his city dearly, and it continues to love him back.