“You’re a Rock Star, Man”: Michael Shannon, in Conversation With Austin Butler
Emilio Parka in Hay Bales Loro Piana. Vintage Loro Piana Shirt Talent’s Own. Documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer’s first narrative feature, The End, is an outlandish, post-apocalyptic musical that stars...
View Article“The Goal Is to Be a Cult Superstar”: 30 Minutes With It Boy Louis Bubko
Photo courtesy of Louis Bubko. I’ve known Louis Bubko since he was 18, and I’ve always thought he was one of the best gays around. Louis has been making zines recently, first dropping My Dream Man and...
View Article“I Couldn’t Take No For an Answer”: How Gia Coppola Got Pamela Anderson to...
Gia Coppola wears Jacket, Shirt, and Pants Bottega Veneta. After the director Gia Coppola watched Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary, it became abundantly clear who should star in The Last Showgirl,...
View ArticleInside the New and Ambitious Revival of Oscar Hammerstein’s Show Boat
David Herskovits and Dionne McClain-Freeney, photographed by Douglas Corzine. Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern’s Show Boat made its Broadway debut in 1927, making it one of the earliest American...
View ArticleMichael Pitt and Ron Perlman on Redemption, Reinvention, and Reposado
Michael Pitt, photographed by Sam Hellmann. Over the years, Michael Pitt has become known as the poster boy for gritty, indie cinema. With performances as the cherubic and unassuming Matthew in the...
View ArticleLatif Nasser of RadioLab Has One Burning Question for Elon Musk
Photo courtesy of Latif Nasser. With the Trump inauguration steadily approaching, we may be on the precipice of a lying epidemic. But at least we have Latif Nasser. Known for his hit podcast Radiolab,...
View ArticleAria Aber on Age Gaps, Cheap Thrills, and Her Debut Novel Good Girl
Aria Aber, photographed by Nadine Aber. When my novel, The Lookback Window, came out, Aria Aber wrote that we were artistic siblings. I waited two years to find out what my fellow Aries meant. Good...
View ArticleMeet Johan Michalove, the PhD Student Who Created an Interactive Mutual Aid...
Photos courtesy of Johan Michalove. The technologist, writer, and researcher Johan Michalove responded to the horrifying news of the L.A fires by mobilizing the efforts of Mutual Aid Los Angeles’...
View Article“I’m Just Freeballing Life”: A Burger Date With Rapper Cortisa Star
Welcome back to OFF MENU, a column where we gossip and gorge with our favorite tastemakers. In the last installment, we binged on caviar with Salt Lake City’s resident ice queen, Meredith Marks. This...
View Article“Hit the Road, Jack”: Drag: The Musical’s Jimbo on Porn, Polyamory, and...
Photo courtesy of Jimbo. Jimbo, the first-ever winner of Canada’s Drag Race, has slowly been conquering America. First, RuPaul invited the Ontario-born, self-described drag clown to compete on the...
View ArticleStylist Lana Jay Lackey Is Calling on Fashion Brands to Support Los Angeles
The LA Clothing Drive team, photographed by Daria Kobayashi Ritch. In moments of crisis, finding community in the fashion industry becomes more important than ever. After wildfires began to ravage Los...
View ArticleHow Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station Makes Music for the Anthropocene
Tamara Lindeman, photographed by Tess Roby. Los Angeles is on fire. Israel is bombing Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria. Generative AI is destroying the planet through its gluttonous...
View ArticleSteven Soderbergh and David Koepp On Their Big Ghost Story Gambit
Steven Soderbergh, photographed by Jim Sullivan. When Steven Soderbergh approached the screenwriter David Koepp to collaborate for the second time in five years, it was to make a movie utterly in...
View Article“I’m Still in My God Body”: A Backstage Joint With Niambi
Niambi, photographed by Emma Stout. FRIDAY 8:39 PM JANUARY 16, 2024 BUSHWICK Niambi has been taking a break from making music, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been plenty busy. I started listening to...
View ArticleThe Boys of Wallows Made Us a Playlist to Ease Your Winter Blues
Photo courtesy of Wallows. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from Will...
View Article“We Persist, and We Rebuild”: How One L.A. Synagogue Is Finding Strength in...
Photo courtesy of Jill Gold Wright and Ruth Berman Harris. On Tuesday evening, January 7th, Cantor Ruth Berman Harris and her husband, Lawrence, rushed over to the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center as...
View ArticleLola Kirke Takes Us Inside the Wild West Village of Her Youth
Lola Kirke, photographed by Celeste Sloman. It’s fitting that the cover of Lola Kirke’s new memoir, Wild West Village, is pink—and that it depicts her mounting a bucking bronco atop the Washington...
View ArticleBob Mackie Looks Back on a Lifetime of Dressing Divas
Bob Mackie has lived a life most people couldn’t even dream of. From a childhood obsession with the silver screen to an epic career costuming some of the greatest performers of the past six decades,...
View ArticleBryan Johnson Wants You to Have Better Boners
Bryan Johnson, photographed by Alyssa Kazew. “Let’s talk about your boners,” exclaimed our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg when he arrived at the uber-minimalist $5.8 million Los Angeles mansion of tech...
View Article“You Can Eat My Pussy”: Luis Venegas on 15 Years of Candy Magazine Realness
Luis Venegas, photographed by Daniel Riera. 16 years ago, Spanish editor, publisher and creative director Luis Venegas published the first issue of Candy, which he dubbed “The First Transversal Style...
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