"I used to be Rob Schneider. Now I'm just Elle King's dad." He says this without a scintilla of resentment or regret. Rob Schneider is older, lumpier, possibly wiser, and most certainly funnier than he's been in years. He shows all this off in his new Netflix comedy special, "Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids," a meditation on aging and looking back on a career that, by his own admission, has cooled.

Los Angeles architect and long-time SCI-Arc Faculty member Robert Mangurian has passed away. He is survived by his life, teaching, and work partner, Mary-Ann Ray, an older brother David, and a son Tony from his first marriage. This interview with Robert and his early Studioworks collaborator Craig Hodgetts was included in an exhibition catalog I co-edited in 2005. I have added some thoughts about Robert and a short poem for him with some images not included in the original exhibition catalog.

What were the most influential dance music labels of the 2010s? Hessle Audio, Night Slugs, PAN, probably a handful of others, but when looking back at that decade, no accounting of what happened would be complete without the story of L.I.E.S. Records. Founded in 2010 and headed up by Ron Morelli, a Long Island native who’d come of age in the punk and hardcore scene, L.I.E.S. quickly made an impression, its raw (and often distortion-riddled) grooves reflecting the grit and grime of the New York City streets many of its artists then called home.

Royal Feast is steadily becoming a favourite with its offerings of stunning food visuals, romance and palace politics. It’s always been the case that this is a drama primarily about the women of the Inner Palace in all their glamour and nastiness. Although the show features the reign of three emperors, the women are really at the heart of the storytelling. Cat fights which routinely make their appearance here are a time honoured tradition in these sorts of dramas because the "

I am a little ashamed that I hadn’t previously brought up my early heroes in my articles. There is no particular reason, other than a surfeit of subjects and commissions that have taken up my time – quite apart from making my own art. Only today I heard of the death of Russ Nicholson (d. May 2023), Scottish fantasy illustrator, whose career began in the 1970s. His line illustrations for The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (1982), the first in the Fighting Fantasy series of books, played a part in me becoming an artist.