The soft power diplomacy of L.A. is not limited to movies and Hollywood. It's been several years if not decades that it exports its whole lifestyle and culture, for better or for worse...
A Longboard Dance Thoughout The World, Changing the Culture
Last Call Before a Useless Wine War
It really takes a twisted taste for hostility to use wine as a weapon of economic vendetta. I could see it used by Cosa Nostra, as a way to show you don't mess with Sicilian clans. After all, the liquid that is used to clink glasses and offer toasts has the color of blood...
The Sex Trafficking Ring, The California Girl, Trump and The French Agent
The ground has recently shaken California, and now it might be the turn of Washington D.C. Donald Trump's old friend and former trader Jeffrey Epstein was arrested this weekend, on his way back from France, for alleged sex trafficking of minors
Golan’s “Trump Heights” : Ruining the Cali Hippie Vibe of Northern Israel ?
Vineyards, olive trees, avocado fields, kayaking and rafting on the Jordan river, driving up and down dry hills through hippie villages... There is something about northern Israel, near where Jesus used to hang out with his apostles buddies 2.000 years ago, that is timeless and "spaceless". “It’s like living in Napa”
Before the Apocalypse, a Tech Millionaire confesses “I’m Obscenely Rich and I’m Bored”
Places can curse you like people. It doesn't matter where I go, California is gonna catch me again. Here I am, in Paris, skateboarding with a friend. And here it comes, "the force", with the face of a middle-aged white man...
Drivy, C’est Fini : SF Cash Machine Eats French Carsharing Company
These two carsharing companies just got married, and guess who's going to take the other's name ?
Guadalajara, California, Paris : the Journey of a Punk Mexican-American
When she was a little girl, Alba used to get up at 3 am to work in the fields, picking figs around Merced, in the central valley of California. Two decades later, that's the time when she goes to bed, after closing the tiny bar she owns with her husband, David, on Oberkampf Street, in... Continue Reading →
What’s Up ? The Hacking of the American Mind is Up, Getting Us Down
Robert Lustig, a neuroscientist at the University of California San Francisco, nailed today's great sickness in his latest book, "The Hacking of the American Mind"
Trump Bought Porn Star’s Silence : The Story Goes On, Now Seriously
It finally came out in a serious and respected news outlet. After breaking in 2011 on a website called The Dirty, then in The Smoking Gun in October 2016, the story of an affair between Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels...
