SOMA Magazine

My contributions to SOMA Magazine — billed the "voice and vision of independent, avant-garde arts, fashion, culture and design" — include features on architecture and interviews with prominent filmmakers such as Stephen Daldry (The Hours) and Academy Award-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth).

Design, Redefined

Deconstructing the design of Chaya in Downtown Los Angeles, a bank-turned-culinary haven that embraces the concept of fusion in both its food and considered architectural layout.

Beauty and the Bottom Line

A feature about RJ Cutler's (The War Room) film The September Issue, a documentary about Vogue editrix Anna Wintour and her combative yet sustaining relationship with lauded Creative Director Grace Coddington.

Deconstructing Rudo y Cursi

An interview with Carlos Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá Tambien) about the evolution of Mexican cinema, working with actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and striking the perfect balance between comedic and dramatic elements in writing and directing.

An Axe to Grind

A conversation with Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) about It Might Get Loud, a documentary history of the electric guitar told via musicians Jack White, The Edge, and Jimmy Page.

A German Newcomer

An interview with actor David Kross and director Stephen Daldry (The Hours), who brought the critically-acclaimed novel The Reader to screen. In this conversation, the duo delves into the WWII-era film's complexities, both historical and emotional.