WRITING HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 4/17/21 HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 4/17/21 A Brief History of Katia Krafft, Vulcanologist Extraordinaire On June 3, 1991, Katia Krafft was beside the two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano. Read More LAist Elina Shatkin 1/20/21 LAist Elina Shatkin 1/20/21 What Even Is A Coat? A Guide To The Inauguration's Big Coat Energy For Confused Angelenos What even is a coat? Thanks to the increasingly warm winters wrought by climate change, many of us don't know. Read More LAist Elina Shatkin 5/19/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 5/19/20 Feel Free To Cry When You See The New Plans For Taix. We Did Does this new iteration of Taix even deserve the name? Read More LAist Elina Shatkin 8/12/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 8/12/19 How To Have Fun — Or Look Like You Are — At The Taco Bell Hotel Reservations for The Bell, a Taco Bell-themed pop-up that took over Palm Springs for a weekend, sold out in two minutes. Read More LAist Elina Shatkin 5/31/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 5/31/19 I Took My Toddler To DragCon And It Destroyed The Fabric Of Society. Just Kidding, It Was Awesome. For my first Drag Race event, I decided I needed a wingwoman — my kid. Read More HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 3/12/17 HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 3/12/17 Hester Lucy Stanhope, Circe of the Desert The impudent, indulged daughter of an Earl, Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) ended her days holed up in a crumbling monastery, a ghostly eminence jabbering messianic prophecies like a Bene Gesserit witch. Read More Believer Elina Shatkin 1/1/17 Believer Elina Shatkin 1/1/17 An Interview with Dian Hanson In 1970, a nineteen-year-old Dian Hanson couldn’t wait to spend her birthday money on porn. Read More Believer Elina Shatkin 10/1/16 Believer Elina Shatkin 10/1/16 An interview with actor Nick Offerman Ron Swanson is every woman’s man — and every man’s man, too. Portrayed by Nick Offerman, the mustachioed patriarch of Parks and Recreation is a bridge-builder (literally and figuratively), charming Midwestern farmers and art-school punks alike. Read More Dame Elina Shatkin 10/20/15 Dame Elina Shatkin 10/20/15 Meet the Real-Life Jem Who Inspired the Holograms Everything about Jem, the alter-ego of orphan Jerrica Benton, rocked. She was inspired by Jemi Armstrong, the child of two old-school, L.A. garmentos. Read More Los Angeles magazine Elina Shatkin 1/19/15 Los Angeles magazine Elina Shatkin 1/19/15 Selma Director Ava DuVernay on the Myth of Martin Luther King Jr. Thirteen years of observing directors, both on set and and off, inspired Ava DuVernay to start making movies of her own. Since then, she has been on a hot streak. Read More
HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 4/17/21 HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 4/17/21 A Brief History of Katia Krafft, Vulcanologist Extraordinaire On June 3, 1991, Katia Krafft was beside the two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 1/20/21 LAist Elina Shatkin 1/20/21 What Even Is A Coat? A Guide To The Inauguration's Big Coat Energy For Confused Angelenos What even is a coat? Thanks to the increasingly warm winters wrought by climate change, many of us don't know. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 5/19/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 5/19/20 Feel Free To Cry When You See The New Plans For Taix. We Did Does this new iteration of Taix even deserve the name? Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 8/12/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 8/12/19 How To Have Fun — Or Look Like You Are — At The Taco Bell Hotel Reservations for The Bell, a Taco Bell-themed pop-up that took over Palm Springs for a weekend, sold out in two minutes. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 5/31/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 5/31/19 I Took My Toddler To DragCon And It Destroyed The Fabric Of Society. Just Kidding, It Was Awesome. For my first Drag Race event, I decided I needed a wingwoman — my kid. Read More
HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 3/12/17 HiLoBrow Elina Shatkin 3/12/17 Hester Lucy Stanhope, Circe of the Desert The impudent, indulged daughter of an Earl, Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) ended her days holed up in a crumbling monastery, a ghostly eminence jabbering messianic prophecies like a Bene Gesserit witch. Read More
Believer Elina Shatkin 1/1/17 Believer Elina Shatkin 1/1/17 An Interview with Dian Hanson In 1970, a nineteen-year-old Dian Hanson couldn’t wait to spend her birthday money on porn. Read More
Believer Elina Shatkin 10/1/16 Believer Elina Shatkin 10/1/16 An interview with actor Nick Offerman Ron Swanson is every woman’s man — and every man’s man, too. Portrayed by Nick Offerman, the mustachioed patriarch of Parks and Recreation is a bridge-builder (literally and figuratively), charming Midwestern farmers and art-school punks alike. Read More
Dame Elina Shatkin 10/20/15 Dame Elina Shatkin 10/20/15 Meet the Real-Life Jem Who Inspired the Holograms Everything about Jem, the alter-ego of orphan Jerrica Benton, rocked. She was inspired by Jemi Armstrong, the child of two old-school, L.A. garmentos. Read More
Los Angeles magazine Elina Shatkin 1/19/15 Los Angeles magazine Elina Shatkin 1/19/15 Selma Director Ava DuVernay on the Myth of Martin Luther King Jr. Thirteen years of observing directors, both on set and and off, inspired Ava DuVernay to start making movies of her own. Since then, she has been on a hot streak. Read More
