Monday began with a screening of Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard's Beautiful Losers, which premiered at SXSW earlier this spring. The film documents the evolution of a group of artists who sprung from the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop and graffiti in the early '90s, including Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Mike Mills, Margaret Kilgallen and Geoff McFetridge.

Hit the ground running, literally, on Sunday morning with a stop at the Palms gym before high-tailing it to a screening of Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong. In an effort to enhance my experience of the film, I snuck a slice of pizza into the theater. Pizza + beer = natural fit.

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Despite my lack of sleep the night before, my flight to Vegas went smoothly and I was greeted at the airport by a large festival Cadillac and a blast of hot air. Somehow I’d managed to forget that Vegas in June is broiling!

After checking into my room at the Palms, I headed down to festival HQ to the tune of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" blasting over the beeps and blips of the slot machines. I took a brief detour to check out the pool, and felt as though I’d stepped into a spring break ...

One thing never changes. No matter how many times I swear I’m going to get a good night’s sleep before I leave for a festival, inevitably I end up packing the night before til the wee hours of the morning. Usually that makes the first day at any film fe...

Usually, I associate Memorial Day with BBQs and a trip to the beach. But unfortunately, this year Memorial Day lived up to its name. Tonight I went to a memorial gathering for Gabe Byer, an old friend of mine from acting class and Theatre Tribe, the first theater company I belonged to in Los Angeles. Last year, he and a partner opened up The York, a gastropub in Highland Park that got