by Jessie Schiewe | Jan 13, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Music, Other Websites, Profiles
Wesleyan Magazine “Don’t screw this up,” Jay-Z joked when he bumped into Angela Yee ’97 in the hallway. She laughed—she’d known Jay-Z for years and was used to his quips—but still, he was right. Oh man, she remembers thinking, the pressure is really on now. It...
by Jessie Schiewe | Jan 13, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Other Newspapers
Miami New Times It’s been a tumultuous three years for singer-songwriter Kat Dahlia. In 2012, the fledgling recording artist and former waitress signed a recording contract with Epic Records. A year later, she released her first single, the piano-laced hit...
by Jessie Schiewe | Jan 7, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Other Newspapers
Miami New Times Sometimes, it takes a disaster to instigate change. In this case, it was undelivered packages. By 2009, Life in Color (then called Dayglow) was picking up momentum. What had started two years earlier as a paint-throwing EDM party for college students...
by Jessie Schiewe | Dec 17, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, Miami New Times, Other Newspapers
Broward-Palm Beach New Times IT’S SPRINGTIME IN HOLLYWOOD. The sky is cloudless and blue. Tourists bake in the sun and the Hollywood sign winks from the hills. A low-flying plane poops smoke trails overhead. On the rooftop of a 1920s apartment building, two...
by Jessie Schiewe | Dec 5, 2014 | Favorites, News, The East Bay Express
The East Bay Express I’m sitting on the concrete floor of a garage, my back against a pole. To my right, a girl braids auburn weave into another girl’s hair. Three teenagers sit on a couch to my left and a lone teddy bear, clutching a red velvet heart...
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