Brandon R. Reynolds

The politics of a meaningful life.

Disinformation-as-art erodes our reality from the periphery.

In which we look at all the things that are currently working in journalism and then Frankenstein them all together into one hideous, future-proof design.

In LA County, short-term rentals like Airbnbs get some controversial new regulations.

Urban falconer Adam Baz and his four birds chase ravens and photo shoots, powered by a pocketful of chopped-up critters.

According to one statistic, nearly 100% of us will die someday, but most of us avoid the subject, imagining we’ll somehow know what to do when the time comes. But will we?
Enter the death doula, a person who helps people die better.

On the complicated origins & identity of Silicon Beach.

We've seen "mass hysteria" throughout history. It's always a reflection of the times. Now we may have a version that could lead to an international incident.

In the greater US conversations about various kinds of “freedom,” the “right to repair” may seem minor, but it is a significant power shift: toward consumers and away from corporations, toward true ownership and away from a weird twilit reality in which we only appear to own stuff, only to eventually understand that our ownership is actually ghostly and intangible. Indeed: We have stuff; we don’t own stuff.

After 15 to 20 million years roaming the Mojave, the desert tortoise is in danger of going extinct.

This is bad not only for the tortoise, but also for the desert. That’s because as a keystone species, the tortoise and its burrows are essential for the health of the whole desert ecosystem. What's worse: We had the best of intentions. Really.

As the production center for American fantasies, Hollywood has been projecting our car-loving past onto our ideas of the future for decades. The result is that flying cars seem inevitable, whether or not they make any sense in 21st century LA.

Did you know The Future may be only a few short years away? Did you know that you might soon see actual flying cars in the skies over Los Angeles? And that the city has a goal to have tens of thousands of them zipping around? Did you know it may not work at all?

What was lost, and what wasn’t, when the Valley Fire tore through Harbin Hot Springs.

Let's tell the most important story in the world in a different way.

The difference between coverage of the shutdowns of Apple Daily and PressTV tell us a lot about how we like our journalism served to us.