It takes almost two hours for Devra Gregory to become Michael Jackson. The makeup’s first. She starts with a brown cover-up base and then blends in lots of white. She’s the ’90s Jackson—pale with a long Jheri curl.

Meet five locals who’ve built upon mid-century-modern ideals to come up with something new....

Every year, I make the pilgrimage to L.A. to attend the festival and come home with loads of books. This year, I moderated a panel called “Fiction: Over the Edge,” which involved no small amount of reading.

When I told a colleague that I was going to catch a screening of John Madden’s new film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, he said it looked like a movie for old people. And he wasn’t entirely wrong.

Destin Daniel Cretton's new movie and first feature, I Am Not a Hipster, is set in San Diego’s indie-rock scene.

If you live in East Texas and you don’t own a truck, you’re a loser—or so believe the contestants vying to win a hardbody truck, courtesy of the Floyd King Nissan Dealership in Longview.

At times, I’ve felt as if my tenure at CityBeat has played out like low-budg version of The Devil Wears Prada (“a million girls would kill for your job” is one of my many mantras). So, with my love not just for alt-media, but journalism in general, still intact, I decided to kill the baby, so to speak.