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Everyone Has a Story — This is Mine
Whenever I describe to people why I chose journalism as my major, I say it’s because it’s an introverted-extrovert’s job. I have a love affair with telling stories. I love seeing a person’s face light up when they are orating something they are deeply passionate about, or an anecdote of their past that has shaped Read more
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Hermes Heritage Exhibition
When I studied abroad in London, I was enrolled in an Equestrian class. I used to ride a chocolate-maned stallion named Sirius through Hyde Park as fall leaves crusted beneath his hooves and the wind kissed my face as he broke out into a trot. I loved every minute of my horseback adventures. And I Read more
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How Neutrals Can Accentuate Inner Beauty
Santa Barbara is a place of simplistic beauty, especially the Santa Barbara Mission. The Spanish colonial motifs of white clay-work accented with burnt pink stair rails and gorgeously crafted wood doors display the artistry and hard work of the Chumash Indian tribe that inhabited the region in the seventeenth century. Within the walls they had Read more
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Texture-Play in Solvang
I have been missing storybook towns lately—something in abundance when I was studying abroad two years ago. But calling European towns “storybooks” is such an understatement: they are dense novels of stories that keep you glued to them for hours, each page so engulfing that you want to leisurely soak it in yet turn it Read more
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How to Do ‘Couture’ Off the Runway
Ah couture…the most transformative form of clothing to exist! A couturier uses needle as its pen, thread as its ink to weave together a story—a fairytale if you will— that wakes up that part of humanity that craves beauty and majesty in a world that can feel oftentimes mundane. The problem with fairytales is that Read more
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Fashion and Film for Valentine’s Day
It may have not been a romantic Valentine’s Day in the sense of love, but my Valentine’s Day was certainly romantic in many other senses of the word. I was romanced as I walked into the Downtown Los Angeles Theatre, my eyes taking to the heavens as I beheld a gold-gilded foyer. The space was Read more
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