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3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE NO. 1
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GOING PLACES
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WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO…
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CAN’T WAIT
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ON NETFLIX NOW
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TECHnically 2.0
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THAT’S DEEP
15
SHORT shorts
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DIY
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IN THA STREETS: FASHION WEEK4
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TYPOGRAPHY GEEK
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OOH THAT’S PRETTY
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CALENDAR
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4. WILD KINGS ZINE
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IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY
WHERE THE WILD KINGS ARE
SIMONE WYRICK
Editor In Chief
Creative Director SIMONE WYRICK
Design Director SIMONE WYRICK
Feature Editor SIMONE WYRICK
CONTRIBUTORS
GRACE BEALS
JOSH LEVIEN
SIMONE WYRICK
6. GOING PLACES
After accidentally moving from Los Angeles to New York accidentally in December, its been the coldest
winter ever for me, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been coping with treats. Here’s a list of fourteen
favorite spots to pig out at.
URTH CAFFE
FINANCIER
267 S. Beverly Drive FAVE
PATISSERIE
Beverly Hills, CA 983 1ST Avenue
Killer foam designs at this COFFEE
New York, NY
Westside coffee shop with SHOP
Love their Chicken Au Pistou
great salads and teas. Soup + the fresh mini pastries
they serve with every coffee.
MILK
DYLAN’S CANDY
7290 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
BAR
983 1ST Avenue
Homemade ice cream, tons New York, NY
of toppings, cookies, and TREATS!
Love their Chicken Au Pistou
more, you can’t go wrong. Soup + the fresh mini pastries
Make sure you try the Blue they serve with every coffee.
Velvet Cake!
TALE SAI THAI
LUSCIOUS THAI
9043 W. Sunset Boulevard 1099 1st Avenue
West Hollywood, CA
BESST
New York, NY
Great pre-show dinner TOM KHA
The lunch special is super
spot on th Sunset strip SOUP
reasonable and so are the
drinks.
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7. JOURNALISTS
WILD KINGS ZINE IS ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR TALENTED
WRITERS TO CONTRIBUTE SMART, INFORMATIVE,
ENTERTAINING CONTENT FOR OUR PRINT AND ONLINE
EDITIONS. WE COVER A VARIETY OF TOPICS INCLUDING
MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY, POLITICS, POP CULTURE, TRAVEL,
YOUNG ADULTHOOD, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, FASHION,
LOCAL FLAVOR, AND SO MANY MORE.
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8. BOTTEGA LOUIE
MORSO
700 S. Grand Avenue BEST
420 E. 59th Street
Los Angeles, CA New York, NY
Fresh pizza and pasta + a great ITALIAN
This trendy restaurant offers
selection of sweets including a RESTAURANT
strong drinks and an authentic
wide variety of macaroon Italian dining experience.
flavors.
LA CAFÉ
MIDTOWN DINER
639 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA
155 E. 55TH Street
New York, NY
24/7 Delivery! The Chili Cheese
MOST EPIC
The fries are AMAZING!
Fries and Lobster Brie Grilled LATE NIGHT
Cheese Sandwich are always
amazing!
DELIVERY
BARCADE
BROOKLYN BOWL
369 N. Western Avenue
61 Wrythe Avenue
Los Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY
For some reason the Koreatown BEST
Bowling alley with reasonable
location offers something extra SPOTS TO
drinks and really great food.
special , Same concept as the Also tons of great live
Brooklyn location, it’s a bar with
DRINK +
performances with a
vintage arcade games and a PLAY
truly eclectic crowd.
brightly lit bar. Tons of fun and
close to tons of after hours
karaoke bars.
LALA’S ARGENTINE
ANGELO’S
GRILL
PIZZERIA
7229 Melrose Avenue 1043 2nd Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
WILD
New York, NY
Pig out on their bread and CARD
The Margherita Pizza is amazing
signature sauce and variety of
and the salad portions are more
mashed potatoes. The sangria is than generous. Plus they have
also worth a try. alcohol-infused sorbet!
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9. WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO
Angel The XX Going Back To Cali Notorious BIG Manhattan Kings of Leon
The Funktion Overdoz Go With You Toro Y Moi Indigo’s July Kilo Kish
Started From The Bottom Drake Super Rich Kids Frank Ocean
Bangin’ On Wax A$AP Mob Waves Joey Badass New York Dogg Pound
Bird On A Wire Action Bronson Feat. Riff Raff Cartoons + Cereal Kendrick Lamar
feat. Gunplay Rose Clicquot Nipsey Hussle Why Even Try Theophalus London
ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
CAN’T WAIT!
It’s my first St. Patty’s Day in NYC, the second most Irish-American city, right behind
Boston, MA, and I’m super psyched to drink green pints and dress from head to toe
in all green everything.
COACHELLA
Its bittersweet, I’m not going this year but I’m really excited to see all of the amazing
street style and uninhibited celebrity photos that are sure to come. The line up isn’t
life changing but I have to stop myself from buying that cross-country ticket + a pair
of wristbands everyday. Coachella is a special place meant to be experienced in a
carefree fun loving way and I can’t wait to go back!
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10. ON NETFLIX NOW
ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
UNITED STATES OF TARA
Miranda July, wrote, directed, and starred A twisted hybrid of tragedy and comedy,
in this 2005 movie which depicts United States of Tara depicts the daily
contemporary life in a very surreal, casual, struggles of a mother and wife (Toni
and entertaining manner. The movie’s Collette) coping with Dissoative Identity
main character, Christine Jesperson Disorder (multiple personalities) while
(Miranda July), an eccentric, performance dealing with her relationships with her
artist and senior citizen chauffeur, meets a family and the world at large. Her other
recently divorced shoe salesman, Richard personalities take the form of a 50’s-style
Swersey (John Hawkes). As their Stepford wife, Alice; T, a teenager
relationship develops, July introduces us straight out of an “Out of Control Teens”
to several other characters that are episode of Maury; womanizing, beer
affected by their relationship and involved guzzling, motorcycle-riding, Vietnam vet,
in either of their lives, creating a web of Buck; Shoshanna, Tara’s therapist; and
connectivity. The adolescent Swersey Chicken, a 5 year-old version of Tara.
boys are played by the most adorable
actors, Miles Thompson and Brandon
Ratcliff, are both hilarious.
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12. PORTLANDIA
TINY FURNITURE
The Peabody Award winning, IFC Before Girls, there was Tiny Furniture, Lena
original series stars Saturday Night Dunham’s South by Southwest winner for
Live alum, Fred Armisen and Carrie Best Narrative Feature. The film is
Brownstein, lead singer/guitarist of somewhat a mirror of the noted writer/
Wild Flag, making fun of the uber actress’ real life. In the film, Aura (Dunham)
hipster lifestyle that exists in is a recent graduate from a Midwestern
Portland, OR, where “the 90’s are Liberal Arts college; she moves back
alive” through surreal sketch home to her artist mother’s Tribeca loft and
comedy situations using a variety of tries to get a real job with her Film Studies
different characters with a ton of degree. Aura’s mother is played by Laurie
random guest stars. Its totally worth Simmons, Lena’s mother and her real life
a good, old-fashion binge viewing sister, Grace, plays her on screen sibling.
on a boring Friday night.
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13. TECHnically 2.0
Insert Clever Race-Related Title Here
A few weeks ago, an article, “And Read All Over”, written by Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) and
originally published in The Magazine, Issue 7 went viral. In the article, Bouie points out the small number of
minorities in technology journalism save Southeast Asian and South Asian individuals. He goes on to say
that this problem is in part due to a handful of factors; economic, African Americans and Latinos are often
unable to afford an unpaid internship for an entire summer; a lack of diversity within tech networks,
companies hire from within their networks which are rarely comprised of African Americans and Latinos;
and finally cultural, for a lot of African Americans and Latinos, who are the first in their families to pursue a
college education, it is ingrained in them to pursue traditional and reliable career paths. Bouie doesn’t throw
a huge amount of blame on the tech industry, he even points out that technology is for the most part a
color blind industry and he recognizes that in tech, employees are chosen based on merit. Bouie presents
two major solutions for the tech journalism community, 1) have the conversation about race, have several
conversations, don’t ignore the problem and 2) make a conscious effort to diversify the environment. The
article started a conversation on Twitter and then several journalists took on the subject, many criticizing the
response of Jason Calacanis (@jason), a noted entrepreneur and blogger.
For the sake of full disclosure, I’m basically a fan girl when it comes to Calacanis’ podcast, This
Week In Start Ups, I respect his opinions on the tech industry and entrepreneurship, and I appreciate the
classic rap quotes preceding each of his blog posts. I know that Calacanis is not racist and that his
intentions were good when he wrote a response, “Doing The Right Things”.
Calacanis approaches the subject sincerely, expressing the sadness he feels for his daughter who is half
Korean and describing the overt racism his wife experiences. He finds some solitude in the fact that his
daughter will be living “in the post-race world”. Calacanis says that Bouie’s position “counters everything”
he’s experienced in his career, using two early writers he hired for his tech zine starting in 1995 as
examples, Xeni Jardin and Rafat Ali. Calacanis describes them like this, “the first a woman, the second
with much darker skin than mine (brown, but not black for those obsessed with the exact tone – really?).
He then proceeds to describe his experience as an Irish guy from Brooklyn who broke into tech, knocked
doors down, and created opportunity for himself. He then says that those internships no longer exist; they
haven’t been around since, “’94 max”. This old school method of magazine internships has been replaced
with this model for Gawker, Engadget, and TechCrunch, according to Calacanis, “a) Post highly intelligent
comments – not about yourself – on those blogs 2-5x a day for three years. b) Start your own blog and
write one blog post a day about one subject for three years, not about yourself, about the topic. Don’t ever
talk about yourself. c) Go to any party, meetup or SIG you can find. You do these things you will break in.
Two hours a day for three years.” Calacanis continues, touting tech as “the most open meritocracy…in
industry” that he’s ever seen. He teasingly advises not to “let anyone tell you that some secret cabal of rich,
old white guys on some secret golf course is trying to stop you.”
14. Calacanis’ response was ignorant of the daily reality Americans face. Honestly tech is very open, it is a
meritocracy, but I can’t help but notice that whether its New York or Los Angeles, if it’s a tech event, I’m
usually one of a handful of African Americans and pretty much always the only African American female, if I
could code, I’d be a unicorn. Why? I’d say 99% of my African American and Latino friends and
acquaintances from high school went on to college, but I can’t think of one who pursued a degree in
anything tech related, a lot of Political Science, Pre-Med, and Business Management with a sprinkling of
Liberal Arts and Public Administration majors. Most pursuing very safe, traditional career paths, in fitting
with the expectations of their families. These aren’t impoverished kids; these are the children of college
graduates, who went to private high schools and outstanding public schools, and who have participated in
unpaid internships at Fortune 500 companies and prominent law firms. I have no idea why none of them
have pursued tech.
My argument isn’t about right now, or even three years from now, my argument is about the kids.
Kids are our future and while the smallest Calacanis and my little mixed babies will live in a post racial world
(hopefully), we have to make changes now to see it through. Like Trick Daddy, I “luh da kids” and after
working with a ton of kids and volunteering at many elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School
District, the second largest in the country, I’d say school is where this all starts. Compared to the city’s
many parochial and private schools, Los Angeles’ public schools are starving for technology and programs
that promote technological innovation and spark interest in the minds of kids early on. I’ve often assisted in
classes that only had one old school Mac DV complete with hockey puck mouse, the schools often
supplement this with weekly, and hour-long computer lab visits which consist of free play on the Internet
and nothing of substance and more often than not, nothing of true educational value. Alternatively, while
working as an after school program counselor at a much more affluent school where teachers are called by
their first names and the students have trendy names, all of the latest tech gadgets and they know how to
use them efficiently. In the classroom, these students use the computer often to complete assignments,
they know how to do research and find resources using the Internet. At home, their access is not hindered,
for the most part, they have access to a modern, working computer, equipped with Internet. Unfortunately,
the same cannot be said for the impoverished youth who are usually both brown and black and white,
attending LAUSD Title I schools.
The problem is not one of race, this is a cultural, social, economic issue that won’t be solved by
offering college students paid internships, a lack of access compounded by a cultural attitude of
indifference towards math, science, and technology. So what can the tech community do? For starters, we
don’t have to write a bunch of articles and blogs about there being a problem. Instead focus on creating
effective, long-lasting solutions that will create real change and develop talent early on. Creating programs
within schools, K-12, that are in the most impoverished areas of major tech communities, replace their Mac
DVs with modern technology, donate time, develop educational programs, give them a fighting chance to
compete with their peers. A three step plan isn’t going to help the kids at George Washington High in Los
Angeles, CA or Teresa Hughes Elementary in South Gate, CA nor the students at Audubon Middle School
in Los Angeles, CA, to name a few. These kids are under serviced, underfunded, and often overlooked.
They’re not less intelligent then the students that later decide to become involved with tech, they’re just less
informed and have fewer resources available to them.
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15. THAT’S DEEP…
SPOILED
Untitled
By Grace
Some days I feel for my heart and It's not even beating
as if its vanished, slowly but surely
Other days I find that I am Queen under jurisdiction of
some government owned zombie community
The dirty Rain is my cleanser, and the sun rays make me
wanna rush to the moon,
and when I look that fragile girl in the mirror she'll
say back to me you are a beautiful star not a style nor
a fool.
I GIVE
MY LIFE
TO YOU
20. LIFE IN PANTONE I
Simone Wyrick
PANTONE! PANTONE! PANTONE!
ROSE GOLD! COTTON CANDY! SUBWAY TILES!
PANTONE! PANTONE! PANTONE!
PALM FRAWNS! OIL SPILL! POOL WATER!
PANTONE! PANTONE! PANTONE!
DRUZZY CRYSTAL! HOLOGRAPH! GLITTER!
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21. SHORT SHORTS
“JUSTINE IS A THIEF” BY SIMONE WYRICK
Every morning, Justine walks her dog,
Jimi Costa who never seems to “go” until they get
home and he reaches the kitchen. Justine drops Jimi and
picks up her laptop and workbag at home and then heads
out for the day. She bikes to the Starbucks on Pearl Street.
She orders a grande cup of ice water por gratis and finds a
table near the barista and a three prong electrical outlet, setting
up her laptop and logging onto the free wifi. As Justine listened
to Naima by John Coltrane, she typed quickly, periodically
taking sips from her water cup and surveying the ever-changing
landscape of the busy coffee shop, when she hears the barista
call out, “VENTI DOUBLE AMERICANO” and two minutes later,
“VENTI AMERICANO….FOR PERRY”, eventually giving up and
leaving the drink on the bar top. Justine watched the drink,
waiting, for Perry. Who would just abandon a $5 cup of coffee?
Who does this Perry guy think he is? She waited what seemed to
be the longest 5 minutes of her life and then she stood up,
snapped the drink up from the bar and retreated back to her comfy,
safe seat. High off of her latest victory, Justine sipped the drink
feeling unusually accomplished.
Around noon, Justine pops up from her table and skips to
the counter, grabbing a Panini press sandwich and a bottle of
clementine-flavored Izze. She goes back to her table and unwraps the
neatly packaged sandwich and untwists the cap on her drink and begins
to eat her lunch. After quickly finishing, she resumes her work tapping quickly on the keys listening to
“Sonnenbank Flavour” by Bushido. She works for an hour uninterrupted until she got up to refresh her
water. As she walked to the counter, she heard a nasally, high pitched voice, “OMG, and did I tell you I
got a paper cut today? It was really traumatic, I called my therapist and we worked through it,” the
short, strawberry blond said into her rhinestone-covered cellphone complete with plastic bunny ears
and a fluffy bunny tail. She put her phone conversation on hold to order her drink, “Can I have a Venti
Caramel Frappacino with extra whipped cream and extra caramel sauce?”. Wow, even her drink order is
annoying, thought Justine. The girl continued on her phone, “Yeah, I came to the conclusion that the
22. JUSTINE IS A THIEF (CONT’D)
paper cut was really a reminder to pay attention, you know, like from the universe and stuff?”
Justine watched as the girl walked outside and her loud conversation became muffled through
the glass of the storefront. Then the barista called out, “VENTI CARAMEL FRAPPACINO with
extra whip and caramel” Justine watched the annoying girl through the glass, twirling her hair
around her finger, feverishly texting, and not paying any attention to anything at all around her,
she looked back at the annoying drink and back at the girl, and then she jumped up to the bar
and grabbed the drink. She stopped at the condiment bar and acted as if she were adding cream
and sugar, discreetly tossing the drink into the trash can, looking up and around to make sure no
one had seen her. Justine watched the girl talk for what seemed like forever with her headphones
on and her music loud. The girl walked back in and searched for her drink, pacing around the
store for a few minutes looking truly confused, until finally she approached the cashier inquiring
the status of her overdue drink. The cashier is equally confused and tells the barista to make
another annoying drink for the annoying girl. Justine just watched mockingly thinking, first the
paper cut now my frappacino?!, laughing to herself quietly.
She continued to peek up at a variety of scenes at the coffee house, still typing, tapping
on the keyboard with so much determination and focus. Justine is a thief. All of her typing, all of
the keyboard tapping, all of the focus, Justine is stealing. Justine isn’t only stealing overpriced
caffeinated beverages; she’s stealing money, and a lot of it. As she sat at the Starbucks from 9am
to 4pm, she coded a sniffer and began to scout databases nearby to purge, this neighborhood
was the perfect place. But she always made sure that she left before all of the lame financial
sector workers emerged from their fortress-like high rises, she hated rush hour, she hated all of
those unfamiliar people in her personal space. As she walked back to her apartment, starring up
at the sky, she thought of the day, of all of the people she observed, and the work she finished.
She couldn’t wait to be back in her own personal space where she could work on something
more creative and beneficial to the world at large. As she approached the door to her tiny one
bedroom walk up, she could hear Jimi barking excitedly. The loving terrier mix greeted her with
warm, wet kisses and a cold nose on her cheeks. She took her coat off, put her keys on a hook
next to the door, peeling off the rest of her clothes, balancing herself on the wooden frame of the
door. She walked to the fridge, with Jimi only steps behind her trotting along, leaning down to
grab a Stella for herself and a mini frank for Jimi. She walked back to the couch, plopping down,
taking up its entire length, Jimi jumped onto her lap, she acted as if she were going to eat the
mini frank, and then gave it to Jimi. Justine is a thief.
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24. DO IT YOURSELF
PAPER FORTUNE TELLER
WHILE I CALL THEM COOTIE CATCHERS, THEIR TECHINICALLY CALLED PAPER FORTUNE
TELLERS, YOU MIGHT CALL THEM, WIGWAMS OR CHARM BOXES OR SALT CELLARS OR
WHIRLY BIRDS, I’VE LOVED THEM EVER SINCE THE FIRST TIME I FOLDED ONE IN THE
2ND GRADE I’VE BEEN INNOVATING AND EXPLORING THEM. ORIGINATING IN THE
WESTERN WORLD VIA A 1928 ORGAMI BOOK, FUN WITH PAPER FOLDING BY MURRAY
AND RIGLEY. FOR THIS MONTH’S DIY, I DECIDED TO CREATE A FUN CUT OUT COOTIE
CATCHER TEMPLATE WITH COOL GRAPHICS AND TRADITIONAL FORTUNE COOKIE
FORTUNES. ENJOY!
DIRECTIONS
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38. TYPOGRAPHY GEEK
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PLANT A CELEBRITY TREE WI T H T HE
DON’T
U N D E R S TA N D , SURFING THE
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HOMIES
CRIMSON WAVE AND MY BUNS;
I GOT A .45 !
& A SHOVEL, ! THAT’S D O Y O U P R E F E R THEY DON’T FEEL
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39. OOH THAT’S PRETTY
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2 red gloss la table by faktura design, $380 (fakturadesign.com)
3 New york pretty map by aaron straup cope, starting at $20 (20x200.com)
4 new york burlap + leather tote bag, $73 (Etsy.com/liquidshiva)
5 matte black ny table by faktura design $380 (fakturadesign.com)
6 lapd approved rape + mugger whistle necklace, $35 (etsy.com/piece lust)
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40. APRIL 2013
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IMPORTANT DATES
3/25-4/2 PASSOVER
4/15 TAX DAY
4/22 EARTH DAY
4/24 ADMIN. PROFESSIO ALS DAY
