Issue 6

This week I sat down with the brilliantly talented, gorgeous and devilishly funny young actress Iris Apatow. Funnily enough, I tend to ‘sit down’ with her at least once a day, because she is in fact my girlfriend and we do in fact live in the same apartment.  A few months ago was Iris’s birthday, and I got her a Broadcast News  poster signed by James Brooks that I found on E-Bay. I put it in a pink frame, and she loved it. Broadcast News  means everything to her. It’s the mov

I remember my freshman year of college, when anyone would ask me what type of acting I wanted to do, I’d always say “film.” This is not necessarily a lie; it just isn't the full truth.  I love films…but there was fear in owning I love theatre too, that maybe I love theatre more. Let me rephrase, I always wanted to do plays. But when you tell people (your grandmother's friends) you want to be an actor - most people (your friends that aren't in the arts) - can only visualize a

From grocery bagger to playing sold out stadiums. From cater waiter to the red carpet. From small town country to the big city. We all dream of our lives being changed by one small moment. One big break. To go from nothing to something.  There are plenty of these types of rag-to-riches stories that filter through artistic industries and keep young kids dreaming. Rosario Dawson was simply sitting on her apartment stoop in New York City when a filmmaker asked her to be in his

On Sisterhood, Fandom, and Heated Rivalry When my sister, Lily, and I were kids, we would spend hours upon hours in our basement playing with our “Set Ups”. A Set Up, in case you are uneducated in the precise language of the Bolotin-Schwartz household, is a massive world spread across every inch of a vast carpeted space. Set Ups are complex, interspecial, multicultural societies. The architecture is an intricate combination of mixed materials – Polly Pocket malls surrounded b

I remember being seventeen, heartbroken for the first time, speeding down a country switchback in rural Massachusetts, blasting Taylor Swift’s All Too Well . I remember screaming at the top of my lungs and feeling so encouraged, so validated in my pain and longing— this is a moment in my life, and there have been many since, when Taylor Swift has felt like the only person in the world who understands me. Taylor Swift is objectively a musical anomaly— her albums consistently b

The theory goes that, some four billion years ago, life on Earth spawned in the toxic froth blasting up through the ocean floor’s alkaline hydrothermal vents. Countless inanimate particles stewed for millennia, gradually coalescing into complex, self-replicating chains: the first RNA. This process is nothing short of magic, the biological equivalent of a handkerchief turning into a dove, and it’s similarly astounding that enough of these cells, and the beings they built, surv