Part one of our annual gift guide is now live 🚨🎁 dirt.fyi/article/2024/1…

Greta Rainbow little miss can’t be wrong Shoutout Sarah Moroz, Róisín Lanigan, Alexandra Lange, miri, alex, Paula Mejía, St Panks, Erica Berry, Alexi Gunner, Katie Way, 🖍, EMILY SUNDBERG, Michelle Santiago Cortés, Marlowe Granados, Isaac Fitzgerald, vvalden, michelle lyn king, audrey,

It's impossible to convey the sprawl of these fires to an outsider. These aren't just multi-millionaires living in bucolic canyons. These are regular residential neighborhoods too – ones you would think were too embedded in the maze of concrete & commerce to ever go up in flames

LA. Please stay safe today. This app has been very helpful. And, get a bag ready to go in case things escalate in your area. This is so devastating to see. app.watchduty.org

Very sad but ultimately heartwarming Grateful Dead story from Paula Mejía sfgate.com/la/article/sid…

Introducing...Notes 📱🗒️ Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and josh. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors.

I wrote about David Lynch, one of one Angeleno filmmaker, for SFGATE sfgate.com/la/article/dav…

“We were talking about ideas. Like, what’s next? Then, suddenly, poof, he was gone.” Kyle MacLachlan talks to Paula Mejía about his 40-year friendship with David Lynch, from ‘Dune’ to the last time they hung out. gq.com/story/kyle-mac…

"He's so strong in my mind and in my memory, and he's such a vivid person. He was always so present, that to think that he's not present now is just not possible yet." Honored to have spoken with Kyle MacLachlan about his friend David Lynch. gq.com/story/kyle-mac…

Marianne Faithfull, unparalleled 60s legend, passed away yesterday at 78. Some years ago Paula Meíja spoke to her for a story & threw in a question at the end about navigating heartbreak; she’s never forgotten Marianne’s answer.

Billy Corgan talks to Paula Mejía about why he’s striving for a “PBS-like tonality” on his new interview podcast, the five questions he’s sick of answering, and what people get wrong about Smashing Pumpkins gq.com/story/billy-co…

The Criterion Closet is a shrine to classic cinema. The YouTube series dedicated to showing it off “manages to convey the thrill that comes with discovering great art, as well as those who share your love for it,” Paula Mejía writes: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Welcome to the show Paula Mejía

Bad Bunny and Marcello Hernandez's “SNL” sketch about what two Latino men are really saying to each other reveals what people often miss across cultural barriers. Paula Mejía close-reads their Spanish banter: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Two years after my fateful trip to Skinny Dennis, the Times has reported out the Zoomer bar tab thing (it’s real). nytimes.com/2025/05/31/bus…

Last year, several bartenders told me that Gen Z customers were averse to opening tabs. I wondered where this fundamentally different approach to bar-going stemmed from, so I dug into how this phenomenon is playing out within US bars The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/31/bus…

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in the same week. Two genuine visionaries who gave us so much, suffered so much, and both retreated from the outside world for long stretches of time, burrowing inside themselves, as their music became raw materials for entire genres and sub-genres.

Retweet if you had a period where you became so obsessed with Pet Sounds you almost went crazy

After 20 years of beef, the Gallagher Brothers come back from the brink at their first reunion show in Wales. Vulture reports live. vulture.com/article/oasis-…