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Cosplay Is Public Image as Performance
At Comic Con, fans do something celebrities spend entire careers doing: they construct a public image, step inside it and invite an…
Hollywood Most Wanted
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Independent Los Angeles editorial coverage at the intersection of celebrity, law, culture and art.
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Before the New Newsroom: Revisiting Rachel Schmeidler’s “Rachel’s Corner” Archive
From the Archive · Revisited September 7, 2026
A series of 2010 bylined posts shows that Hollywood Most Wanted’s editorial turn has roots in an earlier period of celebrity, art…
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Akiba Station and the Anime-ization of Los Angeles Pop Culture
L.A. Comic Con’s West Hall anime destination shows how Japanese pop culture has moved from niche fandom into the center of Los…
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Jack Doherty Arrested in Fort Lauderdale After Police Report Domestic Dispute
The YouTuber and livestream personality was arrested September 4 in Fort Lauderdale on a misdemeanor domestic-battery allegation, police said. A bond-court magistrate…
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What Happens to a Public Image After the Booking Photo?
A booking photograph can become permanent cultural shorthand even when the legal case later changes. That gap is where responsible coverage matters…
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Cosplay Is Public Image as Performance
At Comic Con, fans do something celebrities spend entire careers doing: they construct a public image, step inside it and invite an…
Culture
Before the New Newsroom: Revisiting Rachel Schmeidler’s “Rachel’s Corner” Archive
From the Archive · Revisited September 7, 2026
A series of 2010 bylined posts shows that Hollywood Most Wanted’s editorial turn has roots in an earlier period of celebrity, art…
Culture
Akiba Station and the Anime-ization of Los Angeles Pop Culture
L.A. Comic Con’s West Hall anime destination shows how Japanese pop culture has moved from niche fandom into the center of Los…
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Jimi Hendrix – The Voodoo Child
Archive · January 15, 2026
Jimi Hendrix understood image before the culture around him had a language for it. By 1969, Hendrix was already more than a…
Art
Artist Alley and Why Original Art Still Matters in the Age of Infinite Images
L.A. Comic Con calls Artist Alley the beating heart of its creative community. In an era of endless digital imagery, that description…
Art
Hollywood Most Wanted: From Mugshot Art Project to Independent Editorial Publication
From the Archive · Revisited September 6, 2026
Hollywood Most Wanted began by turning celebrity booking photographs into commentary on fame. Its next chapter expands that same question into reporting,…
CNN
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April 24, 2008: CNN's Showbiz Tonight profiled Rachel Schmeidler and Hollywood Most Wanted, with Brooke Anderson visiting Schmeidler's West Hollywood studio and showing the celebrity mugshot-art process.
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