Local Hype: C'mon Amazon, LAUSD Cellphone Ban, Slamdance LA & The Giant RISObots + More

 

Mandy Moore called out Amazon with the perfect picture of its ineptitude. Near the smoldering remains of her in-laws home sits a perfectly delivered Amazon package. Who do you blame, the contract worker who delivered it or the unflinching mechanism of Amazon. Maybe, just take a second and think before dropping of any mail there. Yeesh. via LA Mag

Woah, they finally...might have done it. The LAUSD Cell Phone Ban starts today, meaning you can't have them on during school and sometimes even in your possession on campus. Each school got to choose for itself how it will implement the ban, either having students stow the phones in lockers, bags or cubbies or just keeping them off and in their backpacks. via LAist

 

We now have Slamdance? Forget the LA Film Festival, tear.

Indie Cinema's Best-Kept Secret Brings 30 Years of Experimental Film to L.A.

So, passes are sold out, but you can still just grab tickets to individual films, looks like it's $21 bucks a ticket.

 

The Giant RISObots is online. What is it? It's a 5 person group exhibition featuring risograph prints from artists Natalie Andrewson, Amy Matsushita-Beal, Nat Center (aka Printed Pony), Arlin Ortiz and John Pham at GR2 Gallery running from February 15th, 2025 to March 4th, 2025.

How LA movie fans created a cult following around RRR screenings via Boing Boing

Nice read on the sold out showings of RRR at Vidiots.