Laura Zornosa
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culture writer • formerly @time , @nytimes & @latimes • she/ella • 🇨🇴🇮🇪
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My last day at TIME is Feb. 12.
But I still have things to say! So I wrote about Griselda:
“A flimsy shroud of feminism barely disguises the pulp fiction at the show’s core, which exploits the image of the exotic Colombian ‘other’ to stir up intrigue.”
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This one is for mi papá, mi abuela y mi bisabuela. And for all the kids who always wondered about that other country 💛
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Kristin Chenoweth, the original Glinda, makes a surprise appearance before the reopening of “Wicked” tonight at the Gershwin Theater.
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I’m in front of the Supreme Court, where Senate Democrats
@SenatorTomUdall
,
@SenSchumer
,
@SenatorShaheen
,
@SenatorDurbin
,
@SenTinaSmith
,
@ChrisVanHollen
,
@maziehirono
&
@SenJeffMerkley
are unveiling a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United
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Home for the weekend and found out my mom made a wall out of my stories 🥺
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Reasons why that Fleetwood Mac-loving, skateboarding TikTok guy is the perfect break from The News:
🥔 He works in a potato warehouse
🔥 He's also a firefighter
🍓 He goes through a jug of juice a day
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“From tokenism in 1985, to elevating representation in 2020, to representing a data point in the ether and beyond, how are we connecting to human people? And who’s listening?" I loved Sunita Mani's brilliant words:
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The bad news: There's no new Abbott Elementary episode tonight 🥲
The good news: I talked to teachers around the country about Abbott's unflinching approach to charter schools
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Logged onto Twitter to say this and saw that all of my old friends at the LA Times were going through this too -- just got laid off from Time, along with a dozen other union members. My heart breaks for this industry and all of the good people in it ♥️
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BEEF captures an emotion that’s so hard to articulate: a ubiquitous sadness—inherent in so many of us—that burns into anger.
I talked to Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, and showrunner Lee (Sonny) Sung Jing about how they made that happen.
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Maybe sharing this here will make it feel real?? I'm joining the New York Times' Culture desk this summer as a fellow! So grateful, super stoked, and lowkey stressed about NYC housing :')
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The only force stronger than climate change is the invisible force controlling Bernie's arms
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Her name sign in ASL means "spray painter at heart."
For my last trick as an
@latimesent
intern, here's the story of how
@Natasha_Ofili
brought a Deaf, Black character into the Spider-Verse:
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If you like:
@BeeBabs
' Honey & Spice, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy's Before Sunrise trilogy, fried chicken, South London, or feel-good love stories, this one's for you!
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Mama I made it (to my first
@latimes
Sunday paper)! H/t
@latinxdirectors
for the pic (& the interview)
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It feels weird to celebrate at a time like this, but I’ve been sitting on some news: I’m so excited & grateful to join the
@latimes
as the summer Arts & Entertainment intern, and to work with the
@pulitzercenter
as a reporting fellow on liberatory memory in Chicago & Colombia! 💛
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"We, like Calum, yo-yo through life, oscillating between the inability to get out of bed and forcing ourselves up, determined to start fresh."
Wrote about Aftersun, my mom, depression, and me 💌
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At the encore of “Wicked’s” return, a surprise appearance by music & lyric writer Stephen Schwartz, center stage
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I cried like a baby at Everything Everywhere All At Once, spent a couple of weeks figuring out why, and got to talk to the unparalleled Stephanie Hsu:
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And, after the audience has filed out, the ghost light that lit the Gershwin Theater for 550+ days since the last “Wicked” show flicks back on again
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Would you consider yourself…
A) An extrovert
B) An introvert
C) Lil Uzi Vert
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Wrote about the most ambitious crossover event in history: Public transportation meets Chicago artist Nick Cave
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Very chill, normal, regular morning!
Went on CNN to discuss the meaning of the looming SAG-AFTRA strike
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Claiming my rightful title as Encanto beat reporter 😤
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According to Mr. Mauk, he uses an eyewash station in the science wing after every dance
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I was flabbergasted by how organically Sex Education included nonbinary characters, chest binding scenes and disabled intimacy — without pandering or tokenization — and I got to write about it:
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With one month left in D.C., I'm starting this thread to hold myself accountable: I'm trying to stop by the White House every day at lunch (as work allows!) to see who's protesting there, why, and how they feel about the freedom of speech.
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When I was little, I used to steal my dad’s copies of
@TIME
to read (before he was done – he wasn’t a fan of my magazine habit). Proud of my first byline for them!
Steve Bullock hates "dark money," but a dark money lobbyist is helping his presidential campaign
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Senate Democratic leader
@SenSchumer
follows with “People say they want to get rid of the swamp? Citizens United is the embodiment of the swamp.”
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"I’m not satisfied with Black trans lives mattering; I want Black trans lives to be easy, to be pleasurable, and to be filled with lush opportunities." ✨🧚
“I want you to know that it’s not frivolous to have dreams about seemingly small or pleasurable things; it is vital.
The world that I dream of is filled with ease.”
@tourmaliiine
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The long workday to completely disassociating in a Trader Joe’s pipeline
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I talked to costume designer Daniella Pearman about Aimee's beautiful, jean-burning healing journey, Eric's matching choker and harness set at the queer club night, and Maeve's iconic fringe leather jacket 🪞
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I got to talk to
@lwantchekon
, the historical advisor on “The Woman King” about the complicated history behind the film:
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@SenatorTomUdall
opens, arguing that “Corporations are not people, and your net worth shouldn’t determine your right to free speech.”
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Adam Lobel—the author of Frog and Toad—loved animation—he dragged his daughter to see Bambi when she was 2 (too young) and his son to see Pinocchio when he was 14 (too old).
His son thinks he would have been happy to see his creatures in moving form.
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I spent three hours at Made in Puerto Rico (as good as it sounds) in the South Bronx with Robin de Jesús:
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Multiple Senate Democrats are referring to and quoting Justice John Paul Stevens’ dissent, which warned the ruling would undermine elected offices in the U.S.
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The
@nytimes
is pressuring us to return to the office in June. But RTO must be agreed on with
@NYTimesGuild
as part of our contract. I hope management comes to the table today ready to fairly negotiate on all the issues that matter to us, including wages, benefits and RTO
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“Foreign actors must not be allowed free reign to influence our elections,” adds
@SenatorShaheen
, referencing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections & Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony
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I’m here at
@KoreanCultureNY
, where Korean Cultural Center executive director Yun Jeung Jo and “KPOP” musical composer Helen Park have just announced that
@official__luna
will star in “KPOP,” coming to Broadway in October
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I wrote about how Andy Warhol never left the zeitgeist, and how his Carpatho Rusyn immigrant roots, Catholic faith, and queerness dovetailed in his work:
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@SenatorDurbin
mentions that, when he brought this amendment to the floor in 2014, a
@senatemajldr
filibuster blocked it
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I did it! I got "softboi" into the
@latimes
!
"The Duke, who has the reputation of a 'rake' and the personality of a softboi, quietly wears his late mother’s diamond- and emerald-encrusted enamel brooch throughout the series."
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In reporting this I learned that Taraji P. Henson (who plays Miss Hannigan) calls the kids who play the orphans her “biscuits and ladybugs and little crumbs” 😌
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Five years ago, my dad took me on a homecoming trip to Colombia. Now it’s my mom’s turn. We went to County Clare, Ireland and found the land her grandparents farmed.
No wonder magical realism & folklore are so strong in these places — how could they not be?
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By the age of 35, you should be saving
- the bees
- 15% or more on car insurance
- the day
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Feliz Día de la Independencia to Mexicans everywhere! Also happy Latino Heritage Month! I got to write about celebrating la raza through dance:
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day 1 of college: Stephen Colbert's son moved into the dorm next to mine, it's cool, it's fine :')
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“We either need a court to overturn it, or we need to pass this amendment,”
@ChrisVanHollen
concludes
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This reporter’s just grateful they trimmed the speech down from an hour in favor of her not fainting from heat stroke in front of SCOTUS 🇺🇸
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My dad has always had facial hair. He’s also the only intensivist at his hospital in WI. Each year, they test to make sure their N95 masks fit/work & each year he fails bc of his facial hair. Last week, he said next time I see him he might “look like a boiled egg” (have to shave)
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The world knew the twins as anomalies: the only Black students in predominantly white schools—and uniquely silent. But June and Jennifer Gibbons also stood out for what they created beyond themselves: they were naturally gifted artists.
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A concept: Marco Polo, but with "Havana" & "ooh na na," respectively
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"Really the only people who can be very nostalgic for the past in America are straight, white men."
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Not Residente’s hands shaking so much he has ask to ask Rubén Blades to hold his speech 😭😭
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I wrote about two South Asian filmmakers, Sujata Day and Agam Darshi, who happened to make two uncannily similar films at the same time.
Come for the joints smoked in the minivan, stay for the torrid affair with the family lawyer:
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Just a culture reporter who sweats through her shirt each & every time she interviews a celebrity 😌
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Juneteenth entails a lot more than mere recognition (see: substantive change), but in the meantime, here are a few ways to celebrate (my first for
@nytimesarts
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I wrote about Anna Marie Tendler in Sunday’s paper and she perceived me :’)
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I got to be in the room/studio/park where it happened (where Broadway casts/crews/musicians reunited), and it was breathtaking
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Sipped green smoothies with director Celine Song and chatted about her ethereal debut film, Past Lives — my favorite of the year so far
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One day, when the freezing blizzard apocalypse comes, we'll all survive thanks to intensive training from OASD
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Journalism has taken me to crazy cool heights, but interviewing a NASA astronaut was something else! 🚀
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I wrote about how Red, White & Royal Blue suspends reality to build a warm, escapist rom-com 💌
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I’ve been binging Sex and the City and as I watched Carrie write compellingly in the first person, I couldn’t help but wonder: Could *I* do that?
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Early in his career, Chilean director Pablo Larraín made an unintentional trilogy about Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship — from the coup to the plebiscite
Now, he’s back with a black comedy horror film, starring Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire
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CW: Su*cide
After the fourth suicide at Northwestern in one year, I began to wonder: what happens in the aftermath? How do the friends & loved ones of the deceased grieve and heal in such a high-pressure environment? I wrote about it here:
When Alexis Kim and Ally Friedman opened the “A loss in our community” email and saw their friend’s name, it marked the beginning of a long process of grieving, change and growth:
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Wrote about how the revolutionary Nana stole the show in Blue Beetle — and why seeing abuelos choose to share their secrets onscreen means so much 🩵
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Wrote a couple of stories about Flamin’ Hot, the self-proclaimed origin story of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Co-writer Linda Yvette Chávez revised a draft of a script, massaging in the Chicano culture of Southern California in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s:
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Where is Mr. Britton someone please keep him calm
More than 3,000 JFK files will be released tomorrow — here's what you need to know
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I wrote about how Keith LaMar, an inmate on death row in Ohio, has been organizing with musicians toward concerts, an album and freedom
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Realizing a year too late that your yellow sweater would've been perfect for that one meme:
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Waffles are forever better than pancakes bc they have built-in syrup squares
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Valuable vaping devices handed down from one generation to the next: the family JUULs
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For
@yesmagazine
, supported by
@pulitzercenter
:
Both Colombia and Chicago met with fresh, state-inflicted trauma this year. Memory workers in both places are helping communities learn to heal.
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This didn't make it in, but I love it:
Flight of the Conchords musician Bret McKenzie — who freelanced on the film — said the character (Massimo Marcovaldo) has "mana," a Māori word that means power, dignity & respect
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Gonna start saying I'm from the Valley but fail to mention that it's the Fox Valley in northeast Wisconsin 😌💅
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The hardest part of freelancing so far has been not being able to cover PROBLEMISTA, my favorite film of the year.
Salvadoran comedian Julio Torres uses his trademark surrealism to peel back the complexities surrounding immigration in America.
(I’d still love to write this!)
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Trump White House jobs are starting to feel a little like the Defense Against the Dark Arts position 😅
BREAKING: Senate confirms Christopher Wray to be FBI director, replacing James Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump.
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If anyone’s interested in learning more about Chicago’s history of police violence/torture & the $5.5 million of reparations the city paid: I just spent a whole quarter writing about it – DM me for resources!
Our next 2020 Reporting Fellow is from
@MedillSchool
: Laura Zornosa (
@laurnosa
)! Laura will examine the concept of liberatory memory in the cities of Bogotá, Colombia, and Chicago, cities that have memorials for human rights violations. Welcome, Laura!
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I wrote about
@rampdup
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If a loved one (or anyone else) gaslit you or made you doubt yourself re: the fact that there is a GLOBAL PANDEMIC occurring today, this is me reassuring you that it is, in fact, a good & compassionate thing to wear a mask & social distance!!
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Starbucks had so many weird & ineffective marketing schemes, but this?
This was the last straw
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My hometown newspaper published a “best of the city” contest that ranked Taco Bell above a local Mexican restaurant for best tacos 🥲
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Like the baby overalls
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My last story as a
@nytimesarts
fellow published today!
I’m so proud of this piece — and these kids.
Brooklyn Transition Center, a special education high school, created, performed and filmed “In the Stuy,” a Bed-Stuy adaptation of “In the Heights.”
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