Jeanine Celeste Pang

I have this friend.

You know the type: effervescent and bright, like California Sauvignon Blanc. La Princesse Charmante.

For the past 10 years, she has also been the centripetal force that pulls me into strange, enterprising, "what-the-hell-are-we-doing" situations, the stretcher and sifter for that elusive thing called character....

"Sooner of later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable." - Primo Levi

The first movie I saw in a theatre was Disney's Cinderella. There I sat, mostly bangs and limbs,...

I have this friend.

You know the type: effervescent and bright, the California Sauvignon Blanc. La Princesse Charmante.

She has also been, for the past 10 years, the centripetal force that pulls me into strange, enterprising, "what-the-hell-are-we-doing" situations, the stretcher and sifter for that elusive thing called character....

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. - Zora Neale Hurston

When I was seven, I went to my first water park. I had been anticipating...

Every week during my junior year at Berkeley, I would ride the train across the Bay Bridge and into San Francisco, twisting down the streets, eventually arriving in the shopping mecca of Union Square. One afternoon I found myself inside the Jimmy Choo boutique. On a platform of smooth plexiglass,...

A conversation with 47-year-old photographer David LaChapelle cleaves to the surreal, gratuitous, and subversive--much like a reflection of his work. But underneath the perennial trucker hat, there lies the tenderness and charm of a boy struggling to gain footing. Below, his angles on shock and success.

Jeanine Celeste Pang:...