Tar - Writings on Los Angeles and beyond

Tar is an independent publication edited by Keith Plocek, a longtime journalist and professor at USC Annenberg.

You can learn more about Keith on his personal website, or his Bluesky, or his Instagram, or even his TikTok, where he mainly just reposts his reels from Instagram, but at least he's on TikTok. Are you on TikTok?

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