Dana Goodyear The Enthusiast, The New Yorker, September 24, 2007, pp. 84-127
"Kim Hastreiter . . . Paper . . . 1984 . . . The magazine . . . fashion, music and art born from surfing, skateboarding, hip-hop, and gay life . . .
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". . . college at Washington University in St. Louis, in the fall of 1969 . . .
"After two year at Washington University, Hastreiter transferred to an experimental art school in Nova Scotia, and then to CalArts, where she studied with John Baldessari, making geometric paintings using colored metallic powder, and collaborating on conceptual art videos. (Baldessari arranged for me [Dana Goodyear] to see one of the movies he made using some of his students as actors. In it, Hastreiter appears in grainy green light, reciting Norma Desmond's "No one ever leaves a star" lines from Sunset Boulevard.) She lived in Santa Monica, and met Joey Arias, who is still one of her closest friends. Arias-a singer and performance artist who is Thierry Mugler's muse and also appears with Cirque du Soleil, in Las Vegas-remembers their first encounter on a corner in West Hollywood . . . they drove cross-country to New York in 1976."