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Live from L.A. Stories, a reading and fire relief fundraiser I presented at Murmurs Gallery on April 27th, 2025. Ticket sales benefited Altadena Girls. Featured readers included Wendy C. Ortiz, Anna Dorn, Jasmine Johnson, Alicia Novella Vasquez, Heather Jewett, Tasbeeh Herwees, Taleen Kali, Clement Goldberg, and Marcel Alcalá (you won't hear Alicia included here though–you'll have to wait for her publication for that!). I read something too! Thank you to Gabby Datau and Morgan Elder at Murmurs for hosting us!  

Wendy's three books just got reissued! Buy them! 

Listen to Taleen's music–she's touring the west coast this summer. 

Read Heather's writing & listen to her podcast on Planet Heather.

Make Anna's "Perfume and Pain" your first summer read.

Tasbeeh has a fab new LA-centric Substack called NO BAD DAYS. 

See Marcel's painting "Anima" at Various Small Fires in Orange County through May 31st. 

Watch what Jasmine makes, always. 

Make Clement's "New Mistakes" your first summer read. 

Keep supporting Altadena Girls. Send me proof of your donation of $5 or more by the date specified in the episode to be entered into the raffle!

Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. 

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Welcome back Andrea Ámez! Andrea reflects on her ten years in the beauty industry and talks about relaunching her Anti Pollutant Masque with Aliangé. She walks us through what you can expect from a facial at her West Hollywood studio and identifies what she considers the most special part of her treatments. We discuss tons of products, product formulators, tips, and techniques. We also answer a couple of listener questions. Finally, Andrea shares four non-negotiables everyone should keep in mind when it comes to caring for our skin in 2025.

Subscribe to ÁMEZING NEWS here. Leave a question in the comment box on any of the posts and Andrea will answer it next month!

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This episode was recorded in December 2024. Our hearts go out to everyone in Los Angeles, particularly those of you directly impacted by the fires. Please continue sharing healing and repair resources with us.  For those of you able to offer financial support, please consider donating here to help the Thornton family rebuild.

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Makeup artist & photographer LOFTJET joins me to discuss GLAM. He tells me about storytelling through makeup, honing your unique perspective, & having faith that your time will come! We talk about the pleasure of getting lost in routines and rituals (and why no makeup makeup is still a million steps...'cuz it's meditative, duh!). He also discusses disrupting the politics of “good taste” and embracing Salvadoran glamour. Listen to hear what it was like to do makeup on PAT McGRATH herself! 

Follow Loftjet on IG here. Oh, the beauty store he recommends for niche and Black and Brown-owned niche brands is Thirteen Lune on Larchmont! 

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Emma Specter just published their book More Please: Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"! "More Please" is a beautifully reported journalistic memoir that interrogates and reframes Emma's own relationship with their body.

They're also the culture writer at Vogue, where they write about film, TV, books, podcasts, news, body politics, and queer artists and issues. 

From abortion access in California, Dakota Johnson's performance in "Am I OK?", and being fat during a global pandemic to ranking the best Mary Kate and Ashley movies of all time, Emma covers culture with smarts and style. 

Listen to us discuss the book, our bodies, clothes, relationships, allyship and more.

Buy More Please: Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter today.

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My favorite heavily-perfumed party girls are in the studio discussing niche fragrances! Welcome Chloe Coover and Maddie Phinney! The noses behind the one and only Nose Candy podcast! 

This episode is like smoking weed, getting an iced coffee, and going perfume shopping at the mall. Only with two passionate experts at hand!

Chloe and Maddie share their approaches to collecting scents. They discuss their fan-favorite friendship. And they recommend tons of fragrances!

Nose Candy honors the art of perfumery with knowledge, intuition, and eroticism. They're smart and hot and listening to them will make you an insatiable frag-hag™. You will learn words like "gourmand" and "flanker." Your vocabulary and olfactory system will grow, deepen, ripen, and bloom. 

Curate your own collection! Cultivate your own personal taste! Open your nose!

Join Nose Candy at their Scent Swamp on Saturday, July 6th! At Murmurs Gallery in LA. Tickets available here. 

Curate your own collection! Cultivate your own personal taste! Open your nose!

[™ = Nose Candy]

FRAGRANCES DISCUSSED: 

Orebella Salted Muse [Her perfumes are $100 not $56 like I say.]

Orebella Blooming Fire 

Orebella Window2Soul

Le Labo Santal 33 

Theodoros Kalotinis

Being Frenshe Lavendar Clouds

Two Eau de Toilette by Knize

Byredo Bibliotheque 

Byredo La Tulipe

Akro Smoke Eau de Parfum

Jousset Gourmand-Bakhoor

Jousset Gourmand-Bakhoor-Oud

Mugler Angel Nova 

Hilde Soliani Hot Milk Eau de Parfum 

Xerjoff Mefisto Eau De Parfum

Xerjoff Lira

Versace Dylan Turquoise Pour Femme Eau de Toilette

Vilhelm Mango Skin

Diesel Loverdose

Etat Libre D’Orange The Ghost in the Shell

Philosophy Amazing Grace

Heeley Menthe Fraîche 

Courrèges Hyper Musc

Tom Ford Black Orchid 

Mugler Angel 

Mugler Alien

Viktor&Rolf Flowerbomb

Viktor&Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision

Etat Libre D’Orange You or Someone Like You

Alguien 2

Kyse Cocoa Vanille

One more time! Join Nose Candy at their Scent Swamp on Saturday, July 6th! At Murmurs Gallery in LA. Tickets available here.

Subscribe to Nose Candy today wherever you listen to podcasts! And check out episode #44 The E! True Hollywood Story w/ me! Perfume is having a moment. Each week, Nose Candy co-hosts and perfume evangelists Maddie and Chloe preach the fraghead gospel. 

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Tierney Talks is hosted and produced by Tierney Finster. Follow me on IG @TSTAR7. Engineered and edited by Margot Padilla. Original music by Margot Padilla.  Follow Margot on IG @margotpaulinepadilla. 

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Welcome Lara Marie Schoenhals! Lara is a legendary podcaster, best-selling writer, and gorgeous funny girl. She created the world’s first Vanderpump Rules podcast and offers an unrivaled anthropological analysis of the cast. But first we delve into our friendship! From its sweetly erotic origins on a West Hollywood rooftop to our era working together at a media startup in Venice, we giggle our way through memories of pranks, parties, puking, and piercings. If you love listening to Lara, you’ll adore this cute and candid conversation! 

Tune into Sexy Unique Podcast and get tickets for the Midsummer Night’s SUP tour today! You should also check out Once Upon A Time in Nashville, the new true crime podcast Lara executive produced. Support SUP on Patreon for exclusive access to Lara’s archival interviews with VPR cast members, like the one with Kristen Doute she describes in this ep. 

Support Tierney Talks by becoming a paid Substack subscriber today! On Substack, you’ll also find my new series OUTRAGEOUS, chronicling the life of Anna Nicole Smith. New chapters drop every Monday. 

Tierney Talks is hosted and produced by Tierney Finster. Follow me on IG @TSTAR7. Engineered and edited by Margot Padilla. Original music by Margot Padilla.  Follow Margot on IG @margotpaulinepadilla. 

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Welcome back Katrina Kemp! Katrina is an actor, producer, activist, DJ, and intuitive from LA. 

Katrina not only shares her own coming-of-age story as a person with pseudoachondroplasia but also speaks to the relatively new project of people with Dwarfism collecting their own history, free from the gaze of average-height people. 

She explains how people with dwarfism were enslaved for centuries and how being forced to labor as circus performers still inform how they’re treated in the modern movie industry (and the world at large) today. Katrina traces the relationship between erasure and exploitation in media and reflects on how vital it was for her to find representation and community online growing up. 

“We find each other deep, deep in the internet. But other people are finding us too,” Katrina says. 

This sets the stage for our discussion of “Dear Average Height People,” a film Katrina is producing by director Aubrey Smalls. As far as Aubrey and Katrina know, this is the very first documentary comedy special to be directed and produced by people with Dwarfism. In fact, they haven’t been able to find ANY films, shows, or specials created by people with Dwarfism and urgently want that to change. 

The film is about dwarfism, disability hate groups, agency, and freedom. It portrays a global network of people with dwarfism who may live far away from each other, but who live in deep solidarity. It illustrates the way obsessive hate groups target and harass people with Dwarfism online, as well as how platforms like Youtube encourage violence and monetize torment.  It also depicts how talented, beautiful, funny, and diverse the Dwarfism community is around the world. 

Listen to hear Katrina’s many insights about beauty, bodies, surveillance, her bone to pick with Stephen Spielberg, Britney Spears, L’Express, Diane Arbus, inhalants, and more… 

“People experience epiphanies with me every day… every hour if I allowed it,” Katrina says. 

Follow Katrina on IG, Twitter, Twitch, and Youtube. Please consider contributing what you can to “Dear Average Height People.” Pledge your support on Indiegogo here.  Production crew volunteers, exhibition and performance spaces, and community partners are also welcome to donate resources. 

+ For more Katrina on the pod, listen to our Britney Spears episode from 2021. 

Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7. 

Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal, and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. Write me: [email protected]

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Haewon Asfaw and Ale Lemus are friends, abolitionists, and pop culture enthusiasts. In this episode, they explain how practicing abolition together informs the way they watch their favorite Bravo shows together, especially The Real Housewives. Whether you’ve watched every episode of every franchise or have never seen the show, our conversation is for you. 

Listen to hear Haewon and Ale use real relationships from The Real Housewives to articulate ideas about conflict, punishment, and revenge. Using memorable moments from the Bravo canon, they also dissect capitalism, individualism and white dominant culture.  

Haewon offers a working definition of abolition and advocates for the need to study whiteness as a mental health issue. Ale discusses intergenerational healing in the Bravoverse and makes me cackle with comments like, “Big Kathy is a figure that looms large in Beverly Hills.”

Plus, they tell me about valuing your relationships as your currency and finding your resources within them. Listen for a fun meditation on celebrity culture and the cult of Bravo.  

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Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. 

Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. 

Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7. 

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Rachael Finley is the author of the new book “Nobody Ever Told Me Anything,” a memoir and survival guide detailing her highly isolated childhood in South Florida and unique coming-of-age experience online. 

She tells me about exploring the duality of women through writing about her mother, surviving her 11-year-old year squatting alone in a vacation rental while her mom sought out mental health treatment, and broadening her horizons by hanging out at the mall. 

At the mall, she met strangers for the first time and began experimenting with the parts of herself she thought the world should know and the parts they shouldn’t… tailor-fitting parts of herself for an audience… a lifelong experiment that led her to write this unfiltered book.

Follow Rachael on IG @instasteak and buy her book on Shop Hot Lava here. 

Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode.  

Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. 

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Hi! Michelle Badillo is back. Watch her as Winnie, the sardonic astrologist in the latest season of "Search Party," streaming now on HBO Max. Michelle has also written for beloved shows including "One Day at a Time," "The Bold Time,"  "The Great North" and more. Watch her new project, "A League of Their Own," this August. 

We talk about our relationship and individual writing practices. Lots of chit-chat and tabloid musings. I drink a Coca-Cola and say Lacan when I mean Kristeva. I sound square despite my desire for narcotic freedom for all...fentanyl crisis much? 

Recorded on 5/27/22 at Pirate Studios Silverlake.
Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing.  

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