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The older people say that dy mn gen mn?; beyond the mountains there are also other cities. Those cities are fading. Those mountains are fading too, because the soil is no longer rich and they expose their stony bones, bleached by wind and storm,...
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Three-quarters of the Style Council needed to get out of Dodge, and what better place to escape to than the wide-open spaces of Joshua Tree, a magical place where time seems to stand still and where locals claim the vastness has created homegrown te...
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Say the words "sound bath" and people get nervous. They're sure nudity is involved; definitely some chanting; and probably crystals. But Joanne Karl told me a sound bath is simply "nap time for adults." And who couldn't use a nap? The Style Council ...
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People who live in the desert are not normal. They have names like Timber, Trippy and Jesika von Rabbit. They drive down roads called Kickapoo and Foxy Flats. They make art, take psychedelics and watch for UFOs in the sky (an entirely apropos activi...
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As soon as we pulled into Pioneertown, I felt like I had come home. My instant attraction was most likely the result of a childhood over-identification with "Half Pint." Like the Little House on the Prairie heroine, with her buckteeth and freckles, ...
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"I never show up before lunch," said Christopher James, a Northern Californian recently relocated to Los Angeles by way of a decade in New York, as well as a back-country skier and a dedicated mountaineer. He is also a Mount Baldy devotee, and organ...
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It's been 20 years since I vowed never to see Bob Dylan again. He'd just muddled his way through a packed show with the Grateful Dead at the Minneapolis Metrodome.
"Man, his voice is really shot," said my friend Janise later over 3.2 beer at some d...
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Remember when the most interesting thing about the Roosevelt was the red sign on its roof? Then along came Amanda Scheer-Demme. Seemingly overnight, the nightlife entrepreneur transformed the hotel on Hollywood Boulevard into paparazzi heaven, creat...
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THIS HERE'S A SAD, SAD STORY about Hank Praml and what he did with his long and luxurious life until he got pulled up to heaven, so if you don't have it in you to digest such a story right now, you might want to set it aside and watch your Fox News ...
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CAA PRESIDENT RICHARD LOVETT has long hero-worshipped scoundrel genius Mark McCormack and the business-is-war ethos of the founder of IMG -- that sports-modeling-authors-whomever global-management mega-giant. Everyone at CAA, Hollywood's most arroga...
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{mosimage}FRIDAY, April 14
He has returned -- Cedric the Entertainer, that is. Let's all forgive him for The Honeymooners and praise the man in the fedora. C the E does a funny bit about Al Green's "Love and Happiness." He says what makes it a grea...
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by
Mr. Fish
on April 13, 2006
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AND THE MARCHERS kept marching.
Up and down the coasts, through the deserts and mountain country, in the Deep South, all over the Northeast and in the plains, on Broadway in New York City, by the hundreds of thousands on the Mall in Washington, and...
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A HANDFUL OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS are propped up against the wall of the Koreatown apartment. A black skateboard, its wheels removed in memory of a young tenant, sits in front of a temporary wood door at unit 357. The smell of smoke and burned flesh ...
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THE YIS' DEATH ON MARCH 3 was the first of many violent acts to plague the Korean-American community in the last five weeks.
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THE 58-YEAR-OLD KOREAN-AMERICAN storeowner was talking to his sister on the telephone when his wife frantically interrupted him. Two teenagers had just stolen five cans of spray paint from their discount store in a Filipinotown mini-mall. In-Taek Kw...
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THE CANDLELIGHT CAST from the thousands who flooded La Placita Monday night illuminated a remarkable new American political reality: a national immigrant civil rights movement of truly tidal proportions.
And, most inspiring, one that has mightily o...
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