Birkenstock Sandals

In Jobs, Ashton Kutcher Almost Reveals the Man Beyond the Devices

Brit Marling Saves the World From the World-Savers, in The East

City Hall Park Rules on Occupy Anniversary: No Tents, Booze or Campfires

Today is the one-year anniversary of Occupy LA's takeover of the City Hall lawn. After many city leaders, including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, praised the movement's alliance with the "99 percent" of Americans who don't own banks, the demonstrators were unceremoniously and, in a few cases, violent ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List The history of Los Angeles punk is largely composed of a series ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: 20-11

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List The history of Los Angeles punk is largely composed of a series ... More >>

Willoughby Britton at the Buddhist Geeks Conference, on the Problem with Meditation

​ The Buddhist Geeks conference is filled with, well, geeks. Who happen to be Buddhists. Who happen to be meeting on a recent Saturday for a conference in Rosemead to share their common afflictions. There's nothing crunchy here -- no handwritten signs, no dreads, no Birkenstocks. These techno ... More >>

Best Muesli: Hans Röckenwagner's Bircher Muesli A Recipe

A. ScattergoodMuesli at Röckenwagner Santa Monica Bakery/Café, ​ Granola, it seems, comes in and out of style, with or without yogurt and Birkenstocks. The same can be said for oatmeal, various health claims notwithstanding. But muesli is in its own category, maybe too odd and European to b ... More >>

Annotating the SXSW Audience

Annotated SXSW Audience

Some In Santa Monica Want To See Smoking Banned In Apartments

The Regal Beagle.​How times change. They used to call it the Republic of Santa Monica because our little city by the bay was so crunchy liberal you could barely throw a rock without hitting a pair of Birkenstocks or an unkempt beard. It was the home of Three's Company (and the Regal Beagle), T ... More >>

Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

Crocs Shoe Company Survives, And Thus Mario Batali's Shoe Collection

This happy news just in via @thefoodsection: Crocs will stay in business. And thus Mario Batali (Mozza, Babbo, empire) will not need to switch to Birkenstocks, for which we are all grateful. On Wednesday the troubled shoe company, which has been trying to orchestrate a turnaround (you try pirouettin ... More >>

Reznor Nails It One Last Time

JOAN BAEZ SINGS OUT FOR IRAN

Old memories and new causes are saluted at her Santa Monica Pier performance.

Composting: What to do with Really Fallen Fruit, Bad Take-out, Old Old Media

If you cook at home a lot, if you have kids who can't feed everything they won't eat to their dog, if you have a garden or would like to, if you have an orange tree that catapults its fruit faster than you can make marmalade, if you've spent any time at all contemplating the landfill univer ... More >>

Howling Over "Wolf Songs" and other letters

Strike Struck, Oscar Lives!

What to do in L.A., Feb. 22-28

Living Like Ed

Trash and Class

Fashion Week’s return to form

Smashbox Day Three: GREY ANT RETURNS!!

Grey Ant hasn't been seen on an LA runway since 2005. And thank God for its return! It was my favorite show so far this fashion week. It seemed to incorporate the ecological zeitgeist of our post- An Inconvenient Truth lives. It was hippy but through a Japanese filter. It was future-bohemian— t ... More >>

Tapping the Source

The way they lived: Excerpts from Isis Aquarian's cult chronicle

Attack of the Alterna-Parents

Erika Schickel and Neal Pollack have kids, and tell us all about it

Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

Big Bird’s Slippery Slope

Can the condor survive more oil?

Beautiful People: I’m Your Biggest-Paid Fan

Character of the Happy Warrior

The education of Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen

Slush

Edited by Kateri Butler

Smell Tha Noize

L7: You can take white thrash anywhere

Unforgettable

The Venice High School Prom