Subject: Charles Manson

• Beverly Hills Matchmaker Spills about Manson Family Member Susan Atkins

  In the summer of 1969, Susan Atkins stabbed to death a pregnant Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. Later, Atkins told fellow inmate and Beverly Hills matchmaker Virginia Graham that the 26-year-old actress begged for her life and the life of her unborn child. “She told me this thing with great glee,” said Graham who shared a dorm room with Atkins at the Sybil Brand Institute for Women in the fall of 1969. After killing Tate, prosecutors said Atkins tasted

  June 16, 2008

• Parole Anyone? Chilling Details Emerge from Susan Atkins’ Last Prison Hearing

  June 17, 2008

• Los Angeles District Attorney Opposes “Compassionate Release” for Charles Manson Follower Susan Atkins

  The state Board of Parole Hearings will decide today whether they will grant Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins “compassionate release.” Atkins, 60, reportedly has terminal brain cancer and her bid for “compassionate release” will be one of two cases considered as part of a regularly scheduled monthly board meeting. The other case involves inmate Robert Ramirez, a convicted burglar and three-striker who was sentenced to 35-years in prison in 1995. He is 41. S

  July 15, 2008

• Charles Manson Follower Susan Atkins Denied “Compassionate Release”

  The state Board of Parole Hearings on Tuesday denied a request for “compassionate release” to Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins who is dying of brain cancer. In the summer of 1969, Atkins stabbed to death a pregnant Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. After killing Tate, prosecutors said Atkins tasted the actress' blood and used it to scrawl “PIG” on her front door. On that dreadful August 9 night, the Manson Family also killed

  July 17, 2008

• Last Prison Hearing of Manson Follower Susan Atkins

  The LA Weekly recently took a peek at last month’s state Board of Parole Hearings transcript in which Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins was denied “compassionate release.” In May, Atkins’ husband asked for “compassionate release” for his wife because she is dying from brain cancer and has less than three months to live. In the summer of 1969, Atkins stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate a gruesome 16 times at Tate’s Benedict Canyon mansion. After killing Tate, pro

  August 14, 2008

• Luxury SUV Comes to Complete Stop

  February 1, 2001

• A 12-Step Program in Self-Reliance

  June 28, 2001

• From There to Here: Starman Envy

  December 20, 2001

• L.A.'s Five Most Powerful Cult Leaders

  October 28, 2008

• Today in Photographs: December 29, 1970

  Charlie's AngelsCharles Manson followers Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten and Susan Atkins make their way to trial at the Hall of Justice in the Tate-La Bianca murder trial.Below: Mr. Manson makes a separate entrance. Photos: Herald-Examiner/LAPL Photo Collection

  December 29, 2008

• Is It Helter Skelter for Manson Girl Susan Atkins?

  Susan Atkins, who is suffering from brain cancer, will be lucky to see the end of the year. In September, prison authorities quietly moved the 60-year-old Charles Manson follower (who has her own Web page) from an undisclosed hospital in Southern California to the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. The most likely scenario is that doctors determined that they couldn't do anything more for Atkins who,  last spring, was only given three months to live. The Central California W

  December 29, 2008

• Manson Anniversary Song

  As reported here yesterday by Christine Pelisek, Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins has been sent to a prison hospice to die from incurable brain cancer. Atkins was convicted in 1971 of murder for participating in an eight-death homicide spree carried out by the Manson Family in 1969. That summer of carnage included the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Atkins was denied a "compassionate release" from a state parole board last July, ensuring that she will die behind bars. It is 39 years

  December 30, 2008

• A Pasadena Author Researching Jogging Trails Cracks an Old Serial-Killer Case

  October 9, 2008

• Art Around Town

  Hans Burkhardt and Marco Brambilla, plus Patricia Faure RIP

  October 30, 2008

• Neil Young's Topanga Years Well Represented on Upcoming Archives Release

  Among the songs coming out on the centuries-in-the-making Neil Young Archives 1963-1972 box set that's coming out at the beginning of June are three entire discs of material the songwriter created during his incredibly fruitful period in the late 1960s and early 11970s. Writer Jimmy McDonough, in his Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, highlights a lot of little details from that time. Writes McDonough: "At some point Young parked his ass on the couch at David Brigg's ranch at 1174 Old Topanga Roa

  March 24, 2009

• A Bunch of Smart, Funny Women, and Taylor Negron

  What to do in L.A., December 12-18

  December 11, 2008

• I'll Sit, But I Won't Spin

  December 11, 2008

• Witness From the Prosecution

  November 6, 2008

• Juxtapalooza

  The Lowbrow sickness continues to spread, from Burbank to Laguna

  September 11, 2008

• Sunny and Mild: Getting to Know Our Fair-Weather Friends of Local News

  Or, how Ted Turner saved Dallas Raines from network hell

  June 5, 2008

• Dial M for Madonna

  Ciccone in my dreams; Heffing good time; Topanga happening

  May 29, 2008

• Manson Clan Body Dig Underway

  A rural cop convinces Inyo County to probe a remote ranch. Global media descend

  May 22, 2008

• Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

  Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

  February 21, 2008

• Throbbing Gristle's 33rd Annual Report

  They coined the genre name Industrial, foresaw acid house and pushed electronic noise into distant orbits. A legendary art quartet returns to Southern California

  April 16, 2009

• Stone, Warm, Sober

  From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the �60s and today

  January 18, 2007

• Rock Picks

  May 3, 2007

• Halloweekend

  November 2, 2006

• Music Picks

  July 20, 2006

• Bloody Bunnies

  April 13, 2006

• Hipsters Must Die

  10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

  January 5, 2006

• Who�ll Stop the Reign?

  February 3, 2005

• The Napoleon of Terror

  July 29, 2004

• Pettibon in the Sky

  November 20, 2003

• Apocalypse Culture Now

  June 6, 2002

• Land and LAPD Scapes

  September 20, 2001

• All You Need Is Weed

  July 12, 2001

• Hollywood Requiem

  February 8, 2001

• Hoop Dreams

  June 8, 2000

• Walls of Silence

  September 16, 1999

• Murder in a Santa Monica Squat

  August 5, 1999

• Wavemakers

  July 1, 1999

• Death Takes a Meeting

  September 3, 1998

• Off the Strip:

  April 2, 1998

• J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009

  BY MARK DERY The British novelist J.G. Ballard, author of Crash, Empire of the Sun, and Miracles of Life, among other books, died Sunday, April 19, after a protracted battle with prostate cancer. Ballard is gone, wheels-up from the abandoned airstrip of our imaginations, but his coiled brilliance will lie in waiting for just the right unsuspecting teenager -- and there's always one, in every suburb -- who opens Crash to read the unforgettable lines, "Vaughan died yesterday in his last car c

  April 20, 2009

• Charles Manson's Hide-Away Gutted in Suspicious Fire

  Charles Manson's former remote hide-out has been gutted in a suspicious fire, according to the Death Valley National Park Service. Authorities are not sure whether Barker Ranch, famous for being Manson's last home before he was nabbed by police for the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, was torched accidentally or if someone maliciously tried to burn down the 70-year old mining cabin. "It has been burned," said Terry Baldino, chief of interpretation at Death Valley National Park. "All we know is a

  May 8, 2009

• Manson Dig Officially Over

  Inyo County sheriff investigators officially called off the dig for human remains Wednesday at remote Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Manson and his followers. Investigators reported that 20 law enforcement officials and scientists using portable ground penetrating radar, lasers and Alternate Light Source technology found no bodies after two-days of relentless digging. On May 20, law enforcement agencies, shadowed by a small army of local and international reporters, descende

  May 21, 2008

• No Human Remains Found yet at Manson Dig

  So far…nada. Inyo County sheriff investigators reported today that they have not found any bodies yet at Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Manson and his followers. “One bullet casing was found in the site,” said Inyo County Sheriff’s Lt. Jim Jones,” but forensic testing indicates that there were no human remains in or around that site.” The .38 caliber casing was found just two inches below the surface of the first dig site. Investigators also found remnants of

  May 21, 2008

• Sly Stone Interviewed on KCRW: Discusses Doris Day, Terry Melcher, Charles Manson and "Que Sera Sera."

  Sly Stone, riding high in LA Sly Stone was interviewed by Chris Douridas on Morning Becomes Eclectic this morning, and though there were a few missed opportunities -- we want to know about his archives and unreleased stuff, and didn't think it necessary to dwell so much on his early years when that part of his life has been so well-documented -- overall it made for some fascinating and informative radio. Stone was affable if a little mumbly, quick to laugh and eager to tell stories. On the fo

  May 25, 2009

• HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS

  July 9, 2009

• The Last Supper: Mansonites Converge at El Coyote

  August 13, 2009