In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it.The other day, a duck flew into our backyard, in one of the canyons of Highland Park. A big white duck. It just dropped out of the sky, in the middle of this huge, inhospitable city.I k ... More >>
Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Here's some news sure to hearten the laid-off crew of Two and a Half Men. According to local boy Dr. Frank McCoy's ... More >>
Erin BroadleySlash... not on a jet to VegasThere's an old photograph in Slash's autobiography of him and actor Charlie Sheen on a private jet, where they're probably headed to Las Vegas. Sheen wears the guitar legend's signature black top hat and mugs for the camera, while Slash, Heineken in ... More >>
Plus, defining pinche
By slaying troubled black women, LA's worst serial killer operated invisibly for years
Longford looks back on a British lord and the murderess who captured his heart
Allan MacDonell survives 20 years at Hustler
Uniting underground L.A. hip-hop, Chuck D. and some guy from Linkin Park, Z-Trip’s debut shocks, awes
The Saddest Music in the World’s surreally funny sob story
The greatest stories ever dramaturged
Stage odes to a hard-boiled past
A.J. Langguth’s new history
Southern California on film
The strange world of Patricia Highsmith
A critic wonders where it all went wrong
Xerox's father of necessity
