Death Valley

Baker Thermometer, World's Tallest, For Sale For $1.75 Mil Of Your Vegas Jackpot

That thermometer you pass on the way to Las Vegas is an icon for every real-life Hangover and Fear And Loathing adventure ever. And now you can put it in the trunk of your road-trip convertible and take it home if you so desire. All you need for the World's Tallest Thermometer a.k.a. the World's L ... More >>

49: The Dodger Dog at Dodger Stadium

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 49: The Dodger Dog at Dodger Stadium. Are Dodger Dogs the best hot dogs in L.A.? Um, no. Not even remotely close. But often the success of a dish depends more ... More >>

Death Valley Now Officially Hotter Than Libya, Former Record-Holder for Hottest Place on Earth

Southern California is giving the Middle East a run for its money this week, in the arena of hottest sociopolitical scandal: In case you missed it, a group of L.A.-area filmmakers and apparent anti-Muslim zealots have singlehandedly thrown international relations into a state of upheaval. And now, ... More >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

Flex Alert For California Electricity as Heat Wave Peaks in L.A.

Today is expected to be the hottest day of Southern California's blistering heat wave, which the National Weather Service predicted could bring temps as high as 126 to Death Valley. The state's electricity-grid operator, Cal-ISO, issued a "Flex Alert" for all of California through Sunday with the h ... More >>

Heat Wave Comes to Southern California: 126 Degrees Expected in Death Valley

Updated at the bottom with Southern California Edison urging us to conserve energy. First posted at 7 a.m. The June gloom sticking to our coastline well into August had you down, and you were waiting for summer to finally arrive? Better late than never: The National Weather Service this week issu ... More >>

Arizona Nutjob Sheriff Joe Arpaio Bringing His Drivel to Beverly Hills

There goes the neighborhood. Self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" and aging crackpot Joe Arpaio will be bringing his special brand of media whoring from Phoenix, Arizona, to Beverly Hills on Friday. Arpaio's endorsing Phil Liberatore, a mustachioed conservative facing off in the Republican ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Brendan Gleeson doubles up

I Spent Friday Night Drinking Beer and Seeing Bands at the Zoo

Ben WesthoffThe Steelwells​My wife and I went to "Brew at the Zoo" on Friday night. We and scads of beer aficionados -- which I call bullshit on, but more on that later -- sampled "craft" beers, peered at animals and saw some music. It wasn't Friday night jazz at LACMA, but it was something. ... More >>

Jo Babcock Makes Pinhole Cameras with a Band-Aid Tin, Lucky Strike Pack and Mailbox (Pics)

Tucked beneath a veil of vines at the quaint Duncan Miller Gallery, photographer Jo Babcock's 22-piece first ever solo exhibition is more than just your average picture show. Under the framed photographs neatly hanging across the cream colored walls lie typewriters, ancient coffee machines, a letter ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Geoff Nicholson of Psycho Gourmet

Geoff NicholsonPortrait of the writer with a dead goose​When asked about Volkswagens -- the subject of a trilogy of his novels -- writer Geoff Nicholson says "Well, I just kind of like 'em is all." Nicholson mainly writes novels, but he's got a blog about walking, an addendum to his book abo ... More >>

Sonic Youth at the Wiltern: Killing the Kalifornia Girls

View more photos in Timothy Norris' Sonic Youth slideshow. There was Kim in sequins and Thurston in a conservative plaid button-down, same as always, give or take. He in jeans and basketball high-tops like he was on the way to a bookstore or something; she moaning, strumming and swinging and headed ... More >>

Beautiful Loser, Tortured Killer

How Two Veterans of the L.A. Punk Scene Wound Up on a Collision Course, Until Only One Was Left Standing

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 ac ... More >>

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

Weston Dewalt's amazing year

Pitchfork Festival Day 1-The Airing of Grievances

A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes and Noble, spitting ... More >>

Manson Clan Body Dig Underway

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

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 an ... More >>

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 in ... More >>

Attention Squared

Zen and the art of Vija Celmins

The Glass Menagerie

Bar Keeper and one man�s cocktail-style revival

Eco-Club Chic

Welcome to The Dungeon

Basted days and nights in a 20th-century dormitory basement

The Heidi Chronicles

In which our heroes survive roadside breakdowns, barren deserts, abandoned towns, a brothel war, and an assortment of cowboys, pimps and angry locals on the road to America�s first stud farm

A Race for Life

Adventure racer Louise Cooper

The Eternal Dustbowl

Paying for the sins of L.A.�s water barons has created a half-billion-dollar boondoggle

They Also Served

So long, Mojave burros

Of Rocks, Creeks and Broom-Tailed Horses

Will California’s own wild mustangs ever return to Coyote Canyon? Should they?

What�s Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

Fire, smog, golf courses . . . and maybe even coffee-loving, rock-climbing hipsters like you

Mock the Vote

The recall gets game

Weird Scenes From the Darkroom

Edward Weston�s legacy, and the strange days of Gary Winogrand, William Eggleston and Diane Arbus

Ill-Suited for War

If the Bush administration is right about Iraq�s chemical and biological weapons, why is it sending American troops into battle so unprepared?

Over and Out

Hurry Sunrise

Hollywood�s last act before daybreak

LACMA Soup

Condensed cream of �Made in California,� part two

Mastodons of the Universe

Crushing rock with queens of the stone age

Hoop Dreams

Ian Frazier on SuAnne Big Crow, Sherman Alexie and life on the rez

Hollywood, Straight Up

The craps-shooting cop, the hungarian brawl and other stories from Steve Boardner's bar

Pixel This

Digital filmmaking, part two

Off the Strip:

A Guide to Weird Las Vegas