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Death Valley

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    February 2, 2012

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Brendan Gleeson doubles up

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 9, 2009

    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

  • Blogs

    May 8, 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 ac ... More >>

  • News

    October 9, 2008

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

    Weston Dewalt's amazing year

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    Manson Clan Body Dig Underway

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

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 in ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 8, 2007

    Attention Squared

    Zen and the art of Vija Celmins

  • LA Life

    December 28, 2006

    The Glass Menagerie

    Bar Keeper and one mans cocktail-style revival

  • Columns

    November 30, 2006

    Eco-Club Chic

    Bar Keeper and one mans cocktail-style revival

  • News

    November 30, 2006

    Welcome to The Dungeon

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

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    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 Americas first stud farm

  • Promotions

    April 20, 2006

    A Race for Life

    Adventure racer Louise Cooper

  • News

    March 23, 2006

    The Eternal Dustbowl

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

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    They Also Served

    So long, Mojave burros

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Of Rocks, Creeks and Broom-Tailed Horses

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

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    Whats Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

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

  • Columns

    August 28, 2003

    Mock the Vote

    The recall gets game

  • Art+Books

    July 17, 2003

    Weird Scenes From the Darkroom

    Edward Westons legacy, and the strange days of Gary Winogrand, William Eggleston and Diane Arbus

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Ill-Suited for War

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

  • Columns

    May 23, 2002

    Over and Out

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

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Hurry Sunrise

    Hollywoods last act before daybreak

  • Art+Books

    December 21, 2000

    LACMA Soup

    Condensed cream of Made in California, part two

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    Mastodons of the Universe

    Crushing rock with queens of the stone age

  • Art+Books

    June 8, 2000

    Hoop Dreams

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

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Hollywood, Straight Up

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

  • Film+TV

    November 18, 1999

    Pixel This

    Digital filmmaking, part two

  • LA Life

    April 2, 1998

    Off the Strip:

    A Guide to Weird Las Vegas

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