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Joshua Tree

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Was James Dean Gay? 'Joshua Tree, 1951' Takes an Unblinking Look at Legendary Actor

    On Thursday, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, a stylized, intriguing film about James Dean before he becomes a major movie star, premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival. Los Angeles-based and openly gay director Matthew Mishory, who examines Dean's gay leanings, talked with ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2012

    Still in Hollywood

    On Thursday, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, a stylized, intriguing film about James Dean before he becomes a major movie star, premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival. Los Angeles-based and openly gay director Matthew Mishory, who examines Dean's gay leanings, talked with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Market: The Many Colors of Rhubarb

    Rhubarb doesn't do well in L.A. gardens. The sleeping rhizomes that sit dormant underground in winter need many chilly days and nights in order to even think about poking above ground in spring. Freezing, chilly weather doesn't help either, as they are barely frost tolerant. Their ideal situation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/12-12/16

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The invasion of the small plates is not finished, oh no. It is marching down our streets and avenues, invading our towns and villages, leaving behind nothing in its wake but duck-slider crumbs, rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2011

    Camper Van Beethoven - Pappy's And Harriet's in Joshua Tree - 9-16-11

    Joel Sheposh​Camper Van Beethoven, Gram Rabbit Pappy's and Harriet's September 17, 2011 Better Than: Seeing Camper Van Beethoven in boring old L.A. When Camper van Beethoven was a hot alterna-band at the beginning of their career in the mid-'80s, David Lowery sang with the defiant nasal snee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    5 Movies To Keep You From Destroying Your Relationship This Summer

    Bonjour Tristesse​ It's almost July, which means its time to give up on any semblance of productivity at work and start plotting your escape. If you're half a couple, this list should guide you in your quest to make your relationship last through summer vacation. If you're single, or if, like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    U2's Edge Sees His Malibu Hilltop Mansions Rejected: He 'Can't be Serious About Being an Environmentalist'

    The 'bu-hoo-tee.​U2 guitarist The Edge finally found what he's looking for: Five mansions along a ridge he owns in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu's Surfrider Beach. But even though there are no sacred Joshua trees along the ridge, the California Coastal Commission rejected the develo ... More >>

  • Music

    February 24, 2011

    L.A. Folk People: Feather

    The 'bu-hoo-tee.​U2 guitarist The Edge finally found what he's looking for: Five mansions along a ridge he owns in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu's Surfrider Beach. But even though there are no sacred Joshua trees along the ridge, the California Coastal Commission rejected the develo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    RIP: The Lost LA Music Venues of 2010

    LA City Hall: Now in the business of shutting down harmless art and music spaces (boo!)​ First they came for the raves, then they came for the medical marijuana dispensaries, and then they came for the Echo Curio. At least we can now breathe a sigh of relief that no one will ever abuse Ecstacy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    This weekend: HARD Haunted Mansion, Ninja Tune 20th Anniversary, KCRW Masquerade, Of Montreal, Stone Temple Pilots

    Perou.co.ukUnderworld​Whether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Ed Rosenthal, L.A. Dealmaker Involved In Clifton's Cafeteria And Old Bank District, Recuperating After Six Days Lost In Joshua Tree National Park

    Associated Press​Downtown Los Angeles movers and shakers are abuzz about the survival of Ed Rosenthal, a real estate deal-maker and sometime poet who wandered Joshua Tree National Park lost for six days, so sure he was dead that he wrote his will out on a hiking hat. Rosenthal, credited by some w ... More >>

  • Music

    September 30, 2010

    The Sausage Stand at the Echo

    A music innovator and sound impressionist gets inspired by the life customizers of Echo Park

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Party in the Desert! Party in the Desert!: Lineup for 2010 Manimal Festival Announced

    ​The schedule for October 2nd is ready early but in good time to get to know some of the crazy sounds Manimal Vinyl has put together for this year's festival. Tickets are available for $18 in advance or $20 at the door on Oct 2, 2010 at Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Saloon in a dusty desert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Tonight: The Dead Weather, the Gaslight Anthem, Rihanna, Keane, Gram Rabbit, Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants

    Floria SigismondiThe Dead Weather​What can we say about the Dead Weather that you don't already know? That they really really could have done better on the video for "Blue Blood Blues?" That Jack White covering "Creep" with Conan O'Brien was stranger than fiction? That Alison Mosshart has a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Producer Daniel Lanois in Intensive Care after LA Motorcycle Accident

    ​The NME reports that producer and performer Daniel Lanois, known for his atmospheric collaborations with Brian Eno, U2 and Bob Dylan, suffered a motorcycle accident in LA that forced him to postpone a UK tour. The report is not specific as to the details: The Quebec-born musician/producer, b ... More >>

  • Music

    May 13, 2010

    Music Picks: Jail Weddings, Summer Darling, Roky Erickson, Jonathan Richman

    Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Ever Wondered How "World Music" Got Its Awkward Name?

    We are the World (Music)​Music, as Madonna wisely pointed out, makes the people come together (it also apparently makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel. Oh, Madonna...). But the endless, relentless, unmanageable offer of music that the invention of recording unleashed in the very late 19th centu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2009

    I'M IN A DEPECHE MODE -- YOU TOO?

    We are the World (Music)​Music, as Madonna wisely pointed out, makes the people come together (it also apparently makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel. Oh, Madonna...). But the endless, relentless, unmanageable offer of music that the invention of recording unleashed in the very late 19th centu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Manimal Festival Fights Through Bitter Cold to Triumph (Mostly)

    "It's a little Beyond Thunderdome out here, isn't it?" So spaketh Ivory "Black Powder" Lee of WEAVE!, bedecked in strange spandex and looking not unlike Tina Turner's Aunty Entity. Her band's performance -- a percussive mix of African rhythms, post-punk basslines, and shouted or shrugged-off vocals ... More >>

  • LA Life

    June 11, 2009

    Solutions for the Freshly Freelance

    The "I don't love the inside of my car that much" edition

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    Proposition 7: The Most Confusing

    Why environmentalists are against the solar-power measure

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Over the Weekend: Beck at the Bowl, Man Man Taco Fiesta, and Anniversary of Gram Parsons' Death

    I've never welcomed a Monday with more relief. Over the weekend, pre-Emmy parties on Friday and Saturday crowded Hollywood, while the actual ceremony on Sunday at the Nokia made living downtown a pain the ass for anyone like me who wasn't glued to a television. Plus, we got a shock Saturday morning ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2008

    Word on the Street

    I've never welcomed a Monday with more relief. Over the weekend, pre-Emmy parties on Friday and Saturday crowded Hollywood, while the actual ceremony on Sunday at the Nokia made living downtown a pain the ass for anyone like me who wasn't glued to a television. Plus, we got a shock Saturday morning ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 26, 2008

    The "It" Parade

    Jennifer Steinkamp, Andrea Zittel

  • Music

    November 22, 2007

    Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

    For the week of November 23 - 29

  • Music

    August 2, 2007

    Moon Men

    Echo Park psych-rockers feel connected to it all

  • Art+Books

    April 12, 2007

    Be Your Own Guinea Pig

    Entering Andrea Zittel’s “Critical Space”

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2006

    Killer Fashion Instincts

    Quick: name that band. Who is it, the latest art damaged country punks to stagger out of Joshua Tree? Some long lost side project of J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Neil Young? The Devendra Banhart fan club? Any way you look at 'em, their beards are impressive: it takes a long time, and a total dis ... More >>

  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    Heady Metal, Britain's Favorite DJ, and a Defense of Americana's Best Killers

    Quick: name that band. Who is it, the latest art damaged country punks to stagger out of Joshua Tree? Some long lost side project of J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Neil Young? The Devendra Banhart fan club? Any way you look at 'em, their beards are impressive: it takes a long time, and a total dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2006

    What Happend to My Piece of The Cake?

    How far I have come from the Van Nuys Motel 6. Almost right where I started, give or take a few blocks. Since then, a friend (ok, my ex-boyfriend) took my dog cross country. Stevie (my four legged dog child) has been to San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and today swam (or tried to) in a river in Mon ... More >>

  • Music

    June 8, 2006

    Kids in the Mall

    How far I have come from the Van Nuys Motel 6. Almost right where I started, give or take a few blocks. Since then, a friend (ok, my ex-boyfriend) took my dog cross country. Stevie (my four legged dog child) has been to San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and today swam (or tried to) in a river in Mon ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 13, 2006

    Bloody Bunnies

    How far I have come from the Van Nuys Motel 6. Almost right where I started, give or take a few blocks. Since then, a friend (ok, my ex-boyfriend) took my dog cross country. Stevie (my four legged dog child) has been to San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and today swam (or tried to) in a river in Mon ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 13, 2006

    Hijinks in the High Desert

    The Style Council visits Joshua Tree, oh, and they hear there’s a park there . . .

  • News

    April 6, 2006

    Astroturf Wars

    The fight is on to halt a subdivision near Joshua Tree

  • LA Life

    March 30, 2006

    What a Fool Believes

    The fight is on to halt a subdivision near Joshua Tree

  • Columns

    March 2, 2006

    Master of the Off-Chance

    The fight is on to halt a subdivision near Joshua Tree

  • Music

    February 2, 2006

    Run Run Run

    Local bands, man

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2005

    Missing El Lay

    Eating the culture of resistance

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    Crispy Critters

    Eating the culture of resistance

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    Letters

    Eating the culture of resistance

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    What’s Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

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

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    The Fight for Eagle Mountain

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

  • Art+Books

    July 31, 2003

    Compound Interest

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

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    Letters

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

  • Art+Books

    May 29, 2003

    Birth of a Notion

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

  • Stage

    October 31, 2002

    Burning Gram

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

  • Stage

    May 9, 2002

    Present and Future Shock

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

  • Music

    February 14, 2002

    Ring of the Fellowship

    High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

  • Columns

    October 11, 2001

    In Character

    The mayor of Joshua Tree

  • LA Life

    April 13, 2000

    Get a Piece of the Rock

    The mayor of Joshua Tree

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