Nevada

Burning Man Expects Nearly 70,000, Gets New Federal Permit

Nevada's Burning Man has had its battles over permits, fees and capacity. So far it seems to be winning. L.A.'s favorite desert party has been approved by federal authorities for four more years contingent on a few terms. Not only that, it has a new, government-approved capacity that organizers onc ... More >>

Trashed: Music Festivals Are Environmental Disasters

What can be done?

Ka Pasasouk: Four Suspects Arrested in Northridge Quadruple Homicide

Updated with new details at the bottom. Spelling of suspects' names has been fixed; the headline has been updated to include the ID of the homicide suspect. First posted at 4:10 p.m. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced that suspects have been arrested in connection with the horrific weekend murder of ... More >>

Burning Man Arrests Are Mellow in 2012

Arrests outside this year's Burning Man festival near Black Rock, Nevada were pretty tame considering the psychedelic action within. The party ended last week but the stats are now just trickling in. They include four felony drug arrests for unknown substances, Washoe County Sheriff's Deputy Armand ... More >>

Burning Man Getting Smoked Out by California Wildfires? Reports Overblown ...

Burning Man attendees are used to getting stinky, dirty and even smokey as the eponymous hombre is eventually torched. But this year their lungs might be exposed to a different kind of smoke, and not the good kind either. As the annual festival in Black Rock, Nevada opened this week, two major blaz ... More >>

Michael Heizer's Double Negative: A Journey to a Land Art Landmark

How I learned to stop worrying and love man-made gashes in the earth

Asians Are Taking Over America

By presidential proclamation, it's Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. And on that note, let us reflect upon the latest U.S. Census statistics, which show that ... Asians are taking over America! And you thought Latinos knew how to procreate and or get into the United States? Check out these fa ... More >>

In Search of Curly Fries, Like They Have in Missouri

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​Dear Mr. Gold: I have a hankering for some grease. I would like it to come in the form of a "brick" of Susie-Q french fries. I don't want any of these wimpy curly fries people talk about, looking like lost potato eyelashes on the plate. None of this ... More >>

Video: Burning Man Time-Lapse Imagery Fails to Capture Hippie Smells

CuriousJosh​You thought Burning Man as seen from space was a trip. Some YouTuber recently posted a time-lapse video of the hippy dippy action at the Playa near Black Rock, Nevada, and from the looks of it you wouldn't know this was the dirty, debaucherous, bacchanalian rave it has come to be. ... More >>

Facebook Friends, Change.org Rally to Prevent Deportation of Man They Don't Even Know

An L.A. college student organized an online campaign to prevent a man she never meant from being deported ... and it worked, at least according to the group change.org. Jackie Mahendra, director of the org's immigrants rights campaign, told the Weekly today that L.A.'s own Jamie Alegre saw via Face ... More >>

Burning Man as Seen From Space (Photo)

CuriousJoshFeel the burn.​If we were to imagine what the weekend's annual Burning Man festival looked like from space, we'd think chaos, anarchy and a vision of 50,000 ants madly shrooming in every direction. But no, the hippy-trance fest looks organized, almost like an sacrificial Mayan rite ... More >>

Vegas Bomb Plot: Zachary Jackson and Fellow Simi Valley Teen Threaten to Blow Up Strip

High five!​Updated after the jump: Ventura County officials say the 16-year-old has not yet been arrested, and Vegas cops call the Strip "a very important part" of Nevada. Aw. Originally posted at 12:30 p.m. SoCal's bad little suburban boys (and girls) just keep getting craftier. Most recent ... More >>

Denise Piccione, Girlfriend of Dodger Beating Suspect Giovanni Ramirez, Arrested in Vegas

NBCPrimary beating suspect Giovanni Ramirez​Her boyfriend may be behind bars in Los Angeles, as LAPD investigators work around the clock to build a case against him for the near-death beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, but that didn't stop 26-year-old Denise Piccione from going on a crime spree ... More >>

Burning Man Festival a Source of STDs, 'Whore Women' And 'Semen Demons,' Says Christian Website

Robert ScalesFeel the burn.​[Spoiler at the bottom]. Despite the iconic figure set afire each year in Nevada to celebrate L.A.'s favorite countercultural event, Burning Man, the event didn't get its name from the conflagration. Rather, it appears to come from the many cyber hippies there who ... More >>

High-Speed Train to Vegas From Victorville

Just one hitch: You have to drive to Victorville

Finding Secrets in the U.S. Defense Budget and a KBR Hat

No More Sexy Time Across the State Line? Nevada Sen. Harry Reid Wants To Ban Brothels

PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLONHey square-y Harry: 20-year-old Clara begs to differ​Note to future politicians: When you become a droopy old Democrat with nothing left to get you hard but same-sex marriage and a $30 billion golf course, try not to rain on everyone else's parade by making some boner-kil ... More >>

The Official Guide to the Best Cathouses in Nevada dishes about prostitutes' "sweet jellyboxes" and johns' "wank-wank sack bags"

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Official Guide to the Best Cathouses in Nevada Date: 2002 Publisher: Straight ... More >>

Sneak a peek at the lusty, absurd Official Guide to the Best Cat Houses in Nevada

​ So last week at the Out of the Closet on Fairfax, I blew a whole dollar on The Official Guide to the Best Cat Houses in Nevada, the subject of today's Studies in Crap column over on our Style Council blog. That expenditure -- maybe one three-hundredth of the cost of a roll in the hay at one ... More >>

California's Shira Monet Garfinkel Fights For Her Right To Drive High, Takes Case To Nevada Supreme Court

A privilege not a right.​Updated with response from the defendant. First posted at 9:02 a.m. Leave it to a medical-marijuana-impaired -inspired driver to challenge this: But a Nevada Supreme Court had to actually rule on a California woman's claim that she had the right to drive under the inf ... More >>

Californians Support Legalizing Pot, Just Not When A Ballot Is In Front Of Them

We support legal pot, except at polling places.​Dear fellow Californians: What the hell is wrong with you? Just a few days after shooting down the state's historic attempt to legalize marijuana, you indicate that you're all for decriminalizing the drug? You know that thing they call a ballo ... More >>

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L.A. Techno Hippies Rejoice: Burning Man Attendance At, Er, New High

​As we loaf in the June-like dreariness of rare, early September gloom, let us not forget the blazing sun and whipping sand that is Burning Man -- the Labor Day weekend techno-hippie festival that is one part Angeleno, two parts San Francisco. This year's event appears to have set an attendanc ... More >>

The Family Prostitute

As the recession continues, more and more women are turning to the world's oldest profession to support their loved ones

Weekly Cover Story: Paying The Bills At Nevada Brothels

Kevin ScanlonCiara, 20, earned $8,000 one week, half of which she gets to keep. She supports her boyfriend, who has cancer, and his mother.​Check out the Weekly's cover story, "The Family Prostitute," this week, about California woman going to Nevada in some significant numbers to work in the ... More >>

White Children Now A Minority In California, States Report (UPDATED)

​(UPDATED with Valley stats after the jump). Don't tell the produces of The Hills or any of the other youth-oriented television shows that seem to portray people of color as background noise in California, but for the Golden State's under-18 population whites are now a minority. This accordin ... More >>

Today in Photographs: March 1, 1955

Relax, It's Only an A-Bomb Test. The clock on the Times-Mirror Building says 5:27 a.m., but the horizon is lit up in this time-delay photo, thanks to an atomic bomb test in Nevada.Photo: L.A. Times/LAPL Collection

Election '08: Nevada's Turn of the Wheel

BY MARC COOPER Some quick hits from the Bistro Buffet at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas: -- Never before I have ever seen so many people wearing political trappings at the gaming tables. More than 95% is Obama-Biden. -- Both Michelle Obama and John McCain are buzzing through opposite ends of town. ... More >>

Word of Mouths

Blue Night in the Heart of the West

Movie Reviews: Forever, My Blueberry Nights, My Brother Is an Only Child

Also The Ruins and more

Two Paths Diverge on the Campaign Trail

Will Dems move toward darkness or light?

Robert Greenwald's Modest Proposal

How online activists’ fear of Fox News helped drag Democrats into hyperpartisan censorship

Movin' On, Chasin' Tails, Ignoring Voters

How the Dems got out-Foxed

Truth? Dem Candidates Can't Handle the Truth

First step in recovering would be admitting they were wrong on Iraq

Site/Sound

Remapping the land- and soundscapes of L.A. (and beyond)

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

Talk Talk

New fiction by T.C. Boyle

Greed Runs Through It

One man’s journey to the end of the Colorado River

Green to the Core? — Part 2

Riding the Storm Out

Democrats huddle with only hope to get them through the night

The Loneliest Road In America

Heartbreak and redemption on Route 50

Aces and Addicts

Modern gambling in America and the rise of the machines

The Coffee Table

Dames, dice and dope: holiday gift books revisited

No Time for a Sucker

Arnold needs to play tough with the Indians

Coffee Shop 101

Letters

The Alphabet Killer: What Makes Mike Schaefer Run? And Run?

Test on Trial

Drug-testing patch is suspect, as is its main proponent

Off the Strip:

A Guide to Weird Las Vegas