Twentynine Palms

The Cult of Gram Parsons Lives on in Joshua Tree

Forty years after his sensational death, the country-rock pioneer remains beloved in the desert

LACMA Spotlights the Enigmatic Bruno Dumont

A Slaughter in Oklahoma: David Tyner Spun Elaborate Fantasies About Being a Hit Man. One Day They Came True

Suneel Mehta, SoCal Marine, Tweets 'Shooting Black All Day Like George Zimmerman'

A 10-year Marine Corps veteran based in Southern California was under fire this week after he compared Trayvon Martin and his blackness to his practice targets on the range. Yep. Staff Sgt. Suneel Mehta was apparently just finished with target practice last week at a range on base in Twentynine Pa ... More >>

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 >>

Jerry Brown Joins Bill O'Reilly In Support Of Family's Suit Against Anti-Gay Protesters

Jerry Brown.​California Attorney Jerry Brown has joined a lawsuit brought by the family of a late Twentynine Palms Marine whose funeral was protested by anti-gay demonstrators, and Brown's move puts him on the same page as conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly, who has backed the family. "Di ... More >>

Swine Flu Notes: Where's the Pork?

We're one week into L.A.'s chapter of the swine flu pandemic/panic and already people are asking, "Where's the pork?" Raised on bio-disaster movies and braced for the worst upon hearing of Mexico's initial death toll, Angelenos were expecting (not, I should stress, hoping) to see bodies in the stree ... More >>

Enslaved in Suburbia: Inside the World of Trafficked Indentured Servants and the Visa Violators Who Care for Our Old

Two women, two fractured American dreams

The Tortoise and the Tank Face Off at Fort Irwin

A battle in the desert over territory and resources, starring hard-shelled refugees, burger-loving insurgents and a couple of dazed road warriors

California Supreme Court Set to Consider Gay Marriage

Meet the L.A. four who started all the trouble

Into the Slabs

Hanging with Insane Wayne at the Salton Sea

Film Reviews: Surf's Up, Memories of Tomorrrow, Flanders

Coachella: Friday

(Brief note regarding Lina's very complete Do and Don't list: I'd like to add one thing: DO bring your tickets! I overheard someone saying they got within a half hour of arriving here before realizing they forgot their tickets, they had to turn around to go all the way back to LA. 2:00 p.m. Stuck ... More >>

War and Remembrances

City of Lights, City of Angels winds down with dark ruminations and hopeful sentiments

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Two weeks later I was at a pub and he spoke to me for the first time, and we ended up making out.

Hipster Flu Update - Cure Discovered

I think I understand the joy Marie Curie must have felt after discovering radium. Or the exhilaration that must have coursed through Alexander Fleming's veins after he found penicillin growing in his kitchen sink. That's because last night, I discovered the cure to Hipster Flu. Hipster Flu is the v ... More >>

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

Astroturf Wars

The fight is on to halt a subdivision near Joshua Tree

Serious Stuff

Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, Coetzee’s Slow Man

Mike Davis’ 6 Remarkable Ways To Die

“Bow-Wow,” Said the Bunny

Self-service without a smile

What’s Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

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

The Fight for Eagle Mountain

Sex Among the Succulents

Fucking and nothingness in Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms

Letters

Landscapes

New works from Boston Teran, Ana Menéndez and Deanne Stillman

Bada Bing

Gary Giddins’ bio of the great white jazzbo