Mark Groubert

Daniel Davies doesn’t want to talk about his family. He doesn’t want to talk about his mom, who baked Key lime pies with androgynous performance-artist Klaus Nomi. He’d rather not discuss his precious aunt, an avowed vegan animal-rights activist who once recorded a duet of “Luck Be a Lady” with......

During the ’80s, when Detective Don Hrycyk was working homicide in LAPD’s 77th Street Division, he was always busy. Back then, with more than 1,000 murders committed yearly in Los Angeles, Hrycyk (pronounced her-RIS-sik) sometimes had to deal with three killings per weekend. People were dying for simply wearing the......

“I’ve always been attracted to vehicles that go fast,” says Tommy Hollenstein. In the late 1970s, as a Dogtown disciple, the teenage Tommy practiced and honed the art of skateboarding in the “Toilet Bowl,” a revered drainage ditch near the corner of Platt and Victory in Canoga Park, right down......

Watch the "Box of Broken Dreams" featured video here.   Oh, yeah, sure. Tell me you haven’t done it. You’re walking along and you see that box of stuff near the curb. You know the box. The one with scratched picture frames, a pretty darn good dish rack, slightly scuffed......

And then what happened? Well, I’ll tell you. After my article “Buying the Cure” came out in late June, I was inundated with calls, e-mails and letters from ex-employees, former clients and disgruntled parents detailing additional horrors regarding Chris and Pax Prentiss and their “addiction cure” facility. When a major......