Dani Katz

Addicted to Ormus: Gold Fever at the Raw Spirit Festival

Tim Martin, CEO of iZO Cleanze, a.k.a. juice cleanser to the stars, admonishes me as I load my hot-pink bass into the back seat of his Prius, along with too many overstuffed duffle bags. “Are you fucking kidding me?” he asks. “I need to practice my scales, and I need......

"Fill her up": What a Girl Must Pay to Pump

Summer-soaked and sticking to the cracked-leather seats of my trusty veggie-Benz, Gretl, I schlep north on the 5 to meet my veggie-oil purveyor at our supersecret San Fernando Valley rendezvous, dreading the exchange. When I first converted my 300TD, back in the winter of '06, it was easy to fill......
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Lust in L.A.: Hot, Sticky & Bothered

It was the longest I’d gone without sex in more than a decade — six months. Having spent the past year trying not to die while recovering from an herbal abortion gone awry, I’d hardly noticed — I had barely enough energy to bathe, clothe and feed myself, let alone......
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James Mathers

As subtle as a glitter-caked brick to the forehead and as sharp as a Samurai sword etched with butterflies, Mayan glyphs and Hindu deities in compromising positions, James Mathers has this to say for himself: “My name is Toylit. I am a fuck-off scientist. I make rectangles for money.” As......
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Dave Browne

Those “Berds” you may  have seen dangling from power lines at various intersections throughout our otherwise dreadfully unaccessorized city weren’t tossed skyward to make a buck. When Venice Beach native Dave Browne lobbed his first handpainted slab of plywood a few years back, neither fame nor fortune figured into the......

At the Integraton With Vibrational Healer Don Estes and Friends

I jacked my shoulder during Ashtanga practice, and my chiropractor was conveniently out of town. Clearly, the only logical choice was to drive to the desert for a sound bath at the Integratron. Sure, a lot of us have been to the ol’ Integratron sound bath a dozen times over,......
Credit: Illustration by Dani Katz

Dirty Fruit

I tear myself away from Rant, Chuck Palahniuk’s delightfully demented saga of a time-traveling troublemaker who kicks off an epidemic of his own superstrain of rabies through tiny traces of his saliva, to go to MOCA’s Public Fruit Jam with three friends. The jam-making session, hosted by the art group......

Lunar Eclipse, L.A.-Style

Just before 6 o'clock on Wednesday the 20th, while coasting up Main Street toward Rawvolution, I glance skyward and notice a massive chunk missing from the moon. Then the text messages start rolling in: "Look at the moon." "Check out the eclipse." Urgently, I order my hemp tabbouleh and raw......