Dani Katz

Heading west on Venice’s Rose Avenue, I screech to a halt at the red ?light at Main. Idling there, I try to avert my eyes from the offensive visage on the other side of the intersection. Fat chance — the thing is just too big; too bold. It’s too bad......

In his seminal work The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1, Drunvalo Melchizedek offers a detailed breakdown of the impending dimensional shift, a.k.a. the Apocalypse. Melchizedek urges the reader to outfit himself in natural fibers because nylon and poly blends can singe the skin while passing through......

The apocalypse showed up early for the Rodeo Grounds. The idyllic artists’ community was decimated at the grubby hands of corporate greed and civic apathy in 2006 when the last of the residents were officially evicted. What remains is a heartbreaking mess of vandalized rubble and dried-out, unmanaged overgrowth. Three......

Raw-food enthusiasts are no longer a tiny fringe group of smelly hippies who chart the Mayan calendar and swear by the rhythm method. The raw-food movement is a growing trend, spreading like wildfire to the conscious, the healthy and the vain alike. Raw food pulses with life force that makes......

You wanna be in top form for the impending consciousness shift, and that means taking care of yourself — inside and out. It also means a trip to the Erewhon Market Tonic Bar. Think of it as a one-stop shop for pre-apocalypse training, where you can get the tools you......

There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. —Friedrich Schiller It all started late one night when I clicked on a link a distant cousin had sent me in June. Crouched in front of my computer, my......

For a slideshow version of this story, with many more illustrations, click here. After a weekend of making art, I awake Monday morning on three hours of sleep and as many Sunday-night bong hits. I’m glowing. I’ve never looked better. Clearly, something is terribly, terribly wrong. I head to the......