Back in November, 1993 — years before the Internet became an almost universal utility like power and gas, and many years before the unstoppable rise of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — Time magazine published what was seen at the time as a highly controversial cover. Over the portrait of a......
Fans of old-timey California dining spots and seekers of secluded, intimate, low-key, exclusive fine-dining have known about the Old Place for decades. This rustic gem, hidden in the hillside hamlet of Cornell (near Agoura and Malibu Hills) opened as a locals' sanctuary in 1970 and is still run by members......
Redheads — they are everywhere, right? You probably know a redhead or know someone who knows a redhead or are a redhead yourself. You can be born that way or you can choose to become one — it actually doesn’t matter how you join this universal brotherhood and sisterhood. ......
“When we launched our website, Burning Angel, in 2002, it was one of the very first porn companies to focus on girls with tattoos," explains tattooed porn entrepreneur Joanna Angel. "The site really took off in 2005, after a lot of DIY marketing. These days it’s pretty common to have......
“The Internet is for porn!,” the puppets from the hit off-Broadway musical “Avenue Q” gleefully proclaimed in 2003. And, sure, it was. But back then — in an age of slower computers, lower bandwidth and expensive storage drives (and no Facebook) — what the puppets meant by “Internet porn” was......
The X-Rated Critics Association (XRCO) held its 33rd annual awards show at Ohm, in the heart of Hollywood, on Thursday, April 27. The event is known as "the wor...
Adult industry magazine XBIZ held its annual awards show Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Think of the XBIZ awards as the Gold...
Follow us inside the fantastic rare-book library hidden inside the University of Philosophical Research on Los Feliz Boulevard. Built by Los Angeles lecturer an...
No, it’s not a Scientology front. Nor is it “a Christian Science thing.” Or the Angelus Temple (that’s in nearby Echo Park). Or an exclusive league of Theosophists, Rosicrucians or Illuminati, or followers of Rudolf Steiner or Gurdjieff or any other specific mystic, either local or exotic. It's definitely not......
What would Leonard Cohen do? I’ve asked myself that question many times, even if Dylan warned us repeatedly that he and his colleagues are just song-and-dance men, mere entertainers who should be nobody’s role models. Still (sorry, Bob), Leonard Cohen from Montreal, Quebec, and for many decades of Los Angeles,......
