Jon Alain Guzik

When I was a kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the late 1980s, Friday or Saturday night meant one thing only: kicking it with my friends in the parking lot of Bob’s Big Boy on the corner of Tampa and Ventura boulevards, deep in the heart of......

Photos by Steve BanksThose were the glory days of drag racing, the mid-1960s: Heart-stopping, flame-throwing, fire-burning, pedal-to-the-metal days marked by the cataclysmic shift from gasoline to top fuel nitromethane. Before that, when you ran gas, you ran fast, but the switch to nitro — nitro, man — changed everything at......

When Michael Lewis released Moneyball in 2003, praising the genius of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, he showed how numbers-crunching and esoteric statistics could help a small-market team win. Problem is, the A’s never made it to the big show. Now, the large-market Dodgers have adopted the strategy. The......

January 7: Bryant leads all scorers with 27 in a Laker loss at Denver. He is booed loudly every time he touches the ball. January 14: Bryant’s attorneys claim that the accuser had sex with someone else less than 18 hours after her alleged assault and argue that both the......

1895: Electric-car line from downtown Los Angeles to Pasadena is constructed. 1900: The Auto Club (AAA) is founded in Los Angeles. 1901: Henry Huntington establishes the Pacific Electric Railway (PE) and takes over the Los Angeles–Pasadena interurban line. 1903: Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Company and introduces the Model......

On a cold and rainy April afternoon, I am doing my best to tax the Hemi engine on the Chrysler 300C. Gas, downshift, brake, gas, brake. Virtually alone on the twisting Angeles Crest Highway, behind the wheel of a brand-new, fast-as-all-get-out American car, I feel like I’m in a television......

Photo by Sherryl Creekmore/NASCAR It is the loudest sound you will ever hear. Imagine the din of 50 747s touching down, surrounded by 120,000 people yelling all at once. Even though there are only 43 cars on the two-mile oval track. A NASCAR race. “Fucking awesome,” said the fan next......

Photos by Gregory Bojorquez There is no better place in the world to see the most cutting-edge, tricked-out custom cars than Southern California. Just drive down Ventura or Van Nuys Boulevard in the Valley or pull into any of the mini-malls in Monterey Park or San Gabriel, and you’ll see......

Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance Disciples II: Rise of the Elves Dead to Rights Beyond Good & Evil Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando Castlevania: Lament of Innocence Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick......

1. Shake it up, baby 2. Shake it like a horny pony would 3. Shake it like a salt shaker 4. Shake it like a Polaroid picture 5. Shake it for Mickey Gilley 6. Shake it over Sputnik 7. Shake it up 8. Shake it down, shake it down, shake......