Tony Mostrom

Looking Back at the Summer of '67 in L.A.: Protests, Love and General Hershey Bar

Tony MostromAugust 21, 2017

Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon in one’s car through L.A. in 2017, nothing seems quite as redolent of ghosts as that stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood that used to be known to everyone as “the Strip.” That would be Sunset Boulevard between Doheny and Crescent Heights, the designated......

Take a Trip Back Through TV Host Huell Howser's California in This Perfect Summer Read

Tony MostromJune 3, 2017

The California's Gold cameraman recalls desert sights, rural backwaters, kitschy museums, roadside food stands and the unglamorous people who ran such things....

To Hell With Coachella: An Old-Timer's Trip to Palm Springs

Tony MostromMay 13, 2017

A frequent childhood visitor revisits his old stomping grounds....

Former Dominatrix Jenny Nordbak Gives Us a Glimpse Inside an L.A. Dungeon

Tony MostromApril 10, 2017

When I was a kid in L.A., I recall scanning all the massage-parlor ads in the papers and gratefully taking in those postage stamp-sized photos of lusciously rounded woman curves. Alongside those jaw-droppers I'd also notice those mystifying other ads, the ones featuring women with whips, and my horndogometer would......

L.A.'s Forgotten Nazi History Sets the Scene for a New Novel

Tony MostromMarch 14, 2017

Anita Mishook’s new novel Helen is set in L.A. in 1936 and revives the strange days of the Depression, when Hitler’s rise to power caused a dust-up of homegrown Fascist activity in some U.S. cities — including L.A....

How an Old Newspaperman Who Loved Flowers Created One of L.A.'s Most Beautiful Attractions

Tony MostromFebruary 24, 2017

The building of the freeway system in the late ‘50s imposed a kind of sameness over a once vast and wide-open Southland, which a dwindling number of older Angelenos can still remember. Even though you and I are far too young to remember L.A. without them, just try to imagine......

An Outdoor Bookstore, A Dadaist Darling's Studio and More to See on a Day Trip to Ojai

Tony MostromFebruary 3, 2017

Students of 20th-century art know the name Beatrice Wood. She was, first, the young, American girlfriend of French-born Dadaist painter Marcel Duchamp. With Duchamp’s encouragement she painted, then became known much later as a maker of ceramics and pottery. When she was very young Wood managed to finagle......

How the Black Dahlia Murder Became a Twin Obsession for Two L.A. Writers

Tony MostromJanuary 12, 2017

January 15, 1947 is one of the uglier anniversaries in Los Angeles history, one immortalized in a number of books, movies and endlessly proliferating websites. It started out as a clear, cold, average L.A. winter day. A housewife named Betty Bersinger was pushing her baby in its stroller down Norton......

The Story of an L.A.-Bred Artist Who Created One of the Most Influential Comic Strips Ever

Tony MostromDecember 6, 2016

In the current era of comics-saturated American pop culture, there's yet to be a consensus on who takes the prize for the greatest comic strip of all time. But a likely candidate is a long-gone, syndicated newspaper comic strip that ran for decades (from 1913 to 1944), which irritated and......

Can South Pasadena Preserve Its Old-School Charm?

Tony MostromNovember 12, 2016

There was a time early in this century when “South Pas,” that is to say, South Pasadena, was approaching the status of underground-cultural hotspot. Buster’s Coffee on Mission Street would put on great art openings of great, cartoony monster drawings by Los Angeles Free Music Society member Rick Potts, and......

Food

Live At Lucia And MaruMart At Comic-Con – Here’s What’s Popping Up

IKI Nori Is An Omakase Gem For Everyone, Hidden In Plain Sight

The Airliner Soars Again And More Collabs – Here’s What’s Popping Up

Music

Behind the Scenes with Levity: Bass Music’s Fastest Rising Trio — and Biggest Fans

BLXST Puts in the Work on ‘Labor of Love’

OC MENA Festival Delivers Epic Debut — with MC Abdul, Dana Salah and Anees

Entertainment

‘Evil Dead Burn’ Director Director Sébastien Vaniček on Making the Franchise’s Most Brutal Chapter Yet

Review: ‘Rose of Nevada’ Time Travels Through the Desolation of Britain’s Working Class

From a farm boy in a mennonite village to a jewish woman in hollywood, it’s a been a journey for Yona Speidel

Arts

The Historic St. Vincent Medical Center Of LA Lives On As The Hospital Of Emotions

Art News: Parallel Practices, Plus California Light and Space

Art News: Erotic Terrains, A Human Atlas For LA And Unseen Hollywood History

Culture

Getting Social: The Ocean Way Festival, A World Cup Block Party And Sounds Of LA County In The Park

Getting Social: The Northwind Experience, A Lord Of The Rings Concert And Skull Canyon

Lebron James Announces He Is Leaving the Lakers for Free Agency

Cannabis

SpacePoppers: The Power Duo Popping A New Era of Snackable Edibles

From Cannabis Pioneer to Mushroom Mogul: How Justin Hartfield is Mapping the Future of Wellness with ShrooMap

From Farm to Door: How Legal THCA Flower Delivery Works

Tony Mostrom

Looking Back at the Summer of '67 in L.A.: Protests, Love and General Hershey Bar

Take a Trip Back Through TV Host Huell Howser's California in This Perfect Summer Read

To Hell With Coachella: An Old-Timer's Trip to Palm Springs

Former Dominatrix Jenny Nordbak Gives Us a Glimpse Inside an L.A. Dungeon

L.A.'s Forgotten Nazi History Sets the Scene for a New Novel

How an Old Newspaperman Who Loved Flowers Created One of L.A.'s Most Beautiful Attractions

An Outdoor Bookstore, A Dadaist Darling's Studio and More to See on a Day Trip to Ojai

How the Black Dahlia Murder Became a Twin Obsession for Two L.A. Writers

The Story of an L.A.-Bred Artist Who Created One of the Most Influential Comic Strips Ever

Can South Pasadena Preserve Its Old-School Charm?

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