Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Sandstone Retreat was a clothing-optional refuge in Topanga Canyon that began in the late 1960s and survived efforts by the county to shut it down. John Williamson opened the retreat with his wife, ...

Forty five years ago, then-governor Ronald Reagan made it a cause to get young UCLA professor Angela Davis fired by the UC Board of Regents. She was a member of the Communist Party, a participant in ...

Thursday farmers market in Westwood Village. LAO. Karl Johansson has run the Village Center Newsstand for 20 years, since shortly after he came over from Sweden. He's going to close down by the end of ...

Leonard Knight spent almost 30 years building a colorful mountain of adobe covered with donated paint in the Imperial Valley desert, near Niland and the Salton Sea. He worked on his creation, ...

Following on last week's announcement that LA Times film writer John Horn would anchor KPCC's on-air arts and entertainment show, the station has filled out the producer spots with names that also ...

With Ayn Rand in the media conversation around Paul Ryan and the Republican convention, here's a look at the home that Rand used to occupy in Northridge. And what a house it was — if it still existed, ...

If you were to rip the roof off the Culver Ice Arena and look directly down on a free skate session you would see a beautiful, spinning mandala of humanity. The eye of the mandala is the heart of the ...

The architecturally distinct 1915 Herald Examiner building at Broadway and 11th Street downtown has not been inhabited by real newspaper reporters and editors since 1989. But some of them may feel ...

Freelance videojournalist Abraham Riesman was sent in 2012 to do a story for Punch on Paul Mazursky's morning gathering of old Hollywood hands (and a few younger ones) at Farmers Market. The table ...

Pete Seeger leads the crowd in "Amazing Grace" at his 90th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden. Pete Seeger, a champion of American folk music and social change since the 1940s, died Monday in a ...

Less than a month after Russ Stanton announced he would leave as VP of content at KPCC, the former editor of the Los Angeles Times is joining former LAT colleagues at their crisis PR company. Stanton ...