LOS ANGELES: It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air,...
SAN MARINO, Calif.: “Blue Boy” is getting a long-awaited makeover, and the public can watch as one of the world’s most recognizable paintings gets a little...
In the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan, Burt Reynolds had (almost) nothing to hide. With his trademark bushy mustache topping his ever-present smirk and one...
LOS ANGELES: Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says that after she tells someone what she...
LOS ANGELES: Michael Scott Moore is walking a bit gingerly these days, but it has nothing to do with the 2 1/2 years he spent imprisoned by Somali pirates,...
LOS ANGELES: Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana, the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum $9.7...
LOS ANGELES: If a picture tells a thousand words, the Library of Congress is bringing 440,000 of them to Los Angeles with a free-wheeling photo exhibition...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been a best-selling author, civil-rights activist, actor, historian and one of the greatest basketball players...
LOS ANGELES: Jasper Johns’ decision more than 60 years ago to paint a picture of an American flag launched what became one of the most heralded artistic...
LOS ANGELES: In the summer of 1969, a scruffy ex-convict with a magnetic hold on young women sent some of his disciples into the night to carry out a series...
NIPTON, Calif.: Now that one of the nation’s largest cannabis companies has bought the entire California desert town of Nipton, a question remains: Will the...
LOS ANGELES: Lowrider cars these days are far more than tricked-out automobiles with gravity-challenged rear suspensions and ear-rattling exhaust systems that...
LOS ANGELES: Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann may have invented LSD, and Timothy Leary was clearly its most prominent frontman. But it was a self-taught chemist...
LOS ANGELES: A doctor who saved Syrian lives and a man who cooked thousands of meals for American soldiers in Iraq were among those who saw their lives thrown...
LOS ANGELES: Four years ago photographer Andrew George approached the medical director of a Los Angeles hospital with an unusual request. He wanted to meet...
Anthropologist Susan Phillips had spent a career examining the graffiti that covers urban walls, bridges and overpasses.When she came across an unrecognizable...
LOS ANGELES: Tony Burton, a veteran character actor best known for brief but memorable turns as a tough, no-nonsense trainer and cornerman in Sylvester...
LOS ANGELES: Michael C. Gross, an artist, illustrator, film producer and personal designer who created two of the most iconic pop culture images of the 20th...
LOS ANGELES: Ndume Olatushani jokes that he “couldn’t even draw a crooked line straight” when he arrived on death row almost 30 years ago....
LOS ANGELES: Lawren Harris is arguably Canada’s most revered artist, one almost completely unknown in America. Steve Martin – the man who brought bluegrass...
LOS ANGELES: When he arrived in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, Eli Broad once said, he found himself in a city without a cultural center. So the...
L OS ANGELES: It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Amelia Earhart, ready to make history by flying around the world, brought her personal photographer to a...
LOS ANGELES: When he wasn't busy scribbling out the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein seems to have spent a fair amount of time writing letters involving...
LOS ANGELES: It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre – 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal...
LOS ANGELES: Emigdio Vasquez, whose bold use of color, exacting brush skills and uncanny ability to capture everyday people in dramatic moments made him one...