THE GIRL FROM THE BLACK SAND BEACH
THERE ARE MOMENTS from a reporter’s life that do not fade into memory so much as sink into the bloodstream. Forty-four years ago this month, I was living at the Hotel Camino Real in San Salvador...
Day: May 25, 2026
THE LAST MARGARITA OF THE CALIFORNIA DREAM
Joan Didion defined the California Dream not as a simple utopia, but as a complex, often dark paradox of rugged individualism, reinvention, and disillusionment. Welcome to the tragic end of Lucy's...
MY LIFE BREAKING THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE WITH JIM MORRISON
IT’S AMAZING WHAT can happen when you live right off the Sunset Strip. About 15 years ago on a warm balmy December night, I was in my living room of my apartment, watching a movie on my...
RANDY NEWMAN: WHY I WROTE ‘I LOVE L.A.’
BY GEOFF BOUCHER, MAY 11, 2008 Republished with permission of the Los Angeles Times. RANDY NEWMAN HAS MADE a career out of melodic skepticism and deadpan rhythm, but he sounded genuinely...