Mar 12
A group of USC archaeologists received an unusual request. Their services would be required to dig up several large mammals—but not the Ice Age fossils
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Feb 24
Instead of dreading the thought of sloshing through eight feet of frozen sludge on your way home tonight, let’s think ahead to summer, when we’ll actually want to feel ice cold water against our faces—in some of our cities’ best fountains.
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Feb 11
The only color in the landscape for miles, Salvation Mountain looms like a mirage on the horizon. The three-story, three-decade work of artist Leonard Knight, who died yesterday at the age of 82, is a piece of brightly painted, hand-sculpted California desert, like an impossibly scaled cathedral made from Play-Doh.
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Feb 05
Guelph Park in East Vancouver was just like any other under-appreciated park in a city near you: grassy but forgettable. Until a fake sign was erected in one corner by a local artist, christening it with a new name: "Dude Chilling Park." Suddenly, Guelph/Dude Chilling Park became a global sensation.
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Jan 23
When we asked you last week to send us the weirdest monuments in your neighborhood
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Jan 19
Last week, the New York Times produced a beautiful feature that serves as a monument to monuments, of sorts, highlighting the often-forgotten statues, plaques, pillars and benches that mark Important Sports and Important People across New York City.
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Dec 18
They’re perfectly conical, with long draping boughs and a citrusy fragrance: Your search for the perfect Christmas tree ends here. Unfortunately, you can’t chop down any of the 132 historically protected cedars that line a street outside of Los Angeles called Christmas Tree Lane.
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Dec 11
On these frigid days, it helps to think about a place like Antarctica, which was recently determined to be without a doubt the coldest place on Earth
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Dec 04
The Los Angeles City Council ruled last week to give landmark status to Johnie’s Coffee Shop, a blue-and-white striped diner in the city’s Miracle Mile district. Opened in 1956, the building’s dramatic angles and flashy neon made it a darling of L.A.’s newly car-centered culture.
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