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Street Life

When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the…

Disappear Here

by Rachel Kushner,

There was a football game that afternoon at Buckley and though I can remember who I masturbated about on that early October day (I wrote it down—I kept lists, a…

Beyond the Broken Window

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

William Bratton and the new police state

Something Big

by Geoff Dyer,

The legend of the Watts Towers

The Odd Couple

by Jean Stein,

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…

The Speakeasy

by Dave Madden,

A week of stand-up in Hollywood’s toughest room

Beyond the Broken Window

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

William Bratton and the new police state

In the Pain Cavern

by Maggie Nelson,

By Maggie Nelson, from The Argonauts, out next month from Graywolf. Nelson is the author of several books, including Bluets, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, and Jane: A Murder.

Dire Straights

From questions asked by deputies of the L.A. County Men’s Jail to determine whether an inmate should be placed in a unit created to house and protect gay and transgender…

AUTOMOBILE. Field sobriety test. Photographer unknown. 07-06-1958

More Irksome Than a California Quake

by John R. MacArthur,

The taming of a once-wild state

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Street Life

Disappear Here

Beyond the Broken Window

Something Big

The Odd Couple

The Speakeasy

Beyond the Broken Window

In the Pain Cavern

Dire Straights

AUTOMOBILE. Field sobriety test. Photographer unknown. 07-06-1958

More Irksome Than a California Quake

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