Das Bunker is one of those ground-zero scenes, the kind of club that everyone has heard of. It’s been a fixture of the LA scene for over a decade, in fact, hosting bands like VNV Nation, Combichrist and Covenant, who played just a week before we arrived. So, were we intimidated? A little. Excited mostly, [...]
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Hot Wheels display at the Petersen. Yes, they're mounted on that awesome orange plastic track! Of course, Los Angeles is a car-guy’s paradise. The weather’s friendly to old vehicles, and there are twisty mountain roads and speedy freeways and slow-n-low cruising spots within an hour of one another. The streets are filled with equal numbers [...] From Las Vegas, we made a week-long field trip to Los Angeles, the better to drive some new cars and meet some models for photo shoots. We found a secret place to hide the Incorrigible in Long Beach for a week of dry-camping, and set about exploring the madness that is L.A. Of course, we can’t go to a major city without seeking out its goth club. Las Vegas’ is called sKizoFrenia, and it’s in the Harmon Theater which is part of the Planet Hollywood casino/hotel shopcenter (which used to be the Aladdin). This mid-1950s Internationl "Metro" van was so cute and charming I wanted to find the owner and see if I could buy it. The Southwest is a car-spotter’s paradise. Not only does the dry climate preserve old autos, but because they last longer, there are more old cars to see just running around. Las Vegas [...] Preparing the Crimson Haybaler for front-line duty was simple; part of the reason we chose the Ranger was its simplicity. It was inexpensive because TLC was needed, however. I installed a new starter and fuel pump and the little truck runs just fine now, albeit a bit loudly and not quite so prettily, thanks to [...] So what’s there to do in Las Vegas, if you aren’t a gambler (which we aren’t)? Well, fans of the weird and wonderful owe it to themselves to take a walk through the surreal landscape that is Vegas. Wander up and down the Strip, in and out of the big casinos, and marvel (or roll [...] Venturing outside of Las Vegas’ environs, you’ll find a lot of boring suburbs and a lot of desert. The glamorous inner city seems to have pushed all of the normal working parts of the city–fast-food restaurants, real-world retail, industrial complexes and housing–out into a wide halo of sprawl, and beyond that there’s naught but desert. The summer tourist season wound down, and the temperatures in the Black Hills dropped steadily. We got ready to leave the Big Pine with the last of the summer campers, and seemed to run right into the real world as we left. An early snowstorm sprinkled flakes over Custer as we headed south. The snow [...] The historic part of downtown Rapid City is home to one obvious sight, and two you’ll have to go looking for. As soon as you enter downtown, with its strip of antique stores and coffee shops lining Main and St. Joseph streets, you’ll see the “City of Presidents” exhibit, or at least some of it. Life-size [...] |
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