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The cover of Los Angeles magazine this month is 25 Great Weekends. Cover lines to stories mention R.J. Smith's piece on how L.A. car culture bad boy Von Dutch became a pop culture brand ten years after his death, Richard Rushfield's guide to local Rat Pack haunts and Daniel Duane checking out a lion tracker in the Eastern Sierra. Inside, Margot Dougherty writes on designer Pamela Barish, Ariel Swartley remembers the 1940s noir novels of Dorothy B. Hughes, Steve Erickson parses the culture's fascination with "The Sopranos" and Patric Kuh reviews the menu and struggles of Blair's in Silver Lake. Also inside, I have a politics piece on city controller Laura Chick's new higher profile. None of it is up yet at the magazine's website.
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