(“Americans expect spectacle from Los Angeles, and we deliver it, usually with nauseating results.”), Studs Theater (“It’s the Grauman’s Chinese of skin flicks, a Pussycat-era Holdover that is easily missed unless you’re on foot.”, and Salvation Mountain in Niland "Deemed folk art by many and a toxic hazard by some, one of the more awe-inspiring examples of faith-based outsider art lies on the edge of Highway 111 in arid Niland, a scant five miles east of the Sonny Bono Salton Sea Wildlife Refuge [we couldn’t make this up]." The new edition gets the full treatment in today's Calendar section."The quintessential 'Bizarro' place, Maranian says, "is really hard to get to, slightly disappointing upon arrival and pretty much unlike anything you're likely to stumble upon anywhere else," adding, "I use the word 'disappointing' fondly." Full Article at Los Angeles Times