Jacob Harper

What is America if not a giant squat on someone else's land?

The Lunada Bay Boys have allegedly been bullying people who tried to surf their break for years. After one of them recently assaulted an off-duty cop, they're finally getting sued.

How a cramped rock club with no backstage and no liquor license became the unlikely hub of the LA DIY scene.

The Lunada Bay Boys have been assaulting outsiders since the 1960s—and local police won't do anything to stop it.

The Klan is trying to participate in an Adopt-a-Highway program in Georgia, and the state is not happy.

Thanks to chefs cleverly slipping it to customers in traditional desserts like pastries, rice pudding, and ice cream, long-reviled durian is finally broadening its reach in the US.

Unless your parking ticket comes from the city government, you don't really have to pay it.

While it's hard to imagine a buttoned-up CEO playing classic improv games, improvisational workshops are becoming fashionable in corporate America.

The Compton taco isn't a taco in the purist's sense. One standout star of this scene is Keith Garrett, owner of the “Americanized” taco and quesadilla street stand All Flavor No Grease, which fuses common ingredients with a maximalist approach.

Four men who had their foreskins removed talk about whether sex is better cut or uncut and whether they regret their decision.

With a reboot coming this summer, we tracked down some of the creators of the original's most fearsome metal contestants.

Barry Boen used Airbnb to rent out a tent in LA's famously impoverished area, a project he claims is an attempt to force people to talk about issues in the neighborhood.