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Cultural Bounce

Paul Klein | Posted 10.14.2012 | Chicago
Paul Klein

Some culture is homegrown and organic. That is what I experienced a couple of days ago at the Slow & Low Lowrider Festival.

Hitchhiking as a Moral Molecule

Alice Carey | Posted 07.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Alice Carey

I've come to believe that hitching is a transcendent pleasure available to everyone.

Why You Don't Own A Car

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 04.03.2012 | Home

The quintessential dream of waking up on your sixteenth birthday to find a new car adorned with a big red bow parked in the driveway is now a thing of...

Matt Sledge

'Carmageddon' Could Curb Carbon Dioxide Emissions -- Or Cause Them To Climb

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 09.14.2011 | Los Angeles

On an average July weekend, 500,000 cars drive on I-405 in the Sepulveda Pass. But this is no average weekend: "Carmageddon" has descended on Los Ange...

Eight-Track Museum Gives Slice of Music History a Place in the Sun

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Sigman

My Eight-track's pumpin' out a country song/ About a girl that's done me wrong/ My Eight-track's playing all your favorite songs/ So come on honey sin...

Park[ing] Day In LA: From Parking Lot To Park

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Who: You and "a diverse constituency of community groups, neighborhood councils, design & architecture firms, professional organizations, non-profits,...

Why Your Car Dealer May be a New-Fashioned Sexist

Catherine Lutz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Catherine Lutz

Our interviews with owners, buyers and salespeople show that men, though on the whole more knowledgeable about cars -- tend to be less rational about their car purchases than are women.

Roadify: Community-Powered Service Helps Users Find Parking

Dan Gould | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Dan Gould

Roadify prompts users to text in the short code 'GIVE' to the service whenever they leave a parking spot, and users looking for a spot can text 'GET' to find recently available parking.

Don't Throw FasTracks Under a Bus

Paul Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Paul Rosenthal

What do the editorial writers for the Denver Post want? More roads. Perhaps they should visit Los Angeles to see how well that worked.

No Impact Week: A Few Thoughts on Getting from Here to There

Molly Greenwood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Molly Greenwood

Instead of buying a new car, I bought a Vespa. And you know what? It has turned out to be the perfect complement to my alternative transportation lifestyle.

Everything I Know About Cars I Learned From Everything Except Cars

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Rachel Sklar

am not a car person -- have never been, never will be. But! I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture.

Bikes: An Exercise in Frustration

Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal | Rhonda L. Rundle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

LOS ANGELES -- Paula Rodriguez, who lives in the San Fernando Valley, got so disgusted with soaring fuel prices last spring that she stopped driving, ...