Buskers, street performers, musicians. Sometimes they are just sharing a few tunes as they move through the town with their instruments, sometimes the hat is clearly turned up and set beside them for passers-by to fill, and sometimes--that one in a million--is the kind of unique prodigy that becomes the subject of articles, a book, and a movie. more ›

Leave it to a Venice Beach resident to combine Cirque du Soleil with the sunshine. That's what Atlaz Branthoover does for exercise. In this Rue Cyr video he finds a use for Santa Monica's oversized chess board that would surely bestow motion sickness onto this writer. more ›