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The Calm: An Excerpt From Silver Lake

And then it was autumn again, and Saturdays they would wake early, when the first clean light came up over the oak and fir at the top of the ridge and eased its way down across their glass house and overgrown slope, down to the pitched yards and shi...

by Peter Gadol on June 18, 2009
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How Fiction Works: King James and the Battle for the Novel - It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

There's a YouTube video of the literary critic James Wood in his kitchen, drumming merrily on the tabletop, a coffee mug, and a plastic bucket of chocolates while his young daughter squeals in delight. He's in a rumpled sweater, a fringe of hair hov...

by Nathan Ihara on June 18, 2009
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Old World Meets New Age in Thriller Nowhere-Land - A.W. Hill's Stephan Raszer is the thinking man's private eye

A.W. Hill's thriller, Nowhere-Land, featuring the L.A. private investigator and spiritual shaman, Stephan Raszer, may be the first truly 21st-century mystery I've read. It feels new, radical in the way that the movie Blade Runner felt new. Just as B...

by Judith Freeman on June 18, 2009
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Publishing Your Novel Online - A guide to the mind games you'll play on yourself

There will be two main characters in the story of publishing your novel online, protagonist and antagonist, and just as in life, they're both you. Call them Author 1 and Author 2. Author 1 has had some good reviews and has a secret image to uphol...

by Alan Rifkin on June 18, 2009
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Geoff in London, Interview in Absentia - Dyer on growing up working-class, loving California, and the horrors of the comic novel

Geoff Dyer's new novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, has received a lot of attention, much of it positive, some not so. A pairing of two novellas that may or may not feature the same character -- if not exactly the same, they are similar enoug...

by Tom Christie on June 18, 2009
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Theater Reviews: Bach at Leipzig, Bingo With the Indians, La Didone - Also, Notes From Underground, Dame Edna: My First Last Tour and more

APARTMENT 6 & 9 These two one-acts, written and directed by Matt Morillo, deal with contemporary romantic/sexual conflicts and collisions. In "All Aboard the Marriage Hearse," Amy (Jessica Moreno) and Sean (Keenan Henson) have lived together happily...

by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on June 18, 2009
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And Swine Flu Too: Kelly McLane's Apocalyptic Visions at Angles Gallery

Whether it is with images of airliners crashed in the forest; roller coasters gone amuck; whales beached among buttes; colossus statues crumbling; ships run aground in the desert; or trashy trailers in the middle of nowhere, Kelly McLane has for yea...

by Christopher Miles on June 18, 2009
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Weekly Literary Supplement: Summer Fiction Sampler - Excerpts from Michelle Hunevens Blame , Peter Gadols Silver Lake and Charlie Haass The Enthusiast

Wet Metal: An Excerpt From Blame By Michelle Huneven Patsy MacLemoore came to on a concrete shelf in a cell in the basement of the Altadena Sheriff's department. Her hair had woken her up. It stank. She had said she would rather die than come b...

by Michelle Huneven, Peter Gadol and Charlie Haas on June 18, 2009
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Nerdy in LA: Comedy Meltdown - Won't Get You Laid, But Will Get You All the Free Beer You Can Pour Past Your Braces

Producer Linda Pine has created EXACTLY the kind of thing that you would fantasize about as a kid (in between schoolyard beatdowns): "Maaaaan, someday I'm gonna open a kick-ass comic book store and then there's gonna be this back room and I'm gonna h...

@ Public Spectacle by Chris Hardwick on March 25, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
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Stage Raw: Luke Perry and Haaz Sleiman Confirmed for LAWEES

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING AT THE EL REY ON MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M., AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKE...

@ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on March 25, 2009 @ 2:07 am
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Where Your Tax Dollars Go: Death & Taxes, the Poster

Did you know that our government is requesting 3 billion dollars for "Iraq Security Forces" versus 0.754 billion dollars for "Fossil Energy R&D"? Good stuff. Even if you can't buy it right now, it's still fun to scroll around with the online graphic....

@ Public Spectacle by Gendy Alimurung on March 24, 2009 @ 9:00 am
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Edible Obama

Have you guys seen this? Speaking of sushi, even post-post-post election, the impetus to create Obamabilia is well and alive. This appears to be part of a bizarre and perishable sub-genre: Obama's likeness represented in food. On first look, the rice...

@ Public Spectacle by Gendy Alimurung on March 23, 2009 @ 9:10 am
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Stage Raw: Photograph 51

AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M., AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS. BRODER AND SMITH ARE JOINED BY A BEVY OF DANCING GIRLS, PLUS ZEV YAROSLAVSKY, GIL CATES, MICHAEL RITCHIE, BARBARA BE...

@ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on March 23, 2009 @ 1:48 am
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Remember What the Dormouse Said: Mad Tea Party at Royal/T

View more photos in the Mad Tea Party slideshow. Shannon Cottrell As the sun set over Culver City maid cafe Royal/T and the crowd of Pullip doll-clutching elementary school girls were replaced by young adults in elaborate Lewis Carroll-t...

@ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on March 22, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
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Video: Burlesque Bingo Takes Off at the Key Club

Forget what you think you know about bingo -- vixens Audrey Deluxe and Lucy Fur have brought the game out of the retirement home, glammed it up and transformed it into a late-night lingerie stage show. This month's Burlesque Bingo took place March 18...

@ Public Spectacle by Erin Broadley on March 20, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
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Louis & Keely at the Geffen

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; NOMINEES, RSVP AT (310) 574-7208, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO. DRESS FOR A 1958 LOUNGE ACT. At your fingertips: This week's THEATER FEATURE on Jon Stewart, Jim Cramer ...

@ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on March 20, 2009 @ 4:27 pm
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Interview: Margaret Cho Talks "Fingerbang" at Largo

L.A. Weekly got a chance to talk with Margaret Cho about "Fingerbang," her upcoming March 24 musical show at Largo, before she headed over to South by Southwest last week. With an album of comedic songs in the works, Cho has been learning the guitar ...

@ Public Spectacle by Erica Zora Wrightson on March 19, 2009 @ 3:59 am
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Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck in Collaboration With Media Farzin at Christopher Grimes Gallery

A collaboration between a conceptual artist (Balteo Yazbeck) and an art historian (Farzin) doing research on the entanglement of modernist art with Cold War-era geopolitics and corporate maneuvers might sound like a promise of boredom -- a seminar i...

by Christopher Miles on June 11, 2009
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False Witnesses in Oleanna and The Crucible - Bitch hunts of the American theater

"Fucking bitch," the woman next to me muttered under her breath during the Mark Taper Forum's production of David Mamet's 1992 drama, Oleanna, at last Friday night's press opening. She was referring to the character of Carol (Julia Stiles), an acad...

by Steven Leigh Morris on June 11, 2009
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Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes - Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

GO CYMBELINE What might Shakespeare have written if he'd been asked by some 17th-century counterpart of a TV producer to come up with something quick, hot and flashy? It's likely an extravagantly plotted comedy like this one, with story ideas snatc...

by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on June 11, 2009