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2012 Stories by David Cotner

• Elementary School

  published May 17, 2012

  Open letter to Guy Ritchie: In the next Sherlock Holmes movie, you should include a scene where Holmes says something really obvious, at which... More >>

• The Beatles: The Lost Concert

  published May 10, 2012

  Early 1964 was a weird time in America. Kennedy had just been assassinated, the Civil Rights Act was being hotly debated, they weren't making a... More >>

• They're Just Wild About Harold

  published May 17, 2012

  How prescient and enduring: This marks the 23rd year that the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has performed a live score accompanying silent film in... More >>

• The 7th Annual Los Angeles Old Time Social

  published May 17, 2012

  The 7th Annual Los Angeles Old Time Social, admittedly and unabashedly a "Traditional American Fiddle and Banjo Festival," promises a plethora of... More >>

• History in the Talking

  published May 10, 2012

  You don't expect two great literary minds to sit down in conversation in front of an audience and bullshit about, say, foosball — but with... More >>

• Shedding Light on the Dark Side

  published May 3, 2012

  Radiolab, the program produced by New York public radio station WNYC, touches down tonight with Radiolab Live: In the Dark, a multimedia... More >>

• The Games People Play

  published May 3, 2012

  It's understandable if you think people are talking about video games whenever you hear the word "games" — but the study and pursuit of... More >>

• Cirque d'Oils

  published April 5, 2012

  Hugo, the so-called "Circus City" established in 1901 in southeast Oklahoma, is where traveling circuses have decamped during the winter months... More >>

• David Sedaris Does Not Have a New Book, But Nobody Really Cares

  published April 26, 2012

  Like the coming of springtime or the need to plant seeds in your neighbor's garden so that the flowers blossom up to spell a dirty word, 2012... More >>

• Buy This Book and Be a Better Person

  published April 26, 2012

  One of the funniest old Saturday Night Live sketches involved Kevin Nealon's character Mr. Subliminal. By softly speaking a series of... More >>

• The Afrobeat Goes On

  published April 19, 2012

  The music of Seun Anikulapo Kuti — a frenetic, driven pulse-pounding from the center of the earth — is a labyrinth of sound out of which... More >>

• Oh Say Yosemite

  published April 12, 2012

  Los Angeles Times staff photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Boster has covered the news in California for 28 years. It is... More >>

• Book 'Em

  published April 12, 2012

  In one week, it'll be World Book Night — a night on which people around the world who might not ordinarily have access are given books by... More >>

• Ooh, Ooh That Smell

  published April 12, 2012

  "Harsh Realities Still Remain" are the bywords by which the Kaleidomagorics VII: Quasi-Festival of Quasi-Festivals girds its collective creative... More >>

• Readings From Unstuck

  published April 5, 2012

  Unstuck is a literary annual. Unlike a monthly or a quarterly, this means you know that the authors have had a long time to carefully... More >>

• Bert Sugar, RIP

  published April 5, 2012

  Grantland is the latest exercise in literary courage from the good folks at McSweeney's — this time, their weather eye turns to... More >>

• Beware the Easter Bunny

  published April 5, 2012

  Today's double-bill of Harvey and Donnie Darko may be the most inspired pairing since Vasectomy and She's Gotta Have... More >>

• Love Stinks

  published March 29, 2012

  PostSecret recently featured a postcard drawing of a nude woman sniffing a shirt with the text "When you left me/I stole your orange shirt/Keeping... More >>

• Fight the Power on Your Coffee Table

  published March 29, 2012

  From 1965 through 1975, white America was scared shitless of the growing legions of well-spoken, strident and confident African-American men and... More >>

• This One Goes To Eleven

  published March 29, 2012

  While everyone else is scrounging for 15 minutes of fame, Chris Elliott settles for 11. That's how long his new live-action comedy Eagleheart... More >>

• May Contain Edginess

  published March 22, 2012

  Film+Music, kissing in a tree! First comes love, then comes a misunderstood multimedia phase, then comes the 2nd LA Film+Music Weekend! Co-founded... More >>

• Hey, Baby, Wanna See My Home Swinger?

  published March 22, 2012

  A workshop by Dutch avant luthier Yuri Landman doesn't happen every day. Even in this age of instant communication and superficial détente,... More >>

• The Great Greek

  published March 15, 2012

  Tonight's screening of Eternity and a Day (1998) is a tribute to late Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, who was accidentally run down by a... More >>

• Brother, Can You Spare a Book Deal?

  published March 15, 2012

  Could you go through your life without using money? In the modern world, there remains the incessant urge to keep accumulating money until you get... More >>

• Music and Fashion -- Together at Last!

  published March 8, 2012

  The L.A. Independent Fashion Consortium Show proves that even in deepest, darkest Valley Village, there's something interesting going on.... More >>