Email Author Gustavo Turner

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 13, 2010

  "Roger & Me"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 6, 2010

  "The Cool Maestro"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 30, 2010

  "Listening to Yoko"

More

2011 Stories by Gustavo Turner

• The New Sex Flick

  published December 1, 2011

  The original trailer for Shame, starring hunk du jour Michael Fassbender as a Manhattan corporate drone struggling with sex addiction,... More >>

• Inni: Sigus Ros' Second Movie

  published October 27, 2011

  Their fellow anthemic NPR darlings Arcade Fire and Radiohead may fiercely divide public opinion, but there aren't a lot of Sigur Rós... More >>

• The Rum Diary: Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson

  published October 27, 2011

  To get to the heart of the mess that is The Rum Diary, Johnny Depp's deeply personal cinematographic tribute to his late friend Hunter... More >>

• Joel Schumacher Interview

  published October 13, 2011

  In Joel Schumacher's new movie, Trespass, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman play a married couple who live in an enormous, Dwell... More >>

• Serge Gainsbourg at the Movies

  published September 1, 2011

  You wouldn't know it from Joann Sfar's Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, but cinema played a crucial part in French musician... More >>

• Serge Gainsbourg: Did He Really Act in Jerry Lewis' Infamous Holocaust Film The Day the Clown Criedr

  published Aug 26, 2011

  If you pay attention to cultural waves, you're probably aware that L.A. is currently going through a Serge Gainsbourg moment. This coming Sunday, Aug. 28, the Hollywood Bowl (as part of KCRW's World ... More >>

• The Allah-Las Put Their Retro Where Their Mouths Are

  published August 11, 2011

  You can hear the Allah-Las on YouTube, and you can see them every Tuesday in August at the Echo, where they're headlining a... More >>

• Bring in Da Kraut Funk: Nite Jewel Performs Tomorrow for Re:Play L.A.

  published Aug 09, 2011

  Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, was the first artist we considered here at LA Weekly when putting together our Re:Play L.A. series, which consists of four local indie artists covering their favorite ... More >>

• Nite Jewel on performing Kraftwerk's Computerworld in L.A. Weekly Re:Play L.A. Series

  published August 4, 2011

  Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, was the first artist we considered here at L.A. Weekly when putting together our... More >>

• Tomorrow Night: Sun Araw, L.A.'s Modern-Day Psychedelicist, Tackles Brit Power-Pop Classic Bandwagonesque

  published Aug 02, 2011

  When we asked Cameron Stallones, the fascinating L.A.-based polymath who performs and records as Sun Araw, to cover a favorite album in its entirety at L.A. Weekly's RE:Play L.A. series at the Hard Ro... More >>

• Bandwagonesque: Teenage Fanclub Wasteland

  published July 28, 2011

  When we asked Cameron Stallones, the fascinating L.A.-based polymath who performs and records as Sun Araw, to cover a favorite... More >>

• Jimmy Scott Liver Send In the Goosebumps: A Rare Chance to See the Unforgettable Crooner

  published Jul 22, 2011

  So what if your legendary band performed at the Hollywood Bowlr Or CBGBsr Or the Apollor How many singers can you go check out at the Echoplex that can boast of having performed at Twin Peaks' motherf... More >>

• Omar Souleyman at the Echo 7/12/11

  published Jul 14, 2011

  ... More >>

• Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

  published July 14, 2011

  If you check out Eddie Izzard's Twitter feed, you'll be welcomed by an iPhone self-portrait of the 49-year-old actor-comedian... More >>

• John Frame: The Huntington's Unintentional Steampunk Exhibit

  published Jun 23, 2011

  When people ask John Frame what his work is about, the curators of "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" write in the show's catalog, "he feels that the real answer shou... More >>

• The Sublime Webb Sisters

  published June 23, 2011

  Many women we know would do unspeakable things to compel Leonard Cohen to call them "sublime" just once. Between 2008 and... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Love Letter Tour: R. Kelly Live at the Nokia Theatre Saturday Night

  published Jun 13, 2011

  [For more photos, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "R. Kelly at Nokia Theatre".] Who: R. Kelly (with openers Marsha Ambrosius and Keyshia Cole) When: Saturday, June 11, 2011 Where: Nokia Theatre at... More >>

• Kid Congo Powers: The Abrasive and the Beautiful

  published May 26, 2011

  Before Kid Congo, there once was a kid named Brian Tristan, who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s in a Mexican-American... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Spinal Tap Fans Start Movement to Make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day" Worldwide

  published May 24, 2011

  See also: *Nigel Tufnel Day 11/11/11: It's Official *Eleven Ways To Celebrate Nigel Tufnel Day If you're even remotely familiar with the film This is Spinal Tap, then surely you're conversant about ... More >>

• In a World Without AutoTune, This Is What Lil Jon REALLY Sounds Like

  published May 20, 2011

  We know what you're thinking: "in a world without AutoTune, what would Lil Jon would REALLY sound liker" And then you're also thinking: "Would Lil Jon be good at karaoke in such an alternate universe... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  M-Bone, Member of "Teach Me How to Dougie" Crew Cali Swag District, Killed in Inglewood

  published May 16, 2011

  M-Bone is first from the left at the beginning of the video, wearing plaid shirt. Several news outlets are reporting that Montae Talbert, best known as M-Bone, member of the hip-hop crew Cali Swag D... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Can Music Critics Who Revere Dirty Projectors, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend Ever Begin to Understand the Genius of Tyler the Creator's Goblinr

  published May 13, 2011

  Just finished listening to the BRILLIANT Goblin by Odd Future's Tyler the Creator. It's a fantastic feat by a true artist who'll be around for a while. Solid, sober and soulful. A kind of stream-of-c... More >>

• Today in WTF: Wanna Buy an Elvis Presley Portrait Painted by Killer Clown John Wayne Gacyr

  published May 13, 2011

  A charming little Las Vegas (of course) art gallery is auctioning off a set of paintings by everyone's favorite serial killer clown, John Wayne Gacy. The show is called "ZOMG Pay Good Cashmoney for... More >>

• Storm Thorgerson at John Varvatos

  published May 12, 2011

  Quick: If I say "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Chances are... More >>

• Bob Dylan's L.A. Weekly Birthday Cake: Tangled Up in Frosting

  published May 12, 2011

  You didn't think the Bob Dylan cake on the cover was Photoshopped, did you? Once we decided our cover for this issue would feature a... More >>