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2009 Stories by Joe Donnelly

• What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

  published November 13, 2009

  If we were back in Wes Anderson’s native Texas, the plate of food he’s showing little mercy might be called the... More >>

• Joshua Leonard: The Man Behind (Ahem) Humpday

  published July 9, 2009

  Joshua Leonard came undone at Cannes. It wasn’t just that Humpday, the film in which he stars, had made it into... More >>

• Something Wicked: Author Richard Lange Is Done With Rejection

  published May 28, 2009

  Also read: "Devil Rain," a fiction excerpt from... More >>

• Dogma: Is the Power of Now About Chasing Garbage Trucks and Peeing on Bushes?

  published May 21, 2009

  Desperate times call for ... Buddhism! Or, at least reading about it, if the number various Buddhism-for-beginners books... More >>

• LA People 2009: Fucking With Drew Barrymore

  published April 23, 2009

  Drew Barrymore loves fucking. Mostly it happens when she gets excited. And she gets excited about a lot of stuff... More >>

• LA People 2009: Death Becomes Her — Gillian Shure

  published April 23, 2009

  In keeping with the mores of a young, Hollywood actress, Gillian Shure walks into the 101 Café fashionably late for... More >>

• LA People 2009: The Heart of Darkness — Jerry Stahl

  published April 23, 2009

  I’m deep into a harrowing Diane Sawyer special about hillbillies in Kentucky (a cautionary tale about the pre- and... More >>

• Down and Out in L.A.: Novelist Patrick deWitt Comes Home

  published April 9, 2009

  I approach the Silent Movie Theatre on a recent Sunday night, looking out for the Echo Park porkpie-hat army I fear is already... More >>

• Coming Home on Oscar Night: Twilight’s Empty Streets on L.A.'s Indoor Mardi Gras

  published February 26, 2009

  My head is thumping with nostalgia when I touch down at LAX on Sunday night after a long weekend with family and friends in... More >>

• Silver Lake Anxiety Attack: The Rowena Avenue Crime Wave

  published February 12, 2009

  In line at the bank last Saturday morning, I overhear a man explain to the teller that he has no identification because his... More >>

• In the Doghouse: A Leash-Law Miscreant's Day in Court

  published January 29, 2009

  On one of those gloomy, wet winter days when Seattle sends its weather south, I arrive at the Hollywood branch of the Los... More >>

• The Tortoise and the Tank: August 21, 2008

  published January 1, 2009

  Last spring I witnessed one of the strangest military operations one could imagine — More >>