Aldous Huxley

Schindler House Transforms Into a Visitors Center for an Exhibit About How We Travel

John Waters: Interviews: Top Five Favorite Quotes From the Cult Film Director's New Interview Collection

Hide your kids. Hide your wife. John Waters has escaped from Baltimore. On Friday, Waters will appear at the University of Southern California for a discussion and screening of his classic Pink Flamingos. If you scored tickets you're in for a treat: by this point, Waters is almost as well known fo ... More >>

Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous

A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!

HOORAY FOR ISHERWOOD

CAN'T WE JUST ALL AGREE THAT L.A. SUCKS? (EXCEPT FOR YOU, HOLLYWOOD BOWL)

Dark Psychedelic Rock from The Sixth Chamber Tonight at the Good Hurt

Ignacio SegoviaThe Sixth Chamber in the burnt forests of Chatsworth, CA Local psychedelic outfit The Sixth Chamber creates one of the biggest sounds you will ever hear inside a small club. Rahne Pistor's massive blues riffs merge with Sevan Kand's outrageously soulful wail and a propulsive rhythm se ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Brave New Archive UCLA will get the correspondence, speeches, papers and audio recordings of 20th-century author, seeker and drug experimenter Aldous Huxley. L.A. TimesSlay Case Man Still Missing Nearly nine months after the gruesome killings of four people in a Quartz Hill house, a fifth presumed v ... More >>

L.A. Diss of the Day

New Yorkers may hate us more, but no one tops the British when it comes to binge-dissing L.A. in print. (Who can ever forget Aldous Huxley's travelogue of Angeleno strangeness, in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: "Then suddenly the car plunged into a tunnel and emerged into another world, a vast, ... More >>

The Lost Art of Walking: Creative Fuel for History's Greatest Thinkers

Author Geoff Nicholson gets pedestrian

Chris & Don: Opposites Attract

New documentary paints a portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)

Weiss' Muxtape #2: A Tribute to Albert Hofmann-Pour Out a Little Lysergic

Lost somewhere in the shuffle of the 43,214 stories on the potential impact of Obama's ex-pastor's crack-pot comments*, was the news that Albert Hoffmann, the founder of LSD, died this week at the ripe old age of 102. Along with completely dis-proving everything you ever learned in D.A.R.E class a ... More >>

Library Book Liberation Front: Don't Tax Library Books

Apolitical L.A. roars at deficit-mired Villaraigosa

Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer Chris Keating even paused to extemporaneously inform the crowd that "people call us hippies, but that's just not true. We're from Baltimore." Thi ... More >>

Lords of Your Thermostat?

California Energy Commission caught in scalding water

Meet John Smith

An actor searches for himself onstage

The U.K. in L.A.

or, How to be Cary Grant

The Stem-Cell Debate Gets Silly

Challenge to $3 billion in research funds has its (bad) day in court

High Art

Affirming art’s secret history of substance abuse

Unchain Your Heart

Bookstores for the independent-minded book lover

The Secret Lives of Cheetahs

Despite critical raves, Carroll Ballard’s Duma may go quietly into the night

The Isherwood Equation

Peter Parker’s massive biography considers the life, the literature and Los Angeles

Pick Up the Torch

The Hives in the land of true rock & roll

Re-Germinated

Hollywood Splendor

Gavin Lambert on Natalie Wood, Vivian Leigh and the meaning of stardom

The Final Frontier

Depending on whom you ask, stem-cell research is either a medical godsend or further proof that God is dead.

The Visionary Cookbook

Daniel Pinchbeck breaks open our collective head

L. A. Flaw

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Up a Creek

The Band that rings like a bell

Tinsel-Town Rebellion

Writers, moguls and Hollywood’s day of reckoning

The Body Electric

Warrior saints from a microhard world

The Trip