Bret Easton Ellis

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Less Than Zero vs. A Single Man, Lost Souls Regional Final

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. If you're looking for sparse depictions of lost men wandering through their own spiritual crises with Los Angeles as the backdr ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Ask the Dust vs. Less Than Zero, Round 2

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero vs. John Rechy's City of Night, Round 1

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Two stream-of-consciou ... More >>

10 Best Pop Culture Shout-Outs to the Santa Ana Winds

Southern California's dry winds in fall and winter can rise up to speeds of 90 mph. Commonly known as the Santa Ana winds, they're now making their first attack on the area. Panic has arisen on social media. That can't change the winds' mind, but you can find Twitter accounts personifying the winds ... More >>

Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?

L.A. Fadeaway: Jordan Okun Turns His Experience as Hollywood Assistant Into a Novel

What Bret Easton Ellis's book American Psycho did to materialism and Wall Street power with his -- or, really, frankly, what Upton Sinclair did to the meatpacking industry with The Jungle -- Los Angeles native Jordan Okun attempts to do to Hollywood with his first novel, L.A. Fadeaway. While Hollyw ... More >>

Baron Von Luxxury on His Friends' Double-Suicide, Five Years Later

Blake Robin is a nu-disco producer and DJ who performs under the name Baron von Luxxury. In the summer of 2007, his close friends Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, a glamorous couple who were fixtures in the New York art scene, both committed suicide. She died from an overdose of Tylenol PM combined ... More >>

Marcus Samuelsson Coming to Hammer Museum

Hmm, this could be interesting. Chef Marcus Samuelsson, former champion of Top Chef Masters and owner of New York's Red Rooster, will be hosting a discussion alongside New York-based visual artist Sanford Biggers on July 8 at 3 p.m. at the Hammer Museum in Westwood. You have to imagine that the el ... More >>

Phil Pavel: The Ringmaster of the Chateau Marmont

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Phil Pavel's parents begged him not to go to Northwestern University. They feared that, as the son of a gas-meter reader from Chicago's working-class South Side, he'd be uncomf ... More >>

Jon Jost Series at L.A. Filmforum & Cinefamily

Ryan Adams Interview: We Manage To Really Piss Him Off

See also: Ryan Adams performs at Hollywood Forever, October 10, 2011 [Correction: Contrary to what was originally written, Adams did not hang up on reporter Drew Fortune. Rather, Adams cut short the conversation, and the two agreed to continue the next day. West Coast Sound regrets the error. A s ... More >>

Patrick DeWitt, Screenwriter Behind Terri, On Literature, Hollywood, Booze and Fiction Writing in L.A.

To many, Patrick DeWitt is best known as the screenwriter behind this year's critically-acclaimed portrait of adolescent angst Terri. Literary types may know him as of author of the much-lauded novels Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers. But a few years ago, languishing as a bartender at Three Clubs ... More >>

'Post 9/11' Exhibit at OHWOW Gallery: What 21st Century Art of Rebellion Looks Like

Courtesy of Team GalleryRyan McGinley: Taylor (Rushing River), 2011​ When Osama bin Laden was killed in May and young people, "the Millennials," gathered at the White House, Lafayette Park and Ground Zero in a surprising burst of euphoria, their optimism was unnerving. Did they really imagine ... More >>

New Jarvis Cocker Video Glamorizes Junkies, Homemade Tattoos

​Jarvis Cocker does the vocals for "Synchronize" the new track by the horrendously named production team Discodeine. We'd watch Jarvis in anything, but here he just sits around a posh hotel room while some circa 1990 heroin chic models shoot up and give each other tattoos. It's Jarvis living o ... More >>

TWO WHITE GUYS SITTING AROUND TALKING

Hammer Conversation

Top Ten Instant Covers of Cee-Lo's "Fuck You": Ukuleles, Teenyboppers and White People Awkwardly Singing "I Though You Should Know, Nigga"!

Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" was "leaked" a few weeks ago with an instantly popular lyrics-only video, soon followed by a much less interesting official video (and official t-shirts!). The first version spread around the Internet like wildfire and it wasn't long until several enterprising musicians, both pro ... More >>

Stage Raw: Summer Festivities

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlSUMMER FESTIVITIES Open Fist Theater Company launches its annual Fist Look Festival this weekend, with The Existents, a rock musical by Douglas Crawford and Jason Wooten, music and lyrics by Ty Taylor. T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bedroom Farce

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALNEW REVIEW GO  BEDROOM FARCE ​Photo by Ron Sossi The title is apt, since the action occurs in three radically different bedrooms in a 1975 English suburb. Kate (blond and taffy-voiced Kate Hollinshead) an ... More >>

Fun and Games. Then, the Monster

Why neither the ignorance nor the bliss could last

Shocker!: Vampire Weekend Preppie Album Cover Model Grows Up to Be Litigious, Money-Hungry Malibu Dweller

Litigious Malibu-dweller Kirsten Kennis, back in the '80s​It's always a red-letter day when Pitchfork has to link back to TMZ and all the sub-worlds of entertainment, as John Lennon and Timothy Leary would say, come together. And all through the magic of Vampire Weekend, the preppie gift that ... More >>

Who Needs the L.A. Times Festival of Books?

'American Psycho, The Musical' Coming to the Pantages Sometime Soon!

Variety (via Beatcrave) reports that your favorite Huey-Lewis-obsessed-yuppie-serial-killer-novel-turned-arthouse-cult-movie, the one and only American Psycho, is being adapted into a Broadway musical. (Which means we'll get it at the Pantages with Justin Guarini playing Patrick Bateman sometime aro ... More >>

Camp Freddy's Donovan Leitch Lists His Top Ten Cultural Moments of the 1980s

Donovan Leitch​In honor of the second week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Last week Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Tonight's ... More >>

Who's Afraid To Follow Tearist?: Manimal Vinyl Showcase at the Echo (12/07)

The bill for Manimal Vinyl's showcase at the Echo last night had the label's self-proclaimed "Bolshevik disco" duo The Polyamorous Affair (ever-cooing couple Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie) as headliners. They did draw the bigger crowd, but they did not close the show. It's unclear whether they ... More >>

Back in Blue: Battered But Not Broken, Jean-Jacques Beineix Returns

Director brings a reissue, a retrospective and a project in progress

Movie Reviews: Earth, The Garden, Obsessed

Also, The Informers, The Mutant Chronicles and more

Coachella Day 1: I Carpathians and the Amazonian Assault of Warrior Queen

Randall RobertsAll hail the Queen Bret Easton Ellis once pointed out that the inhabitants of Los Angeles never stop babbling about the freeways. Then again, he penned, Less than Zero during the comparatively halcyon Tom Bradley days, prior to the total arteriosclerosis of the 405 and 101. Nowadays, ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

AFI Fest: A to W

Our comprehensive guide to more than 40 festival titles

Howdy Partner

Hollywood’s hippest purse buddy

Best of Bale

Ten Christian Bale movies not to be missed

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

Sex, God and Little Armenians

Generational divides, from Hollywood to NYC

Film Reviews

The L.A. Word

A.M. Homes away from home

Ellis Island

The novelist as his own antihero

Hollywood Satiricon

Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

The Critic

James Wood on literary fervor, bad movies and his first novel, The Book Against God

The Critic

James Wood on literary fervor, bad movies and his first novel, The Book Against God

Sons of the City

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have made an unlikely pop masterpiece by singing bittersweet songs of salvation that could have only been born in L.A.

Southern Gothic Posturing

Donna Tartt comes home

Pulp Friction

Roger Avary hooks up with Bret Easton Ellis

Review This Book or Else

The latest gripes from the "gun-toting lesbians"

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

Ask any well-heeled American psycho

I Shot Patrick Bateman

Mary Harron on her American Psycho

The Golden Age of Cinema?

1985 Timeline

Critical Bestsellers

They're Off!

Brace yourselves for an actual sheriff's race