Carl Jung

Sorting Through Sam Francis' Paintings at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty

How is Hamlet Like Batman? Author Gregg Hurwitz Connects Comics and Shakespeare

There's a question that author Gregg Hurwitz gets asked often. Why would someone who has written scholarly papers about Shakespeare also pen thrillers? Undoubtedly, a love of the Bard of Avon and a need to write one suspenseful book after the next aren't mutually exclusive. Hurwitz has written 12 ... More >>

Black Hogg: Friday, May 25, 8:56 p.m.

A young man with a beard slides his stool up to the bar, squeezing in between a flirting couple and an elementary school-aged child. The bearded fellow is dining solo at Black Hogg, his only companion a fat book of Carl Jung. He inquires about beverage options and is informed that there's still no l ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

A Dangerous Method Review

David Cronenberg on the birth of psychoanalysis

David Cronenberg Interview

In dialogue with director of A Dangerous Mind

International Alchemy Conference: Getting Magickal and Mysterious in Long Beach

Tanja M. LadenDome and performance stage at the International Alchemy Conference​ Whether it's through Kundalini yoga, Vedic astrology, FengShui, Wicca or Kabbalah, the people of Los Angeles have always been willing to go to any lengths to find answers to the unexplained, especially with 2012, ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival: Todd Solondz's Dark Horse and What it Says About Contemporary Jewish Angst

Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber in Dark Horse​ "We're Jews, and Jews we shall always be." So a main character warns of the us-vs-them difference that would define the first half of the 20th century, in A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg's period piece triangulating the Oedipal relationship b ... More >>

Grant Morrison's Supergods: Comic Book Writer Chats About Why We Need Superheroes

Writer Grant Morrison​In the world of comics, writer Grant Morrison is known for mythic grandiosity, narrative complexity, and visionary experimentation. Morrison's prolific work for both Marvel and DC includes defining titles such as Arkham Asylum, All-Star Superman, Batman RIP, the first thr ... More >>

Werner Herzog Takes Pity on Confused Hipster at Hollywood Cemetery Screening Q&A

cinemastrikesback.comWerner Herzog has seen worse.​The Saturday-night screening of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery was attended by special guest Werner Herzog, to the delight of a few hundred wine-drunk hipsters on picnic blankets. (Toto was there too, in spiri ... More >>

"Sober People Scare the Shit Out of Me"

Emil Amos of Holy Sons on living off the grid

GNOSTIC AVENGER

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

High on Life at North End Caffe

Ben CalderwoodWiener trifecta​ Creole, Opie and Tijuana are not strains of medicinal marijuana--at least not in this section of the LA Weekly online. They are the fellowship of hot dogs that compose North End Caffe's insidious, kamikaze Trio of Dawgs. Two are coiled with bacon, two are tucked ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Women Without Men, The Square, After.Life, Phyllis and Harold

Also, La Mission, Godspeed, Mid-August Lunch and more

Dreaming of a Day-Glo Xmas

Doug Harvey’s mostly psychedelic shopping list

Billy Corgan Was One Creepy-Ass Child, Psychoanalytic Marketing Stunt Shockingly Reveals

www.CharlesAddams.com​Our brethren at the Village Voice report that over the weekend, as part of the marketing strategy for expensive facsimiles of The Red Book--a recently unveiled illustrated manuscript by cultish psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung--our friend Billy Corgan was "psychoanalyzed" i ... More >>

ME AND MY SHADOW

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Ask a Mexican! There Has Been Blood

Paul Schneider and the Real Career

With breakout roles in Lars and the Real Girl and The Assassination of Jesse James, a North Carolina native braces for the Hollywood big time

Beware: Contains a New Way of Juggling!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Happy Thanksgiving, Beautifuls!

Rockie Horoscope

Not-So-Innocent Abroad

Rediscovering Graham Greene’s lawless roads and mapless journeys

May Cause Dizziness

Big Pharma and us: a love story

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

Two Bobs in Search of Landscape

Smithson’s redemption, Flick’s contemplation

Tainted Shamans

Resurrecting the Spirit of ’86: Jessie Oonark, Joseph Beuys and the Outback

The Kids Aren’t Alright . . . They’re Amazing

Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new — and exciting — again

Thirteen Operas in 12 Days

Art Therapy

And its progression from the Holocaust camps to Loyola Marymount and beyond

Dream States: The War of All Mothers

Coming Back to Earth

The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

The Adelphia Story

Crap Circles

Tracy Young, New Horizons

The Magic Abides

Seeing Things

Art for Art Bell’s sake: Crackpot visionaries in Orange

Barbie Unbound

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

Border Garde

Microtonalist Kraig Grady: Outside and in between

While You Were Sleeping

Mapping the dreamscape of dream research

Spinning Beds, Giant Table, Brancusi's beard

Robert Therrien's big art

Dream Weaver

Director Ron Sossi on Kenneth Cavander's compendium of ancient Greek plays

Killers, Kisses and Kismet

A darker shade of noir

Night Trippers

The sleep of reason produces the Olivia Tremor Control

Fulfillment

A Publishing Memoir