Charles Bukowski

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

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a 28-Foot-Tall Dog Urinating on a Museum

This week, one artist makes paintings that smear and explode while another makes an ancient monument look lively and a third installs a Dutch living room in a storefront. 5. The better to hear you with Elana Mann, who has spent the last few years thinking about how to make listening and hearing mor ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Sweet Sixteen

*Read all of first-round matchups in the Best L.A. Novel Ever tournament. *Read the essay kicking off the tournament and see the complete brackets. We read Evelyn Waugh and James M. Cain. We plowed through Dominick Dunne and gave the unjustly neglected Kate Braverman a chance. We learned What Make ... More >>

King Eddy's Saloon Closing Dec. 16: 24/7 Happy Hour, Speakeasy Tours Live Auction

The threat had been hanging over downtown's drinking scene like an unpaid bar tab for sometime now: How long before historic dive King Eddy's Saloon would be closed down for a remodeling at the hands of it's new owners, Michael Leko and Will Shamlian (Library Bar, Spring Street Bar, Pizza Urbano, Co ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 9-11

Friday, November 9 Ute Lemper SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS Ute Lemper is already a masterful interpreter of sad/romantic/tragic balladry, whether she's bringing to life "Mack the Knife" and other cabaret chansons by Kurt Weill or transmuting the surly poetry of Charles Bukowski into song form. B ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Jon Fante's Ask the Dust vs. Charles Bukowski's Post Office, 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 check out: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Our first he ... More >>

Karen Finley Channels Dead Celebrities for Perform Chinatown, But Event Fails to Add Up to a Satisfying Whole

Perform Chinatown, a one-night festival of performance art, took over the Chinatown arts district on Saturday night. Over 40 artists occupied various nooks and crannies of Chung King Road and beyond with performances that were short or long, dour or humorous, heavy or light. While there were some ex ... More >>

Pulp and Fiction

Perform Chinatown, a one-night festival of performance art, took over the Chinatown arts district on Saturday night. Over 40 artists occupied various nooks and crannies of Chung King Road and beyond with performances that were short or long, dour or humorous, heavy or light. While there were some ex ... More >>

Ecco Announces First 3 Bourdain Titles: Roy Choi and Some Other People

​Last September Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Anthony Bourdain (chef, crime novelist, No Reservations guy, friend-of-Chang, occasional writer of Treme episodes, etc.) would have his own line of books, one that would publish a small handful of titles every year. W ... More >>

Bukowski Flash Mob Breaks Out at Barney's Beanery

YouTubePeople started reciting poetry in the middle of Barney's Beanery last night​ It's not every day that a random old guy announces to a group of strangers that he likes tight pussy. Actually, that happens all the time in Los Angeles. But this was different, because it wasn't an offer, but ... More >>

Fante, Dead and Alive

YouTubePeople started reciting poetry in the middle of Barney's Beanery last night​ It's not every day that a random old guy announces to a group of strangers that he likes tight pussy. Actually, that happens all the time in Los Angeles. But this was different, because it wasn't an offer, but ... More >>

Is Musso & Frank the True Crossroads of Hollywood and Literature? Richard Schave Wants to Find Out

Simone PazRichard Schave with wife Kim Cooper at Musso & Frank​At Hollywood's Musso & Frank Grill, legend has it, giants of American literature -- Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles ... More >>

Christmas 4 Bukowski

Simone PazRichard Schave with wife Kim Cooper at Musso & Frank​At Hollywood's Musso & Frank Grill, legend has it, giants of American literature -- Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles ... More >>

Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Christmas 4 Bukowski, and other new reviews. . .

Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review ​ of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>

Best City Ready For Its Literary Close-up

Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review ​ of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review ​ of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>

Red -- Hank You Very Much

Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review ​ of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>

Film Review: Every Man for Himself at LACMA

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

Sunset Strip Follies

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

DRUMMING UP DEAD BEATS

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

HOME IS WHERE THE POEM IS

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

Nightranger: (Art)Walk This Way

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

Blood, Dumplings, & Nicotine Gelato: Esotouric's Unusual LA Tours, With Food

It still feels like summer vacation, and whether you have guests, or just feel like exploring a bit, Esotouric isn't your cookie-cutter tour company and promises an "intelligent, unpredictable ride into the secret heart of the city we love." The tour's themes integrate literature, rock and roll, ar ... More >>

Gavin Rossdale Talks Wanderlust, Jesus Lizard and Dark, Dingy Dive Bars

Photo by Kevin Westenberg Though it pains me to admit this, I honestly can't remember the first thing Gavin Rossdale said to me. It's not that I wasn't listening, but that I couldn't hear a damn thing. It was one of those days in Los Angeles where you miss every green light, you lose your cell pho ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Dodgers in Snorkel Masks, Charles Bukowski Remembered, Italian Feast in Hollywood, Abbot Kinney Festival

They say people turn to comfort food in times of grief and, well, nothing proved more true in Los Angeles over the weekend. To ease the worry brought on by the current economic crisis and looming presidential election, we gladly welcomed a weekend of over-eating and over-imbibing. Check out what we ... More >>

Bukowski's L.A. Scene

The poets, the madmen; the impoverished and the rich of soul; the bland, the bastards, the drunks and the damned

Sam Cherry

Bukowski's Buddy

Library Book Liberation Front: Don't Tax Library Books

Apolitical L.A. roars at deficit-mired Villaraigosa

Charles Bukowski: Poetic Licentiousness

A musical homage to L.A.'s dirty old man of letters

Bukowski's Bungalow Named A Cultural Landmark

Brushing aside allegations that Charles Bukowski was a Nazi sympathizer, the Los Angeles City Council approved the designation of Buk's former bungalow on De Longpre Avenue as a cultural landmark on Tuesday -- sparing it from demolition. Though the effort to save the house was successful, Buk's l ... More >>

East Is East (of Downtown)

Our readers write

Commission Rejects Bukowski Nazi Claim

Recommends Landmark Status for DeLongpre House

Defending His Life

Our readers write

Bukowski's Ruin?

Claim that the author was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow

Unshown Cinema: The Animated Films That Got Away

Claim that the author was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow

Film Reviews

Claim that the author was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow

The Chemist

Reuben Rueva

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 24 - 30

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Bukowsical, Loose and Ubu Roi

Nothing About Sunset Junction!

Reviews of Bukowsical, Loose and Ubu Roi

Lush Life

Bukowski in and out of his cups

Finding Fante

An encounter with one of L.A.'s literary ghosts

Queen of Hearts, Queen of Spades

Sorvino in Triumph of Love, Bullock in Murder by Numbers

Letters

Sorvino in Triumph of Love, Bullock in Murder by Numbers

Boozers and Schmoozers

Big Bad Love good, Jaglom better than usual

At Canter’s: Mary and Me

Big Bad Love good, Jaglom better than usual

The Father, the Son and the Holy Cop

Dan Fante’s Mooch and Jesse Kimbrough’s Defender of the Angels

Life Force

Gerald Locklin on poetry, children and immortality

More About Bukowski

Gerald Locklin on poetry, children and immortality

Perhaps These Are Not Poetic Times At All

Poetry and Los Angeles at the Millennium