Cormac McCarthy

Stencil Artist Logan Hicks Returns to L.A. With a Three-Day Show at LACE

Doing the Best With the Least: 5 Great Aspects of Disappointing 2012 Movies

In a piece about good acting in bad movies he wrote last year, A.O. Scott suggested that "You might almost say that greatness shows itself precisely in the discrepancy between the performance and the material." It's in keeping with this notion that we've decided to highlight some of 2012's overachie ... More >>

From the Archives: LA Weekly's Original Coverage of the L.A. Riots May Surprise You

This week's print edition of LA Weekly is a "Then and Now" retrospective on the L.A. Riots -- a seven-page dive into the scenes of destruction across Los Angeles 20 years ago, and the state those places find themselves in today. All this reminiscing led us to wonder: What was the Weekly's immediate ... More >>

Exclusive: Skrillex, Bloc Party, and Miike Snow Headline Hard Summer Fest

Hard Summer fest is back, this time as a two-day event, August 3-4, at Los Angeles State Historic Park. The organizers were kind enough to share the line-up with West Coast Sound before anyone else. The EDM-focused party is headlined by this dude with a weird haircut you may have heard of named Skr ... More >>

Ashley Ream's Losing Clementine: Los Feliz Writer's First Novel Examines the Logistics of Suicide

Ashley Ream wrote five novels before she got one published; the most unfortunate of them was an allegorical tale about a hippopotamus stranded in the desert. "They are in the drawer, where they belong," Ream says over coffee at a little café near her Los Feliz home. She is prim and polite, dressed ... More >>

Michael Mann's New HBO Show Luck Is So Hard-core That 2 Horses Have Died Already

We knew Luck would be hardcore. With Deadwood's David Milch on the screenplay and Miami Vice's Michael Mann in the director's chair, HBO's new ode to horse-racing was bound to be grittier and manlier than Cormac McCarthy' 5 'o' clock shadow. But are they taking the realism too far? In a single sea ... More >>

Danny Brown and Kid Sister - The Echoplex - 1/24/12

Aaron FrankDanny Brown and Main Attrakionz​See also: Danny Brown is Hip-Hop's Cormac McCarthy Danny Brown and Kid Sister The Echoplex 1/24/12 Anticipation for rapper Danny Brown's first headlining performance in Los Angeles was already at fever pitch when I entered the Echoplex last night. A ... More >>

Danny Brown: Hip-Hop's Cormac McCarthy

See Also: Das Racist, Danny Brown - The Roxy - 11-3-11 Despite a troubled past topped off by a year-long jail stint, Danny Brown maintains a strikingly serene and friendly disposition. Over the past several years, the Detroit rapper released a handful of well-crafted mixtapes, his most recent XXX ... More >>

Top Books We Read in 2011, by L.A. Weekly Writers

Yes, bookstores are closing all around us, from the giant Borders to the tiny Village Books. But Angelenos still read, and to prove it, we asked LA Weekly's staff writers, editors and freelance contributors to tell us their favorite book they read this year, and why. Answers after the jump. What's ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/5-12/9

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But the menu at Bäco Mercat, the new restaurant from Joseph Centeno of Lazy Ox, reads almost like a graduate exam in culinary poststructuralism, mixing flavors from Italy, France, and Western Chin ... More >>

Mark Crick's The Household Tips of Great Writers: Cooking à la Chaucer, Etc.

Foodforfel/FlickrMark Crick imagines Geoffrey Chaucer's version of an onion tart​When it comes to celebrity cookbooks, we don't have a whole lot of great ones to choose from. But maybe that's more a function of who we consider celebrities these days: if our great writers cooked up food instea ... More >>

Yelping With Cormac: The Author of Blood Meridian Reviews Taco Bell

Yelping with Cormac​At its best, Yelp help can help you find a lunch that won't ruin your day.  At its worse, the website is, if not a petri dish for extortion, a willful enabler of bad, whiney writers.  The first big problem is, according to a judge, no longer up for debate, but the second ... More >>

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rock With You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited

Into the horizon

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

Chefs Predict Restaurant Trends for 2011: The Locavore Issue

A. ScattergoodMozza's garden wall​ It's that time of year again, Anderson Cooper time, when everybody starts making lists from this year and predictions for next year. The Nation's Restaurant News is very fond of such lists, and has now polled chefs for their latest: the top 20 restaurant tre ... More >>

The Sunset Limited

A. ScattergoodMozza's garden wall​ It's that time of year again, Anderson Cooper time, when everybody starts making lists from this year and predictions for next year. The Nation's Restaurant News is very fond of such lists, and has now polled chefs for their latest: the top 20 restaurant tre ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Looking for Paul, The Night of the Tribades

Also, The Sunset Limited, Uptown Downtown and more

Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

The Nutella Earthquake Preparedness Kit: PSA of the Month

A. ScattergoodHow to handle an emergency: duct tape, chocolate, a can opener Last summer, we ran a post about what to pack in your Earthquake Preparedness Kit, chocolate being the first thing that some of us would grab, along with the dog and the children. Since April is Earthquake Preparedness Mon ... More >>

Middle of The Road

Long-delayed Cormac McCarthy adaptation takes the path of least resistance

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

When Bad Things Happen to Funny People

Doug Stanhope, Elayne Boosler, Merrill Markoe and other standups on the pitfalls of comedy

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "So you're just going to have to go with me on this: I was a baby bulimic." NYT restaurant critic Frank Bruni. "I'm dabbling in it and looking at becoming a chef." Keanu Reeves on molecular gastronomy. "There, ... More >>

How Fiction Works: King James and the Battle for the Novel

It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

Cannes, Certainly: Surprises and Discoveries in Fest's Parallel Section

It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

After the Frogtown Artwalk, Talk of the Apocalypse While the Jacuzzi Bubbles

A "river liver," art shows without the Two Buck Chuck and Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Not Dead Yet: The Novel as Lifeline

A "river liver," art shows without the Two Buck Chuck and Cormac McCarthy's The Road

On Bonnie and Clyde's 40th Anniversary, a DVD Tribute Fans the Revolutionary Embers

One critic takes a second glance at his first impression

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

Badlands

Coen brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men

The Bionico Man

Placita Café

The Greg Proops Chat Show

Placita Café

Francophilia

Have no fear, the French will save cinema

the Translator

Marie DuVaure, Vroman’s Bookstore

209 Weeks Later

War on zombies, war on terror, what’s the diff?

A Fan's Notes

A few good, recent books

Hived In

Pornography, apocalypse and betrayal

Friday, Jan. 27

Pornography, apocalypse and betrayal

Like a Rhinestone Preacher

Nick Cave survives and surpasses

A Gaucho on Foot

Duck, in Patagonia

High Hopes

Wes Anderson’s tragicomedy of the gifted child

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Wes Anderson’s tragicomedy of the gifted child

Graphic Stories

From Lynda Barry and Raymond Briggs