Dennis Hopper

Michael McCarty Updates Michael's Restaurant: Bar Food Drinking With Dennis Hopper

Maybe it's because so many things in this town seem impermanent that our fondness for those that do not increases, exponentially, with each year they remain. Michael McCarty's Santa Monica restaurant Michael's, which he opened in 1979 -- yeah, yeah, that's ancient for us -- is one of those places th ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/29 - 11/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You were expecting maybe Jeff Koons and a chocolate fountain? No." Michael McCarty Updates Michael's Restaurant: Bar Food Drinking With Dennis Hopper. "Thanks to C&H, sugar cane will always be associated with a Hawaiian hi ... More >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

MOCA Crisis: What Do Younger Artists and Curators Think?

See also: *Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the MOCA Gala *Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble *Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA *Street Art at MOCA The crisis at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, which exploded with the ouster of longtime chief curator Paul Sch ... More >>

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Bullets, Lynch and dinosaurs

Rebel with a camera

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the End of Pacific Standard Time

Pacific Standard Time, that half-year, regionwide paean to L.A.'s art history, officially ends on March 31. A show of vintage photographs and one last performance event send it off. Everything else on this week's list is forward-looking. 5. Rebel with a camera When MOCA staged its big Dennis Hopper ... More >>

PCP Bust in L.A. Worth $100 Million Reminds Us That PCP Still Exists

Cholos from the 1988 Dennis Hopper movie 'Colors.'​Who knew PCP was even around anymore? What is this, a 1980s gang movie with cholos wearing white t-shirts and puffing on "sherm?" Anyway, federal agents say they found a whopping $100 million worth of the drug -- by the gallon. One-hundred-th ... More >>

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Utopian ends

'The Lords & The New Creatures' at Nye Brown: How Jim Morrison's Poetry Book Inspired an L.A. Art Show About Cars

"Modern life is a journey by car." This sentence could have been written yesterday, but it actually appeared in The Lords and the New Creatures, Jim Morrison's first book of published poetry in 1971. Forty years later, little has changed: The car is still king in Los Angeles. Now, a group show t ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Dennis Hopper Lives: As Legend, or Corporate Slogan for Vans?

Photo by Silje at siljeohlalaThe Hopper posters that are popping up all over town.​ You must have noticed his eyes, with their slightly mournful, softened edges. And his beard, which looks like a bristling, black-and-grey hedgehog. Or at least the slogan in giant white letters, spelling out a ... More >>

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Dennis Hopper Photo Stolen: Actor Jason Lee Offers $25,000 to Get it Back

Jason LeeA one-off photo of Dennis Hopper is missing.​Actor Jason Lee is pleading for his photo back. It's not any photo. It's a shot he took of the late Dennis Hopper. And it's a one-off image: There's no digital copy, no negative. Lee says the photo was stolen Friday at an event at the Thi ... More >>

Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

LACMA's Road Movies Series

The Black Apples: In Residency At The Echo And Dennis Hopper Is Invited

courtesy the black apples​ The Black Apples use two drummers to hold down the heaviest parts of the 13th Floor Elevators, the early Stooges, and Davie Allan's biker themes. Their debut LP--recorded half at Bedrock in Echo Park and half in a barn in Fort Collins, Colorado--is weeks away from r ... More >>

A CAVALCADE OF BROKEN DREAMS

Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble

Arrests Made In Beverly Hills Homicide [Update]

​Updated throughout Three people have been arrested Wednesday morning in connection with the murder of a man in Beverly Hills, police told KNX 1070 Newsradio. The identities of the suspects were not released. The victim's was identified as 21-year-old Katsutoshi Takazato, whom a coroner's off ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Exhibit

Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010

Remembering an American dreamer

Dennis Hopper Dies, Easy Rider Star/Director Was 74

​ Dennis Hopper has died at his home in Venice, after a battle with prostate cancer. The actor/director/artist recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his long, storied career, which included appearances in such films as Rebel Without a Cause, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Sports Bandages At Walk Of Fame Ceremony

​A cancer-stricken Dennis Hopper showed up to his star reveal on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday sporting bandages on his head and right hand, claiming that a paparazzo startled him and caused him to fall outside his home Thursday. "I've been working for this day to look as good as possible ... More >>

Only in LA: Laura Palmer's Mom Joins Original Groupie Pamela Des Barres for Strange Echo Park Event

​Attention fans of bizarro television and legendary groupies: Fishbowl LA announces a literary event tonight in Echo Park featuring Laura Palmer's mom and the archetype for Kate Hudson's role in Almost Famous! That's right--Twin Peaks' Grace Zabriskie will be reading her poetry at vintage sto ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Files For Divorce, Has Been Seen Alive

Hopper in 2008.​Actor Dennis Hopper filed for divorce from his wife Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. He cited irreconcilable differences for the split from his wife of 14 years, Victoria Hopper. In a bizarre and arguably sensationalist twist, the Huffington Post reports that the actor ... More >>

Easy Rider: Dennis Hopper’s Prophetic Biker Trip, 40 Years Later

Bruuuuuce!

TV Reviews: Crash and My Own Worst Enemy: When Worlds Collide

Navigating L.A.'s social and racial minefields, plus Christian Slater's mind games

Movie Reviews: Bottle Shock, Man on Wire, The Order of Myths

Also, Elegy, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and more

City Gritty

Unfulfilling Sex; sex and the porn star; art Hopping; N.E.R.D. night

Movie Reviews: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Postal, War, Inc.

Also, The Cool School, Refusenik and more

Continuity Is For Sissies

Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie

The Last Movie: Continuity Is for Sissies

Dennis Hopper's 1971 movie kicks off a 10-year-anniversary celebration of CineVegas

Prisons, Punks and Don Quixote

Our critics’ guide to the very best of LAFF

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Blue Velvet at 20

Love, Not Money

Indie Art Book Publisher Greybull Press Pursues Passion Over Profit

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

Mapping Andy

Not Necessarily the Usual Suspects

The Coffee Table

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Oldies But Goodies

The television event

Popped

Academic jostling and anecdotal reminiscence at the Getty

Balls of the Belle

Everbody's the Greatest

The Low Life