Henry Miller

Venice Update: Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, James Franco's Child of God, and More

Live Life, or It Lives You

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Metalheads in Germany I have been restless for as long as I can remember. Perhaps this ... More >>

Fans Share Their Favorite Henry Rollins Memories

It's Henry Rollins week here at West Coast Sound. In conjunction with Ben Westhoff's cover story interview with our columnist -- who has a new book out of collected L.A. Weekly writings -- we asked our readers for stories about meeting him, and about what his work meant to them. See also: "Henry R ... More >>

I Lost the California Dream. And Then I Found It Again on Route 1

It was raining in Los Angeles during the 2011 Christmas week, and the traffic on the 405 near the Getty Center was jammed. I had left Long Beach two hours earlier, and it would still be another hour before I arrived at work in Woodland Hills. That morning the red brake lights were staring at me like ... More >>

Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund Chat About the Movie Adaptation of On the Road

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Nin Com Poop

Carrie Fisher: Hollywood Kid

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Carrie Fisher was wondering recently what to do with the huge Princess Leia painting -- "in that fucking iron bikini" -- that George Lucas sent her for her birthday. "I'm sure ... More >>

Who's Up for Some Opera Porn?

Sex and opera go together like peanut butter and chocolate, believe it or not. After all, opera plots revolve around one character trying to remove another's clothes. That and what happens to those characters after coitus has transpired. Rest assured, then, that an opera featuring tell-all diarist ... More >>

The Pen Is Mightier

Nance Klehm, Founder of Weedeater Street Medicine, Exploring L.A.'s Edible and Medicinal Plants (No, Not That Kind)

Eden BaktiNance Klehm searches for chickweed (yes, that's a real thing, and no, it's probably not whatever you think it is)​ "I'm not just out here foraging because it's free," promises Nance Klehm on this sunny Sunday morning wander through the wilds of Echo Park. She's the founder of the r ... More >>

Vincent Price Museum Re-Opens in East L.A. Happy 100th Birthday, Dr. Phibes!

Courtesy of the Vincent Price Art MuseumVincent Price with his art collection, in the 1950s​ "Imagine growing up watching the person you love most being bludgeoned, immolated, dunked in boiling wax...or doing those things to other people," remarks Victoria Price, the willowy daughter of Vincen ... More >>

Red -- Hank You Very Much

TCM Classic Film Festival: 12 Highlights

Strippers, junkies, mummies? Classic

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

The Wu-Tang's RZA Dedicates Free Song 'Gone' to Late Quentin Tarantino Editor Sally Menke

RZA releases "Gone," a memorial.​Wu-Tang production mastermind, aspiring filmmaker and L.A. resident RZA has released a new free song called "Gone," which he's dedicated to Sally Menke, the longtime editor of Quentin Tarantino's films who passed away last week. Via his Facebook profile, RZA f ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, The Good Boy, Stepping on a Few Toes

Also Beast on the Moon, Martyrdumb and more

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

DRUMMING UP DEAD BEATS

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

Last Night: Underground Lit’s Best Kept Secrets Dan Fante and Tony O’Neill Impress at Skylight Books

By RYAN RITCHIE An interesting poetry reading happens about as often as a Clippers winning season, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of hack wordsmiths from getting in front of audiences to espouse beliefs that no one but the poet’s mother cares about (and even she doesn’t care all that much) ... More >>

SASSAS: Dance Improvisers Re-examine an Exquisite Corpse

Body of work

Body of Work

SASSAS once again creates an Exquisite Corpse

Not Dead Yet: The Novel as Lifeline

Rock Picks

For the week of May 3 – 10

No cartooning today

No penis this week.  Instead, these are two food related things that I did around the same time.  The first is just something inspired by my love of those great French cafe posters from the early part of the 20th Century; boobs, black lines and espresso, the stuff of real anarchy.  I ... More >>

''Seems never to achieve his potential. Indolent.''

Re-reading report cards can be depressing

Tough Guys, Effete Snobs and Mad Women

Introducing Europa Editions

God's Little Acre of Books

Où est la bibliothèque?

Seven Degrees of Wally Berman

The culture of Semina

The Path of a Flower

Burial in the Sky

Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke

Beatnik Renaissance Man

Stitching together the multiple visions of Brion Gysin

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

Paperback Wanker

Hollywood Satiricon

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

Some Very Excellent Books

Porcelain Gods

Urinetown’s creators on commodes, comedy and 9/11

Underground Man

The living death of Young Adam’s Alexander Trocchi

Right Stuff, Wrong Town

The undeniable difficulty of being Philip Kaufman

Baby Greens

Politics may be a drag, but kids today are turning Green instead of tuning out

A Fan's Notes

The Internationalist

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

Act II

New York theater comes back

Whip It

Whip it good

Good Pop, Bad Pop

The Woman Chaser and What Lies Beneath

Socrates at the Seder

Stanley Fleishman, 1920–1999

King Leer

Mendes' Cabaret comes to L.A.

Adrian Lyne:

Cinema's Humbert Humbert?

Advertisements for Himself

Norman Mailer surveys his oeuvre