Hunter S. Thompson

Michael Hastings' Dangerous Mind: Journalistic Star Was Loved, Feared and Haunted

It's Chaos at the Coachella Campsites

The Coachella campgrounds are the Wild West of the festival. They are the sort of place you can imagine Hunter S. Thompson running around with his pants around his ankles. Drugs are more plentiful than food and going to bed before 4 a.m. is considered an early night. Campers built incredible structu ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

Alexander Spit's Musical Euphoria

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you want to understand where Alexander Spit is coming from, consider the abridged ingredients list that fueled his commercial debut, A Breathtaking Tr ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Round 2

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: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Every 25 years or so, L ... More >>

The Hierarchy of Breakfast Needs, or: Fun with Food Pyramids

If you paid attention during your college Psychology 101 college class, you may now vaguely recall Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs. That is, because "man is a perpetually wanting animal," Maslow theorized that we're motivated by five needs: Survival, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actu ... More >>

Conjoined III: Chet Zar's Annual Art Show Includes Busts of Abraham Lincoln and Raoul Duke

See also: *Beavis & Butthead in Real Life, the Viral Hit Sculpture, in 'Conjoined II' Show *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Abraham Lincoln's head glowed through the gallery window. Even from a distance, the bust is impressive. Large and swathed in light, the piece seemed to beckon, "Just w ... 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 >>

Big Changes at Starry Kitchen: Temporary Shutter Movin' On Up

Fact: Nobody does press releases like Nguyen Tran. Late afternoon Friday, the founder and proprietor of downtown's Starry Kitchen sent out a lengthy, Hunter S. Thompson-like email explaining that the popular downtown restaurant space in Bunker Hill's California Plaza would be shuttering as of July ... More >>

Gordy Grundy Goes Up in Flames

The Rum Diary: Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson

Everlast's Top Five Most Influential West Coast Rap Albums

​See also: *Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit. *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List As a teenager, Everlast was a graf writer. He made a couple tapes with his buddies, and the next thing he knew he was part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate crew. He, Dan ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Vincent Price Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Vincent Gallo, twice

Rango

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Live Review: LA 101 with Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation

timothy norrismassive attack​ See more of Timothy Norris' photos in 'LA 101 with Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack and more.' By any metric, last night's LA 101 at the Gibson Amphitheatre was a success--save for maybe the fact that the headliners didn't hail from LA. Of course, Massive At ... More >>

MORE FEAR, LESS LOATHING

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

Also, Crips and Bloods, Luck by Chance and the 2008 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Hunter S. Thompson and His Gonzo Tapes

Fear and recording in Las Vegas

Movie Reviews: Gonzo, Tell No One, The Wackness

Also, Diminished Capacity and Holding Trevor

SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer's all gone/ And somebody had the nerve to take the herb up out the doobie ashtray/Why they do me that way?"-Devin the Dude If the going hasn't g ... More >>

SXSW: One perspective from an official representative of the Music Industry

Van Morrison Lou Reed: 2 points. SXSW festival: ZERO.

Behind the Green Door

Parsing a splendid, lurid memoir of life at S.F.'s O'Farrell

David Sedaris at UCLA

G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg's "Regulate"

1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A "Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. Best Models to Emulate: Gay steel workers, Andrew Carnegie, Iron Man 2. Not Tweaking When You See a Car Full of Girls How To Avoid Tweaking ... More >>

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#5-1)

5. Dungen-Tio Bitar [Kemado] Dungen did not tour this record in America. This is because the band's mastermind, Gustav Estjes was rumored to be alone in the snowy Swedish hinterlands, ingesting enough hallucinogens to give Hunter S. Thompson pause, and trying to untangle the beautiful mess of sou ... More >>

Have a Nice Life

Paul Krassner at M Bar

Going Stag at Seven Grand

Whiskey and Wry

the Host and His Protégée

Tyson Cornell and Erin Levy, Book Soup

Buzz Cup

From espresso to mopeds, Choke adjusts the grind

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

Stone, Warm, Sober

From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the ’60s and today

Loose Prose

Go, Johnny, Go!

Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

A Mexican and an Irishman Walk Into a Bar...

Burial in the Sky

Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

Outisde Looking In

Letters

What the FCC?

God save Indie!

Gonzo Gets Gone

Hunter S. Thompson R.I.P.

Dr. Thompson, I Presume

The Closing of the American Mouth

Hunter S. Thompson’s last laugh

Hunter Without the Fear or Loathing

Thompson defies expectations during a pilgrimage to Woody Creek

Thanks for the Weirdness

Night of the Hunter

Interview with a gonzo vampire

Ghosts in the Machine

Exhuming American history

Field of Wet Dreams

Build it and they will cum

Of Chimps and Men

TV makes a monkey of itself