J. Edgar Hoover

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty

Eagle Rock's New Rock and Eagle Shop

Last Saturday, less than a week after she opened The Rock and Eagle Shop on Eagle Rock Boulevard, artist and curator Bettina Hubby heard a man outside the door. "I'm just going to make sure it's not just an adult rock and eagle shop," he said to his children. The exterior is painted a bright, pot-d ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama

[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 Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If you are a fan of American history, Alabama is a very interesting place. To say that a lot has ... More >>

Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

J. Edgar Review

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century

Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Upskirt Dress to be Sold at Auction in Beverly Hills

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Dustin Lance Black: Black & Proud

Pat Boone Kicks Off Beverly Hills Tea Party Rally

Pat Boone.​Liberals can breathe a little easier knowing that the conservative Tea Party's recent launch in Beverly Hills over the weekend is being led by Pat Boone, the singer whose political views are only slightly more sane than those of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is man, after all, w ... More >>

Where Cute Meets Evil: Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal Talks Political Animals, New Book

Robbie Conal"Read My Apocalips"​You've seen his work before. Perhaps in a gallery like Track 16 or wheat-pasted across some L.A. street-side, traffic light switching box. Perhaps you saw 2002's rare "Secretary Of Offense" poster depicting a wrinkly Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney posing as "Dr ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Wooster Group's "North Atlantic"

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSECHO CHAMBERS Resonances from The Wooster Group's North Atlantic​Ground Control to Major Tom Photo by Paula Court If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set ... More >>

Public Enemies: Chicago Vices

Michael Mann on personal crises — and his latest feature

Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

The investigation into a cop killing in the ’70s leads to a Chicago law professor involved in the early stages of Barack Obama’s political career

Digital Dillinger: Public Enemies’ Johnny Depp plays hard to get

Michael Mann’s latest is fast and furious

Inauguration Day Extravaganza: The First Hip-Hop President?

Image via Hip Hop is Read Unless you've been living in the Madagascan Rain Forest or are a cave-dwelling ignicolist in Outer Mongolia, you're well aware that today marks the inauguration of Barack Obama. To the delight of the rap world and the chagrin of the social security set, Obama has been bi ... More >>

What's Not in a Name?

Burbank was not named for horticulturalist Luther. Stanton was not so called in honor of actor Harry Dean. Nor was Carson dedicated to late-night talk-show host Johnny. These are just some of the disillusioning facts one learns over the course of living in L.A. According to William Bright's ever-hel ... More >>

Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else

Traveling through time with the world's most amazing inventor

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

Li'l Dickens

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Love to the Vice President

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 15 - 22

The Spy Trap

Deep Throat’s Crimes

Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder

Rebel Rebel, Fix This Mess

The Incidental Candidate

Kerrying doubts into the voting booth

The Untouchables

Lasting, sad lessons of Rampart

Mice Behaving Badly

Front and center at the Disney-Eisner pissing contest

Invisible Man

Bayard Rustin and the other civil rights struggle

Let Them Drink Beer

The history of Dodger Stadium: A ghost story

The Ticking Stopwatch

LAPD's new terrorism czar ponders al Qaeda

Daily Radical

How to subvert the funny papers

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General

Home Grown?

If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

The War at Home

Death of a Nation

Donald Freed’s newest play, American Iliad

Countermythologist

Donald Freed on the greatest stories never told

Time, and Time Again

Don DeLillo’s fairy tale

A Man of Big Affairs

What Marcus Garvey meant

Trial by Theater

Nick Zagone cross-examines William Kunstler

Masters of Deceit

Behind Santa Monica’s breathtakingly bogus living-wage initiative

Sin Season

It’s Low Tide for Crime on the Beach

The Short List

The Dark Ages

Sculpture garden honors the Hollywood 10

Masters of Deceit

Oscar Wilde at the Hammer; J. Edgar Hoover at the ?

All Aboard: Off the Pig

On the Black Panther legacy Tour, history sits in the back of the bus