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April 4, 2013
Henry Rollins: Bored In Hawaii
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February 28, 2013
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February 15, 2013
Best L.A. Novel Ever: Play It As It Lays vs. The Loved One, Round 2
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December 14, 2012
Best L.A. Novel Ever: John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions vs. James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, Round 1
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November 15, 2012
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November 9, 2012
Best L.A. Novel Ever: Janet Fitch's White Oleander vs. Kate Braverman's Lithium for Medea, Round 1
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October 26, 2012
10 Best Pop Culture Shout-Outs to the Santa Ana Winds
Southern California's dry winds in fall and winter can rise up to speeds of 90 mph. Commonly known as the Santa Ana winds, they're now making their first attack on the area. Panic has arisen on social media. That can't change the winds' mind, but you can find Twitter accounts personifying the winds ... More >>
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October 18, 2012
Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?
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October 12, 2012
Best L.A. Novel Ever: Dominick Dunne's An Inconvenient Woman vs. Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays, Round 1
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. Check out the complete set of brackets here: Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament. Dominick Dunne, the former Hollywood producer ... More >>
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October 4, 2012
Empty the Sun, the 2009 Novel by Joseph Mattson, Just Might Be a New L.A. Classic
If there was a bookshelf chiseled into the bluffs in Santa Monica, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, John Fante's Ask the Dust, Charles Bukowski's Post Office and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays surely would be on it. These are the novels that define our city.But some observers believe it's time to ... More >>
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September 13, 2012
In the Stage Adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion Searches for Meaning After Her Husband's Death
If there was a bookshelf chiseled into the bluffs in Santa Monica, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, John Fante's Ask the Dust, Charles Bukowski's Post Office and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays surely would be on it. These are the novels that define our city.But some observers believe it's time to ... More >>
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July 5, 2012
My Allegory Can Kick Your Allegory's Ass
If there was a bookshelf chiseled into the bluffs in Santa Monica, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, John Fante's Ask the Dust, Charles Bukowski's Post Office and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays surely would be on it. These are the novels that define our city.But some observers believe it's time to ... More >>
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May 17, 2012
California Noir
LACMA's series The Sun Sets in the West
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May 16, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Trombone Collective
This week, artist and sunglasses designer Alex Israel debuts the talk show he shot in the Pacific Design Center, trombonists perform in a downtown art space, and fringe physicists reinvent gravity. 5. They're a collective, not a choir The trombone is purportedly the brass instrument with a range cl ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
Your Weekly Movie To-Do List
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January 18, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the World's Sexiest Performance Artist
From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury design, this week's list feels particularly well-rounded. (Also check out our preview of Pacific Standard Time's Performance and Public Art Festival, which begins this week). 5. Italy in Westwood Galleria del Depo ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Joan Didion's Blue Nights: Why She's the Quintessential Writer for Pacific Standard Time
Gary LeonardWhat makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. True, in her forty years of reportage, fiction, and most recently in memoirs, she has examined many of them. Whether she's w ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
The Elegant Elegy
Gary LeonardWhat makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. True, in her forty years of reportage, fiction, and most recently in memoirs, she has examined many of them. Whether she's w ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
'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 >>
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October 5, 2011
Patrick DeWitt, Screenwriter Behind Terri, On Literature, Hollywood, Booze and Fiction Writing in L.A.
To many, Patrick DeWitt is best known as the screenwriter behind this year's critically-acclaimed portrait of adolescent angst Terri. Literary types may know him as of author of the much-lauded novels Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers. But a few years ago, languishing as a bartender at Three Clubs ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Best City Ready For Its Literary Close-up
To many, Patrick DeWitt is best known as the screenwriter behind this year's critically-acclaimed portrait of adolescent angst Terri. Literary types may know him as of author of the much-lauded novels Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers. But a few years ago, languishing as a bartender at Three Clubs ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken
LACMA's Road Movies Series
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December 16, 2010
Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World
Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint
Music
November 4, 2010
The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast
A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are
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November 4, 2010
The LA Weekly Interview with Best Coast: Bethany Cosentino on Why She Had to Leave Brooklyn, How She Is (and Isn't) Like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Being Only Slightly Less Cool than Kanye, and Joan Didion (Yes, Joan Didion)
Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Selections From Book Soup Owner Glenn Goldman's Estate: Auction on Sunday
The estate of Glenn Goldman, the late owner of Book Soup, will be up for sale this Sunday at Bonhams & Butterfield's in Beverly Hills (7601 W. Sunset Boulevard). This particular auction focuses on Goldman's art books. The pieces up for grabs include a signed coffee table photography book by Annie Li ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Get Out of the Car: Dystopia by the Dashboard Light
Thom Andersen's 34-minute sketch of L.A.
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February 18, 2010
Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released
Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released
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August 1, 2009
Today in Photographs: August 1, 1970
Play It As It Lays: Author Joan Didion strikes a pose.LA Times/UCLA
Columns
January 8, 2009
The Reader: Book Soup’s Glenn Goldman, 58, R.I.P.
Play It As It Lays: Author Joan Didion strikes a pose.LA Times/UCLA
Columns
November 13, 2008
Diary of a Gay, Traffic-Snarling Sore Loser
A married man's protest
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January 24, 2008
David Sedaris at UCLA
A married man's protest
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October 4, 2007
Best of L.A. 2007 Armageddon it!
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May 3, 2007
What's a Six-Letter Word for Hubbub?
What to do in Los Angeles this week
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April 27, 2006
Good Night and Good Luck
A baker�s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness
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April 27, 2006
A Literary Feast
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April 20, 2006
Atomik Angeleno
Sesshu Foster
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April 13, 2006
I Am Not a Housewife
Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars
Film+TV
March 16, 2006
Hollywood Through the Looking Glass
Cinematheque exhumes the American new wave
Art+Books
September 29, 2005
Dark Irony
Joan Didion and her Year of Magical Thinking
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June 2, 2005
Half-Drunk With Arnold
Gary Indiana�s political rant seethes with paranoia, illogic and, yes, contempt for us all
Supplement
December 11, 2003
Ten Weeks That Changed the City
The 1984 Olympic Arts Festival
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December 11, 2003
Writing Los Angeles
When the city joined the literary conversation
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November 28, 2002
Quiet Americans
British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire
Calendar
October 17, 2002
L. A. Flaw
The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology
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October 11, 2001
The Secret Agent
Joan Didion talks
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August 31, 2000
k.d. lang�s California Dream
Joan Didion talks
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March 9, 2000
Dave Eggers Needs a Vacation
Joan Didion talks
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March 9, 2000
Boho
Ann Powers finds the meaning of her previous life
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June 3, 1999
Out at the Tracks
Horsing around in Southern California
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