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Best L.A. Novel Ever: Our Tournament's Thrilling Conclusion

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero vs. Chester Himes' If He Hollers Let Him Go (Final)

L.A. Weekly has been holding a tournament to find the best L.A. novel ever, featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Begins *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The greatest L.A. novel of all time starts with a bad dream. Bob ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? vs. Chester Himes' If He Hollers Let Him Go (Final Four)

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 In the middle of If He ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero vs. James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential (Final Four)

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 Here are two disparate ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: What Makes Sammy Run? vs. The Loved One (Hollywood Regional Final)

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 This contest may seem l ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Less Than Zero vs. A Single Man (Lost Souls Regional Final)

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 If you're looking for s ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Tattooed Soldier (Rebels & Outcasts Regional Final)

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 If you can get off the ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: L.A. Confidential vs. The Black Echo, Round 3

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 The noir finals! There ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: A Single Man vs. Golden Days, 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 check out: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The battle b ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: L.A. Confidential vs. Double Indemnity, 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 Double Indemnity, by Ja ... 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 >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Lithium for Medea vs. The Tattooed Solider, 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 Pitting Kate Braverman' ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Play It As It Lays vs. The Loved One, 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 Is L.A. essentially a c ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Sweet Sixteen

*Read all of first-round matchups in the Best L.A. Novel Ever tournament. *Read the essay kicking off the tournament and see the complete brackets. We read Evelyn Waugh and James M. Cain. We plowed through Dominick Dunne and gave the unjustly neglected Kate Braverman a chance. We learned What Make ... More >>

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Best L.A. Novel Ever: John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions vs. James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, 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. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups As the boxing cliché ... More >>

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Dodgers And Marijuana: A New High Encouraged by Sunset Boulevard Dispensary

With Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Baseball Management taking over the team, it's a new era at Dodger Stadium. And what better way to celebrate than to buy you some of those recently reduced $10 tickets for seats way, way up in the top deck and ... get high. Really. There's a dispensary near Dodger ... More >>

Coachella 4/20: Let's Talk About Weed

See also: *The Best of Coachella: Friday, April 20 *Our Complete Coachella Coverage Yesterday was 4/20. It was also Coachella. And so, the percentage of festival-goers who were stoned rose from a paltry 75 percent to a full 98 percent. (These estimates come courtesy of our editor, Ben Westhoff, wh ... More >>

Rampart Review

Woody Harrelson and Oren Moverman team again on a script by L.A. legend James Ellroy

L.A. Noire: Perspectives From a SoCal Historian

'L.A. Confidential's' James Ellroy To Host True Crime Show About L.A.'s Dark Past

The Dahlia -- she is not actually black. Discuss.​L.A. has got to be America's, if not the world's (sorry Paris), preeminent city of noir. And now the contemporary master of noir-lit, James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia) is bringing the city's dark side to television with James E ... More >>

'L.A. Noire' Video Game Coming To A Console Near You

You cRockstar GamesL.A. Noire -- black enough for ya?​ould learn about L.A.'s sordid, criminal history by reading the anthology Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics or John Buntin's awesome telling of the battle between gangster Mickey Cohen and late LAPD Chief William Parker, L.A. Noir: The Strug ... More >>

James Ellroy Reading

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