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L.A. Confidential

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    March 22, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2013

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    January 10, 2013

    Gangster Squad Retells the Stories of Better Movies

    *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 >>

  • Film+TV

    January 3, 2013

    How an LAPD Homicide Detective Became One of Hollywood's Top Screenwriters

    *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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    June 21, 2012

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

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  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2012

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    November 24, 2011

    Rampart Review

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

  • Art+Books

    June 9, 2011

    L.A. Noire: Perspectives From a SoCal Historian

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

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    '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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2009

    James Ellroy Reading

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 22, 1999

    Cole’s P.E. Buffet

    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 >>

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