Margaret Thatcher

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

KDAY Is Closing? A Eulogy to the Best Station in L.A.

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," normally appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "Remember KDAY?" Tupac asked that question on "To Live & Die in LA," but the answer was obvious. Makaveli never even lived in Southern Califor ... More >>

Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears regularly on West Coast Sound.] Song: Justin Timberlake, "Suit & Tie," featuring Jay-Z History: "Suit & Tie" is the first song from Justin Timberlake's new album(!), The 20/20 Experience. People wer ... More >>

Billy Elliot, In Paris and Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

The Iron Lady Review

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Reviews of A Widow of No Importance; The Vault: Unlocked; The Stories of Isaac Leib Peretz; and more . . .

Hector Cruz Salvador"The Vault: Unlocked"​"The gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is a sinister metamorphosis engineered by spoiled hipsters and well-heeled land grabbers in this whodunit parody by the Latino Theatre Company," writes Amy Lyons about The Vault: Unlocked, at Los Angeles Theatre ... More >>

Martha Stewart: The Comic Book

Bluewater Productions Inc.Martha Stewart​ Eh, who needs the Green Lantern when you've got Martha Stewart. We now mean this very literally, as Stewart will soon have her own comic book to go along with the rest of her multimedia empire. "Female Force: Martha Stewart," a one-shot issue from Vanc ... More >>

Movie Revews: Predators, [REC] 2, Great Directors, Cropsey

Also, Despicable Me, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Kids Are All Right

The Power of Negative Thinking

Rachel Whiteread's inner spaces, Karen Carson's inflammatory paces

Does Music Belong in Comics?

​Douglas Wolk (you should be familiar with him--he's one of the best writers on both music and comics) just published in Techland a review of the most recent installments of the comics Phonogram and Hellblazer. Both Brit-centric stories combine a post-Alan Moore melange of occultism and polit ... More >>

J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009

BY MARK DERY The British novelist J.G. Ballard, author of Crash, Empire of the Sun, and Miracles of Life, among other books, died Sunday, April 19, after a protracted battle with prostate cancer. Ballard is gone, wheels-up from the abandoned airstrip of our imaginations, but his coiled brillian ... More >>

Body Politic: Steve McQueen’s Hunger

The excruciating details of death by starvation in Ireland’s Maze prison

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Film is British director’s first feature-length

to Eat or Not to Eat

Hunger tests the audience’s tolerance for violence — and martyrdom

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

How the Hall Changes Spring Awakening and The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Hot ice and Strange Snow

About Faces

Lies and Legends: Jay Sefton's The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Shots in the Dark at Cannes 2008

Reflecting its moment, the festival takes a decidedly serious tone

Theater Reviews

Including Cuts, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Miss Julie and more

Moz the Cat

In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

Run, Rummy, Run!

Could the Pinochet precedent keep Donald on the lam?

The Maude Squad

Our tribute to Harold’s gal, the ultimate granny-chic icon

East Riverdance

The Michael Ritchie era opens at the Ahmanson

Empire of the Senses

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon’s dynamite painter

The Year's Best DVD Gift Boxes

Renaissance in the Barrio

Will mixed-income housing revitalize Boyle Heights? Or just chase out the poor?

Lars Attacks!

Von Trier in Trollywood

Iron Maidens

Top 10 TV Events of 2002

Behind The Shield

FX detective Vic Mackey, a complex cop for a complex city

Circle Jerks

Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller

The Rational Shaman

Watchmen creator Alan Moore’s adventures in magic

Wicked Games

The Last Bad Idea

Market theory demanded deregulation — but the market argued otherwise

Master of Disaster

How Pete Wilson’s energy chief short-circuited the California grid

Les Misérables

Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher

That Championship Season

The Contender rocks, Billy Elliot jetés

Boys 'R' Us

Thieves Like Us

Stalking classic rock with the Charlatans UK

The Real World Organization

Why being against the WTO isn’t enough

Fop Art

Damien Hirst and the ybas

Bloody Mama

A hard-boiled classic resurfaces

The Challenger

I'm not all right, jack

The Short List

From Fortress America to Isaiah Berlin

The Revolt of the Elites

The media and the moralists go gunning for Bill

Beyond the Reality Asylum

Bet Noir

Patrick Marber's tale of lost wagers