Mary Shelley

Colin Dickey Will Help You Get Rid of Your Stuff...By Bringing It to the Arctic

See also: *D3, an Artist Collective That Will Destroy the '90s Mixtape Your Ex-Boyfriend Made You *Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament When writer Colin Dickey goes to the Arctic this summer, he will be bringing two pairs of long underwear, insulated boots ... More >>

What Is Art Good For? Two Plays Answer the Question

Ghost Road Company adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne as Zombie Joe's does Oscar Wilde

L.A. Author Da Chen Discusses His Acclaimed Novel My Last Empress

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. L.A. author Da Chen, who is appearing at Book Soup tomorrow, answered some questions on his new novel My Last Empress for our Ask the Author column.

Henry Rollins: The Column! Subterranean 
Homesick Blues

[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.] Perhaps this has happened to you in the last few weeks. Your living environment is hot enough ... More >>

Prometheus Review: Ridley Scott's Epic

Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night Made It Big. But That Wasn't the End of the Story

How Many Adult Swim Musical Tie-Ins Can You Name?

MC Pee Pants​Adult Swim is integrating all sorts of hip music folks into its late-night shows: Odd Future shot a pilot for the cable channel, and word is that Major Lazer has something in the works. But the cutting-edge programmers have long been musically inclined. MC Chris came to prominen ... More >>

Dino Stamatopoulos and Scott Adsit of 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole' Talk Depressing Animation

Dino Stamatopoulos has an idea for a Christmas episode of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, his latest stop-motion animation to hit Adult Swim. Shannon Cottrell​ "Elizabeth gets into Christmas and it's a hassle for [Frankenstein] so he goes back in time to try and stop the Virgin Mary from getting p ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

Beautiful Loser, Tortured Killer

How Two Veterans of the L.A. Punk Scene Wound Up on a Collision Course, Until Only One Was Left Standing

Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor at David Salow Gallery

Frankenstein (Mortal Toys): Small Wonder

Movie offers the world on a string

Something in the Air

In the horror films of Larry Fessenden, what you can’t see will kill you

No Laffing Matter

Los Angeles Film Festival finally comes of age

Dark Elegies

Henryk Górecki's other Third and a new disc of Schubert's lieder

Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

You Better You Bests

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

Happy’s Times Are Here Again

Death of a Salesman, and a gothic lampoon

Ask the Auden Expert

Edward Mendelson on the poet's later years