Michael Ventura

LAPD Officer Shoots Man Outside 'A Day to Remember' Concert at Hollywood Palladium After Being Stabbed in the Hand

Jeffree Star via Twitter"ADTR are slaying LA..." Tweeted drag diva @JeffreeStar at last night's concert​The real punk shit went down outside the mosh pit at last night's A Day to Remember concert (opened by Bring Me the Horizon) at the all-ages Hollywood Palladium. Though Tweeters told of ten ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Italian?

One year ago this week, I wrote with astonishment and anger about the omission of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-winning abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' nine-film "shortlist" for the 2007 Foreign Language Film Oscar. That ... More >>

Foundas on Film: How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Italian?

One year ago this week, I wrote with astonishment and anger about the omission of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-winning abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' nine-film "shortlist" for the 2007 Foreign Language Film Oscar. That ... More >>

Through the Past, Weekly

30 years and counting

Between the Frames

How two refugee academics and a gaggle of moonlighting novelists shaped a golden age of Weekly film criticism

Coming Home

Editor's notes

Best of LA Weekly: Ginger Varney's "Edendale's Day of the Dead"

Originally published November 30, 1984

Best of L.A. Weekly: Grace and Calm: Bob LaBrasca, the writers' editor

Originally published October 16, 1992

Marking Our Turf: The Piss Christ Moment in America's Culture Wars

A cover that asked "What's wrong with this picture?"

Between the Lines

The music at the edges

A Letter at 3 PM

On Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly's Bogart in cowboy boots

L.A. Weekly Founder Jay Levin on the Vision That Started It All

The journalist's dream

The Weekly Goes to the Movies

When writing about them really mattered

Our Town, Our Paper

L.A. and the Weekly, in hindsight and foresight

The Accidental Publicist

Mickey Cottrell

The Meta-Media Madness Top 10

Something Wicked

The Ballad of Mel and Jesus

Christ, you know it ain't easy

George Bush and the Treacherous Country

Where Are They Now?

An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni

Watch Them All Fall Down

Domino dancing to communism’s collapse

Initiation by Fire

Hard lessons learned by a paper and a journalist when the city burned

In the Beginning

An interview with L.A. Weekly founder Jay Levin

Treasure Hunt

Unearthing L.A.’s culture gems

The Recall Is Not Our Friend

As opportunities for the left go, it’s up there with the Nader presidency

The Last Picture Show

Of Los Angeles’ great archival double-bill theaters, only Sherman Torgan’s New Beverly Cinema remains. Can this revival house be saved?

Political Life: Shopping for a Hero

Howard Dean meets the Hollywood Left

A Letter from Jerusalem If You Cannot Breathe, Raise Your Hand

Features

Mrs. Cassavetes

A visit with Gena Rowlands

L.A. Weekly: The paper That Wouldn’t Die

The Future Looks Bright

Twenty years of forward thinking

They Lost it at the Movies

Critics who were never left in the Dark

Body and Soul

Life before serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and boner pills

Permanent Twilight

Our wicked, wicked ways

True Lies

The Weekly has never let facts stand in the way of a good hoax — particularly for April Fool’s

Hearts and Minds

Notes on the man-woman/man-man/woman-woman thing

The Big Sleep

Eulogies for heads of state and underground artists, pop icons and ’60s revolutionaries

LETTERS

Critical Mass

From Johanna Went to Madame Tussaud: 20 years of arts coverage

Literary L.A.