Neil Gaiman

An Awards Show for Movie Trailers, and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, May 3 On Friday, Aisha Tyler (The Talk) and Rob Schneider will host the 14th annual Golden Trailer Awards at the Saban Theater; the pre-party  starts at 6:30 p.m. Don your cocktail-party attire for a night t ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

10 Great Stores in L.A. For Goth Gifts

See also: *Clockwork Couture, L.A.'s Premiere Steampunk Fashion Spot You've reached the holiday shopping homestretch, but there's one final gift that's driving you mad. Maybe it's for your sibling, or the co-worker whose name you pulled in Secret Santa. Regardless, it's for someone whose known inte ... More >>

A Perfume That Smells Like Fraggle Rock

When she was 12 years old, Beth Barrial had a life-changing experience in a park after dark with some friends. "A scent passed me by that sparked a strange, unfocused memory from early childhood," she describes. "I had a sudden recollection of one perfect moment of joy and complete freedom, unfett ... More >>

Amanda Palmer Brought Her Traveling Art Party to Her L.A. Kickstarter Backers

On Thursday night, Amanda Palmer brought her traveling art party to Los Angeles' Pop tART Gallery. One of only six such events Palmer was throwing in the U.S. and Europe, the party was exclusively for people who donated at least $300 to her wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Holly Rushing was ... More >>

Womanthology: Gender Is the Least Interesting Thing About This All-Female Comics Anthology

Last summer, Womanthology was big news across the comic book scene, back when the mega-anthology featuring an all female team of creators was only a concept, the brainchild of comic book artist Renae De Liz, inspired by a tweet from Jessica Hickman, who became one of the book's editors. The Kickstar ... More >>

Ninja Murder? Teen Dressed in Black Fatally Stabs Saskia Burke, Murrieta Valley High School Student, Cops Say

Updated at the bottom: Simpson was arrested over the weekend. First posted at 12:32 p.m. on Dec. 21. They're calling this teen an alleged ninja murderer. Police say 19-year-old William Gary Simpson Jr. entered 40025 Milkwood Lane in Murrieta at 3:55 a.m. yesterday and fatally stabbed an 18-year-ol ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Amanda Palmer talks David Lynch and Neil Gaiman

Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview

​Interview by Roselle Chen "It's a beautiful fucking day in Boston," says punk-cabaret performer Amanda Palmer from her home. She is best known as one half of The Dresden Dolls, and has a wildly-popular solo career, but she's on the phone mainly to talk about her work with the David Lynch Fo ... More >>

Tim Burton at LACMA

How a Hollywood director became a counterculture hero

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

I Bring The Music, You Bring The Food: Backstage With Amanda Palmer Her Catering Fans

Cathy KirkpatrickAmanda Palmer (center) at a backstage family meal in Australia​ A couple of weeks ago, we learned how comedian Kathy Griffin enhances the quality of what she eats on the road by getting her more than half million Twitter followers to direct her to small mom-and-pop restaurants ... More >>

Goth Wedding of the Decade!: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman Get Married

www.pinkcakebox.comGoth nuptials of the decade: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman get hitched (illustration, like that of Sea Monkees, is fanciful)​ The nerdery on the interwebz is all aflutter with news that Boston's eyebrowless princess of musical theater Weimarlesque Amanda Palmer (formerly of ... More >>

Blast from the Past: The Time Comics Superstar Neil Gaiman Wrote a Halloween Song for the Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson (Streamable!)

Boo!: Neil Gaiman as the Sandman​Thanks comics superstar Neil Gaiman for reminding us that a couple of years ago he penned a lovely Halloween song, "Bloody Sunrise," for the lovely voice of Magnetic Fields chanteuse Claudia Gonson. Christmas music schmistmas music, we say: Halloween the gu ... More >>

Coilhouse Co-Founders Zoetica Ebb and Meredith Yayanos Talk Comic-Con

Over the course of the past two years, Coilhouse, both the blog and exquisitely designed print magazine, has become required reading for those who enjoy geek culture as much as they love art and fashion. Co-founders Nadya Lev, Zoetica Ebb and Meredith Yayanos have taken their "loveletter to alternat ... More >>

Global Touch

The world according to David Mitchell

Music Picks: Evelyn Evelyn, Booker T. Jones, Kaki King, Pete Rock

Also, the National, Entrance Band, Noodles, Bunbury and others

Curmudgeon Porn: Magnetic Fields Documentary Coming Soon to the Big Screen!

The Shagadelic Stephin Merritt​The multitalented Carrie Brownstein (formerly of Sleater Kinney, now a perceptive, always intriguing writer) keeps a blog called Monitor Mix for NPR. She recently pointed her readers to our Henry Rollins-Glenn Danzig slash-fiction-comic post and we thought we wou ... More >>

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CORALINE

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Coraline's Stop-Motion Splendor

Through the looking glass:

Coraline Director Henry Selick Makes Horror Movies for Kids, Keeps His Distance From Hollywood

Henry in wonderland

Last Night: Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book Reading and Interview

"One of things that I wanted to do when I was writing the book was create a world in which dead people are never dangerous, dead things are never bad," says acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman of his latest work, The Graveyard Book. And so the author of such bestsellers as American Gods and Cora ... More >>

Stage Raw: Zombie Joe's Underground Scores in New York

Stage Raw: Last Call for "Wicked"

Stage Raw: Better Late Than Never?

Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

Stage Raw: Ajax and Zappa

Stage Raw

Please see below for comprehensive theater listings that replicate the global format found in the print edition, compiled by Derek Thomas. This new stage blog -- to be posted once a week -- is till in the works, Suggestions are welcome. A memorial service hosted by Madelaine Shaner was held at t ... More >>

The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch

Theater Reviews: Betrayal, Eh Joe, An Attic an Exit

Also, deLEARious, Life in a Marital Institution, and more

The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massive spectacle ones, should be inclusionary rather than exclusionary. How else are we going to regain the sense of reading as a fun, sexy thing to do ... More >>

Stephin Merritt Undistorted

An interview with the Magnetic Fields frontman

Holiday Coffee-table Books for the Whole Damn Family

Blissfulsomeness

Babes, Bestiality and Beowulf

Zemeckis and company give a lowbrow, high-tech makeover to the eighth-century epic

Film Reviews: Smiley Face, Beowulf, Confessions of a Superhero, Om Shanti Om

Love in the Time of Cholera, How to Cook Your Life, Salvador Allende

Film Reviews: Daddy Day Camp, Stardust

Also this week's pick, 12:08 East of Bucharest

Theater Reviews: Bug, Scab, Fowl and More

Also reviews of Food for Fish and The Merry Widow

Dark Shadows

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s uncommon scents

Jim Henson's Fantasy Film Collection: The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirrormask

Winnie the Pooh, Annie . . . and Richard Hell

Reviews: Talking Sausages, Forlorn Rodents, Sibling Gods and a Wartime Fixer

Some of the best comics and graphic novels from 2003

Top 5 List-Obsessed Books of 2003