To many, Patrick DeWitt is best known as the screenwriter behind this year's critically-acclaimed portrait of adolescent angst Terri. Literary types may know him as of author of the much-lauded novels Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers. But a few years ago, languishing as a bartender at Three Clubs ... More >>
Other than the term "swine flu," we learned several very important things over the weekend: Bea Arthur (RIP) made a damn good leg of roast lamb, there is definitely a limit to how much grilled cheese one can consume, and that the Belvedere vodka served at our L.A. Weekend festival -- yeah, that stuf ... More >>
His newest, alcohol-fueled book, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, is set among the city's marginalized
