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Pulitzer Prizes

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2013

    Roger Ebert, Hollywood's Most-Famous Film Critic, Dead At 70

    Roger Ebert, the nation's most high-profile movie critic, is dead at age 70, his longtime employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, announced this afternoon. He died today in his hometown of Chicago following a much-publicized battle with cancer, the paper reported:

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2013

    9 Life Lessons Learned From Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

    Roger Ebert was an American film critic, screenwriter, and journalist, whose columns and reviews appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and were syndicated in more than 200 newspapers across the country. Ebert made a name for himself in the candid and no-apology approach he had toward film review, earn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2013

    Here's a Review of the New Justin Timberlake Album, Using Only K-Pop GIFs

    On Monday, Justin Timberlake, the guy from the Facebook movie but also the guy from Saturday Night Live but also the guy from New Myspace but also the guy from music, released the stream for his new album, The 20/20 Experience. It is, as I'm certain you've already read, his first album in 50 years. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2013

    Books: Addicted to Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

    Michael Moss' recent cover article in the New York Times Magazine, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, served as a preview for the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter's latest food industry exposé: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. As Moss says, processed foods are a $1 trill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2013

    Best L.A. Novel Ever: Lithium for Medea vs. The Tattooed Solider, Round 2

    L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Pitting Kate Braverman' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 7, 2013

    It's the Year of the Snake, and We're All Gonna Get Radiation (see Monday), So We Might As Well Party

    L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Pitting Kate Braverman' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2013

    Gentlemen, Start Your Soapbox

    L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Pitting Kate Braverman' ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 13, 2012

    Jon Robin Baitz's Play Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, Reviewed

    L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Pitting Kate Braverman' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2012

    Coming to a Theater Near You: Jonathan Gold, The Documentary

    It was only a matter of time. Word came down from the Hollywood studios last night that Jonathan Gold, current food critic for the L.A. Times and former critic for the L.A. Weekly will be the subject of a new untitled documentary directed by Laura Gabbert (No Impact Man), per the Hollywood Reporter ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 29, 2012

    More Than a Feeling

    It was only a matter of time. Word came down from the Hollywood studios last night that Jonathan Gold, current food critic for the L.A. Times and former critic for the L.A. Weekly will be the subject of a new untitled documentary directed by Laura Gabbert (No Impact Man), per the Hollywood Reporter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2012

    A Party for People Obsessed With Typewriters

    Typewriters are sexy! Well, sort of. Sunday afternoon, Venice's venerable poet headquarters Beyond Baroque hosted a Type-In featuring a dozen vintage typewriters, their vintage repairpersons and a whole slew of other typographic delights -- including typewritten poems on demand and a screening o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2012

    'Chain Reaction' by Paul Conrad Now a Santa Monica Landmark

    Paul Conrad's lasting statement on the nuclear arms race, the mushroom cloud scuplture "Chain Reaction," is now an official landmark in Santa Monica. The city's landmarks commission voted unanimously on the designation yesterday, according to Jerry "Peace Activist" Rubin, who has been fasting to sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2012

    Why Clybourne Park Is Overrated

    I have a dirty theater secret: I thought Clybourne Park was pretty good. As in merely pretty good. As opposed to the modern classic it's now perceived to be, after its premiere Off-Broadway brought it the Pulitzer Prize, followed by runs at the Mark Taper Forum, a hop to Broadway, and finally, on Su ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 10, 2012

    Holding On - Letting Go

    I have a dirty theater secret: I thought Clybourne Park was pretty good. As in merely pretty good. As opposed to the modern classic it's now perceived to be, after its premiere Off-Broadway brought it the Pulitzer Prize, followed by runs at the Mark Taper Forum, a hop to Broadway, and finally, on Su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Fellowship!: the musical parody of Lord of the Rings Returns to the Steve Allen Theater, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

    Bryan Harnetiaux's new play, Holding On -- Letting Go is difficult to watch for the way it captures the realistic agonies of a wife slowly losing her husband to liver cancer. It is nonetheless a tender drama, well rendered under James Reynold's direction at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    6 Phrases That California Started Using Before Everyone Else

    The Southern California vocabulary, as endearing or maddening as it can be, doesn't exactly have a reputation for erudition. And we're totally chill about that. The Dictionary of American Regional English, which you may have heard of recently, is an ambitious lexicographical project that recently r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Quiara Alegria Hudes wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Good People at the Geffen, and More New Reviews...

    David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America, Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver. Paul Birchall was also taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre, Last of the Knotts Find all the lates ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    Oh Say Yosemite

    David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America, Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver. Paul Birchall was also taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre, Last of the Knotts Find all the lates ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2012

    The Color Purple

    David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America, Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver. Paul Birchall was also taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre, Last of the Knotts Find all the lates ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Philip Levine, Poet Laureate, Tells Us About California vs. Detroit (and Curses a Lot)

    "A poetry reading is like a painting," Philip Levine says in regards to his upcoming reading in downtown Los Angeles. "Somebody asks you, 'What do you hope to accomplish with that painting?' Come on." He starts to laugh. "You want it to be admired. ... I go there with my poems." Levine -- the 18t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants, in Rap Form

    Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants, mapped (not rapped)​Wow ... just, wow. We're so glad someone out there was able to cheer us up about Jonathan Gold's impending departure with this hilarious (and, may we say, exquisitely crafted) rap tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winner's list of 99 Es ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Jonathan Gold Is Leaving the L.A. Weekly

    Mr. Gold, we hardly knew thee.Anne Fishbein​Yes, it's true. The Weekly's longtime food critic, Jonathan Gold, has accepted a job with the L.A. Times. He'll be leaving here in a few weeks. We're sad to see him go, as Gold is not just the first -- and only -- food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 16, 2012

    Nice Work If You Can Get It

    Mr. Gold, we hardly knew thee.Anne Fishbein​Yes, it's true. The Weekly's longtime food critic, Jonathan Gold, has accepted a job with the L.A. Times. He'll be leaving here in a few weeks. We're sad to see him go, as Gold is not just the first -- and only -- food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize ... More >>

  • Stage

    February 2, 2012

    Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG

    Mr. Gold, we hardly knew thee.Anne Fishbein​Yes, it's true. The Weekly's longtime food critic, Jonathan Gold, has accepted a job with the L.A. Times. He'll be leaving here in a few weeks. We're sad to see him go, as Gold is not just the first -- and only -- food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2011

    Love Your Cinefamily

    Mr. Gold, we hardly knew thee.Anne Fishbein​Yes, it's true. The Weekly's longtime food critic, Jonathan Gold, has accepted a job with the L.A. Times. He'll be leaving here in a few weeks. We're sad to see him go, as Gold is not just the first -- and only -- food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Stephen Sondheim's New Book Look, I Made a Hat Unloads on Theater Critics With Both Barrels. Here's Where He's Wrong

    ​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Roger Ebert's Life Itself: Five Sexiest (Yes, Really) Passages in His Amazing New Autobiography

    ​ In America's favorite film critic's bestselling new memoir, Life Itself, we learn more about the former Siskel and Ebert host than we maybe strictly wanted to know. We meet Ebert the Catholic Schoolboy, Ebert the Intrepid Boy Reporter, Ebert the Pulitzer Prize Winner, Ebert the Cancer Surviv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse: Eight Necessary Parts of an Elaborate Wrestling Entrance

    Photo by Michael Lamont from the Geffen PlayhouseJustin Leeper in the West Coast premiere of Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse​ No religion. No politics. No wrestling. Apparently, there are only a few conversational topics more polarizing than prof ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know about Edna St. Vincent Millay?

    ​Edna St. Vincent Millay​​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have always made important contributions to many different societies. One such person is Edna St. Vincent Millay, the playwright, feminist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. At the time of her death in 1950, the New Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

    Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    September 8, 2011

    Ai Weiwei at LACMA

    The trickster and his beasts

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Juan P. Garcia-Machado, Illegal Immigrant and SDSU Student, Is Reportedly Employed by State Capitol, Has Advised Politicians

    LinkedInJuan P. Garcia Machado​Looks like the California government can now be added to the list of employers who have hired illegal immigrants. The employee's name is Juan P. Garcia-Machado, a San Diego State University student set to graduate in 2012. And from the looks of his NBC LA profil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    George Ramos, Late L.A. Times Reporter, Honored by City Council

    Los Angeles TimesGeorge Ramos.​The Los Angeles City Council adjourned today in memory of late, great Los Angeles Times staffer George Ramos. The journalist was found dead at his home over the weekend in Morro Bay after co-workers at CalCoastNews called authorities because they hadn't heard fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. Murders and ex-LA Times Reporter Chuck Philips: A Timeline

    Chuck Philips, award-winning LA Times journalist, is out of a job.​Chuck Philips, once a top reporter for the Los Angeles Times, spent over a decade investigating the murders of West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur and his East Coast rival, the Notorious B.I.G. But in 2008, when it was revealed tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Robert Rizzo, Accused Ringleader of Bell Salary Scandal, Gets Iconic Street Art Treatment

    Ted SoquiR to the Izzo.​Andre the Giant, George W. Bush and President Obama have all been immortalized by L.A. street artists. Now our favorite alleged misuser of public funds, Robert Rizzo, is getting the icon treatment too (see it on the next page). His bloated, frog-like face is perfect f ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    Open Mouths, Open Minds

    Ted SoquiR to the Izzo.​Andre the Giant, George W. Bush and President Obama have all been immortalized by L.A. street artists. Now our favorite alleged misuser of public funds, Robert Rizzo, is getting the icon treatment too (see it on the next page). His bloated, frog-like face is perfect f ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 12, 2011

    Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door

    Ted SoquiR to the Izzo.​Andre the Giant, George W. Bush and President Obama have all been immortalized by L.A. street artists. Now our favorite alleged misuser of public funds, Robert Rizzo, is getting the icon treatment too (see it on the next page). His bloated, frog-like face is perfect f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Stage Raw: Aaron Sorkin's First Stage Play

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS Stage FEATURE on The Chinese Massacre and House of the Rising Son ​Maia MadisonAaron Sorkin's first stage play, Hidden in This Picture, is reviewed by Amy Nicholson; Neal Weaver was taken with the collection of theater-celeb-scribed gay-theme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Osama Bin Laden's Death Could Inspire New Terrorism in America, Says Author Chris Hedges in L.A.

    FBIWill Obama's demise lead to more terrorism on U.S. soil?​While most Americans today are walking on cloud 9, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex- New York Times reporter who has covered the Middle East for seven years says we should be afraid. Very afraid. Chris Hedges told a group gathered in L.A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    New York Times' Arthur Brisbane Questions Paper's Past Criticism of Los Angeles Times in Wake of L.A. Paper's Pulitzer Wins

    robertjlopez / YouTubeRuben Vives celebrates his L.A. Times Pulitzer co-win.​Updated after the jump: Slate media critic Jack Shafer weighs in, saying it's possible for the L.A. Times to both win Pulitzers and be "in steep decline." Earlier this year we noted how the Los Angeles Times was "bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    L.A. Times Wins Pulitzer For Bell Coverage; LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold is a Finalist

    L.A. Times is winning.​The Los Angeles Times won the most-prestigious Pulitzer Prize today -- the public service award -- given to the paper for breaking and investigating the city of Bell's salary scandal. The paper also won the photography award for feature shots on the aftermath of violent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Pulitzer Prizes Announced: Jonathan Gold Almost Wins (Again)

    No, Jonathan Gold has not won a second Pulitzer, but he's come pretty damn close. As the Weekly's editor Drex Heikes just emailed us all: Jonathan Gold was one of the three finalists this year for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Columbia University just announced. The prize went to Boston Globe ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 24, 2011

    Edward Anthony's Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath

    No, Jonathan Gold has not won a second Pulitzer, but he's come pretty damn close. As the Weekly's editor Drex Heikes just emailed us all: Jonathan Gold was one of the three finalists this year for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Columbia University just announced. The prize went to Boston Globe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Lanford Wilson dies

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Edward Antony's Wish I Had a Sylvia PlathL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEES                          &n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Stage Raw: Groundlings Singles Cruise

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE ​Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    L-A-U-R-E-A-T-E!

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE ​Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 30, 2010

    Two Cheers for Anonymity

    Red Medicine panicked in outing Times' Virbila, but did no lasting harm

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    Next to Normal

    Red Medicine panicked in outing Times' Virbila, but did no lasting harm

  • Eat+Drink

    April 26, 2007

    Sole Food

    Highland Park, home of the huarache – also, links to Jonathan Gold's rounds as a public radio guest after winning the Pulizter Prize

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