Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury-Themed Art Exhibit Opens in a Gallery Located Where the Sci-Fi Master Once Lived

Ray Bradbury, the fantasy-fiction mastermind who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and really did believe man would make it to Mars sooner than later, moved to L.A. from Illinois in 1934 as a teenager. His family first lived around Western Avenue. Then, in 1942, they moved into a Craftsman bungalow at 670 South ... More >>

Shakespeare, Kubrick and Oprah: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week the cinephile community is focused on AFI Fest, but here are some other special event films we recommend: Friday, Nov. 2 Women have made giant leaps in history, but every so often someone tries to put them in a binder. Oprah-approved doc Miss Representation explores the correlation betwe ... More >>

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Ray Bradbury and Clifton's Cafeteria: Death and Rebirth

Ray Bradbury, an author considered one of the greatest science fiction and short story writers of the 20th century, died yesterday at age 91. Bradbury's 27 novels and story collections, which include classics Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Come ... More >>

Ray Bradbury, RIP: Fahrenheit 451 Is Still Misinterpreted. We, Not Government, Are Enslaving Ourselves

Ray Bradbury, in a 2009 interview with LA Weekly at his Cheviot Hills home, explained with gusto a fact that shocked millions of fans: Fahrenheit 451 was not a warning about government mind control. The world got that wrong. His warning was, we are doing to ourselves -- enslaved to glowing screens. ... More >>

Food News Roundup: On the Phone with Diana Kennedy, Typewriters How Organic Can Feed the World

C. LeVassera stack of Diana Kennedy books​The Cookbook Blog: A very cool interview with Diana Kennedy. LA Observed: Ray Bradbury's typewriter, a 1947 Royal KMM #3756210. (Does this have anything to do with food? No. But it's Ray Bradbury's typewriter. Stop clouding pictures of foie with your ... More >>

I WAS A STEAMPUNK BEFORE YOU WERE A STEAMPUNK

Andrew Meieran's New Clifton's Cafeteria: 4 Bars and an Appearance by Ray Bradbury

Caroline on CrackThe Edison's Andrew Meieran standing before Clifton's artifacts.Last year, science fiction author Ray Bradbury celebrated his 89th birthday at Clifton's Brookdale Cafeteria on 7th and Broadway, a place where he, along with sci-fi writer/memorabilia collector Forrest Ackerman, founde ... More >>

SOMETHING DISNEY THIS WAY COMES

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 >>

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Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Stage Raw: Trauma Dolls

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's cover story on Pee-wee Herman; this week's Stage feature on An Oak TreeTRAUMA DOLLS ​Photo courtesy of Highways Next Friday and Saturday, January 29 and 30, at 8:30 p.m. Highways presents (Un)Concrete Musique, a trio of of multimedia m ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Future Belongs to Us?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the FrogTHEATRE OF NOTE MARATHON ​ Fire-eater Julia Prud'homme Photo by Kiff Scholl Theatre of NOTE presents its 15th annual Performance Marathon this coming Saturday, Jan. ... More >>

LA People 2009: The Writer — Ray Bradbury

LA People 2009: This Is LA

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Falling Upward

Theater Reviews: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Macbeth, Falling Upward

Also, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, Makin' Hay and more

Stage Raw: L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards recipients

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES 40TH ANNUAL L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS LAST NIGHT Vicki Lewis and Wenzel Jones co-hosted with considerable charm an awards show last night that was sweet, simple and too long -- probably due to ... More >>

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Frost/Nixon

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FROST/NIXON Alan Cox and Stacy Keach in Frost/Nixon Photo by Carol RoseggAfter Stacy Keach as Nixon in Frost/Nixon, which opened last night at the Ahmanson, finished a late night pho ... More >>

Forry, We Hardly Knew Ya: Forrest J Ackerman Tribute to Be Held Sunday at Egyptian Theater

When Forrest J Ackerman passed away last December science fiction lost a tireless, shameless promoter who helped transform the genre from a suspect niche market into a thriving industry. A true Los Angeles original, Ackerman grew up when the town really was just that -- a place that was as big as a ... More >>

Town Might Ban Overnight Parking

Call it the ultimate Get Off My Lawn shout, but El Monte's city council is considering a ban on overnight parking. According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the proposal has two things going for it: crime reduction and new revenue. The theory is that fewer cars on the street equals less crime. An ... More >>

Let the Listing Begin: Ten Great Folk Records of the Past Decade

You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>

Gods and Monsters: Forrest J Ackerman, 1916-2008

Forrest J Ackerman, who passed away last week from heart failure at the age of 92, may  end up best remembered as the man who coined the term "sci-fi." That's no small legacy in a culture often chronicled in shorthand - Jack Kerouac's "beat generation," comes to mind, or Herb Caen's more reduc ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and more

Also: Romeo's Ghost, Prove It on Me, Are You Delicious? and more

Theater Listings

For the week of Jan. 18-24

RAY BRADBURY'S INVISIBLE BOY

Hot Ticket

Frost and Fire

Theater Listings

For the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1

Theater Listings

For the week of Oct. 19-26

Theater Reviews: Ray Bradbury's Green Town, Last Call at Moby Dick's and More

Also reviews of Zombie Joe's Victims, Richard III and Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Love and Other Social Issues

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted

L.A.’s august Pulitzer honoree says it was never about censorship

Christmas in April

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Theater

Theater Reviews

Including Dvorak in America, Grace, The Grey Zone and more

Fangs for the Memory

Highs and Lows of L.A. Rail

Letters

Rocket Man

In conversational orbit with Ray Bradbury

Animating Mars

Spirit and the dream of life

Vail, RFD

Some Enchanted Evening

The 24th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Washington, We Have a Problem

Ray Bradbury's Faust

The hellfire of Fahrenheit 451

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Ball Boy

''So Fucking Beautiful''

Notes on a literary festival