Stephen King

Brian de Palma Explains How His Erotic Remake Passion Is Better Than the Original

Peter Clines' Cult Novels Pit Superheroes Against Zombies

Peter Clines writes about scary, terrifying Ex-es. Not the kind of exes who can't accept that the romance is over but the kind of Exes who can't accept that their mortal lives are over. Clines also writes about superheroes. Not the kind who wear capes and have few problems other than keeping th ... More >>

The 10 Metal Bands Most Beloved By Geeks

By Adam Steininger Geeks love metal more than the computers on which they listen to it. They yearn for heavy metal that was forged by Orcs in the mountains of Mordor, smuggled halfway across the universe on Serenity and then discovered by Silver Surfer while scouting for delicious planets. The te ... More >>

Prince Gomolvilas: The Only Gay, Thai, Science-Fiction Playwright

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. While researching The Brothers Paranormal, his latest comedy-horror play, about Thai-American brothers who launch a ghost-hunting business, Prince Gomolvilas was invited to go o ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?

From China to Pompeii: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see this week: Friday, Oct. 12 Dying to take that long-overdue visit to the Getty Villa? The museum's outdoor film series, presented in conjunction with its exhibition "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection," might just be the great ... More >>

Dustin Thomason on His Novel 12.21, a Maya Calendar Doomsday Thriller

L.A. author Dustin Thomason wrote the bestseller The Rule of Four with Ian Caldwell. He's now going solo with 12.21, published in August, about a doctor trying to save civilization from destruction on Dec. 21, 2012, which is when the world will supposedly end, according to the Maya calendar. Publish ... More >>

Jonathan Tropper on His Novel One Last Thing Before I Go, About a Former Rock Star Who Now Plays Weddings

Jonathan Tropper's last novel, This Is Where I Leave You (2009), become a New York Times bestseller. Tonight he's signing his new book One Last Thing Before I Go -- about a drummer in a one-hit wonder rock band who now plays weddings -- at The Grove's Barnes & Noble at 7 p.m. Here's our "Ask the A ... More >>

Rock Bottom Remainders, the Literary All-Star Band With Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan and Dave Barry, Plays Its Last Show

The Rock Bottom Remainders -- that all-star band made up of the country's most beloved, best-selling literary luminaries, including Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Matt Groening and even, yes, Stephen King -- wouldn't exist but for Kathi Kamen Goldmark.The noted "author schlepper" ... More >>

Lawrence Kasdan Interview

Back with a movie about his dog

Squid Ink Food Writers' Most Reviled Childhood Dinners

southerbornandbredgirl/flickrFried chicken livers​ With food, one person's penance is another's pleasure. Many parents view dinner-time as an opportunity, not just to share food and company with their beloved offspring, but also to exert control. Sometimes kids are picky and sometimes parent ... More >>

AMC's 'The Walking Dead' Signs, Seals, Delivers On Hype At Comic-Con 2010

​ With Emmy-winning powerhouses Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC is at the forefront of cable TV drama. What fans and geeks have hoped for, this year's Comic-Con audience can attest to, and the rest of the world is about to find out is that the network is poised to break all-new ground in October ... More >>

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

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

Day 2: Coachella's WINs and FAILs (featuring Gossip, MGMT, Dead Weather, and Tiesto!)

On Saturday the "organizers" got some of their act together -- plus most people already had their wristbands after the clusterfuck of Day 1 -- so it was relatively painless to access the festival grounds. People were noticeably more chill throughout the day, which is what happens when you haven't ha ... More >>

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

Artist Studio Tour: Liz McGrath

It's been a busy year for Liz McGrath. In addition to working as a successful artist, her band, Miss Derringer, has released an album, toured and spent last weekend working on a video. Despite the buzz that the band has earned this year, this weekend, the focus will be on McGrath's whimsical sculptu ... More >>

Oren Peli: Ghost Writer-Director

Paranormal Activity creator wants to be as mysterious as his surprise hit movie

Worm Teas and Palisades Potagers: Organic Gardening Classes With John Lyons

John Lyons, the organic gardener and edible landscape designer behind The Woven Garden, offers educational classes to inspire the cabbage farmer within. His 6-week course, "From the Earth Up," covers composting your dinner leftovers, herb garden care, organic pest control, and crop rotation (sans th ... More >>

Mercury Rising: Yet Another Reason to Avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup

Even if you're not a Stephen King fan, you've got to admit that cornfields are creepy. Crop circles. Kevin Costner wandering between the rows with a baseball bat. But unless you fled an Iowa childhood, it's not the corn itself that's the problem, but what it's processed into. High fructose corn syru ... More >>

For Your Reconsideration: Frost/Nixon’s Michael Sheen

Welsh actor’s turns as real-life British legends run the gamut

Horror films failed to scare up big bucks in 2007

Bad blood

Who Needs Dreams?

The art of fiction and the art of the interview

The Mist: Condensation Nation

Latest Stephen King adaptation all fogged up

Film Reviews: Black Sheep, 1408, You Kill Me

Also Yellow and Broken English

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted

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

the Professor

Doug Dutton, Dutton’s Brentwood Books

Genre and Gender

Kate Atkinson on mystery, her new novel, One Good Turn, and, of course, her hair

Fangs for the Memory

Keane On Him

British actor Damian Lewis disappears inside an extraordinary new performance

Ellis Island

The novelist as his own antihero

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

White Noise

White Noise

Lost Even Before Translation

Murder, melancholy and Murakami’s In the Miso Soup

Welcome to the Jungle

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Devils' Advocates

How Arkansas’ West Memphis Three went from convicts to L.A.’s cause célèbre

Penis Dentatus

Dreamcatcher is for the boys

The Talented Mr. Ridley

The author, screenwriter and radio commentator keeps his feet on the ground -- and his laptop at the ready

Head Games

From Oblivious to Sex and the City

The End of Propaganda

From ad fab to d.o.a.

Back to the Future Darkly

Writer-director Richard Kelly

Male Malfeasance

Letters

The Crank Coast

Way up, way out

Get Brown and Get Down!

Skin Deep

This week's Nazi movie

Fatuous Fascism

Benigni and Singer give Holocaust lite

The Shootist

Ex-cop gets jail, charges LAPD misconduct