Tom Wolfe

Gravity Is a Thrilling 3-D Breakthrough

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in Alfonso Cuaron's first film since Children of Men

How Pasquale Rotella Built His Rave Empire

The man behind EDC is not going away, felony charges be damned

What Happens When You Read Poetry on the L.A. Metro?

At Union Station on the Gold Line platform this past Saturday, the commuters and sojourners of the Los Angeles weekend are greeted by the unfamiliar sound of...poets. A group of men and women -- all ages and ethnicities -- are reading lines in Spanish and English, blaring out their tropes into the a ... More >>

Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is Lightning From the Heavens

Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

Bob Simmons, Pioneer of the Modern Surfboard, Gets a New Exhibit

Rolling Stone Restaurant: Beer and Loathing in the Hollywood and Highland Center

Away from street performers dressed as sort of sexy cops and cardboard Transformers, the new Rolling Stone Restaurant faces the California Pizza Kitchen on the upper floors of the Hollywood and Highland Center. In front of the restaurant, tourists mosey around, mouths open, cameras out, photographin ... More >>

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?

Bruce Hornsby on Tupac: "The original 'Changes' was a lot dirtier, had a lot of the n-word."

Michael WeintrobBruce Hornsby​Editor's Note: Tomorrow, September 13, 2011, marks the 15th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death. To commemorate, West Coast Sound will feature Tupac stories all week. Bruce Hornsby has been a household name for 25 years. His 1986 album with the Range, The Way It ... More >>

Magic Trip Review

Artist As Outlaw

The Legacy of Ken Kesey

Selling the Treasures of Book Soup's Late Owner

Air Force's Mystery Space Plane Headed To California

USAF​The U.S. Air Force launched its mysterious, unmanned space vehicle, the X-37B, late Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it's expected to land in California, possibly at Vandenberg Air Force Base north of Santa Barbara, at an unknown time. The baby shuttle -- it's only about 28 fee ... More >>

How Fiction Works: King James and the Battle for the Novel

It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

LA People 2009: The Heart of Darkness — Jerry Stahl

Hunter S. Thompson and His Gonzo Tapes

Fear and recording in Las Vegas

Goodbye, Dutton's!

Writers remember the great Brentwood bookstore on the occasion of its closing

David Sedaris at UCLA

Film Reviews: 3:10 to Yuma, Exiled, Hatchet

Also, In the Shadow of the Moon, The Hunting Party and more

Going Stag at Seven Grand

Whiskey and Wry

Gentlemen's Disagreement

Putting the testosterone back in dandyism

Murder On the Last Turn

Mickey Thompson was a renowned race-car driver and promoter. Mike Goodwin was the brash, egocentric creator of motocross. They became business partners. Then all hell broke loose.

Film Reviews

''Seems never to achieve his potential. Indolent.''

Re-reading report cards can be depressing

R. Crumb in Heaven

On Earth and otherwise

Letters

The Day-Glo Effect

Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

The Meta-Media Madness Top 10

The Red Stuff

The sullied waters of Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons

Shovin’ It

Democrats, Hardballers and Class Warriors

The View From Four Score

Eighty years in a musical life

Bonfire of the Vanity Affairs

WEB UPDATE: Graydon Carter targeted by Republican attack dogs . . . and other comedies

The Great Race

25 cars, no drivers, racing toward Las Vegas for a $1 million prize — and the future of the U.S. military

The Researchers

Eric Schlosser and the new old journalism

A Letter from Jerusalem If You Cannot Breathe, Raise Your Hand

L. A. Flaw

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

A Fan's Notes

Rank and Yank at Enron

Or, the fine art of bankruptcy

Do the Clothes Make the Man?

An encounter with Thomas Frank

Words of War

Journalists on Vietnam

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore

The Divine Comedy

Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full

Soft-Shoe Sushi

Tap with your tuna in Studio City