Truman Capote

Clothing-optional fantasies

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Alien at MOCA

The artists on this week's list have endearing idiosyncrasies: James Lee Byars' obsession with the perfect atmosphere, Cai Guo-Qiang's spiritual pyromania and Dasha Sishkin's perverse approach to glamour. 5. Clothing-optional fantasies If Shel Silverstein, who brought the same twisted humor to his ... More >>

Breakfast at Tiffany's

The artists on this week's list have endearing idiosyncrasies: James Lee Byars' obsession with the perfect atmosphere, Cai Guo-Qiang's spiritual pyromania and Dasha Sishkin's perverse approach to glamour. 5. Clothing-optional fantasies If Shel Silverstein, who brought the same twisted humor to his ... More >>

Into the Abyss Review

Werner Herzog checks in after the murders, before the death penalty

Mick Rock

Werner Herzog checks in after the murders, before the death penalty

A Holiday Survival Guide for Nondrinkers: Top 10 (Mostly Legal) Coping Mechanisms

Flickr/erik jaeger​ It's the holidays, the season of giving, family gatherings, and coping mechanisms. So what's the number one way people traditionally survive the holidays? Alcohol. Which is great for many people, not so great for those who do not drink. Why you don't drink -- religious prin ... More >>

HOORAY FOR ISHERWOOD

Flickr/erik jaeger​ It's the holidays, the season of giving, family gatherings, and coping mechanisms. So what's the number one way people traditionally survive the holidays? Alcohol. Which is great for many people, not so great for those who do not drink. Why you don't drink -- religious prin ... More >>

Selling the Treasures of Book Soup's Late Owner

Flickr/erik jaeger​ It's the holidays, the season of giving, family gatherings, and coping mechanisms. So what's the number one way people traditionally survive the holidays? Alcohol. Which is great for many people, not so great for those who do not drink. Why you don't drink -- religious prin ... More >>

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Flickr/erik jaeger​ It's the holidays, the season of giving, family gatherings, and coping mechanisms. So what's the number one way people traditionally survive the holidays? Alcohol. Which is great for many people, not so great for those who do not drink. Why you don't drink -- religious prin ... More >>

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

THEATER REVIEWS: CARVED IN STONE, THE HOSTAGE, KILL ME DEADLY

Also, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny at Port Chicago, Nevermore, Wife Swappers and more.

Carved in Stone

Also, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny at Port Chicago, Nevermore, Wife Swappers and more.

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

G'day Sundance

For the first time in its 25-year history, the Sundance Film Festival opened Thursday night with a movie from Australia. It was also the first time the festival has opened with a feature-length animation -- one, I feel confident in saying, that is among the strangest animated films ever made. Writte ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: G'day Sundance

For the first time in its 25-year history, the Sundance Film Festival opened Thursday night with a movie from Australia. It was also the first time the festival has opened with a feature-length animation -- one, I feel confident in saying, that is among the strangest animated films ever made. Writte ... More >>

Power and Performance: Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel

“I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer”

AFI Fest: High School Confidential

Cutting class with Afterschool director Antonio Campos

Stage Raw: You've Come to the Right Place

Cutting class with Afterschool director Antonio Campos

Stage Raw: Latino New Works Fest

Cutting class with Afterschool director Antonio Campos

Abandon 405!

What to do in L.A., July 11-17

Eligibility Test

What to do in L.A., July 11-17

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

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

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

Film reviews: Summercamp!, Self-Medicated, The Nines and More

Also Halloween, Death Sentence and this week's pick, Manda Bala

Children of the Revolutionary

Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America. Was it worth it?

The Verdict on Writers: All Bloody Nuts (Phew)

Dorothy Parker once bought a new typewriter because she couldn't change the ribbon on the old one. Ernest Hemingway used to write standing up. Truman Capote wrote lying down, and could not tolerate the presence of yellow roses - although they were his favorite flower. These are just a few facts I'v ... More >>

Betting On Bond

Casino Royale gambles with Daniel Craig

Reincarnation of the Nerds

Rajiv Joseph’s bookish comedy

Tru Romance

The other, better Capote movie

What Lies Beneath

Best tales of treasure from the underground

Horsefeathers

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Pellicano's Rat Pack

Loose lips and sinking ships

Werkmeister Harmonies

Loose lips and sinking ships

In Cold Blood

Loose lips and sinking ships

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Horsefeathers!

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Chameleon

A new biopic sheds light on the many guises of Truman Capote

The Isherwood Equation

Peter Parker’s massive biography considers the life, the literature and Los Angeles

Bunny Love

Peter Parker’s massive biography considers the life, the literature and Los Angeles

Hollywood Splendor

Gavin Lambert on Natalie Wood, Vivian Leigh and the meaning of stardom

Junk Bonds

When brothers can’t take out the trash

The Coffee Table

Our annual capitulation to last-minute, support-your-local-bookstore holiday commercialism

All-American

Our annual capitulation to last-minute, support-your-local-bookstore holiday commercialism

Women of the Year

Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother

Oprah as Opera

Mikel Rouse's music of the anti-media

Season’s Cretins

Three plays for solo performer

Head Trip

The Cruise's Bennett Miller

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Fulfillment

A Publishing Memoir

A Tale of Three Parties

Recalling Truman Capote