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  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

    The main virtual hall​ Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Steely Dan Fans Are Assholes

    William Gibson called them "the most genuinely subversive" band in late-20th Century pop. Bryan Cranston sneaks winking references to them into Malcolm In The Middle and Breaking Bad episodes. Ice Cube sampled them and The Roots play them on Jimmy Fallon. Who are they? The gold standard in rock and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

    If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    Stage Raw: Ten to Life

    Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009

    BY MARK DERY The British novelist J.G. Ballard, author of Crash, Empire of the Sun, and Miracles of Life, among other books, died Sunday, April 19, after a protracted battle with prostate cancer. Ballard is gone, wheels-up from the abandoned airstrip of our imaginations, but his coiled brillian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

    PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 5, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Bruising for Besos, Dracula, Burn This

    The Threepenny Opera, Laws of Sympathy, and more

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: Getting Physical

    DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

    BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Stage Raw: Film

    FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Stage Raw: Candida

    CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 5, 2009

    My Date With Anonymous: A Rare Interview With the Elusive Internet Troublemakers

    The new new romantics

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: Phil Newby

    PHIL NEWBY A memorial service was held at Sacred Fools Theatre on Sunday for that company's young and beloved actor who was found in his apartment last week. More on Phil to come in the print edition one week week from Thursday. At your fingertips: This week's Theater Feature on Jim Leonard' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Stage Raw: Monsters and Prodigies

    Reviewed this week: Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum; Jack Chandlers' new comedy-mystery, Murder on the Bounding Main, at Sierra Madre Playhouse; a dance-rock fusion, Vibrating Sun, at Unknown Theatre; Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's staging fof Macbeth; Echo One-Act Festival at Stage 52; Furious Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: Unpronouncable

    THEATER AWARDS UPDATE Here is the complete list of NOMINEES for the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, being held Monday, March 30 at the El Rey. Admission for nominees is free; nominee RSVPs are now being accepted at (310) 574-7208. Tickets for guests and members of the public go on sale ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 20, 2007

    Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Now

    As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies’ most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

  • Film+TV

    October 18, 2007

    Movie Reviews: 30 Days of Night, Canvas, Futbaal

    Also Golda's Balcony, The Price of Sugar, Things We Lost in the Fire and more

  • Music

    July 12, 2007

    Sonic Youth Rides its Masterpiece

    Don't Daydream it's over

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    Hollywood Satiricon

    Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    To Succeed, Must We Secede?

    Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

  • Film+TV

    October 16, 2003

    Once Upon a Time in the East

    Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (or half of it, anyway)

  • Columns

    December 5, 2002

    Fat, the Bastard

    The war over oil may be taking place in your head

  • News

    April 4, 2002

    Playtime

    The war over oil may be taking place in your head

  • Stage

    June 21, 2001

    Outer Limits

    Twyla Tharp and the Holy Body Tattoo investigate endurance

  • Art+Books

    May 24, 2001

    Worlds Apart

    Realities, virtual and otherwise

  • News

    March 8, 2001

    404, Host Not Found

    The end of the Web as we know it

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2000

    Northern Exposer

    Margaret Atwood on women and power, five inventions that will change the world and the Booker Prize

  • Art+Books

    November 23, 2000

    The Short Story

    New and old fiction from Francesca Lia Block, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ronald Alexander and Theodore Sturgeon

  • Art+Books

    July 20, 2000

    Virtual Fiction

    Richard Powers’ Plowing the Dark

  • Art+Books

    September 2, 1999

    Travels in Hyperreality

    Richard Powers’ Plowing the Dark

  • Art+Books

    August 26, 1999

    Vintage Computers

    208 machines museum-ready for the new technology center

  • Art+Books

    June 3, 1999

    The Undead

    Bruce Sterling resuscitates machines from obsolescence

  • Film+TV

    October 29, 1998

    North by Northwest

    Bruce Sterling resuscitates machines from obsolescence

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