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Jerry Stahl Discusses His New Book About Heroin, the Drug That Nearly Destroyed Him

Jerry Stahl knows heroin — the good, the bad and the literary. That's why Stahl was the perfect choice to be editor of The Heroin Chronicles, an anthology of 13 chasing-the-dragon stories by junkies and ex-junkies. Released Jan. 1, the third entry in the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series (after T ... More >>

Director John Waters Talks Amanda Knox, Striped Socks, and Underpants Bomber

Patrick Range McDonaldJohn Waters, left, and James Egan​Last Friday night, legendary film director John Waters sat down with L.A. Weekly for a friendly, often times hilarious, chat, promoting a new book that features his media interviews over the past 46 years: John Waters: Interviews. Univer ... More >>

Marie Losier's P-Orridge Film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: Best Documentary Ever About Husband and Wife Surgery to Become Copies of Each Other

​ "Sex is a virus," says Richard Foreman in Marie Losier's short film about his experimental theater work, The Ontological Cowboy, screening Sunday at LA Filmforum. "Let's not kid ourselves: we're driven so we will fuck, so we will produce babies." Sexuality certainly could be said to course ... More >>

Page Two: Return of the Prankster God

Weed mags sprout across LOS ANGELES

Publications reap windfall from pot ads

Sounds of the Skin of a Rabbit

And other West Coasty musical predilections

Throbbing Gristle's 33rd Annual Report

They coined the genre name Industrial, foresaw acid house and pushed electronic noise into distant orbits. A legendary art quartet returns to Southern California

Leonard Cohen's Prophecy of the Phil Spector/Lana Clarkson Incident: 'Death of a Ladies' Man'

Note: for best results, listen to the above song while you read this. As we prepared for this April's "Leonard Cohen Week," which commences this evening at the Nokia Theater, continues there tomorrow night, and concludes with next Friday's twilight performance at Coachella, one of Leonard Cohen' ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Theater Reviews: The Bird and Mr. Banks, Waiting for Godot, Boadicea, The Dining Room

Also, Mammals, Battle Hymn, Resignation Day

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 >>

Once Upon a Time in Westwood

Alex Cox looks back with laughter

Rock Picks: B.B. King, Matmos, Coldplay

Also, Supergrass, Ratatat, the Duke Spirit

Richard Price on Cynicism, The Wire and his Lush Life

Demeaning streets

Hello Mommy Africa: A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rock

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot

Inside Looking Out

In a new documentary, Robert Wilson takes center stage

Theater Listings

For the week of May 26 - June 1

Music Picks

For the week of March 10 - 16

Seven Degrees of Wally Berman

The culture of Semina

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

Hollywood Satiricon

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

Bohemian Grave

Jack Kerouac and the death of cool

The Day-Glo Effect

Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

Richard Strauss and His “Pretty Hybrid”

The Yoke of Men’s Opinions

Will’s World

In love with Shakespeare

The Fatty Arbuckle Memorial Awards for 2003

Dub

The once and future music of revolution

The Streetcar Cometh

Tennessee Williams’ barroom symposium

Murder She Wrote

The talented Ms. Highsmith

Björn Again

Gutter-dämmerung

Of pods and Insectatrons

Oh! Mary! What the Hell Has Been Going On!

Mary Robison on writer's block, neuro-pharmaceuticals, Gordon Lish, writing in cars and her new collection of stories, Tell Me

Richard Meltzer, Noise Boy

New Girl Order

Ben Marcus’ poetic, parallel universe

Truth and Daring

Reconstructing Laurie Anderson

Wicked Games

Books From Our Contributors

Cash, Class and Cool

New books from David Brancaccio, Gerald Horne and Lewis MacAdams

Golden Grrrls

Gregory Corso, 1930–2001

New Holidays

Taboo

Jon Hassell, hyperreality and the magic of tone

Waiting for Moby

Laurie Anderson, standing alone

Big-Spender Mike

Antonovich invites the gun lobby in — at taxpayers’ expense

Words and Pictures

Frank O'Hara, as variously as possible

DJ Spooky's dream state

Adrian Lyne:

Cinema's Humbert Humbert?