Peter Fletcher

Do Look Back

Producer Chris Carter and writer-director George Hickenlooper’s Mayor of the Sunset Strip, the centerpiece of this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, documents the life of KROQ radio icon Rodney Bingenheimer, who today — with his beloved radio show being relegated to the most undesirable time slots — seems sadder than......

CALL AND RESPONSE: Citizen Fletcher

Dear Chief Bratton, Welcome to Los Angeles. My name is Peter Fletcher and I live in a section of Hollywood called Little Armenia. In bygone days the area was called Lemon Grove. It starts at Wilton Place, about a quarter-mile from the Walk of Fame and all those other tourist......

Time, Please

From 1986 until 1990, I worked the door at the Cat & Fiddle pub, owned by a sprightly, elfin Englishman named Kim Gardner. Kim had played bass for such classic English bands as the Creation, the English Birds, and the legendary Ashton, Gardner and Dyke. The embodiment of the first......