The Misread City

WHEN world-class ski champion and hollywood film producer frank beddor approached me about his book project a couple years back, i wasnt sur...

I'M not sure i can think of another musician who's been powerfully influential on both johnny marr of the smiths and zeppelin-era ji...

SAN francisco writer stephen elliott is the baudelaire of the mission district. after reading his new book, "the adderall diaries"...

WHEN i heard that a biographer had gone into therapy impersonating britney spears (that's the way it was teed up to me), i thought, this...

THIS is the kind of high/low, east/west, pop/myth collision i love: a new exhibit at the LACMA called "heroes and villains: the battle ...

A HIPSTER friend, back in the 80s, turned me on to the new zealand sound -- the clean, the chills, the verlaines -- bands that made what wa...

WHEN i agreed to hang out with novelist salman rushdie in and around hollywood for a few hours, i would not have been surprised to find mys...