The Misread City

WHEN I moved to the Eastside five years ago, the main think I knew I'd miss from my more central position in the city was the cultural ...

WITH the film adaptation of Michael Winterbotton’s The Killer Inside Me opening in Los Angeles today, I turned to the author's biographe...

THERE are only a handful of musicians of whose work I own virtually every release. Among this group is Joe Pernice, whose recordings with al...

SUNDAY night I was lucky enough to catch Britfolk guitarist Bert Jansch at Largo. It may've been the most stunning display of acoustic ...

IN the years just before, during and after WWII, the flow of exiles and emigres from fascist Germany to Los Angeles became so strong that an...

RECENTLY I spent some time with Casey Affleck, who appears in Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir novel, The Kill...

THESE days I am digging into Imperial Bedrooms , the sequel of sorts to Less Than Zero , one of the most famous and at least initially contr...