Allen Ginsberg

Happy scandalous anniversary to Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'

2013-03-25 13:56:00

On this date, March 25, in 1957, Allen Ginsberg helped make literary history. That's because 520 copies of his poem "Howl" were seized by U.S. Customs agents on charges of obscenity. Ginsberg and his publisher, City Lights, would fight those charges --...

Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, for $100,000, to go to Marie Ponsot

2013-03-18 12:47:00

Poet Marie Ponsot will be awarded the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize in June, it was announced Monday. The Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, which comes with an award of $100,000, is given to a poet for lifetime achievement. Ponsot's career began in the 1950s; her book...

L.A. architecture takes the lead in Getty's new PST project

2013-03-11 10:59:00

Much of the time Los Angeles can feel like a huge, messy jigsaw puzzle, with pieces left out — a city that evolved by accident. Parts of it don't work, parts of it seem newly broken, parts are truly luminous — but hidden — and they all...

For the record

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Lincoln MKZ: In the March 9 Business section, a review of the 2013 Lincoln MKZ said that Lincoln sold 213,000 fewer vehicles than "class-leading" Mercedes in 2012. In fact, BMW sold the most luxury passenger vehicles in the U.S. last year, about 200,000...

Daniel Radcliffe's Out cover story reveals a few choice tidbits

2013-02-13 18:45:00

Daniel Radcliffe's Out magazine cover story teaches us a couple of very important things. One, he seems like a really decent guy who gets along with just about everybody when he's on a movie set. Two, he's circumcised.� Radcliffe, who plays Allen...

I yam what I yam -- but is it art?

2013-02-12 00:00:00

One of the biggest problems in our politics is that people don't think for themselves. We let radio and television hosts, pundits and politicians tell us what to believe. And one of the biggest problems in our arts is that people don't enjoy for...

Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms

2013-01-17 00:00:00

Not that long ago, premiering a star-driven Sundance Film Festival movie on a video-on-demand channel was an admission of failure. But last year's festival produced two huge on-demand hits, Richard Gere's crime drama "Arbitrage" and Kirsten Dunst's...

'Lovelace' helmers to make Oscars documentary for TCM

2013-01-09 18:12:00

EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Awards get a fair amount of coverage (and then some) from Web prognosticators. But a full documentary treatment is a much rarer thing. That’s the effort the decorated documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will...

Your 2013 Sundance reading list

2013-01-23 15:31:00

The Sundance Film Festival is well under way, giving us a preview of the independent features that may soon be coming to screens near us. The mix is interesting and sexy this year, and includes a good share of auteurs who've both written and directed...

The Hudson and 'On the Road' are finally in gear

2012-12-08 06:00:00

From inside the rocket-shaped time capsule of a silver 1949 Hudson Super Six, West Hollywood looked astonishingly modern to Brazilian director Walter Salles. Salles, who has devoted the last eight years to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" for the...

Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic

2012-12-20 12:01:00

There are as many visions of "On the Road," novelist Jack Kerouac's vivid anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and the getting of experience as there are readers. It's a book so influential yet so personal that each succeeding generation since its...

Poet Jack Gilbert has died

2012-11-13 14:29:00

The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87. Gilbert -- who was featured in Monday's L.A. Times -- had been in frail condition at a nursing home for several years before he developed...

Allen Ginsberg reads to a crowd in 1966, nine years after the publication of his controversial poem "Howl."

2013-03-25 13:29:38

Eight bucks gets you into this small museum stashed in a used book and record store.

2013-02-23 08:57:00

While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg's life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate.

2013-01-20 19:35:00