Charles Bukowski

The drinks are flowing again at King Eddy Saloon

2013-03-22 00:00:00

The Enabler has fretted about the fate of the legendary Skid Row dive bar the King Eddy Saloon since it was bought by new owners and closed for renovations in December. King Eddy, which first opened in 1933, has a history of attracting literary types,...

Movie review: 'Beautiful Creatures' has brains and bewitching cast too

2013-02-13 17:59:00

Maybe there really are supernatural forces at work in this world. How else to explain "Beautiful Creatures"? The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma — three words not typically associated with teen romances. A couple of unknown...

90-year-old great-grandmother waxes poetic on Bukowski

2013-02-14 15:18:00

When Marjory Gilbert read a Times On Location story about the movie "Bukowski," produced and directed by James Franco, it brought back vivid memories of her long-ago encounter with the late poet. Gilbert was working as a clerk in the history department at...

Decision on Los Angeles' first poet laureate nears

2012-12-05 00:00:00

Dana Gioia spent many years doing battle in that viper's nest of bureaucrats and elected officials called Washington D.C. This fall the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and L.A. native found himself back home. In a series of...

Southern California Close-Ups: Pasadena and environs

2012-06-05 10:30:00

First published on Nov. 27, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's 1922, and nothing much is up in Pasadena. Not among the orange groves, not along the leafy streets. Just as the little old ladies like it. But wait. Down in the Arroyo Seco, a...

Remembering Bukowski with Harry Dean Stanton on Saturday

2012-06-27 21:35:10

Patt Morrison Asks: Two from the 'typosphere'

2011-12-31 00:00:00

There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family...

L.A. literary salon remembers noir at Musso & Frank

2012-05-01 16:35:04

Kenneth Price dies at 77; artist transformed traditional ceramics

2012-02-25 00:00:00

Kenneth Price, a prolific Los Angeles artist whose work with glazed and painted clay transformed traditional ceramics while also expanding orthodox definitions of American and European sculpture, died early Friday at his home and studio in Taos, N.M. He...

Visiting out West? Here's a SoCal traveler's cheat sheet

2012-01-23 06:30:00

For most of the last 20 years, it’s been my job to leave Los Angeles and bring home tips on travel elsewhere. But let’s face it: Elsewhere can get expensive. And there’s a lot of elsewhere here already. So a year ago, I turned my...

James Franco signs publishing deal with Amazon

2012-01-04 09:52:00

James Franco, the actor-writer-producer-graduate student, has signed a publishing deal with Amazon's fledgling publishing house, the Observer reports. It will be Franco's first novel, tentatively titled "Actors Anonymous," and said to be loosely based on...

Scott Wannberg dies at 58; poet and Dutton's book buyer

2011-08-25 00:00:00

Scott Wannberg, a gentle behemoth of the Los Angeles poetry scene and a mainstay of the old Dutton's bookstore in Brentwood, where for nearly 25 years he molded the reading habits of a wide assortment of customers and petted every dog that crossed the...

Writer Charles Bukowski

2007-11-23 11:59:55

At the Huntington Library: The library recently aquired archives of writer Charles Bukowski, including manuscripts, fan mail, poetry and first editions of his works. The button, sent to Bukowski by a fan, is resting on one of the writer's poems.

2006-12-22 13:02:40

In 'Factotum,' Matt Dillon macerates himself in Charles Bukowski's booze-soaked milieu.

2006-09-22 05:05:56