Dave Barry

Join the very funny Dave Barry for a live video chat on Monday

2013-02-01 09:39:00

Who wins a Pulitzer Prize for being funny? Dave Barry, that's who. Technically, he won the prize for commentary for his columns at the Miami Herald -- where his job was, and is, "to write about issues ranging from the international economy to exploding...

Live Talks Los Angeles launches Conversation Bar (it's snacky)

2013-02-06 10:44:00

Starting Thursday, people who attend Live Talks Los Angeles events will be able to nosh on a Conversation Bar. It's a custom, branded energy bar that tastes a lot like cookie dough. It will be, as far as we've been able to determine, the first reading...

Fun-wise, national signing day is a signature event

2013-02-06 18:09:00

What fun, this national signing day, colleges' version of the NFL draft. Story I'm following most closely is of the Florida mom who reportedly ran off with her kid's signing papers so he wouldn't leave home. As Dave Barry used to say, I'm not making...

An epic kids' rhyme from 'Hunger Games' director Gary Ross

2012-11-27 04:30:00

It began as a favor. It became an obsession. It was 1996 and screenwriter Gary Ross got a call from a desperate friend. Out of time and money, director David Koepp was in frantic need of a children's story to complete his movie feature debut, "The...

Tony Awards 2012: Christian Borle beats Andrew Garfield

2012-06-10 18:28:00

Christian Borle won the Tony Award for featured actor in a play for "Peter and the Starcatcher," beating out Andrew Garfield for his role in the recent revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." "Starcatcher" is a quasi-prequel to "Peter Pan"and...

Scott Turow flashes back with the Beatles on KCRW

2012-06-12 16:36:35

San Francisco literary figure Kathi Kamen Goldmark has died

2012-05-24 16:36:00

Miami's cultural transformation

2012-01-01 00:00:00

It's Saturday night, and though a drizzle threatens, the lawn is jammed with children snoozing in strollers, couples sprawling on picnic blankets, teens taking a break from skateboarding. The star appears — not some retread boomer rocker but high-...

'Once' sees stronger box-office sales after Tony nominations

2012-05-07 14:44:00

The announcement of the Tony Award nominations last Tuesday gave a box-office boost to "Once," the new musical whose 11 nominations make it the early Tony frontrunner this year. "Once," which is playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York, saw...

Tuesday Travel Ticker: Cycle through Temecula's grapevines

2011-12-06 05:00:00

Book review: 'Holidays in Heck' by P.J. O'Rourke

2011-12-14 00:00:00

P.J. O'Rourke has written so many books of humor that no one is quite sure how many. I have it on good authority that it's 15, but since I finished writing this sentence, he may have written yet another. That's how fast he is. I've enjoyed O'Rourke's...

42 free excerpts in Penguin's holiday sampler

2011-12-26 16:34:51

Events will include LitLUNCH, A Night of Literary Feasts, LitLIVE, Feast's Night Out with Dave Barry and Novel Day for Students. Photo by Kara Starzyk

2013-02-19 00:00:00

Dave Barry chats with the Los Angeles Times' Carolyn Kellogg.

2013-02-04 00:00:00

Author Dave Barry

2013-02-01 09:50:57