Chris Paine is best known as the director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, a movie about how the car industry and politics nipped the explosive growth of the electric cars in the bud. But Paine is also a nightlife aficionado who loves the Burner scene and has a new environmentally friendly venue, the Marrakesh House, that he uses as an entertaining space. We gave Chris our usual drill-down.

In Los Angeles nightlife, house parties are big. And I'm not just talking about your friend's cute house party with BBQ and beer; I'm talking like house house parties. Like, multimillion dollar you-will-never-live-like-this-for-real house parties. We went to one such house party on Saturday night, but what made this special was the fact that the house was built by Chris Paine (director and writer of Who Killed the Electric Car?, a movie about how the auto industry and politics combined forces to undermine the electric car movement). And his snazzy house is very, very eco-friendly.