Email Author David Cotner

2013 Stories by David Cotner

• Pedal Pushers

  published May 16, 2013

  Nicole Kidman used to be rad. She used to be rad/gnarly/tubular/trippindicular (circle one or more). Don't believe us? At Los Angeles' fifth... More >>

• Funny People

  published May 9, 2013

  It usually takes years of hard failure to become an overnight success -- comedian Marc Maron discusses that and more with director Judd Apatow in... More >>

• The Play's the Thing

  published May 9, 2013

  This year's Best of PlayGround-L.A. is a distillation of the best short plays selected from more than 100 submissions and 36 works developed as... More >>

• 50 Shades of Convention

  published May 9, 2013

  Ten years might seem like a lifetime for anyone to be involved in any lifestyle, much less one involving whips, chains and the occasional golden... More >>

• The Games We Play

  published May 2, 2013

  This isn't just another corporate finger-fest turning you on to new games with all the same old dead-eyed faces. Instead, the third annual UCLA... More >>

• Murder in San Marino

  published May 2, 2013

  With a name like Rockefeller, a man's character must be impeachable, right? Untrue. To wit: Tonight at Vroman's, investigative journalist Frank C.... More >>

• All Cinco's Eve

  published May 2, 2013

  Just like kids who have both Jewish and Christian parents, now you too can spend time with two different cultures with Meltdown Comics' Cinco De... More >>

• The Way We Burned

  published April 25, 2013

  When a catastrophe reaches legal drinking age, it's time to look back and see if the passage of time has led to change -- or just more notches in... More >>

• Laughing for a Good Cause

  published April 25, 2013

  It's like those old Westerns where the antiheroes come to the rescue of a far-off town whose residents might never even know their names or laugh... More >>

• They Never Promised Us a Rose Parade

  published April 25, 2013

  Since 1978, the Doo Dah Parade has existed as the public face of the high weirdness that seems to manifest throughout the greater metropolitan... More >>

• Stories From His Life

  published April 18, 2013

  It's rare that an artist reaches the heights in such disparate worlds as gritty independent comics and British psychedelic music, but Oxnard-born... More >>

• The Corner of Heartattack and Vine

  published April 18, 2013

  "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' L.A." is Esotouric's exhaustive triptych of all the places the singer-songwriter hung his hat and his head... More >>

• Her Milkshakes Bring All the Boys to the Yard

  published April 11, 2013

  It's been a hectic five years since Seattle chocolatier Autumn Martin founded Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery, a purveyor of organic American... More >>

• And Beethoven Begat Tolstoy ...

  published April 11, 2013

  Art is often as much a method of making connections -- this leaf inspiring that poem inciting that song -- as it is a linear blast of pure... More >>

• The Final Four of Funnies

  published April 11, 2013

  March Madness isn't just for basketball or crazy people anymore -- now comedians are getting in on the action. Tonight is the final championship... More >>

• It’s the Pictures That Got Small

  published April 4, 2013

  We're pleased to hear that a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign ensured that Cinefamily will have the digital projection equipment to comply... More >>

• Baby, You Can Drive My Car

  published April 4, 2013

  It seems emblematic of the changing world of luxury auto culture that the Maybach -- a brutally expensive car manufactured by Daimler AG and... More >>

• When They Returned From Over There

  published March 28, 2013

  History is helpful for its illumination, offering revelations and perspective that can be rendered decades or even centuries after a current event... More >>

• Suffering Becomes Her

  published March 14, 2013

  There is a perception that comedians are happiest when everything is at its most miserable. Untrue. When misfortune befalls comics, they want to... More >>

• The Road to Bali

  published March 14, 2013

  Celebrating the beauty, art and culture of Indonesia -- or Indo'nesia, as we like to call it on this St. Patrick's Day -- is the Free Family... More >>

• They Act! They Sing!

  published March 14, 2013

  Occasionally, great combinations appear seemingly out of nowhere -- like peanut butter and banana, or pineapple juice and fellatio. To wit! Nancy... More >>

• Apres le Earthquake

  published March 7, 2013

  It's been three years since the 7.0 Haiti earthquake killed 300,000 and made more than a million homeless, and even though the ongoing crisis in... More >>

• Eat, Drink, Conquer

  published March 7, 2013

  Alexander the Great reportedly wept that there were no more worlds left for him to conquer -- a sad state of affairs that even today threatens to... More >>

• They Are Women, Hear Them Roar

  published February 28, 2013

  This year's International Women's Day is blessed with tonight's energizing lecture, "Visionary Women: Inspirations From Artists, Icons and... More >>

• Kathy Griffin's Favorite Author

  published February 28, 2013

  It's not difficult to follow other pursuits in your life when the only constants are your alcoholic dog and Anderson Cooper. In the spirit of... More >>