Email Author Siran Babayan

2012 Stories by Siran Babayan

• Oh, Look Out You Rock & Rollers

  published June 21, 2012

  John Lennon in his New York City T-Shirt. The Clash's Paul Simonon smashing his bass guitar onstage. The Ramones posing in front of a brick wall.... More >>

• Looking for Love in All the Gay Places

  published June 14, 2012

  If laughter is the best medicine, Eddie Campbell's book 44 Horrible Dates is the perfect prescription for anyone who finds being single a... More >>

• Pssssst: L.A. -- Your Pride Is Showing

  published June 7, 2012

  Halloween might be the High Holy Day for the gay community in the rest of the country, but in West Hollywood, L.A. Pride weekend is the gayest... More >>

• Hey Joel

  published June 7, 2012

  Joel Stein might have been the only expectant father in history to worry about having a boy. When he and his pregnant wife learned the sex of... More >>

• Oh Ziggy You're So Fine

  published May 31, 2012

  The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars fell to earth 40 years ago, and to help celebrate, the Grammy Museum hosts a... More >>

• Elite Troupes

  published May 31, 2012

  Take the stage, make a fool of yourself, repeat. You'll be learning something about yourself and following in the funny footsteps of such Improv... More >>

• He's Randall

  published May 24, 2012

  Move over Keyboard Cat and Dramatic Squirrel. The latest animal on the Internet to make us two-legged species laugh and waste precious work time... More >>

• Dirty Minds Think Alike

  published May 17, 2012

  Funny girl Maya Rudolph had a musical background long before she became famous for shitting in a wedding dress in Bridesmaids and as a cast... More >>

• It's a Goth World After All

  published May 17, 2012

  Don't call security. They're just Goths, and they want to peacefully converge en masse at the annual Bats Day in the Fun Park at Disneyland. What... More >>

• Give These Guys a Hand!

  published May 10, 2012

  If you're a fan of I Love Lucy — and who isn't? — the socks at the Sock Puppet Sitcom Theater have got some 'splaining to do.... More >>

• Burton's Bacharach

  published May 3, 2012

  Danny Elfman has been the ears to Tim Burton's eyes for nearly 30 years, a collaboration that goes back even further than the director's... More >>

• Colt Following

  published May 3, 2012

  Remember the plushophilia trend of the late '90s? Thanks to the Hub network's animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,... More >>

• Whatever Happened to Us Festival Stories?

  published April 26, 2012

  You've watched some great artists and endured bad weather and bad people. (The fine line between homeless and hipster is getting thinner and... More >>

• Classical Music on Film

  published April 19, 2012

  Emmy-winning director-producer Peter Rosen has created dozens of documentaries on artists ranging from Leonard Bernstein to Garrison Keillor to... More >>

• Film of a System of a Down

  published April 12, 2012

  Fans of now-dormant System of a Down might've gotten a better understanding of the metal band's politics thanks to Screamers, Carla... More >>

• Like a Vermin

  published April 5, 2012

  Back in the pre-motherhood, pre-Esther and pre-Malawi days of the Material Girl's career, there was no greater Madonna parodist than Julie Brown,... More >>

• The Museum That Roared

  published April 5, 2012

  Rock's most cartoonish, colorful and campiest genre is finally getting the museum treatment, thanks to the Grammy Museum's latest exhibit, "Golden... More >>

• Herb Ritts

  published March 29, 2012

  Herb Ritts' 1977 shot of actor pal Richard Gere in San Bernardino put him on the map, and his cover of Madonna's 1986 album True Blue,... More >>

• Shoah

  published March 22, 2012

  Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah stands as neither film, nor art nor storytelling but, as critic Roger Ebert best... More >>

• Yet Another Tome From the Vodkarati

  published March 8, 2012

  Like a blond Kardashian — but with talent and a sense of shame — Chelsea Handler can't stop multiplying on TV, what with three... More >>

• Also for Your Consideration

  published February 23, 2012

  Watching the Olympics of award shows while making snarky comments about George Clooney's newest girlfriend (this year's Oscar date is next year's... More >>

• We've Got the Beat

  published February 16, 2012

  MOCA's "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974-1981" was the only exhibit under the Getty's Pacific Standard Time umbrella to even briefly... More >>

• The Next Best Thing to Actually Getting Laid on Valentine's Day

  published February 9, 2012

  Passion, schmassion. Cinefamily's idea of romance on Valentine's Day is hosting the "100 Most Outrageous Fucks!," which just may be as disturbing... More >>

• I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

  published February 2, 2012

  His name may not ring a bell, but California photographer Henry Diltz is responsible for four decades' worth of some of rock's most iconic images.... More >>

• That's a Scary Collection of Ellen Portraits

  published January 26, 2012

  She's nicer than Sandra Bernhard and funnier than Rosie O'Donnell, and this month daytime TV's biggest gay icon, Ellen DeGeneres, is turning 54.... More >>