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Revelations and allegations of the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs have sullied the reputations of such Major League Baseball stars as Mark McGwire, Sammy...
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It's amazing how many people with the word "crab" in their names are surprisingly interesting and attractive (e.g., Miss Crabtree in the old "Our Gang" comedies). Jennifer...
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Abbey Sibucao is an identical triplet who identified as "the fat, funny girl" in high school and graduated at the top of her class. She's since traveled the world as a singer,...
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From the Why-Didn't-I-Think-of-That-Title Department, Vol. 115, comes Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections From a Terminally Optimistic,...
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When it comes to cheesy European pop, Americans know as much about the annual Eurovision Song Contest as they do the mysterious, decades-long popularity of Kylie Minogue. For...
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Another Fourth of July has come and gone, and we as a nation have once again successfully celebrated our love of freedom and hot dogs, so why not keep the party going by...
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Do you like beautiful old things? No? Then please skip this item. The rest of you with the good taste to appreciate the rare and the vintage can hop into your restored jalopy...
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When Giuseppe Verdi found himself idle in Naples in 1873, in between a revival of Aida and performances of Don Carlo , he decided to try his hand at a new venture -- chamber...
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The First Annual Funk Rumble Block Party — the name has a great ring to it, like something explosive might happen. The organizers promise the event to be "half music...
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It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Few cities on the planet offer as many free concerts as our town does during the summer. The bigger events — like the 25...
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CineVegas presents Jeff Mizushima's 2009 "Filmmaker To Watch" award winner about a dying pet hamster on a bicycle road trip. Soundtrack includes songs by Dan Deacon, Great...
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Doug Benson has turned rude manners into a comic art. Expect comic pals of the well-known and medium-known variety.
Mon., July 13, 9 p.m., 2009
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Sam Tripoli was a finalist on a Howard Stern comedy contest. In his act, he makes fun of a disabled stripper and does Hulk Hogan jokes. He even asked Latina women if they enjoy...
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Life sucks when you're a teenager, at least according to teenagers. What with all the drama to keep up with on MySpace and the fact that Dad put a GPS tracker on your cell...
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Throw away those tired little Shrinky Dinks and the moldy old macramé and come on down to the Renegade Craft Fair, a ragtag fugitive fleet of hundreds of artists and...
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A toxic gift that keeps on giving, the 1959 partial nuclear meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Lab in Ventura County has the dubious distinction of being the third-largest...
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Before Florida native Exene Cervenka reinvented herself in Los Angeles as a wild-eyed singer and punk-country-folk priestess with such bands as X, the Knitters and Auntie...
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Director–set designer August Viverito and his colleagues have mastered the art of clarity and intensity when working in a tiny space such as this. Peter Shaffer’s...
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In writer-director Daisuke Tsuji’s cracklingly clever tour de force, which takes place on a planet of apes from which Roddy McDowell is conspicuously absent, a group of...
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While R. Ernie Silva’s older brothers were doing hard drugs, he hid out in his room and watched Masterpiece Theatre. Silva wasn’t a nerd; he break-danced, liked weed,...
