Andy Dick

5 Reasons John Travolta is Definitely, Absolutely NOT Gay

Okay -- we know what you're thinking: John Travolta is super friggin' gay: He makes Andy Dick look like a mixed-martial arts heavyweight from Brazil. But hear us out: Some of the allegations against Travolta in recent years seem more like gay fantasies than journalistic reality. We even reported t ... More >>

Bath Salts, Synthetic Marijuana Can Now be Drug Tested (Hallelujah)

We here in the medical marijuana capital of the nation think drug testing is, in general, invasive and, frankly, un-American. Freedom also applies to your highness. But ... we'll make an exception for synthetic marijuana and bath salts, two recently outlawed drugs that make ecstasy look like a mira ... More >>

Funny, You Don't Look Newish

Beth Lapides of the UnCabaret on Her Upcoming Father's Day Show

Beth Lapides and her much-loved comic storytelling series UnCabaret have a new(-ish), swanky home downtown at First and Hope. Not a bad idea for a night out with Dad on Father's Day this Sunday, when it performs at 8 p.m. Here's our interview with Beth:

Octomom Nadya Suleman's House Up For Auction Monday?

Octomom Nadya Suleman and her 14 kids could officially be without a roof over their heads Monday as the bank holding the loan on her La Habra home is scheduled to auction it off. For a celebrity with mass exposure, Suleman has to be closer to homelessness than anyone besides maybe Andy Dick. Well, ... More >>

Los Angeles Fails to Rank as Drinking Hot Spot: What Gives?

We sometimes relish the salty sting of L.A.'s poor-performing ways when it comes to city rankings that range from traffic to penis size. We can take it. But we have to call b.s. on this particular list. The Daily Beast's latest "America's Drunkest Cities" roundup, just published, does not even p ... More >>

The 911 on Halloween

Pauly Shore's Vegas Is My Oyster on Showtime: Former MTV VJ Gets a Curb Your Enthusiasm-Style Special

Pauly Shore, respectable businessman​Pauly Shore sits behind a desk in his office at The Comedy Store waiting to take a call. At 4 o'clock, he'll get on the phone with a buyer at Netflix and attempt to convince them to make his new Showtime special Vegas Is My Oyster, along with most of his ot ... More >>

Bob Gray and the New Cellphone That Made Him a Celebrity. Sort Of.

Impostor Bob with girlfriend Liza, top left, and Andy Dick, bottom left​ There are people who kinda love their cellphone service, and then there is Bob Gray. A refreshingly friendly and stoutly built Cleveland native, bursting with the unfiltered enthusiasm and tendency for "straight talk" ass ... More >>

Born This Way, or BPA? Research Suggests Exposure to Plastic Compound Makes Men More Feminine

​That explains it. New research suggests that exposure to the plastic compound BPA could not only be bad for the sex lives of men, it might cause them to "become demasculinized and behave more like females." Not our words people, but rather those of the University of Missouri, which this wee ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/13-6/17

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I sleep better knowing that there is still fried pork leg with onions like this in the world." Ask Mr. Gold: Top 10 Pico Boulevard Eats. "Aside from Sun Chips and soda, Rite Aid's most noteworthy ... More >>

Marie Callender's Files Bankruptcy, Closes Stores End of the Line for Mediocre Restaurant Chains?

C. Soudry​ Last year Koo Koo Roo closed several of its California locations and filed bankruptcy, chalking it up to a bad economy. This year Islands restaurants are showing signs of decline, closing their Beverly Hills and Laguna Hills locations. In more recent restaurant chain news, Marie Cal ... More >>

Beach Bathroom Stank Alert Prompts L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky to Ask For More Janitorial Funds

Smelling good, Zuma Beach.​When you hear tourists complaining about dirty, stinky beaches, don't automatically assume that Lindsay Lohan, the Kardashian sisters, and Andy Dick are the objects of their ire. (We kid). No, they could be holding their noses and pointing at L.A. County's lovely be ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Drunk Patrol in Full Effect Tonight Through The Weekend, Says LAPD

Horia Varlan​Updated after the jump with the sheriff's department and the CHP jumping in on the fun. A victory over the French is like saying you beat Andy Dick only using your left hand. Too easy. Still, any excuse is a good excuse to party, and, to be fair, Cinco de Mayo has become America' ... More >>

Andy Dick Arrested. Guess Where.

Andy Dick's most recent mugshot.​Andy Dick's been arrested, again. Not at some Hollywood hot spot thick with desperation and aspiring starlets. At Marie Callender's. In Temecula. Riverside County Sheriff's deputies were called to the Marie Callender's restaurant on Rancho California Road, r ... More >>

Andy Dick Is (Allegedly) a Drunk A-Hole

Riverside County Sheriff's DepartmentNot exactly a look of regret​Our worst fears, confirmed again: Impossibly irritating "comedian" Andy Dick is also a drunk A-hole! Dick was arrested by Temecula police at a Marie Calender's restaurant in Riverside County last night, where officials say he w ... More >>

Joe Francis Loses L.A. Countersuit Against Casino Magnate Steve Wynn That Claimed He Should Get Gambling-Debt Discount

DefamerJoe.​Girls Gone Wild founder and lawsuit magnet Joe Francis wasn't #winning in court this week. His countersuit against casino magnate Steve Wynn, alleging that the Vegas mogul promised a discount on a large gambling debt, was thrown out of Los Angeles Superior Court like Andy Dick at ... More >>

Top 10 Celebrity Marijuana Brands: In Honor Of Chuck Norris And Michael Phelps, Here's Our Wish List Of Superstar Strains

current.comMichael Phelps goes for gold.​In reaction to such recent honorees as Chuck Norris and Michael Phelps, the Weekly would like to forward to you, our humble and useful cannabis retailers, a list of other celebrities who also deserve their own strains of weed. We know your suppliers ar ... More >>

The Next Electric Daisy Carnival Rave At The Los Angeles Coliseum Will Have To Be Approved By Politicians

Electric Daisy Carnival.​We reported how the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission made a sneaky move and voted to lift its temporary ban on raves earlier this month when no one was looking (and when some of its more rave-wary members were clearly unable to attend). Well, the body on Wednesday gave ... More >>

Energy-Alcohol Beverage Four Loko Bows To Government Pressure: Don't The Feds Have Better Things To Do?

Four Loko is making the FDA crazy.​The economy is lower than Andy Dick on hangover day, Congress might let unemployment benefits for two million Americans expire this month, and the country's deficit is at $1.3 trillion. And the feds find time to crack down on ... energy-drink alcoholic bevera ... More >>

LAPD Plans To Frighten You Over The Weekend With DUI Checkpoints, Patrols In Hollywood And Beyond

halloweencostumes4u.comYou wish.​If one of the spookiest things you'll ever see on Halloween is a black-and-white patrol car in your rear view, than you know you should probably take a cab home from your fright-night festivities. Because the LAPD will be on big time party-blocker patrol this ... More >>

Effort To Legalize Marijuana In California Losing In Latest Poll

themadpothead via FlickrCalifornia's pot just might stay medical for a while.​Friends, countrymen, our fellow stoners. Lend us your lighters, for we shall spark one in honor of what could have been -- fully legal weed in California. We know, this thing's not over yet. But Prop. 19, the initia ... More >>

Meg Whitman, You've Spent $119 Million On Your Campaign And Jerry Brown Knocked You Down In 48 Hours Flat

whiteafrican via Flickr​Dear Meg (we hope you don't mind -- Mrs. Whitman makes you sound like a little old lady who makes chocolates): You need to look around at your campaign staff and fire someone (maybe two or three people, actually). You've spent $119 million of your own money your run fo ... More >>

Nightranger: Evil Wo-Men

WeHo Nights: (Andy) Dick in a Box

We were prepared to laugh last night at Lexus' intriguing-sounding "Darker Side of Green" event at Palihouse, a party and lively debate about green issues with SNL funny man Andy Samberg moderating, but --as seems to be the case a lot lately in West Hollywood-- it hit capacity early and the door w ... More >>

Today in WTF: Lou Reed as a Mermaid (No, Really)

[UPDATE: ...or is it a Mer-man? (see comment) Out verdict: either works--he's a "Transformer"! har har.] After Billy Corgan and Bozo and a lost-and-found Del Close video, today is shaping up like one of those bizarro Thursdays. Here comes numero tres: From our friends at the Village Voice comes th ... More >>

Dreaming of a Day-Glo Xmas

Doug Harvey’s mostly psychedelic shopping list

L.A. City Council Members Set To Earn More Pay Than The Governor Of California

​Thats right folks. If the a state pay commission has its way the governor's salary and those of other state elected officials will get an 18 percent reduction starting next month, putting the pay for Los Angeles City councilmembers in a rarified air above that of the governor of 36 million pe ... More >>

Public Access Lives! (On DVD): One Of 'The Threee Geniuses' Talks The Re-Death Of Psychedelia

Taking LSD over seven times may or may not make you legally insane (if the myth were true, some of us here at West Coast Sound might have just missed the loony bin), but we can assure you, watching the psycho-delic circus known as The Threee Geniuses as many times is likely to drive you nuts, at lea ... More >>

City Council Takes A Week-Long Siesta

While the city runs without a permanent police chief, a law to address the 800-and-growing pot-dispensary industry or a fully staffed fire department, the city council has cleared its calendar for the rest of the week.​ It's not exactly midsummer or even Thanksgiving. But for some reason, Cit ... More >>

JAIL'S A FUNNY THING

The Write Stuff

Andy Dick, Sarah Silverman and Write Aid

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Film Reviews: Premonition, I Think I Love My Wife and Others

Also Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and Tortilla Heaven

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 15 - 22

Pop 'n' Stuff

Dancing Fools, Baby Jane, John Doe and a Midnight Cowboy

Grilled Cheese Salvation

When Shelley Met Harold

Also Opening This Week

Laugh Factory

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Sound of the City

Edited by Kateri Butler

Miracle in the Desert

Slushed in 2002

Edited by Kateri Butler

San Francisco and/or Bust

Edited by Kateri Butler

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

Chinese Baby Girls attack L.A.!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Urine Trouble Now

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Green Monster

Tom Green, from the great wild North; plus, Dick and Paula, and Joe Bonanno

The Big White Ride

into the night in a limo the size of a $500/month single