April Fools' Day

A Human Rubik's Cube Party

Anarchist writer Hakim Bey once wrote, "The universe wants to play," arguing that one must briefly escape complacency and embrace the unpredictable. This theory was exemplified on Friday when the creative event planning organization Mindshare hosted the 2nd Annual Rubiks Human Play! Spectacular at ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's April Fools Day Issue 2013

If you visited our website yesterday, you probably saw a few stories that didn't seem so believable. If you'd like to re-live our second annual April Fools' Day experience, click on the image above to see it larger. Here are links to the stories:

Kevin James Joins A Growing List of Conservatives Who Back Liberal Eric Garcetti in L.A. Mayor's Race

Former mayoral candidate Kevin James endorsed Eric Garcetti today, making him the latest conservative to side with the liberal councilman out of concern that Controller Wendy Greuel is too beholden to unions.James, a former conservative radio host, joins bloggers Michael Higby, of Mayor Sam, and Pau ... More >>

The Medieval Origins of April Fools' Day, Explained

Hollywood writer David Misch wanted to investigate the true nature of humor -- or, as he puts it, the "history, mythology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, biology, neuroscience and theology of humor" -- so he went about crafting the new tome Funny: The Book -- Everything You Always Wanted to K ... More >>

Party Pick of the Week: Rozz Williams Lives

Rozz Williams Lives Lethal Amounts, 1226 W. Seventh St., dwntwn., Mon., April 1, 6-11 p.m. Yes, it happened on April Fool's Day, but the suicide of Christian Death leader Rozz Williams was no joke to his obsessive followers both in Los Angeles and around the globe. This Monday marks 15 years sin ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Christening of a Cadillac

Everything's social this week -- jokes with friends spur a pop-up shop, a four-course meal becomes an exhibition and a group of artists tries to figure out why time can terrify. 5. Dinner-party graveyard In late March, Jason Kraus invited 12 people to dinner. Everyone had to commit to come seven ni ... More >>

Eagle Rock's New Rock and Eagle Shop

Last Saturday, less than a week after she opened The Rock and Eagle Shop on Eagle Rock Boulevard, artist and curator Bettina Hubby heard a man outside the door. "I'm just going to make sure it's not just an adult rock and eagle shop," he said to his children. The exterior is painted a bright, pot-d ... More >>

The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957: An Educational Video

When one thinks of Switzerland, one conjures images of a happy, armed and yet war-adverse people who wear chic watches, carry fussy little knives and hike in majestic mountains while eating milk chocolate bars. (Hopefully we crammed every possible stereotype in to that one sentence.) Who knew they'r ... More >>

Snooky's Bikini Bar Customer Shot Dead by Security Guard

A rowdy customer got into it with a security guard outside Snooky's bikini bar last night -- ultimately leading to his death in the parking lot, says the L.A. County Sheriff Department's Lancaster Station. In the last hours of April Fool's day, around 11 p.m., security allegedly asked the victim an ... More >>

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

7 Food-Related April Fools' Pranks: From Spielburgers to Bacon-Scented Kitty Litter

Yesterday was April Fools' Day, that sacred holiday in which you can't trust anyone any more than you already don't. And even though it was a Sunday, a good number of food-related folks (including us) nonetheless jumped at the chance to prank a witting or unwitting audience with various fake tweets ... More >>

'April Fools,' Says L.A. Weekly

If you visited L.A. Weekly's home page yesterday, you might have noticed a few stories that seemed a little off -- our contribution to April Fool's Day. For those of you who want to relive the moment, click on the image above to see it bigger, and links to all the stories are here:

Laurent Quenioux and Starry Kitchen's Weed Chinese Herb Dinner: or, Fun with Myers-Briggs

Is it a good idea to have a cannabis-infused dinner with a guy who often shows up at food festivals as a banana? If your answer is absolutely, then Nguyen Tran of Starry Kitchen -- who also has arrived in full lederhosen garb or, more recently, a tauntaun -- has quite a prospect for you: on April 1 ... More >>

Bacon Lube: For Lovers Only

J&D's Bacon Lube​Here's a novel way to get bacon into your body. Like the American Express Black Card, which was an urban legend long before it was a real product, bacon lube is finally real -- and it wasn't dreamed up by George Costanza. Manufactured by J&D's, which impressed us with their B ... More >>

Baconlube (aka Naughty Bacon) Finally Exists. Just in Time for Christmakwanzakah.

Many of you may remember when the Internet exploded with excitement and share buttons when word of a bacon-flavored lubricant broke onto the scene last year. Carnivores and nymphos alike scoured the interwebs to discover where this miracle elixir could be purchased. But all you ended up with were b ... More >>

Toothpaste Lawsuit: Encino Man Can't Squeeze Out Last 20 Percent of Paste From Tube, Wants His Dollar Back

Be not fooled by its friendly exterior: This tube is (allegedly) a dud.​In trying to solve one inconvenience of toothpaste -- the mess it can unleash on your bathroom sink -- it looks like Procter & Gamble may have created a whole new monster [Courthouse News Service]. At least, that's the in ... More >>

Delivery Boys

SpongeBob and Stimpy: Q&A with Voice Actors Billy West and Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny (left) and Billy West​ You know them, but you don't know them: Live Talks Los Angeles, who brought us Tina Fey and Steve Martin for a chat recently, present An Evening of 1,000 Voices With Billy West and Tom Kenny. West is best known as the voice of Philip J. Fry on Futurama and Stim ... More >>

Kevin Smith's Talents

John Hines, Long Beach Fire Captain, Arrested for Drunk Hit-and-Run After Plowing Into Seal Beach Bicyclist

KTLAFire captain and alleged hit-and-runner John Hines​A Long Beach fire captain found himself on the other side of the bars this month after an alleged DUI hit-and-run in the wee hours of April Fool's Day. KTLA reports that Seal Beach witnesses saw John Hines zooming down Westminster Avenue ... More >>

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Visits the Olive Garden

Anne Fishbeinglass of wine menu at The Olive Garden​ No, this was not an April Fool's joke. Well, it was, but it was a prank that didn't quite turn out the way the Weekly's estimable reviewer planned. Thus in this week's Counter Intelligence column, Jonathan Gold visits not the latest Sichua ... More >>

The Manila Machine: Off the Streets

Manila MachineMarvin Gapultos and Nastassia Johnson​ The Manila Machine, this city's first Filipino food truck, parked for the last time this past Friday and went on indefinite hiatus. The announcement, which was not, sadly, an April Fool's Joke, was made by Marvin Gapultos and Nastassia Johns ... More >>

USC VIDEO: Techies Pwn Google, Turn 'Gmail Motion' April Fool's Prank Into Reality

YouTube​Updated after the jump: One of the USC techies shows us how to work real-life Gmail Motion. And it's ever radder than we thought. Google unleashed many a poke in the rib on April Fool's Day 2011. There was the Helvetica-turned-Comic Sans search -- a budding typophile's wet dream -- an ... More >>

Marijuana Bust-Alert iPhone App Prank in L.A.'s '420 Times' Dupes San Diego Columnist Tom Blair: There's Not an App For That

420 TimesActually there's not an app for that.​It appears San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Tom Blair was duped by an April Fool's joke in L.A.'s own marijuana magazine the 420 Times. In a Monday column titled "What are these people smoking?" the journo blasts the Times for rolling out its "D ... More >>

Texting While Driving Could Get You Pulled Over And Ticketed: LAPD Mounts April Crackdown

amber10_79Don't do it.​You got away with it too long, L.A. Now the LAPD is on the war path for hardcore ... texters. That's right, this month the department is launching a crackdown on people who text and talk (headset to their ears) while they drive. We wish this was an April Fool's joke (l ... More >>

Baconalia at Denny's

With its new "Baconalia" campaign, Denny's has taken the already overblown bacon trend to a new level.  Bacon soared to popularity alongside eggs, pancakes, and lakes of syrup on greasy diner plates. For decades, that was where it largely remained apart from detours to puddles of lentil soup, c ... More >>

New Beer Release: Pucker Up, It's April Fool's With The Bruery's New Marrón Acidifié

JGarbeeA Windowsill Aerating Moment ​In April, The Bruery will join the ever-expanding ranks of brewery-on-brewery collaborators with the release of Marrón Acidifié, a dark sour ale aged for over a year in bourbon and wine barrels (marrón means brown). Good news: This year, it's an actual b ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Exclusive: City Bans Bottle Service From All L.A. Clubs

WTF: Fist Fight Outside Joseph's Cafe in Hollywood Widely Misreported as Ice Pick Stabbing, Says LAPD

Christopher Ojala via FlickrThe mystery of the nonexistent ice pick​A fight outside Joseph's Cafe at 1775 Ivar Avenue last night got the true Hollywood treatment in the media this morning, after SoCal's news wire service reported at 3:45 a.m. that one cafe patron had been stabbed in the head w ... More >>

Samwell (of "What What in the Butt" Fame) Will Make Personal Calls for You for $9.95

​Looking for the perfect gift, just the right way to send your condolences, or maybe to thank that potential employer for the interview? Samwell has you covered. For just $9.95 you can have Samwell make a personal call: that's right, the "What What In The Butt" guy is available for live pho ... More >>

Brand-Name Bud? Gold Rush To Patent Marijuana Strains Gets Snuffed By U.S. Patent Office

Brand-name bud?​A gold rush to obtain federal patents on strains of marijuana such as Acapulco Gold, Maui Wowie and even straight-up "Chronic" was snuffed out last week by the federal patent office, according to a report in Monday's Wall Street Journal. The move came following inquiries by th ... More >>

(Imaginary) Unicorn Meat: NOT The Other White Meat

Associated PressCanned AND FAKE unicorn meat​ True, the meat industry is not particularly known for having a sense of humor. But a 12 page cease-and-desist letter from a law firm in response to an April Fool's joke? About unicorns? Seems that on April 1st, online retailer ThinkGeek launched ... More >>

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Update: It's Here! What Star Wars Fans Want, Star Wars Fans Get

It's real!​They did it! They made the damned thing: the Tauntaun sleeping bag is a reality. If you remember, the sleeping bag started as an April Fool's joke by the people at ThinkGeek. Demand was so intense they decided to try to make the sleeping bag for real. And what Star Wars fans want, S ... More >>

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