Bill Cosby

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, June 14 LoveyDove CASEY'S PUB One of Los Angeles' choicest homegrown musical sensations, boy-girl adventure team LoveyDove have created an unusually irresistible blend of artful expression, psychedelic atmospherics, ... More >>

Cosby's Sweaters Website Changes Name After Bill Cosby Objects

Updated at the bottom with comments from the site's co-founder, who tells us he'd sell the domain to Cosby for $10 million. First posted at 4:01 p.m. Remember in high school when there were the geeks? And then there were the jocks? But never the twain shall meet, unless one was getting his ass kick ... More >>

Openly Gay Rapper Rob B Draws From Influences Far and Wide

On a recent cool Friday afternoon, 25-year-old Mexican-American, openly gay rapper Rob B sits in one of the many cafés peppering Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. He's tan and toned, a 6-foot-1 part-time model who has done everything from runway to hand modeling, and today he's fitted in al ... More >>

10 Questions for W. Kamau Bell, Star of His New Show Totally Biased on FX, Exec Produced by Chris Rock

Playboy Jazz Festival - Hollywood Bowl - 6/16/12

Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl 6-16-12 This past weekend the Playboy Jazz Festival celebrated its 34th anniversary with two days of bands, both jazz and otherwise. It was also a farewell to Bill Cosby, who would be MCing for the last time. The crowd came prepared to party and even caught some ... More >>

Alfredo Rodriguez Record Release - Apolis Gallery - 4/12/12

Alfredo Rodriguez Apolis Gallery 4/12/12 Better than... standing in line next door to get a $7 sausage. Last night, amid the racks of clothes and enormous spread of Cuban and tubed-meat offerings at Apolis' Common Gallery, Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez provided a sampling of his Quincy Jones-pro ... More >>

Chocolate Cake for Breakfast: It's Good for You

Remember Bill Cosby's classic 1982 routine about feeding his kids chocolate cake for breakfast? It went like this: "The child wanted chocolate cake for breakfast! How ridiculous! ... And someone in my brain looked under chocolate cake and saw the ingredients: eggs! Eggs are in chocolate cake! And ... More >>

Steve-O at the El Rey: Jackass's Comedy Show Trades Wounds for Words

"Trying to convince people that I'm a stand-up comic is a real uphill battle," Jackass cohort Steve-O confessed before Friday's headlining show at the El Rey. "I realize I have a lot of work to do to get to that point." Notable bit of introspection and self-awareness for a guy whose resume boasts s ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Incarcerate This at the Ice House: Social Justice Can Be Hilarious

D. VerdinComics telling the truth, Ruth: (l. to r.) Kenji, Martin Rizo, Flaco Martinez, Reggie Brown and Jimmy Ouyang​ As the wholesome racial equality message emanated from the new movie The Help over the weekend, a group of stand-ups acutely debunked such propaganda Saturday at Pasadena's Ic ... More >>

Three People Overdose at Geezer Rave Known as The Playboy Jazz Festival at The Hollywood Bowl

Bill Cosby's sweaters are psychedelic.​When public officials debated the safety of raves last winter, advocates among them often compared them to rock concerts and events at the Hollywood Bowl. We had to work to hold down our laughter. After all, the Electric Daisy Carnival in June saw more t ... More >>

Brick's Picks: We Go to Playboy Jazz Festival for the Music

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, "Alive and Resting at Home"

Aretha Franklin​ The Detroit Free Press reports that, although "Twitter and Facebook were abuzz Monday night with rumors and confusion about whether Aretha Franklin, 68, had died, [...] a Free Press source says Aretha Franklin is alive and resting at home." Here are some tweets from the CRAZY ... More >>

Merrill Davis: Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl!

Happy Summer: Top 10 Paletas and/or Popsicles

J. KoslowPopshop Creations​ With Southern California's sunny climate and proximity to Mexico, the paleta has been alive and well for decades. Now that the NYT has conveniently proclaimed that ice cream sandwiches are out and frozen-treats-on-a-stick are back in, we thought we'd look around L ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Playboy Jazz Festival

The 32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival had its typical big-name veterans play - George Benson, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer - but it was the lesser known performers who almost stole the show. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. and Naturally 7 made their first appearances and the Pete ... More >>

Playboy Jazz Festival: Jazz Jello Shots

Jenn GarbeeRed Igloos Are So Last Year​ Jazz and jello shots. Where exactly does that leave you? At the Playboy Jazz Festival, trying to figure out how to assemble that tuna salad sandwich, bread or fish first. Good thing it's tasty both ways. If you've never been to the annual Hollywood B ... More >>

A Brief History of North America, in Coca-Cola Ads

It's an anniversary of sorts for Coca-Cola. 25 years ago today the soft drink giant launched New Coke, a product that the company hoped would help them win the Cola Wars. It was an unmitigated disaster. People hated it, and quickly began hoarding cases of the original Coke. They staged protests, fil ... More >>

Sugary (and Corn Syrupy) Blast From the Past: A Look Back at Our Nation's Favorite Desserts

From banana splits and Eskimo pie to cake kits, ambrosia, and bacon-laced cupcakes, American society has always craved something to satisfy its ever-present sweet tooth. But what defines our taste in desserts? Cleverly packaged free "recipe books" published by companies like Pillsbury and Del Monte, ... More >>

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Brick’s Picks: Playboy Jazz Fest's Players: King Sunny Ade, Jimmy Cobb, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

LA Flashback: June, 1991, When Mozmania Swept the Southland

Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 (music starts near the 4:30 mark) Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 It was June of 1991 when Mozmania swept through the Los Angeles area. Kill Uncle had recently been released and while tha ... More >>

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

The Secret Is Out

Top Five: George W. Bush's YouTube Comedy Threat Levels

With under a week to go until the inauguration of Barack Obama, virtually no-one seems to be mourning the exit of George W. Bush - particularly not the residents of New Orleans, following Monday's bone-headed comments by 43 regarding his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. (Which we feel ... More >>

Centerfolds and Saxophones

Jazz in L.A., June 13-19

Theater Reviews: Ray Bradbury's Green Town, Last Call at Moby Dick's and More

Also reviews of Zombie Joe's Victims, Richard III and Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Love and Other Social Issues

Smoove Moves

Playboy Jazz Festival and other picks

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Smart growth’s biggest boosters still love suburban living

The Bastard Question

A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

Knitting Factories

Where to stitch ’n’ bitch in L.A.

The Tomorrow Show

Seven Days Till a Better You in 2006!

9 Reasons To Get on the Clippers Bandwagon

Dr. Story

Dressed To ’Ill

The NBA is playing fashion police to overhaul basketball’s image. But the anxiety goes deeper than a sport

Danger-Humor

The sick, cathartic pleasures of the put-on kid show Wonder Showzen, plus the closet-anarchist boys of Stella

Post Cards of Intolerance

Bowing to the Christian-inspired attacks on gays

Breathing While Black

Confessions of a 'post-Negro'

The Coondocks

Cartoonist Aaron McGruder’s parody irks the white powers that be

Shovin’ It

Democrats, Hardballers and Class Warriors

New Jack Activists

The Coalition for Educational Justice is fighting generations of neglect with a secret weapon — students

Letters

No Laughing Matter

Bill Cosby’s demons, and ours

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

I, Too, Sing Hollywood

Four women on race, art and making movies

Sunny Days, Sultry Nights

Highlighting the events of the season

Hot Dates

A guide to summer fetes and flights of fancy

Stranger, in a Strange Land

Dylan's visions, Lequizamo's Freak, Debbie Reynolds among the demons, Africans in America

Forward Into the Past

The terrifying togs of That '70s Show; the retro robots of Rolie Polie Olie