Bugs Bunny

I Tried To Teach My Sons About Music While Fishing But Instead They Just Did Karate Moves On The Beach

[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] 7:18 a.m.: I'm taking the boys fishing this morning. There's a serviceable little fishing p ... More >>

42 Almost Makes Jackie Robinson Into a Man Rather Than a Myth

Forget About It, Eddie — It's Toontown

Lucy Raven Turns Test Patterns Into Art, at the Hammer Museum

Shorts of Joy

Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies For the Sake of Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies

At around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike darted through future-Korea, I remember e-mailing and GChatting at least a dozen friends with a link to the preview and my take: "Holy Shit." Naturally, ever ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Planet Carrots Why Our Winter Carrots Are Less Sweet This Year

Carrots are an easy crop for farmers with the land for them. They don't have the stigma of Brussels sprouts or the on-again-off-again iron taste that beets sometimes have to fight. And they've been lucky enough to dance in the culinary trio of mirepoix for hundreds of years, an unintended marketin ... More >>

Dick Figures, a Hit YouTube Series That References Memes, Video Games and Skrillex

Red and Blue are stick figures with a Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck type of relationship. They drive each other crazy, but somehow remain friends. Their adventures are at the center of one of the hottest shows online. In less than a year-and-a-half, Dick Figures has become a YouTube sensation, racking up vi ... More >>

Deathmatch: Verdi vs. Wagner

Verdi vs. Wagner​[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] Ladies and gentlemen, it's the main event of 19th-century opera! I ... More >>

You'll Fall on Your Knees

Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesdays Explores Cartoon Dreams with Paprika, Popeye and More

Paprika​On the first Tuesday of every month, Jerry Beck-- animation historian, producer and co-editor of the fantastic blog Cartoon Brew-- takes over Cinefamily for Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesdays. Each installment typically centers around a theme. For August, that theme was dreams. The mai ... More >>

The Devil's Double Review

Cartoondown

Today in WTF: Warren G, Copycat Viagra Spokesman

​Warren G told you to take your Affirm XL. In a series of commercials that begins airing tonight, the G-funk O.G. whose claim to fame is the classic with the recently deceased Nate Dogg, "Regulate," hawks the male enhancement pills everywhere from the beach to the bathroom. In the only cli ... More >>

'TOONS FOR TWO

CARTOONS!

Music Picks: Cobra Lilies, Gaslight Anthem, Shelby Lynne, Die Antwoord

Also, The Dead Weather, New Pornographers, the Swell Season and others

Music Picks: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, VoicesVoices, Peter Gabriel, Jakob Dylan

Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others

The Hollywood Bowl Announces Its 2010 Schedule

​Is it that time already? Yes, for the 89th time, it is. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association just announced the line-up for the 2010 Hollywood Bowl season, and despite its age, the outdoor beauty will stage a few firsts: Gustavo Dudamel's first Bowl subscription concerts as music direct ... More >>

THE MAN OF A THOUSAND HYPHENS

Frank Tashlin is Really Popular in France

Steve Erickson

Contortionist supreme

Breaking Free: L.A. Wine Culture

Shattering the stereotypes

Lust, Yawn, Caution

There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

Waiting for Shwarma

Little Armenia’s Arax Falafel

Horsefeathers

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Real Fakes

Richard Pettibone and F. Scott Hess in Laguna

Horsefeathers!

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Memory and Manipulation

The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

Going Back to Ohio

Bush trolls for votes in the land of closing factories

Feral Pop

Mexican street graphics in Old Town Pasadena

Americans are Broad

Keen Eddie, The Amazing Race 4 and The Real World

Memories of Underdevelopment

Alec Mapa's jabs and japes

Nun Dare Call It Criticism

Sister Wendy does Norton Simon

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

Beyond Good and Evil

To the utterly adorable ass-kicking superheroics of the Powerpuff Girls!

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

The Asphalt Jingle

Pavement's creeping Terror

The Last Laugh

Chronicling the Hollywood cartoon

Taming the Wild Trickle

A Gray-Water Adventure on the Mighty L.A.

The Bowl:

Half Full or Half Empty

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars

Mad as Hell

Peter Weir turns on Jim Carrey