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What's the First Rap Song I Should Play For My Newborn Son?

In maybe one or maybe eight or maybe two or maybe six days, my third son will be pulled from my wife's womb. (C-section life, bitches.) He has a name, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. If you want to refer to him as Boy C, that's cool. That'll do just fine, I imagine. There are a bunch of r ... More >>

Mad Decent Block Party - Center Studios - August 25, 2012

Mad Decent Block Party Block Party Center Studios August 25, 2012 See also: *Popping That Ass: The Ladies Who Won Diplo's Contest *Is Riff Raff Serious? One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are On Saturday the fifth annual Mad Decent Blo ... More >>

Scarface Is Out Of Jail, Performs At Key Club Tomorrow: Excerpts From His Last Interview

​Scarface plays the Key Club tomorrow night. This is big news, considering most folks didn't even know that the greatest of all southern rappers was out of the pen. In October 2010 he began a term at Montgomery County Jail in Alabama over numerous unresolved child support cases. (There is also ... More >>

Fear of a Gay Sandwich

Can you spot the gay sandwich in this mosaic? Answer after the jump.​ Just as there's a "gay ear" -- and watch out, gents, because piercing the wrong lobe will alter your sexuality -- there's a gay sandwich. Be afraid! Of... egg, veggie bacon, veggie cheese, avocado, sprouts and sundried toma ... More >>

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

Tiny Furniture: Shame and Fortune

Family time with indie darling Lena Dunham

Aging With Delta Spirit

The Long Beach band channels old folk on its mature new LP

Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame

Theater Reviews: Cinderella the Musical, Equus, Eternal Equinox, Monkey Madness

Also, True West, My Three Sisters, Death, Lies & Alibis and more

Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin Misses His First Deadline!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSBREAKING NEWS: The entire staff of Stage Raw was disappointed that Mr. Merkin missed the filing deadline for his first column: a review of Spamalot at the Ahmanson. Mr. Merkin apologized profusely, but explained that it was impossible to file electronically from the pol ... More >>

The Dap-Kings: Soul's New Royalty

And Sharon Jones is its hardest-working woman

The Milliner’s Tale