Cheech Marin

Food Is The New Rock Celebrates First Anniversary 50th Episode

It's been a little over a year since food blogger Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch launched 'Food Is The New Rock,' a collaboration with KCRW DJ Chuck P that produces a podcast exploring the intersection of food and music. Over the last 50 podcasts, Brooks has interviewed an impressive roster of musicia ... More >>

Cheech and Chong Tell Us About Their New Animated Movie, the Duo's First Feature in 29 Years

Henry Rollins Doesn't Smoke Marijuana. But He Has No Problem With It

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If the spread of marriage equality wasn't enough good news for you, recreational use of marijua ... More >>

Rachael v. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off: Pitting Celebrity Non-Chefs Against Each Other to See Who Sucks the Least

​Have we learned nothing from Famous Food? Only disaster can come from letting half-wit D-listers anywhere near a set of knives. Shouldn't the fact that a New Jersey Housewife is now part owner of a Hollywood restaurant teach us we should leave culinary arts to professionals? Unfortunately Rac ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List: Take the Cutoff

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dax Riggs

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #118 for Saturday, June 11. Fanatics! It is 1600 hrs. PST. I am in Los Angeles, in the back of a taxi, speeding back to the office. I am in the third day of next to no sleep. I don't know what is keeping me up. I got a few hours in the early part of last Thursday ... More >>

Cheech Marin's Malibu Beach Property, the House Marijuana Culture Built, For Sale at $5.9 Million

MLS / Redfin / Irene Dazzan-Palmer, Coldwell Banker-Malibu ColonySSmokin' view.​It's the house that cannabis culture helped to build. But unfortunately for you fans of Up In Smoke it wasn't built out of actual weed. (If that were the case surfers would have plundered the last stem a long time ... More >>

LOS NICE GUYS

CITYWALK MAY GET SMOKY

'LULAC,' Huge Latino Group, Endorses Prop. 19, California's Marijuana Legalization Initiative

A big Latino group on Friday endorsed the legalization of marijuana: Surprised?​Updated again after the jump with some debate about whether the endorsement is official. First posted Friday at 1:17 p.m. Surprise surprise. Latinos are getting behind the California ballot initiative to legalize ... More >>

Machete: Blades of Gory

When it's not LOL-funny, Robert Rodriguez's latest is downright dull

Shocking. Tommy Chong Is A Yes On Prop. 19 Pot Legalization

That's a microphone, not a smoking device.​In a bit of news about as surprising as a bag of coke allegedly falling out of Paris Hilton's bag -- it wasn't hers, she swears -- Tommy Chong has come out in favor of Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot this f ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Mugabe and the White African, Peepli Live, Animal Kingdom

Also, Eat, Pray, Love, Mundo Alas, Tales From Earthsea

Another Happy Cinco De Mayo, This One From L.A.'s Danny Trejo

"This is Machete, with special Cinco de Mayo message ... to Arizona," says Los Angeles-based actor Danny Trejo, in character as "Machete," the antihero in the Robert Rodriguez film of the same name. The movie, with shades of the Arizona immigration-law battle, also stars Robert De Niro (as a Sherif ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Handsome Harry

Also, Letters to God, The Joneses, Who Do You Love and more

After a Fashion

Villaraigosa Gets Cheech Marin Hitched

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has long been known to run with the glamour crowd in Los Angeles, and this past Sunday was no different.According to news reports, Villaraigosa officiated the marriage of comedian Cheech Marin and classical pianist Natasha Rubin yesterday. The wedding was reportedly a suns ... More >>

LA People 2009: Renaissance Man — Ruben Guevara

Movie Reviews: An American Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Flash of Genius

Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more

Cantinflas: Actor as Household Verb

And he wouldn't be caught dead in Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Lost in Tijuana

A mother’s search for a son, born in East L.A. but deported by County Sheriffs

Dream Dames

And straight mates

ˇAsk a Mexican!

Does the logo stay or go?

ˇAsk a Mexican! Hairy Discussion

Totally Ozz-some

Battle of Chavez Ravine

Vincent Valdez

Getty Up or Bagg It

Rock & Pop Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006 Country listings follow.

ART OF ENGAGEMENT

And other picks for Wednesday, February 1

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

One Night, Two Bands, Two Fans freak out!

The Pleasant Probation of Tommy Chong

Conversations with the creator of “Man”

Chong Family Values

Books They Wish They'd Written