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May 23, 2012
Star Wars Light Saber Relay Heads From Santa Monica to Comic-Con San Diego This Summer
Legions of nerds will head to San Diego Comic-Con this summer not in their Scions, scooters or Priuses, as usual, but on-foot, with Star Wars lightsabers in hand. In probably the most physical activity geeks have ever embarked upon, the Course of the Force lightsaber relay will take these human cal ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
Nerdy Nerd Nerdfaced Nerdery: Chris Hardwick and Peter Levin Launch Nerdist Channel on You Tube
Nerd. What was once a word used to assert adolescent alpha male dominance over the guy who would eventually become your boss is now a nearly complete empire run by the once-oppressed. Unlike the Habsburg, Incan or Qing, this one has its own channel on YouTube, complete with Weird Al , Neil Patrick ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Dana Gould Tells Us the Secrets to Creating a New Podcast (and Dishes on His Dave Grohl FX Comedy)
Comic and prolific writer Dana Gould has seemingly done all that Hollywood has to offer: performing on everything from Kimmel and Conan to HBO, Comedy Central, MADtv and The Daily Show; acting roles stretching back to The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Roseanne, Ellen, Seinfeld and The King of Queens; ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
Jackie Kashian: The Dork Forest
Comic and prolific writer Dana Gould has seemingly done all that Hollywood has to offer: performing on everything from Kimmel and Conan to HBO, Comedy Central, MADtv and The Daily Show; acting roles stretching back to The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Roseanne, Ellen, Seinfeld and The King of Queens; ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
He Was a Nerd Before You Were a Nerd
Comic and prolific writer Dana Gould has seemingly done all that Hollywood has to offer: performing on everything from Kimmel and Conan to HBO, Comedy Central, MADtv and The Daily Show; acting roles stretching back to The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Roseanne, Ellen, Seinfeld and The King of Queens; ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
The Funniest Third Thursday of the Month
Comic and prolific writer Dana Gould has seemingly done all that Hollywood has to offer: performing on everything from Kimmel and Conan to HBO, Comedy Central, MADtv and The Daily Show; acting roles stretching back to The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Roseanne, Ellen, Seinfeld and The King of Queens; ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Jackie Kashian's Dork Forest
With Marc Maron
Blogs
July 24, 2011
The Doctor is IN (OMFG!): Nerdist Podcast Live @ Comic-Con 2011
Dianne GarciaKaren Gillan and Matt SmithSee more photos in "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Preview Night," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day One," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day Two." You will all have to forgive me for breaking the fourth wall of blogger "voice" for this one. The third person just wo ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Outnumbered and Friday Night Dinner on BBC America: Are British Sitcoms Any Different From Ours?
Photo courtesy of BBC AmericaCast of OutnumberedIn a world obsessed with Modern Family, can we open our arms to two more family-centric comedies, especially when they're from across the pond? We'll see later this summer when two new sitcoms, Outnumbered and Friday Night Dinner premiere on BBC ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Jackie Kashian Discusses The Dork Forest Podcast Performance at Meltdown Comics' NerdMelt
We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl! Jackie Kashian
We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
The Cliterati
We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>
LA Life
May 19, 2011
Chris Hardwick: Funny, You Don't Look Nerdist
We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Warning: The Following Item Is an Open Mic
We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Who's Spoofing Who?
We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort
If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
GYM RATTING
If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>
Music
February 10, 2011
Sunset Strip Follies
If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Thrilling Adventure Hour Interviews: Ben Acker and Ben Blacker
For more than five years, Thrilling Adventure Hour has been bringing L.A. a dose of "old-time radio." Well, sort of. Created by writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, Thrilling Adventure Hour is actually a stage show done in the style of radio. In other words, you're watching actors on stage in front o ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
BEST THING WE COULD FIND FOR MONDAY
For more than five years, Thrilling Adventure Hour has been bringing L.A. a dose of "old-time radio." Well, sort of. Created by writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, Thrilling Adventure Hour is actually a stage show done in the style of radio. In other words, you're watching actors on stage in front o ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
NOT SEEN ON TV!
For more than five years, Thrilling Adventure Hour has been bringing L.A. a dose of "old-time radio." Well, sort of. Created by writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, Thrilling Adventure Hour is actually a stage show done in the style of radio. In other words, you're watching actors on stage in front o ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
W00tstock 2.4 PWNS Thursday Evening Events at Comic-Con 2010
Nicole CamposLen Peralta's W00tstock 2.4 poster - drawn during the show, right on stage!For what is typically considered one of the lighter, less big events-heavy days of Comic-Con, this year's must-see-and-do Thursday events in and around the convention center were outrageously plentiful. Yo ... More >>
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June 8, 2010
Martians and Superheroes and Nazis, Oh My!: 'Adventure Hour' Thrills Sell-Out Largo Crowd
Photo by Jonathan ReillyNathan Fillion strikes his best heroic pose as Annie Savage looks on Fearless superheroes battling feathered evildoers, male Martians having their egg sacs (!) violated by their disgusted compadres, and pint-sized sidekicks being brainwashed by Nazi vamps to assassinat ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
A WEEK RICH IN FULCHER
Photo by Jonathan ReillyNathan Fillion strikes his best heroic pose as Annie Savage looks on Fearless superheroes battling feathered evildoers, male Martians having their egg sacs (!) violated by their disgusted compadres, and pint-sized sidekicks being brainwashed by Nazi vamps to assassinat ... More >>
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April 14, 2010
Streamy Awards Red Carpet Video Interviews: Web TV Stars Give You Advice on How to Start Your Own Web Series
Prior to the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards on Sunday, April 11, L.A. Weekly camped out on the red carpet with a video camera and asked nominees, presenters and winners what best piece of advice they'd give to someone just starting out who wants to create their own web series. We figured you wouldn't w ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Nerds Own Largo! The Nerdist Podcast Goes Live with Mythbuster Adam Savage
Erin Broadley(L-R) Nerdists Chris Hardwick, Adam Savage, Matt Mira and Jonah Ray at LargoThat venerable 21st century form of entertainment known as the podcast can be as wonderful (so much variety... and usually, free!) as it is frustrating. With hundreds upon hundreds of podcasts available o ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
What Do 'Bud Bundy' and the Streamy Awards Have in Common? Everything!
Hi, I'm David Faustino, and this is what happens when I drink (so drunk right now): You may remember me from a little show STILL ON TELEVISION called Married... with Children. It's generated over a biiiiiiiillion dollars for... Well, I don't really know who gets all the money... But anywa ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
I WAS A NERD BEFORE YOU WERE A NERD
Hi, I'm David Faustino, and this is what happens when I drink (so drunk right now): You may remember me from a little show STILL ON TELEVISION called Married... with Children. It's generated over a biiiiiiiillion dollars for... Well, I don't really know who gets all the money... But anywa ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Announcing the LA Web Awards: Nominate Your Favorite Website, MySpace Page, Tweeter, Opinionator
It's a busy frickin' Interweb, isn't it? So much blather and hot air, so many sites to wade through to find something useful and/or awesome and/or informative. Believe us, we know. We're filling space a dozen times daily on all things music, and still can't cover all the information that co ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Who Has The Best Web Presence in L.A.? The LA Web Awards Wants To Know
It was a big year for unemployment, foreclosures, stimulus packages, bailouts and ... the internet. After all, those without jobs, full-time freelancers and the under-employed would be bored to death if it weren't for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Now we're asking you to use that hard-earned onlin ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
LA Weekly Presents the LA Web Awards: Vote For Your Favorite Food Blog, Restaurant Site, Twitterer, Drinking Blog
You can tell it's the end of the year when you start getting the lists and round-ups, catalogs and awards, best-ofs and Top 10 this and that. Or rather, more of them. In this vein, we've launched our "LA Weekly Presents the LA Web Awards" which is open for voting through Dec. 31st. You can nominate ... More >>
LA Life
June 11, 2009
Solutions for the Freshly Freelance
The "I don't love the inside of my car that much" edition
Blogs
May 18, 2009
Over the Weekend: Doves Live at Wiltern, Operation Bombshell, Vampyrically Speaking, DJ Jesse Saunders at Incognito
Two very odd things happened over the weekend: First, Angels and Demons somehow managed to beat Star Trek at the box office (we think it's a conspiracy), and second, two of our writers, Chris Hardwick and Alexia Tsotsis, each broke a toe on Saturday (the same toe, even... also a conspiracy). Don't b ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
REVENGE OF THE COMEDY-FILM NERDS
Two very odd things happened over the weekend: First, Angels and Demons somehow managed to beat Star Trek at the box office (we think it's a conspiracy), and second, two of our writers, Chris Hardwick and Alexia Tsotsis, each broke a toe on Saturday (the same toe, even... also a conspiracy). Don't b ... More >>
LA Life
May 14, 2009
GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air
Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21
Blogs
March 25, 2009
Nerdy in LA: Comedy Meltdown - Won't Get You Laid, But Will Get You All the Free Beer You Can Pour Past Your Braces
I am a nerd. I am also a stand-up comic. With this information it should be no surprise that one of my favorite comedy venues in town is not actually a comedy venue, but rather a comic book store. Once a month, the legendary Meltdown Comics shines like a nerdly beacon in a sea of hesher-filled guita ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Nerdy in LA: The Los Angeles Chess Club and Reflections on a Jr. High Championship (the Chessmaster Gets no Ass, it Turns Out)
The year was 1984. I had won the Memphis City Jr. High Chess Championship, narrowly defeating my arch nemesis Gus Lipman. Gus was a "Mr. Boy" type of kid who wore tortoise shell glasses, a London Fog trench coat and carried a briefcase for some reason (We were ELEVEN. What was in that briefcase? Fil ... More >>
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November 14, 2008
Burning Question at VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celeb Bowl-Off: Big Lebowski or Kingpin?
Steel Panther destroying the red carpet. All photos by Shannon Cottrell. I usually resist working red carpets but on November 13th I braved the corridor of flashing bulbs, pancake makeup and pouty lips for a great cause -- the VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl-Off, hosted by actress Holly Rob ... More >>
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October 26, 2006
Along Came Scary
What to do in Los Angeles this week
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February 2, 2006
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January 26, 2006
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