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Cinefamily's Everything Is Festival Preview: Cat Videos, Ladies Wrestling and Mystery Science Theater 3000

The chaotic, nostalgic Everything Is Festival comes of age

Adult Swim's Eagleheart with Chris Elliott: An Inside Look at the Second Season

Also check out L.A. Weekly's interview with Chris Elliott from the first season of Eagleheart. On a blazing hot day last September, the cast and crew of Adult Swim series Eagleheart were holed up inside a small stage tucked deep within the eastern San Fernando Valley. They were nearing the end of ... More >>

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings

This really happened. See #1 for details.​When it comes to presidential endorsements, musicians tend to be pretty predictable. Most all of them seem to go for Democrats, except for Ted Nugent. And then, inevitably, the Republican candidates go ahead and use the left-leaning rockers' music anyw ... More >>

Obama OG Kush: President Gets New Marijuana Strain, Available in Southern California, Named in His Honor

San Diego CityBeatA dose of Obama.​President Obama is, like Bill Clinton and his saxophone-playing ways, a pop phenomenon who transcends the pomp and circumstance of the highest office in the Western World. After he put Osama Bin Laden at the bottom of the ocean, he also became somewhat of a ... More >>

Marijuana Purchases in Southern California Cut Off by American Express?

American ExpressShould Bruins be offended that there's a Trojan on this bitch?​Yes stoners, leave home without it. Turns out the popular practice of using mom's gold card to pay for that Acapulco gold is no longer possible, at least not if that card is issued by American Express. LA Snark vi ... More >>

Marijuana App Coming to an iPhone Near You Promises to Tell You What Kind of Bud You're Smoking (Trip Out, Right?)

StrainBrain.com​It always amazed us that, in a world where marijuana is supposed to be medicine, so little is known about what, exactly, different strains and types do to your membrane. Sure, there are buds named for Chuck Norris and Michael Phelps, and your friendly, neighborhood dispenser wi ... More >>

Paul: Planet of the Aping

Too many sci-fi references, not enough Kristen Wiig

Charlie Sheen-Branded Marijuana Comes to L.A. Pot Shops (Maybe)

UStreamSheen smokes ... a cigarette.​We told ya about Michael Phelps-brand weed. Then there was Chuck Norris -- apparently it's a kick in the pants. But can you really get any higher than ... Charlie Sheen? TMZ reports that "several" pot shops in our humble medical marijuana capital of the n ... More >>

Chris Elliott on His New Show Eagleheart and the Cult Classic Get a Life

In Eagleheart, which premieres tonight on Adult Swim, Chris Elliott plays Chris Monsanto, a U.S. Marshal whose combination of ineptitude and confidence leads to more disasters than you thought could fit into a twelve-minute episode. If you're familiar with Elliott's work over the years, then this tu ... More >>

'Chuck Norris'-Brand Marijuana Sold In L.A: The Actor Probably Not Happy About It

A spitting image of Flanders.​He isn't the first celebrity to have a strain of weed named for him, but Chuck Norris, a noted conservative, isn't taking the honor in stride. We noted in the past that Michael Phelps has had a line of bud sold in his honor at some L.A. medical marijuana dispensa ... More >>

Top 10 Celebrity Marijuana Brands: In Honor Of Chuck Norris And Michael Phelps, Here's Our Wish List Of Superstar Strains

current.comMichael Phelps goes for gold.​In reaction to such recent honorees as Chuck Norris and Michael Phelps, the Weekly would like to forward to you, our humble and useful cannabis retailers, a list of other celebrities who also deserve their own strains of weed. We know your suppliers ar ... More >>

Top 10 Men With Meat Names

Men With Meat Names is an ad-hoc website that lists, you guessed it, men with meat names. We compiled the ten best into one, easy-to-read top-10 list for your reading (or is tasting?) enjoyment. Are the photos a bit large? Sure they are, but you don't want to see tiny thumbprint shots of these guys, ... More >>

Udon: The Second Best Japanese Movie Ever Made

The Weekly's food critic on his LAFF presentation

Q&A: Themselves' Adam 'Doseone' Drucker Talks About His Bizarro YouTube Series, 'TVhaha'

They got jokes -- Themselves​Stow away what you think you know about indie rap auteurs Themselves, a.k.a. Doseone and Jel. Yes, the Anticon duo is performing at The Echo tonight, June 9 (with support from Talkdemonic and Baths). And yes, they plan to slay all comers with their inimitable mix ... More >>

Maz Jobrani: Two Guys Walk Into a Mosque ...

Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

18 years after a bruising fall, Paul Reubens returns to an L.A. stage

Fan Interviews from Long Beach Comic Con: How Much is an Autograph Worth?

Shannon CottrellKerin Amit and Jennifer Salas, two fans who haven't had to pay for an autograph yet.​For fans, part of the allure of heading down to a convention is having the chance to meet your favorite stars and perhaps snag a photo or have them sign a comic book or DVD for you. However, th ... More >>

Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

Ten Coachella Picks: Ariel Pink, Genghis Tron, Vivian Girls, Mastodon

Plus, A Place to Bury Strangers, Mexican Institute of Sound, Gui Boratto, MSTRKFT and more

The Chumby Diaries: A Partial-Attention Love-Hate Story

Is the ambient widget device a friend who will share corn-bread recipes and glimpses at its panda cam, or a foe who will steal your passwords?

Tastes in Movie Mayhem

Why do wabs like Blood In, Blood Out and gabachos like Kill Bill?

Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan

Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother and rest of the flotsam and jetsam that currently constitute the rest of the Kennedy clan. This displays Hogan's ability to transcend the real ... More >>

Grading the Campaigns

A road-weary reporter takes the primaries to school

Exiles On Main Street

Portraits of downtown's endangered artists. Case study: The Canadian Building

Man of Steel

Bryan Singer overcame a path paved with kryptonite to bring back Superman

Minuteman Divisions

Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement

The Gospel of Compost

Dead Men Walking

Border crossings gone very, very wrong

African Idol

Every Woman Can: Backstage with Velvet Hammer

Freudian Slippers

And other artifacts from the archetypal couch

Living in Solitary

Samuel Beckett and the San Quentin Drama Workshop