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Suffering Becomes Her

Fuck You You Fucking Baldists

Back in July, I met Slash for the first time ever. Sure, it's daunting and all to meet the guy whose MTV video solos you imitated on your coffee table with a broom. But then he was all, "I think we've met before." Uh, no. We had not. I think I would have remembered. Then it hits. He thinks I'm ... More >>

Veep-Inspired Cocktail: A Recipe for the Emmys

HBO is hosting its 10th annual Luxury Lounge in honor of the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on Sept. 21-22 to ply the stars of its hit shows, plus all of the Emmy nominees and presenters who care to show, with gifts (handbags, jewelry, clothes, makeup, baby strollers ... More >>

Seth & Ed's Puppet Show

The Moth's Experts Share the Secrets to Successful Storytelling

The key to quality storytelling isn't necessarily to be funny. At least that's what some of the folks lined up to participate in The Moth Mainstage event Rush: Stories of Ticking Clocks at UCLA's Royce Hall on Thursday, March 1 are probably hoping is true. In addition to host Rudy Rush (Showtime at ... More >>

Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question

Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>

Paul F. Tompkins, Garry Shandling, Margaret Cho and Other Comedians Show Their Favorite Movies at Cinefamily

Do You Schmear What I Schmear?

Benson Goes Ape

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/1-8/5

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You will find the pro-Palestinian posters in neither restaurant." Palestinian Chicken Conflict: Only in Curb Your Enthusiasm or Is It Real? "Milk, gallon after gallon of it, was poured down the d ... More >>

Jonathan Gold on Palestinian Chicken

Palestinian Chicken Conflict: Only in Curb Your Enthusiasm or Is It Real?

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: My colleagues and I are interested to know if Palestinian chicken, as featured in 
last week's Curb Your Enthusiasm, is really a dish. If so, is it something you have sampled or seen a recipe for?
 --B

See Jeff Riff

LEARNING TO LOVE LITERATURE WITH JEFF GARLIN

NIGHTRANGER: NIGHT NYMPHS

Zooey Deschanel to Play Original '60s Groupie Pamela "I'm With the Band" Des Barres in HBO Series, Most Likely Involving Sex with Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison Lookalikes (NSFW)

Post-'60s puritanism hits OG groupie Pamela Des Barres: Those nipple-covering flowers are not in the original NSFW photo (see below)​Pamela Des Barres has been on a one-woman literary mission to change the connotations of the word "groupie" for nearly 25 years, and now, thanks to two film proj ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

Michael Winterbottom's The Trip: Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Play With Their Food

For the past couple of years, a trend in British television has been the "sim com" series, or "simulated" situation comedy inspired by Curb Your Enthusiasm, which are various parts scripted and improvised, and partly fictional and based on real life. Director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party Pe ... More >>

Cobb Salad Fight: Clementine vs. Mendocino Farms

The Cobb salad, as the story goes, is an original L.A. dish, invented in the 30s by Bob Cobb at the Brown Derby. Most restaurants of a certain ilk seem to have it on their lunch menus, and patrons love to add their personal modifications (that's an old Los Angeles custom too). It is also one of the ... More >>

GUESS CALIGULA DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT

Reports Of Affair With Al Gore Denied By Laurie David

Al Gore with Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson.​Laurie David, ex-wife of Hollywood sitcom king Larry David (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), denied yesterday's reports that she was having an affair with former Vice President Al Gore -- a relationship said to be the root of Gore's split with ... More >>

Al Gore Was Having Affair With Larry David's Ex, According To Report

​Star magazine reports this week that the reason Al Gore and his wife of 40 years, Tipper Gore, have recently split up was because the former Vice President was having a two-year affair with Laurie David, the ex-wife of Hollywood television producer and comedian Larry David (Seinfeld, Curb You ... More >>

Alexi Wasser: Crazy in Lust

BEST YET ANOTHER CRAZED, HIP MOM WHO GOT A BOOK DEAL

Thursday Night Author Events

​​A sample of readings and signings around town tonight:Teen-fiction author Adriana Trigiani appears at an author event for her latest work, Viola in Reel Life. Barnes & Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market, L.A.; 7 p.m. (323) 525-0270. David Henry Sterry and R.J. Martin Jr., editors of Hos, ... More >>

Whatever Works for Woody

Allen on life, actors, younger women and his 40th film

Comedy PIck

Rob Corddry Talks Clowns and New Web Series Childrens' Hospital

By Liz OhanesianHave you ever wondered what would happen if the self-absorbed, hypersexual doctors on Grey's Anatomy were staffed at a children's hospital? After spending some time in the emergency room at L.A.'s Children's Hospital, former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry asked himself that sam ... More >>

Bolt's Leashed Lightning

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

Comedian Bruce McCulloch Fills Steve Allen Theater with Funny

By Chris Martins By the time headlining "Kids in the Hall" alum Bruce McCulloch took the stage on Saturday night, October 18, the Steve Allen Theater was filled up with funny—so much so that it'd have to spill into the street sooner or later. The small building was packed to the gills for McCullo ... More >>

The IT Crowd: The Office With a Laugh Track

Geek Squad humor on IFC's new comedy from Britain

deLEARious

Jeff Garlin

Not Jeff Greene

Special Jury Duty Edition! (Van Nuys Courthouse)

What to do in L.A., May 2-8

Situational Illogic

Uncurbed enthusiasm for Larry David’s new season offerings

Movies & More

The Dog Days of Spring

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Wanda

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

School of the Holy Beast

When Shelley Met Harold

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler

Curb Your SUV

Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

Top 10 TV Events of 2002

The Nature of Fall TV

Bada-bing or just bad?

Chinese Baby Girls attack L.A.!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Not the Real World

2001 on TV

My List

And welcome to it

Tori! Tori! Tori!

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