Emmy Awards

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

Wilshire Grand Los Angeles, Tallest Skyscraper on West Coast at 1,100 Feet, Will Have a Wicked Sky Lobby for Views Across the City

By Hillel Aron Secret designs were just released of the Wilshire Grand, a 73-story, 1,100-foot-tall hotel/office tower/retail/phallic image that will be the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast and in Los Angeles, pushing out Library Tower (officially, U.S. Bank Tower) as the 10th-tallest building ... More >>

Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson

Sameplate.com: A New Site Matches Your Date With Your Food

Foodists, dieters and food allergy sufferers can now find dates through a medium that they care about -- dining. Sameplate.com, a new dating website, helps single people find romance through food, the one thing we all have in common. The first and only dating site in the U.S. that matches couples ba ... More >>

Who Doesn't Love Danny Kaye?

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Chats About Hotel Transylvania, His Feature Debut

10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall

The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.

Animal Collective, Flying Lotus - Hollywood Bowl - 9/23/12

Animal Collective & Flying Lotus Hollywood Bowl 9-23-12 Better than... shrooming while watching the Emmys. See also: *The Time Flying Lotus Pretended To Be A UCLA Physics Major *Flying Lotus - Coachella - 4-14-12 The Hollywood Bowl is not the venue for working out new shit, that is if you don't c ... More >>

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Lorraine Feather

Classical Music on Film

Christiane Lange, Clark Gable Jr.'s Girlfriend and Celebrity Makeup Artist, Found Dead in Malibu Mansion

Updated at the bottom with more on the glamorous Lange. Originally posted April 11 at 5:35 p.m. Clark Gable Jr.'s live-in girlfriend died mysteriously this morning at the couple's mansion in Malibu. (Yes, Clark Gable Jr., the son of the Hollywood legend. No, not Clark Gable III, the grandson of th ... More >>

Zine Festival Shelf Life 2 Shows Print's Not Dead...It's Just Gone Niche

Rick Klotz (above) wants you to know what the fuck is really going on in the world. He knows he can't reach out to a curious audience via mainstream publishing outlets, so Klotz, founder of Freshjive, went to USC for Shelf Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press to sell his latest zine -- those little pam ... More >>

Two and a Half Men vs. Mad Men at PaleyFest: Is it Better to Have Ratings or Emmys?

Sometimes on the red carpet, you overhear things. Such was the case on Monday night during the arrivals for PaleyFest's Two and Half Men event, for which the show's stars (sans the glaringly absent Ashton Kutcher, who participated only in the panel) along with its creators walked the red carpet, pra ... More >>

William Shatner on His New Solo Show, on Broadway and at the Pantages

Golden Globe Guests Will Feast On, Among Other Things, Gold Shavings

Sunday night's Golden Globe ceremony figures to be an entertaining few hours -- too bad the cameras never zoom in on our favorite (or least favorite) celebrities while they eat dinner. Unlike at the Oscars or Emmys, Golden Globe guests feast on a gourmet meal and can indulge by drinking endless amou ... More >>

Leslie Jordan's Fruit Fly

Do You Schmear What I Schmear?

Academy Awards in Trouble? Oscar Statuette Makers Issue Ominous Statement About Labor Woes at Their Factory

Bring it on down to Oscarville.​The 84th Academy Awards, set for February, has had a dark cloud hanging over it, and the weather doesn't seem to be clearing. After Brett Ratner pulled out of his production gig following his utterance of an anti-gay slur (and Eddie Murphy then exited as host), ... More >>

Ovation Awards

What do all the glittering prizes mean?

Ken Burns' Prohibition: Bootleggers, Organized Crime The Glamorization of Getting Blitzed

We all know that Prohibition was a brief, controversial, Jazz Age constitutional amendment that made drinking a big, jail-worthy offense, and turned on a spigot of organized crime instead. But did you know about the saga of how criminalizing the sale, manufacture and transporting of all things firew ... More >>

Further Proof That an L.A. Weekly Theater Award Can Lead to a Successful Career

James Blake - The Music Box - 9-18-11

Jessica Comingore​By Aly Comingore James Blake and Teengirl Fantasy The Music Box September 18, 2011 Better than... an Emmys after party Those who caught James Blake's recent L.A. shows -- at the Troubadour and Hollywood Forever Cemetery, respectively -- know this Englander is best caught ... More >>

Rad Dads: Five of the Best Fathers In Musical History

Emperor penguin fathers incubate eggs till they finally hatch. ​ Yesterday we brought you a fairly depressing post on dads and how they had screwed up (or alternatively inspired) some of the best known musicians in the world. Today we bring you lighter, more pleasant fare: rad dads! Dads who ... More >>

R.I.P. Leonard Stern, Inventor of Mad Libs

Leonard Stern, turning everyman to funnyman since 1958​We don't normally obit every Hollywood vet who dies a peaceful death after a golden old age in the Hills, but Leonard Stern, who Deadline Hollywood reports died Tuesday at 88 years old, transcended the film/TV industry to bestow a gift upo ... More >>

Stage Raw: Betty Garrett Dies at 91

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!BETTY GARRETT (1919-2011) ​L.A. Weekly's 2005 Queen of the Angels, Betty Garrett, died Saturday morning of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center following a brief i ... More >>

Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS Le Bernardin's Numbers

A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont​ Eric Ripert was in town a few weeks ago on a book tour for his fourth and most recent cookbook, Avec Eric, a sort-of companion book to his Emmy award-winning PBS show of the same name. We met Ripert at the Chateau Marmont, his customary hang-ou ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Jamie's Kitchen Opens, The Revolt Begins Fighting with the LAUSD

A. ScattergoodJamie Oliver at the LA Food Revolution headquarters​ Jamie Oliver was in pre-revolt mode yesterday morning, as he gave the press a tour of Jamie's Kitchen, the new Westwood headquarters of his Food Revolution, the former retail space that will be his kitchen classroom and product ... More >>

Leslie Dutton's Videos Freed Richard Fine From Jail. But Who Can Stop Charles McCoy & Friends' $57,000 Bonuses?

Leslie Dutton with Richard Fine: She's nice, and eats judges.​L.A.'s bizarre legal story of 2010 was the solitary confinement jailing of elderly attorney Richard Fine on "contempt of court" -- and boy does Fine have contempt for Los Angeles Superior Court judges who greedily grab $57,000 "bon ... More >>

Stage Raw: John Ferraro (1946-2010)

The COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS feature will return next weekNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin in Much AdoJOHN FERRARO​If you've been lucky enough to see Two Headed Dog's grimy, Beckettian clown show (Clowntown City Limits) -- about a trio of un ... More >>

Top 10 Women With Fruit Names

We've brought you the Top 10 Men With Meat Names and the Top 10 Men With Salad Names. But what about women? And what about fruit? Well, now is the moment for both, as pomiculture and nomenclature come together for the debut female-themed edition of our "People with Food Names" series. Of course, the ... More >>

Richard "Scar" Lopez, Founding Member of Pioneering East LA Chicano Rock Combo Cannibal and the Headhunters, Dead at 65

Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

AMC's 'The Walking Dead' Signs, Seals, Delivers On Hype At Comic-Con 2010

​ With Emmy-winning powerhouses Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC is at the forefront of cable TV drama. What fans and geeks have hoped for, this year's Comic-Con audience can attest to, and the rest of the world is about to find out is that the network is poised to break all-new ground in October ... More >>

Ted Allen: Queer Eye for the Local Wine 2 Recipes

Robert Mondavi WinesTed Allen at the Chateau Marmont​ The celebrity face behind Robert Mondavi Wines, Queer Eye alum Ted Allen is the host of Uncorked: Wine Made Simple on PBS and Chopped and Food Detectives on the Food Network. The renowned food and wine expert is also an Emmy Award-winner, a ... More >>

Incarcerated Attorney Richard Fine Gets a Following

Little known, incarcerated attorney Richard Fine is starting to get a following, with a "Free Richard Fine" rally taking place this morning between 9 and 11:30 a.m. at the Los Angeles County Courthouse in downtown L.A.Full Disclosure NetworkAttorney Richard Fine​Fine's supporters are peeved that t ... More >>

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 >>

Countdown to Web TV's 2010 Streamy Awards: Comedian Paul Scheer Confirmed as Host, Beatboxer Rahzel Says VOTE

When world renowned beatboxer Rahzel tells you to do something, you fucking do it. On March 29 after the 10 finalists were announced for this year's coveted 2010 Streamy Awards Audience Choice honor, the "Godfather of Noyze" and web TV enthusiast spit some beats and released this video encouraging ... More >>

Bleak House at L.A. CityView 35

How eight layoffs at the gavel-to-gavel channel threaten more than jobs

Of Ukeleles, Tolkien, Garfunkel and Bond: A Chat With Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords

Brian TamborelloMcKenzie (front, with Clement) rides the folk train​ October is Folktober for fans of New Zealand's fourth most popular digi-folk parodists, the mighty Flight of the Conchords; following the second season of their acclaimed eponymous HBO show, which bagged several Emmy nominati ... More >>

Todd Holland's Advice to Play it Straight

Gay Director Apologizes and Debates Ensue

Queer Town: Insider Howard Bragman Reveals the Hollywood 'Machine'

When gay rights activist Robin McGehee told Queer Town that the gay community -- especially gay filmmakers -- needs to be "challenging the machine" that keeps gay actors stuck in the closet, we looked to longtime Hollywood insider Howard Bragman to explain a few things about it.Hollywood insider How ... More >>

Queer Town: Director Todd Holland Apologizes for Outfest Remarks, Not Advice

At 2:50 p.m., in Los Angeles, Queer Town received a statement from openly gay, Emmy-winning director Todd Holland, which was distributed by the gay, media watchdog group GLAAD. Director Todd HollandIn the statement, Holland apologizes for his "poorly chosen" remarks made at Outfest, one of the premi ... More >>

Last Night: Flight of the Conchords at the Greek Theater

Timothy NorrisFlight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords at the Greek Theater, May 24 Comedy greats come in two's. Abbott and Costello. Rowan and Martin. Wayland and Madame. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords are not only a twosome, but they're also the "fourth most ... More >>

Fiendishly Cute: How MySpace, Gothic Lolita and Pop Surrealism Influenced Dienzo's Vampires

Liz OhanesianDienzo at Hyaena GalleryFor his first solo show at Hyaena, the Burbank gallery that champions dark and subversive art, artist Rick "Dienzo" Blanco looked towards a favorite subject of his youth, vampires, for inspiration. In Vampyrically Speaking, his mostly female creatures of the nig ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Fade to Black

If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

Naa Na Na Na Naa

How the West Coast Eastside sound changed rock & roll

Life Not Quite Imitating Art

What the prez could learn from his West Wing addiction

4 Ways to Find Out What’s Really Happening in Iraq

The Nature of Fall TV

Bada-bing or just bad?