Groucho Marx

Notes From a Marxist Secretary

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week: From Lenin on La Brea to a Cactus Drawn by Barry Goldwater

Pacific Standard Time's "Performance and Public Art" and Liz Glynn's "Spirit Resurrected," two performance art festivals, happen this month, so for once the event and performance lineup will outshine the exhibitions. 5. How I Learned to Draw A tombstone made of rye bread and eaten with cream cheese ... More >>

What Leap Year Means To Farmers Your 2012 Holiday Table Implications

Unless you happen to man a soda stand at Disneyland, the side effects of 2012 being a leap year probably aren't tops on your back-to-work frustration list (For the Mickey Mouse lollipop obsessed: The theme park is staying open 24 hours on February 29). And for many farmers who sell their produce at ... More >>

Hey, Hey They're the Marx Bros

Unless you happen to man a soda stand at Disneyland, the side effects of 2012 being a leap year probably aren't tops on your back-to-work frustration list (For the Mickey Mouse lollipop obsessed: The theme park is staying open 24 hours on February 29). And for many farmers who sell their produce at ... More >>

The Three Best Karaoke Bars in L.A.

Tiffany Rose We can't promise James Franco doing karaoke in drag, but you never know​Did you catch our Best Of issue and snag our free Best Of app? Even if you did, we're betting you didn't make it through all of our write-ups; there are about a billion. So in the coming weeks we'll walk you t ... More >>

The Fix-Up Show

Tiffany Rose We can't promise James Franco doing karaoke in drag, but you never know​Did you catch our Best Of issue and snag our free Best Of app? Even if you did, we're betting you didn't make it through all of our write-ups; there are about a billion. So in the coming weeks we'll walk you t ... More >>

Theater Reviews: In Mother Words, The Fix-Up Show, Love Sucks

Also The Adventures of Pinocchio, Cabaret Idol and more

I Heart Pies Pops Up at Eagle Rock Brewery

Guzzle & Nosh​ We've already raved about the little tin of heaven that is the peanut butter s'more pie from I Heart Pies. Now, baker Emily Cofrancesco, her husband Nick and their adorable octopus mascot will be popping up this Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. at Eagle Rock Brewery. Pie and beer? So ... More >>

Suck My Video Vegetables

When is a cucumber ever just a cucumber? Maybe when Groucho Marx buys one at the Whole Foods in the sky. No, not even then. And definitely not in Magan & Rodriguez's latest music video. Cucumbers, carrots, bananas, popsicles, licorice. It's a forest of edible phallic symbols as barely-clad cutie ... More >>

Legendary LA Jazzman Buddy Collette Dead at 89

merryljaye.com"Buddy Collette," by Merry Jaye​Legendary LA jazz performer Buddy Collette died last Sunday. He was 89 years old. Collette was a treasure trove of LA jazz history, a living depository of black culture in this city going back to the 1920s. Born in 1921, he was exactly the right ... More >>

Lalo Schifrin: The Cool Maestro

On the eve of the Oscars, film's premier composer offers thoughts on the state of the art

The Royal Family Album: Queen Gets Definitive Photo Bio

​Here's a Christmas gift for Queen fans that you can't stuff into a stocking. Though there's a never a shortage of Queen books out there, Phil Sutcliffe's hefty, just-released Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of The Crown Kings of Rock (Voyageur Press) features more than 500 eye-poppin ... More >>

Cemetery Desecretation Suit Goes Forward

The class action lawsuit against Eden Memorial Park is going forward, plaintiff lawyers said today at a Century City news conference. The suit, brought last Thursday by the Newport firm of Eagan O'Malley & Avenatti, alleges that EMP, one of the country's largest Jewish cemeteries, "intentionally ... More >>

Les Paul, 1915-2009

W.C. Fields on the legendary innovator: “The music you’re making sounds like an octopus. Like a guy with a million hands”

Guitar Legends: Slash Remembers Friend and Mentor Les Paul, A Total Fuckin' Maverick

Yesterday after learning of Les Paul's death at 94 years old, L.A. Weekly caught up with Slash, a guitar legend in his own right, for an exclusive chat about the loss of not only a brilliant musician and innovator, but also a friend and mentor.

Only in LA: Les Paul, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx and the Invention of Multi-Track Recording

A few years ago, longtime LA Weekly writer John Payne interviewed Les Paul, who died yesterday, as part of a comprehensive overview of his career. We'll be publishing Payne's remembrance on the guitar and recording innovator in next week's paper. Below is an excerpt of that piece. ​ He was w ... More >>

Scott Kaufer

The host

the Fine Art of drawing Pricks

(or, Mr. Fish visits Paul Conrad and sort of interviews him)

Fletcher's Last Ball

(or, Mr. Fish visits Paul Conrad and sort of interviews him)

Tête Offensive

One brainy farce and an angry debate

Still a Working Stiff

Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

Grand Theft Autolux

Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

Hollywood Satiricon

Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

Make New Friends

...but beware of Fakesters

Wrong Is Right

Pillow of Wrongness

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Guilt by Association

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Signal Hill

New fiction by Alan Rifkin

The Cutup

Bob Hope, piece by piece

Mixism

Sampling Christian Marclay

Smut Factory

The corruption of the American television critic

London Calling

The American Embassy, plus Andy Richter and Bernie Mac

DISH and Dat

Vivendi’s Jean-Marie Messier, PBS’s Charlie Rose, MSNBC’s Alan Keyes and the Beeb’s (fictional) Roy Mallard

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Communion

A history of drugs and the movies

Believe it or not

An agnostic on Hollywood Boulevard

Rostock or Bust

Achtung!

Fireflys and Fruit Flys

Achtung!