Homer Simpson

Here Is Some Adorable Cassette Tape Art

Paris-based artist Benoit Jammes makes darling art from old cassette tapes. Each precisely cut and painted piece is 100 percent handmade, and, the artist says, "hard work but so nostalgia!" Jammes' cassette tape series includes pop culture references (The Matrix, The Simpsons, Kill Bill), meta fine ... More >>

Trillion Dollar Currency Already Subject Of Simpsons Episode (Sorry, Paul Krugman)

We all know that The Simpsons is genius. But who knew that the show that gestated on the comic-strip pages of L.A. alternative media could one day help save America? If New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's suggestion that the Obama administration actually mint a $1 trillion platinum coin comes ... More >>

6 Great Butcher Shops for Memorial Day Grilling

Where's the beef? It's at these Los Angeles meat shops, which will most certainly be bustling in preparation for this weekend. We've outlined a few recommandations for what to get a several of the city's most respected butchers -- locally sourced, organic, all that good business -- but we also nam ... More >>

Five Unusual Designer Toys Based on Celebrities

There's no shortage of toys and merchandise based on celebrities floating around the Internet, but some are a bit more unusual than others. In the designer toy and art toy world, artists turn recognizable figures into vinyl characters and mash them up with other pop culture references into amazing s ... More >>

Ecstasy Emblazoned With Obama's Likeness Found in California And 14 Other States

Springtime brings party season back to Southern California, the rave capital of the nation. But what's that on your tongue? Obama, you say? Be careful. Obama, as any Republican will tell you, might not be all that he claims to be. Consider:

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/6-2/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It is the manliest cooking video ever made, a video with enough pure T to reduce Guy Fieri into a whimpering puddle of gel." Where to Find Breakfast Tacos in L.A.? "They had to clean all the grease off of the walls, then pai ... More >>

Social Media Explained With Donuts

Some Homer Simpson of the Matrix has decided to break down the particulars of various major social media outlets using the round, yellow cartoon patriarch's favorite food: donuts. For those who Facebook with trepidation, tweet (we prefer saying "twit") irregularly, and generally lose their minds wh ... More >>

Top 10 Simpsons Food Episodes: Tomacco Ribwich with a Side of Guatemalan Insanity Peppers Skittlebrau

​Food writers have been stoked this week about the The Simpsons' upcoming episode on gastro culture. Our own Margy Rochlin interviewed Simpsons Executive Producer Matt Selman, who admits he's a big fan of Jonathan Gold. "We kind of make fun of foodies," he says, "but in real life we actually l ... More >>

Oops, I Just Unplugged San Diego: Let's Fix it so Just One Person Can't Put Much of SoCal in the Dark Again

Fox​Updated at the bottom: The California Independent System Operator will join the party, er we mean, investigations. First posted at 7:09 a.m. When the power went out yesterday for a large swath of Southern California only days before the anniversary of 9/11, our thoughts naturally took us ... More >>

Duff Beer from The Simpsons is Real

Duff beer is real! Homer Simpson's favorite libation is actually available for purchase, but only in South America -- and nobody will talk about it. According to the Miami Herald: The makers of Duff in South America say they aren't allowed to talk to the U.S. media. Duff Mexico... would not resp ... More >>

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 >>

More Than Mere Doughnuts

Try a malasada when you're in the mood for a fried dough treat

Ask Mr. Gold: Mmmmm, Doughnuts!

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: I have a craving for a doughnut. I've had good doughnuts in Los Angeles, but is there a truly great doughnut? I hate that I can't hate on NYC doughnuts, but I had the tres leches donut at Doughnut Plant, and that was dddd-licious! I ... More >>

Evangelion 1.0

New Terror: Fast Food Wrappers Transfer Chemicals Into Your Food

djjewelzKFC's Double Down sandwich.​As if we needed another reason to avoid fast food: the chemicals used to prevent grease from leaking through fast food wrappers are being transferred to food and ingested by human beings. Various studies (mostly on animals) have linked a class of chemicals ... More >>

Best of the Cons 2010

From internationally known events like San Diego Comic-Con and Anime Expo to smaller, single-franchise conventions like Power Morphicon and MacrossWorld to non-con events like the L.A. screening of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, there was no shortage of fan gatherings in Southern California t ... More >>

Let Them Eat LACMA

Incase/Flickr"Old Fashioned" ​ "Let them eat cake," Marie-Thérese, wife of Louis XIV, supposedly once said when she was informed that French peasants were without bread. Initially referenced in Rousseau's Confessions, the cruel suggestion that starving people who couldn't afford bread might ... More >>

Vatican Claims Homer Simpson Is A Catholic: We Don't Believe It

Simpsons' Homer and Bart are said to be Catholics.​The be a cartoon character is apparently divine in the Vatican's eyes. The Catholic church's house organ, L'Osservatore Roman, has declared that "Homer J Simpson is a Catholic" in an article titled "Homer and Bart Are Catholics." To drink on ... More >>

Stoner Dreams: "Dude You Have No Quran" Gets Autotuned, High Times Article

Stoner Dreams: Koran BBQ Hero Gets Autotune Treatment, High Times Article

The Infidel: Like Homer Simpson but Muslim

British-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili on his new film

Confused about Metal Subgenres? Dude Plays 10 Styles in 3 Minutes

(Via Apeshit.) Viral video of the hour: this cat demonstrates 10 different metal subgenres on the guitar in 3 Minutes: Think you can name them all without looking at the subtitles? And just for kicks--Homer Simpson playing Amon Amarth. Yes, he does:

The 2010 Donut Summit: Your Entry Fee Is A Dozen Donuts

Flickr/robjtakDonut Man's Strawberry Donut​It's no news that our city is a paradise for donut junkies. With stores on almost every corner cooking up ring shaped dough, it's hard to keep up with which kitchens have the best glazed donut or apple fritters. The people at Metblogs will bring us on ... More >>

Weed mags sprout across LOS ANGELES

Publications reap windfall from pot ads

As Pub Food Goes ... the Gorbals

... If it’s open

LAPD To Get New Hires After All

​Earlier this week we told about the Los Angeles Police Department's $80 million deficit and the prospect of a continued freeze on hiring new cadets through January. Well, that doesn't look too good on newsprint, and the City Council backed off committee threats to keep the freeze in effect an ... More >>

9/11: Truth and Reconciliation in Tehachapi

MATT POPIELUCH ON FOREIGN BORN

Why his band's not pop, or rock, or anything predictable

Over the Weekend: National Doughnut Day, Ink-N-Iron, Suicide Girls, Little Joy at the Troubadour

Despite the June gloom, we kicked off our sticky sweet weekend on Friday with National Doughnut Day and followed it up with the Ink-N-Iron Festival in Long Beach, Club Suicide's one year anniversary party at the Echoplex with the Suicide Girls, and a sold out show with Little Joy at the Troubadour. ... More >>

Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#50-41)

Not to be confused with the epic, Eric Roberts, Tae Kwon thriller. 50. Benoit Pioulard-Temper (Kranky) Have you ever been in one of those nutty meditation classes, where the crackpot instructor tells you to close your eyes and imagine that you're in the middle of a forest? Don't be surprised ... More >>

Sorry, Fugu: Japan's blowfish may be exquisite, but Korea's take at Dae Bok packs a garlicky punch

There hasn't been a blowfish fatality in a restaurant since the '60s, but eating it for many is still heightened by danger

Movie Reviews: The Midnight Meat Train, Mirrors, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Also, Henry Poole Is Here, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and more

Deerhoof, Fallou Dieng and Gnarls Barkley at the Hollywood Bowl, July 27

Deerhoof, Fallou Dieng and Gnarls Barkley, Hollywood Bowl, July 27 Photos by Timothy Norris (Click here for more photos from the show.) Rhythm wrestled with rock last night at the Hollywood Bowl in a perfectly programmed bill that showcased three different notions on the interplay among percussio ... More >>

Warning: Contains Grateful Dead Karaoke!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Too Cute for Their Own Good

Little children in the movies

The Simpsons Movie: Longer, Wider, Deeper

A 90-minute comic wind-up machine, the big-screen Simpsons Movie also goes for the heart

Hairspray: Tame Waters

Hairspray isn’t exactly outré

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Out of the Frying Pan

Democrats may well win this November, but they can’t deliver like they used to

Laughing All the Way to the Banksy

Möbius Trip

Rodney Graham comes round again. And again. And again

Bart Wars

Les Should Be No More

Moonves can’t “D’oh!” us like that again

Brain Worlds

Hawking, Derrida and living with the other

Fighting Words

Independent voices at the L.A. Times and real independent filmmaking

A Moment Like This

Margaret’s Feast

A holiday spread from the cookbook of gastro- mathematical cuisine

Farting Robots and Shitting Ducks

The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

Understanding Ozzy

The Parent Trap

Fuel Crisis

Three new low-octane, star-driven vehicles