Jayne Mansfield

Jackie Treehorn's House and Its Eccentric Owner

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. At one point during The Big Lebowski, our hero, the Dude, finds himself at a mysterious beach party thrown by pornograph ... More >>

Tee and A

Artist Hudson Marquez: 'Anybody Who Talks About Their Own Art Is, Like, Full of Shit'

"I can talk about the people in the paintings or the things in the paintings, but as far as talking about art, I think you just look at it," says L.A.-based artist Hudson Marquez, whose new series of paintings depicts people like Jayne Mansfield, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sophia Loren and Ray Charles and t ... More >>

Cool cars

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Renegade Delivery Man

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament This week, there's a symposium on what it's like to live at a time when real life is like sci-fi, a portrait of Jayne Mansfield's car on view and a cutout UPS ... More >>

Lay the Favorite Review: Rebecca Hall Almost Saves Stephen Frears' Sports-Betting Film

G.L.O.W.'s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the Female WWF From the '80s, Reunite at Cinefamily

On Tuesday night, Cinefamily screened G.L.O.W.: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a documentary on the low-budget, female version of the WWF that ran from 1986 to 1990. "Everybody thought G.L.O.W. was about sex," said the show's director Matt Cimber. "But it wasn't at all. The sex was ... More >>

MOCA's 'Kenneth Anger: ICONS' Opening: Avant-Garde Filmmaker Parties with Dave Navarro, Porn Star April Flores and More

If experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger had written Hollywood Babylon today (instead of during the 1950s), his subjects would have been among Saturday night's turnout at the MOCA members' opening for Kenneth Anger: ICONS. Just substitute guitarist Dave Navarro for Rudolph Valentino, plus-size porn ... More >>

Happy Johnny Ramone Weekend! The Top Five Musicians Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (At Least In Spirit)

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery has become synonymous with rock 'n' roll thanks to great live shows (recently, Patrick Wolf and Jens Lekman) and its popular Cinespia screenings. But its headstones are what makes it sacred ground for music fans. Even Morrissey says he wants to be buried there. Holl ... More >>

R.I.P. Gil Bernal; Los Angeles Tenor Sax Great is Dead

​Obituary by Jonny Whiteside Tenor sax veteran Gil Bernal died on Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was 80. Bernal was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician who began his professional career with swing kingpin Lionel Hampton in 1950, and played and collaborated with everyone from Ray ... More >>

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

Master of the House of Playboy

Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

Today in Photographs: April 16, 1958

Body builder Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield leave a judge's office after receiving permission to take a daughter out of the country.Photo: LA Examiner/USC Digital ArchiveClick image to enlarge

L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading

More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever... and coming to a neighborhood near you

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

A Severed Head Awakes

Reanimating Marie Antoinette

More Trouble on Easy’s Street

Walter Mosley’s Cinnamon Kiss

Girls Incited, City Burned

Icon: Love, Susan of Hollywood

Apocalypse Culture Now

Crime Time Players

Sex and victims