Jesus Christ

Bizarre Tidbits Hidden in the Children's Audio Tour at the Getty

One of the best things about the Getty Museum is its free-ness. And included in that free-ness is free use of iPods that offer audio tours of the museum. Most pieces of artwork on premises have corresponding numbers -- enter the number into your iPods and get a thoughtful, scholarly analysis of said ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Behind Innocence of Muslims? Film Had L.A. Permit, Production

Yesterday we asked if the person or people behind the incendiary film Innocence of Muslims were religious zealots. The answer might be yes. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune broke the news last night that the permit for the flick's production was taken out by a Duarte group called Media for Christ:

The Exorcist at the Geffen Playhouse

Jesus Ride

Mark Matuszak, L.A. Designer of Obamas' Holiday Card, Sees Thumbs-Down Critique From Sarah Palin

The card (cropped).​Turns out the Obamas' holiday card this year was designed by L.A. artist Mark Matuszak. It's cozy and apropos, featuring First Dog Bo chillin' like a villain in front of a White House fireplace. Good work, Mark. Except that even if President Obama were to bring back Jesus ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Bug Food Truck, Homemade Halloween Treats Grant Achatz' Chocolate Video

SF Weekly/Joseph Schellscorpions in a saute pan​ SF Weekly: San Francisco chefs are getting on the bugs-as-food bandwagon. Literally. Don Bugito food truck to launch soon. Food52: 8 Homemade Halloween Treats. Martini recipe included. Food Safety News: Alaska senators want to ban genetically ... More >>

Video: Obama Gets Heckled in L.A. Over God And Marijuana But Plays it Cool

APObama in Weho.​Somebody spent $250 to go to the House of Blues last night and tell President Obama that "Jesus Christ is God!" The right wing has been reduced to Tourette syndrome-like outbursts in its efforts to fluster the Man. No way. As Fred Armison's impression on Saturday Night Live p ... More >>

Rabid Bats Continue to Wreak Havok on Moorpark; City Officials Are Like, Deal With It

Rabid bats.​Could there be anything more insane/dreadful to discover, or even imagine, hidden beneath your porch/roof shingles, than a swarming nest of rabid bats? Aside from maybe rabid raccoons -- or rabid possoms, or rabid rattlesnakes, or the neighbor's rabid purse-dogs -- we think not. ... More >>

Canadian Government Sponsoring Punk Album Called Holy Shit that Depicts Jesus as a Turd

​Vancouver punk rockers Living With Lions just released their sophomore album today. It's called Holy Shit, is subtitled "The Poo Testament," and has liner notes that recreate the Ascension with Christ portrayed as a turd. Oh, and the album is sponsored by the Canadian government. The album ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/4-4/8

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Somebody had a great week once in Provence, and wants the Meatpacking District -- and the swingers at the Melrose Place sequel -- to be as happy as he or she was." First Bite: Fig & Olive, and Mor ... More >>

Lindy & Grundy: Now Open Thoughts on Whole Animal Performance Art

A. ScattergoodLindy & Grundy, now open​ Nine months after we originally wrote about them, after a well-publicized cross-country road trip, many butchery demos, profiles in Food & Wine and Bon Appétit and the Los Angeles Times, countless Eater updates, Facebook posts, some 5,200 tweets (from t ... More >>

More Food Rules: Michael Pollan Wants Your Food Rules

​Depending on who you talk to, Michael Pollan is either Jesus Christ or the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or perhaps the chair of the NCAA rules committee. In any event, Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, etc.) is currently in the process of updating his popular Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. And he's a ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Jesus the Messiah-astronaut, C-3P0 rocks an ascot, and other craziness from Out of the Closet on Sunset

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy Author: G. Cope Schellhorn Date: 1990 Publisher: Horus House, Madison, ... More >>

Hey, it's E.T. Jesus & metrosexual C3P0!

​ Your Crap Archivist used to believe that there were two types of people: those who put faith in angels, and those who worry that UFO people monkey around in their underpants. Since both beliefs bespeak an impossibly high regard for the importance of our species, it should come as little surp ... More >>

Sweet Jesus: Christ On A Cake, or 18 Ways of Baking With Jesus

We eat his body, drink his blood, and lick his sweet, creamy vanilla frosting. Here are 18 depictions of Christ on a cake. Not as damnable as the Star Wars nativity scenes, but pretty close. Sacrilicious! 18. The 7 Layers of Hell Cake Usually, strippers bust out of cakes, but why shouldn't God? Vi ... More >>

Star Wars Nativity Scenes: In A Manger Far, Far Away

A long time ago, in a manger far far away...people were revising their Christian iconography to fit a Lucasfilm agenda. Check out these Star Wars themed nativity sets. Sacrilegious, but crafty. 1. What Rebel Child Is This? Are these Stormtroopers Mary and Joseph? Or are they inspecting the newborn ... More >>

Nightranger: CHRISTMASSIVE

Jesus Arrives At The Prop. 8 Trial; Bible Invoked

Prop. 8's backers probably wouldn't appreciate it if you called him Hey-soos.​It's nice to know where the anti-same-sex-marriage-law backers are coming from in the challenge to Prop. 8 being heard in San Francisco this week. Indeed, on Tuesday they seemed to put their cards on the table by inv ... More >>

Curing Christmas Kleptomania

Halloween Costume Ideas for LA Music Fans

You are running out of time. YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. You're running out of time. Halloween is a little over a week away, and you haven't done jack to prepare. It's not too late. You've got this weekend to shop, and the entire next week to finesse. If you're looking for some ideas for you and/or ... More >>

Those Dirty Illegals: What Would Jesus Do?

Plus, am I a gabacho?

Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008

25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement ... More >>

Queer Town: Catholic Fall Out Over Proposition 8

While Mormons have been getting the headlines, the Roman Catholic Church has quietly been a major force in the "Yes on 8" campaign to ban same sex marriage in California. Whether or not Proposition 8 is defeated, it seems inevitable that church officials will face some kind of blow back from gay and ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Indestructible, Reprise, Water Lillies

Also, Unsettled, Up the Yangtze and more

God in an Alcove

Clifton’s Cafeteria

You're On With Jesus

Neil Saavedra brings God down to Earth

Rock Picks

For the week of March 1 - 8

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Anxious Animation

No cartooning today

Here's the story:  Before going on stage with my band, The End, in Philadelphia, I found myself waiting for my fucking brother to show up so we could agree on the set list.  He was always late in the same way that I imagined Liza Minnelli was for her gigs.  Anyway, after getting a Sha ... More >>

No cartooning today

Here's the story:  Before going on stage with my band, The End, in Philadelphia, I found myself waiting for my fucking brother to show up so we could agree on the set list.  He was always late in the same way that I imagined Liza Minnelli was for her gigs.  Anyway, after getting a Sha ... More >>

Immigrant Women Speak About Leaving the Church

Lay of the Land

Mapping the horizon

The Billy Pulpit

Jesus and the Patriots

What has right-wing America done to Christianity?

Sacred Blood

Mel Gibson’s salutary if punishing iconography

The Pleasure Principle

Michelle Huneven on dinner parties

Heathen Hollywood

Divine Suicide

Jack Miles goes down with God

Cipherin' for Jesus

The best of Sitegeist

When Jesus Walked

A tour of Trinity Christian Center International

Cipherin' for Jesus

The Best of Sitegeist

Venice Biennale,Vegas Style

The Casino Report, part II

Hum

Gorky's sweet weirdness

The End of Heaven

Margaret Wertheim charts the course of our spiritual crisis

My Other, Myself

Donna Minkowitz searches for love in all the right-wing places

Critical Mass

From Johanna Went to Madame Tussaud: 20 years of arts coverage

Revelations

Sometimes it's better not to know