Lenny Bruce

21 & Over Just Dares You to Get Offended

Slideshow: The 20 Most Tolerable Party Movies

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Doug Stanhope

5. I Don't Know Dick Bob Wiltfong combs through love letters by some guy named Dick. The Improv, Sat., Dec. 1, 6 p.m.

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: For the Cramps Fanatics

KCRW Broadcast #183 for Saturday, October 6, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America Fanatics! Hello from Ohio! Columbus, Ohio, to be exact. I thought it would be a great idea to celebrate some great Ohio bands, Ohio-themed songs and Lenny Bruce talking about Ohio! Hour one is a mix ... More >>

10 Questions for W. Kamau Bell, Star of His New Show Totally Biased on FX, Exec Produced by Chris Rock

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top 10 Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #5-1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6 5. Music Box See also: R.I.P. the Music Box? Legendary Hollywood Venue Shuttered [UPDATE: Short-term?] News of the Music Box's overnight shuttering this month was met wi ... More >>

Schtick or Treat

Joe Hernandez-Kolski's Awake and Jed Mills' Choices

THE SUN'LL COME OUT TO-MARROW

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHERRY TREE?

PEACE, FREEDOM AND BIG NUTS

I was a Texas Jewboy

They ain't makin' Americans like Kinky Friedman anymore

King Lear: Free-Speech Blowback

A version for our times

Theater Reviews: Blank, Palomino, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Also, Four Places, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, 1951-2006 and more

Stage Raw: Four Places

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAYNEW REVIEW GO FOUR PLACES​Photo by John P. FlynnThe family outing on display in Joel Drake Johnson's unsettling comedy resembles a gathering of ornery, wounded jackals. Siblings Warren (Tim Bagley) a ... More >>

Strange Fascination

Archival footage is the real draw of this doc about the Doors

The Jewing of Westwood

Lenny Bruce: How to Talk Dirty and Influence Auctions

It's been 43 years since "sick," "dirty" standup comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles, but his legacy lives on -- not only in the candid ways in which Americans from academia to the pulpit now feel free to discuss human behavior, or the liberating (and sometimes not so lib ... 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 >>

From Decor to Door Whores

A peek inside some Hollywood hot spots. Plus, LCD Soundsystem and Mondo Hollywood shows

Getting Off-Broadway: A New York Guide

Roundup of shows in the shadow of 42nd Street

Shit Happened: Scat Porn Trial Begins

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a jury.” So said Chief U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski at 4:55 p.m. today, and not a minute too soon. Over the last two days court clerks had sent up three batches of 50 potential jurors apiece to Room 1600 of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown ... More >>

General Petraeus: Designated Manure Spreader

Pie charts, benchmarks, "phased" redeployment; 30,000 wounded, 5,000 dead

Look Out — It’s a Kazan-vilanch!

What to do the week of March 28-April 3

Jammin’ the Jammers

Filthy Waters Run Black

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Sahl-ud!

Is There Anybody Out There?

What to do in Los Angeles from January 5 � 11

Save the Gefilte Fish

Darryl Henriques

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 24 - 30

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Bukowsical, Loose and Ubu Roi

Hollywood�s Newest Age of Liberal Cinema

Pickpocket, Ugetsu

Being Lenny Bruce

Filling the shoes of a fearless satirist

Nothing About Sunset Junction!

Oliver Stone Apologizes to Turkey

And Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express, reacts

13 Great CD Reissues You May Have Never Heard Of

�Schmuck,� �Fuck� and �Nigger�

The essential Lenny Bruce

Wholesome Paternal Story

Really Hot Air

Viacom sucks up to FCC over Howard Stern�s indecent exposure

Up in Smoke

Edited by Kateri Butler

Time, and Time Again

Don DeLillo�s fairy tale

Soul Mates

New Holidays

JAM on It

Radical Jews and the abstract truth

Real Cartoon World

The I'm All Like Whatever Generation of MTV's Downtown, plus Random Play and Lenny Bruce

Black Like Who?

Will Smith's disconnect

The Pope Trope

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