Lenny Bruce

Cheech and Chong Tell Us About Their New Animated Movie, the Duo's First Feature in 29 Years

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Review: Roman Coppola Gives Charlie Sheen the 8 1/2 Treatment

Jerry Stahl Discusses His New Book About Heroin, the Drug That Nearly Destroyed Him

Jerry Stahl knows heroin — the good, the bad and the literary. That's why Stahl was the perfect choice to be editor of The Heroin Chronicles, an anthology of 13 chasing-the-dragon stories by junkies and ex-junkies. Released Jan. 1, the third entry in the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series (after T ... More >>

Books: Dearie, The Remarkable Life of Julia Child Happy 100th Birthday Julia!

To kick off Julia Child's nationwide 100th birthday festivities that begin today (her actual birthday is August 15th), we're taking a look at several books released in honor of the Pasadena native. A boeuf Bourguignon centennial book party, in essence (Happy, happy birthday!). We've seen several g ... More >>

What's Up with Jews and Magic? Max Maven Lectures at the Skirball

Courtesy Skirball Cultural Center.​When we reported on the Skirball's double exhibits "Houdini" and "Masters of Illusion" a few weeks ago, there was one question that we didn't quite get to cover: how come so many magicians are Jewish? A few possible answers seem to present themselves right ... More >>

Woody Allen Interview

The Midnight in Paris director on the dangers of "Golden Age" thinking, "that thing with Mia" and his latest film

Bob Dylan Turns 70

An L.A. Weekly birthday tribute

Master of the House of Playboy

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

Stage Raw: The Habit of Art

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAYNEW REVIEW GO THE HABIT OF ART By Paul BirchallIf you want to see director Nicholas Hytner's smart and compelling production of Alan Bennett's new drama at the National Theater of Great Britain, you co ... More >>

Stage Raw: An Evening With Sutton Foster

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON BENGAL TIGER AND HOLY GHOSTNEW REVIEW GO AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER (Plays tonight only!)​Photo by Craig SchwartzIn the years since musical comedy diva Sutton Foster was plucked from the chorus of Thoroughly Modern Millie ... More >>

Sahl, Folks

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

Stage Raw: Monsters and Prodigies

Reviewed this week: Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum; Jack Chandlers' new comedy-mystery, Murder on the Bounding Main, at Sierra Madre Playhouse; a dance-rock fusion, Vibrating Sun, at Unknown Theatre; Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's staging fof Macbeth; Echo One-Act Festival at Stage 52; Furious Th ... More >>

Stage Raw: Unpronouncable

THEATER AWARDS UPDATE Here is the complete list of NOMINEES for the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, being held Monday, March 30 at the El Rey. Admission for nominees is free; nominee RSVPs are now being accepted at (310) 574-7208. Tickets for guests and members of the public go on sale ... More >>

George Carlin to World: "Blow Me!"

And look out for that comet

Movie Reviews: Doomsday, Drillbit Taylor, Under the Same Moon

Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns

Rock Picks: Ruins, Beirut, Turbonegro, Metric

Also, Bill Callahan, Emmylou Harris and more picks for the week of October 4 –11

Along Came a Spider, a Poet and a Hip Aristocrat

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Have a Nice Life

Paul Krassner at M Bar

Christopher Hitchens on the Essential Stupidity of Religion

"Many people have been motivated to do grand, good things by faith, but why is that necessary?"

Phil Noir: Accidental Suicide

Guns, slips and semiotics

Michelle Biloon: Dives, Darts and Hecklers

A few laughs with a standup soldier

Grindhouse Gang

Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit

Bond and Gagged

Why Daniel Craig had a far better weekend than either Michael Richards or Phillippe’s flack

Film Reviews

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

Rock Picks

For September 7-14

Money Laundering

The Man Who Walked Into the Sea

Spalding Gray’s Leftover Stories to Tell

Looking for Laughs in All the Wrong Places

Albert Brooks phones in the jokes

How Am I Not Myself

Welcome to AFI Fest 2005 — all of them

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

O Brother, Where Art Thou Screening?

Monkeys and Marionettes

Stewart vs. Crossfire and other comic battles

30 Years off the Cuff

How the Groundlings taught L.A. to laugh

Political Toys in the Attic

The Empire Builders takes City Garage up a step

A Bear of Very Little Shame

The Fatty Arbuckle Memorial Awards for 2003

Superspreaders

Masquerades: WeHo Family Values

Getting the Skinn-y

Act II

New York theater comes back

In Character

The mayor of Joshua Tree

Trial by Theater

Nick Zagone cross-examines William Kunstler

TV Guide

Eddie Izzard, action transvestite

Altar Cocker

Neil Simon's marriages of convenience; plus Steve Allen does Dickens

Ten Bands You Can't Kill

A non-definitive tribute to the bands we adore

In the Key of Dee

Conversing with the elder stateswoman of spirit

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much

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