Mad Libs

Here's What You Learn Volunteering at Pitchfork Music Festival

By Brittany Spanos It's not an awful thing to want free music. More importantly, it's not awful to freeload at summer festivals without paying triple digits for a three-day pass. Outside of press credentials and breaking in, there is one pretty reasonable option available to all broke music fans: v ... More >>

Rob Delaney's Famously Hilarious Twitter Feed Inspires...a Board Game?

See also: *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Being the basis for a board game was not Rob Delaney's ultimate career goal. For that matter, it wasn't even on his radar. "It was not my idea," the L.A. ... More >>

With Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams Boldly Goes Back to Khan

12 Best Gifts for People Who Love L.A.

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app What do you get someone who has everything: a beautiful home, great food and legal marijuana? From endless gift certificates to countless books and DVDs, there's ... More >>

Does Madea's Witness Protection Mark the Mainstreaming of Tyler Perry's Iconic Character?

For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry's Madea is little more than a mammy -- an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to celebrate. And unforgivably, when compared to Flip Wilson's Geraldine or even Martin Lawrence's Bi ... More >>

Q & A With Christina Machamer: Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay, Heading to Napa Her Anti-Establishment Wine Tasting Tips

After winning season four of Hell's Kitchen, Christina Machamer became sous chef at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant at the London West Hollywood. But these days, she's traded the rapid-fire kitchen life to become the wine educator and resident chef -- albeit one with limited kitchen opportunities -- at B ... More >>

R.I.P. Leonard Stern, Inventor of Mad Libs

Leonard Stern, turning everyman to funnyman since 1958​We don't normally obit every Hollywood vet who dies a peaceful death after a golden old age in the Hills, but Leonard Stern, who Deadline Hollywood reports died Tuesday at 88 years old, transcended the film/TV industry to bestow a gift upo ... More >>

Interview: Mr. Oizo Is Back, with a Movie about a Killer Rubber Tire

​ BY AARON HILLIS Until now, quirky French artist, electro-house musician, and filmmaker Quentin Dupieux--more commonly known by his pseudonym, Mr. Oizo--had reached his widest audience with a series of Levi's commercials in the UK featuring a head-banging yellow puppet. Dupieux/Mr. Oizo's c ... More >>

8 Charlie Sheen Cocktail Recipes from L.A. Bartenders

Liza GershmanThe Bitter End cocktail.​The Charlie Sheen train wreck continues to disgust and fascinate us, inspiring Mad Libs, an online glossary, a gastronomic history and Twitter hashtags. But the oddest by-product of the Sheen meme has to be the cocktail recipes. You can thank the actor's t ... More >>

When Brooks Met Reiner ...

A salute to two main mensches of postwar American comedy

Jeff Koons at Gagosian Gallery

The Good Word

Fiction: New voices

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Administration’s case against Iran sounds hauntingly familiar