Mike Tyson

6 Other Boxing One-Man Shows We'd Like to See

See also: *Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good Mike Tyson's much-hyped one man Broadway show (and Spike Lee joint) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth came to L.A. for just a few performances this past weekend. In it he apparently comes clean about his past by admitting ... More >>

Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good

See also: *More theater reviews Former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson scored one of the more impressive comebacks of his colorful career last night. That he did so in his one-man autobiographical show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, on the stage of Hollywood's Pantages Theat ... More >>

Tyson on Tyson

Somehow, "Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)" With 2 Chainz And Tyga Ain't So Great

If, for the next few moments, we may be entirely liberal with the application of the term, I've remixed a fair amount of things in my short, trivial life. When I was a pup, several friends and I remixed the skateboard. We made something called a MEGA SKATEBOARD, wherein we took two four-foot-by-fo ... More >>

Sundance 2013: An 81-Year-Old, Shirtless, Japanese Artist Boxes With a Canvas

Bare-chested, in shorts and goggles, an 81-year-old Japanese man stood in front of us. It looked like we were about to watch him go swimming. But it was zero degrees outside, and we were in an art gallery during the Sundance Film Festival last Saturday. It turns out films aren't the only things to s ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: And In This Corner...

Remember Mike Tyson's Punch Out? That old Nintendo game in which scrawny "Little Mac" fought his way through towering opponents, eventually taking down the heavyweight champion despite his apparent feebleness? Well, on last night's episode of Top Chef Masters, chef Lorena Garcia followed a similar t ... More >>

Jacob Anthonisen Person of Interest After Stepbrother Steven Simmons Found Dead

That discovery of a body in a Cadillac Escalade in the Fairfax District last weekend has cops looking for a "person of interest" named Jacob Anthonisen, an apparent party boy who has gone missing. The dead man inside the car, which had been sitting there for about a week until the stench prompted n ... More >>

Get Ready For Los Angeles' Biggest Rap Battle in Years

Rap battles have always been important in hip-hop. Many aspects of the genre's evolution and spirit of competition have sprung from the art form, and each generation has had its landmark battles. The 1981 Kool Moe Dee vs. Busy Bee battle at New York's Harlem World took MCing to the next level, while ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan's Venice Stalker Says He Was Only Trying to Tell Her to 'Drop the Marilyn Monroe Image'

Leave it to veteran Westside paparazzo Tony Vera (you know, the guy who Mike Tyson punched in the head at LAX, then lived to tell the tale) to pick Lindsay Lohan's stalker out of the Venice Boardwalk crowd. Getting him to talk was another story.

Don Cornelius, 'Soul Train' Creator, Reportedly Kills Himself on First Day of Black History Month

​Family members of 75-year-old Sherman Oaks resident and "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius found him dead in his home in the wee hours this morning, anonymous sources tell the Los Angeles Times. Reports of his death say he suffered a gunshot wound to the head at 12685 Mulholland Drive. (LAPD ... More >>

Steve-O at the El Rey: Jackass's Comedy Show Trades Wounds for Words

"Trying to convince people that I'm a stand-up comic is a real uphill battle," Jackass cohort Steve-O confessed before Friday's headlining show at the El Rey. "I realize I have a lot of work to do to get to that point." Notable bit of introspection and self-awareness for a guy whose resume boasts s ... More >>

Top 10 Famous Vegans

A recent piece by the Associated Press got us thinking: Where are all the famous vegans? Gossip sites already tell us about famous people dating so-and-so, famous people shopping at some boutique you've never heard of, famous people traveling to some island they own, but we hardly get to hear about ... More >>

Oh, Steve

Charlie Sheen's Comedy Central Roast: The Fort Knox of Comedy Gold

Charlie Sheen at his roast​If you didn't know better, you'd think that Charlie Sheen spent all this time sabotaging the highest-paying gig in TV just so he'd wind up the guest of dishonor at his own roast, specifically, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, airing Sept. 19. For the show' ... More >>

LaToya Jackson Says Her Husband Offered Her Sexual Services to Mike Tyson: I'm Sorry Ms. Jackson, Are You For Real?

LaToya looking as fly as ever​From the mixed up files of the Jackson family of Gary comes yet another doozy. As we all know, LaToya tends to be the kookiest of all things Jackson, and that's saying something. From her outlandish comments to her failed music career to her Playboy pictorials, La ... More >>

Monday Morning News Roundup: Yak Farmers, Vegan Boxers, World's Worst Restaurant More

Guzzle & Nosh​And when we say "news," we mean it in the loosest sense of the word. --"Mrs. Cheeseburger," wife of cheeseburger inventor, passes away. [Denver Post] --Japan faces food radiation problems. [WSJ] --Iodized salt is no antidote for radiation. [NPR] --But red wine might be. [Telegrap ... More >>

Los Angeles Takes A Wimpy 162nd Place In National Violent-Crime Rankings

LAPDUnlike the St. Louis PD, the LAPD gets to just chill with dogs​We like to think it's pretty rough out here on the streets of Los Angeles. It seems like every hour we hear about another murder or robbery at gunpoint. So why, in this year's annual CQ Press crime rankings, does the City of A ... More >>

Phil Collins Tells Rolling Stone He's Contemplated Suicide -- Well So Have We, Every Time We've Ever Listened To 'In The Air Tonight'

Last.fmThe last thing we saw before we slit our wrists​This week's issue of Rolling Stone featured an EXCLUSIVE interview with Sting -- er, Phil Collins. (Remember when RS wrote about shit that was relevant, instead of resorting to a loop of Mick Jagger career retrospectives and top-5,000 list ... More >>

Mel Gibson Scores Cameo In 'Hangover' Sequel -- But Will A Bit Part In A Stoner Comedy Be Enough To Rehab His Reputation As World's Biggest Asshole?

​[Updated after the jump: As it turns out, not even the "Hangover" franchise is ballsy enough to associate with Gibson. Director Todd Phillips cancels the cameo. Originally posted on Monday, Oct. 18 at 9 a.m.] After an R-rated summer of racial slurring and baby-mama beating, Mel Gibson is hop ... More >>

Today in WTF: Wayne Brady and Mike Tyson Reenact Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step" Video

funnyordie.comBobby Brown covered by fellow fist-user Mike Tyson​ We often find Funny or Die more die than funny, and, granted, this is kind of a one-note joke. But, still, it's Wayne "Choke a Bitch" Brady and Mike Tyson reenacting Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step". Why? Because they can. ... More >>

Ex-LA Weekly Writer Scott Foundas Wins 'Critic Of The Year' Award

Scott Foundas.​Film writer Scott Foundas won the "print critic of the year" award at the Los Angeles Press Club's third annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards Thursday night for his body of work published in LA Weekly. He left the paper at the beginning of the year to take over associ ... More >>

Manny Pacquiao: The Fight of His Life

Boxer goes for his greatest win yet — congressman

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

Who Took The First Shot? Tyson K.O.'s Photog

A paparazzo escaped with his ear intact in a confrontation with Mike Tyson, but reports indicate Tyson knocked him out at LAX Wednesday.Mike Tyson with boxing promoter Don King.​Tyson's camp, including a lawyer and spokesman, are saying the former heavyweight champion boxer was being harassed by a ... More >>

The Hangover: Vegas, Babies

Peter Pans head for the Strip in Old School director's latest

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Movie Reviews: Earth, The Garden, Obsessed

Also, The Informers, The Mutant Chronicles and more

Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind

In Tyson documentary, boxer tells it in his own words

Cannes Comebacks: Our Midfestival Report

Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Terence Davies and more

New Pork City: Eating Everything but the Squeal

Big Apple Pigs

Five Songs About Thanksgiving

By Jeff Shaw, City Pages Compared with other holidays, Thanksgiving hasn't inspired bards overmuch. There are no traditional hymns, no instantly identifiable music associated with the day save possibly various football broadcast bumpers. Nevertheless, here and there we find certain songs that -- ... More >>

Mashed Oates

The once-mustachioed member of a legendary duo reflects on their influence and their collaboration with Gym Class Heroes

Who Are You?

Auditioning for The Next Best Thing

Where Are You Hollywood?

Last season we had Charlize. Jack Nicholson. Lara Flynn Boyle. Courtney Love. Tommy Lee. Gina Gershon. Anthony Keidis. Mena Suvari. Mike Tyson. Er...Sporty Spice. And of course there was Paris. Aahhh, we'll always have Paris...or so LA Fashion Week thought. But so far this season, and with only ... More >>

Pollo Libre

The Knockout Shot

A former boxer’s encounter with LAPD undercover cops

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

A Mexican and an Irishman Walk Into a Bar...

Blender Smoothies

Anytime, Anywhere

Hardcore provocateur Eugene Robinson searches for the almost-perfect punch

Back From the Fallout Shelter

It’s no wonder the Senate Democrats can’t win an election

Dark Shadows

What Part of No Do You Still Not Understand?

Date rape in the time of Kobe, roofies and Girls Gone Wild

The Passion and Power of "Sugar" Shane Mosley

From Their Vaults to Your Desktop

Finding documents “The Man” wants to hide

Remembrance of Meals Past

The best dishes of 1999

Burning Man

Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

Shadows and Fights

Images from the ring

Dumpling Chic

Beijing snacks in San Gabriel

The Accidental Populist

Magic Johnson gives some back