My So-Called Life

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Wicked Writer Winnie Holzman and Her Husband Paul Dooley Wrote and Star in a Play Together. It Only Took Them 28 Years

Television and theater writer Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life, Wicked) and her husband, character actor Paul Dooley (i.e. your go-to when casting the consoling dad or grandfather), seem to have one of those enviable long-term marriages. They know how to crack each other up, finish each other's sen ... More >>

John Dies at the End Review: A 'One Crazy Night' Movie Stuck in the Slacker Sensibility of 1996

Britt and Amanda Brown Do it For Love, and a Little Money

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you lacked directions to Britt and Amanda Brown's house in the Highland Park hills, you probably could guess the address. Look for the tea green and p ... More >>

Sunday Night Sex Talks, a Storytelling Show That Does Not Allow Men in the Audience

See also: *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Apparently the hormones that doctors give you when you donate eggs make you so horny that you want to be gang raped, rotating from man to man while lying on a giant lazy susan. Or so I l ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Physical appearance actually has little to do with sexiness. Sure, we've all been known to stare at a shirtle ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #15-11 10. Jared Leto Underneath all that guyliner we still see you, Jordan Catalano. You've ditched the shaggy hair and flannels for a pink mohawk and studded leather but it's OK. Every time y ... More >>

Tina's Mouth: A Graphic Novel That Gives Indian-American Stereotypes the Finger

Tina's Mouth: An Existential Diary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)"I'm an alien (but my parents are Indian.)"​ Tina Malhotra's journey through a high school existential crisis was difficult. Bringing her world to life was just as wrenching. Author Keshni Kashyap and illustrator Mari Araki spent f ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Piranha 3-D, Centurion

Also, Chasing 3000, The People I've Slept With and more

Theater Reviews: Leiris Picasso, A Memory of What Might Have Been, The Jesus Hickey

Also, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grace and Glorie and more

Stage Raw: A Memory of What Might Have Been

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW GO  A MEMORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ​ Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's Underground George Bernard Shaw wrote that "men and women are made by their own fancies in the image ... More >>

Alexi Wasser: Crazy in Lust

Unhitched and quarterlife: TV's Cool Hunters

Networks turn to webisode angst in their eternal quest for the fountain of youth

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Oscar's picks for good things in small packages

No One Wants to Smoke a Blunt with Lupe Fiasco

Nerd alert

My So-Called Life: Angst for the Memories

Reliving the greatest teen story ever told — on DVD

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Street Action

Snowflake-Special

A year in the life of Fairfax High

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

Boob Tube

Second-rate television for women

B-Pictures

Bull, Bash, Blonde Bombshells and a Sandy Bottom

Tyro Mania

The teen dreams of Popular, Freaks and Geeks and Roswell

Stageworks

Breaking into L.A. theater on, off and around the stage

Love, Death and Déjà vu

Cupid, Brimstone and Seven Days

Female Trouble

Artificial insemination, adultery, the dark forces of otherworldly evil, et cetera

The Prisoner of El Centro Avenue

The rise and stall of playwright Justin Tanner