Parenting

Hollywood: Enough With the Father-Son Dramas, Already!

She's So Heather

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Greg Behrendt and Dave Anthony's Podcast

5. The Incubator Sean Conroy and Kyle Kinane present this "open mic but without all the uncomfortable silence, crickets and yawning." Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics, Mon., Dec. 17, 9 p.m. 4. The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian Jackie and Bil Dwyer talk golf in a supremely dorky fashion. Nerdmelt at ... More >>

Intimacy issues

Boobie-Palooza Comes to L.A. Sunday to Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week

A full-frontal assault is headed toward L.A. this weekend. That's when Boobie-Palooza takes place. It's a celebration of World Breastfeeding Week (yes, there is such a week) and will feature the likes of Ricki Lake, Dr. Yvonne Bohn of Discovery Health's Deliver Me and, of course, Katie Hamilton, th ... More >>

Facebook Censors Kaskade's Body Paint Photo of This Girl

See also: *Rave Standoff in Hollywood: Cops Move in to Disperse Crowds That Came to See DJ Kaskade *Our slideshow: Kaskade @ The Palladium *LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Earlier this week EDM DJ and producer Kaskade posted a photo on Facebook from the Miami stop of ... More >>

L.A. Gay Pride 2012: Novelist Noel Alumit Answers 'What Does It Mean To Be Gay?"

"What does it mean to be gay?" A seemingly simple question, but one that's not often asked. With Los Angeles Gay Pride starting today, various gay folks have been giving us their answers in a weeklong series Noel Alumit is a novelist who wrote the critically acclaimed Letters to Montgomery Clift. H ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: I'm 35, Like EDM and College Chicks. Help!

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Hi, as a parent of a Raver what can you tell me that will help me sleep at night? I've heard stori ... More >>

Friends With Kids Review

LAPD Catches Child-Services Employee Trolling for Whores in County Car

Updated below: The department says staffers like Moton are issued vans "to transport children." We recently learned what L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services employees aren't doing on the job -- namely, protecting kids from harm -- and now we might have a better idea of what they' ... More >>

Michael Decker's Anti-Cute Art at Steve Turner Contemporary, Including Disemboweled E.T. Dolls In A Fetal Ring

Michael Decker's Fetal Ring, a ring of disembowled E.T. dolls​Yes, this is art. The standout piece in 29-year old Los Angeles artist Michael Decker's current show at Steve Turner Contemporary is the one with the disemboweled E.T. dolls stuck on a wire ring. It's called Fetal Ring. It is bizarr ... More >>

Teen Cellphone Photos, Texts, Contacts Being Searched at School: ACLU of SoCal Says It's Illegal

ACLU​Those pesky bleeding-heart liberals at the ACLU actually want teachers and school administrators to keep out of your kids' cellphones. A report issued by the ACLU of Southern California lists some anecdotal evidence that school authorities are searching the contents of students' phones w ... More >>

Sadly, This May Only Recall Tales of You Alone in Your Room Reading Comics

Sheng Chen Ran Hostess Club Out of San Gabriel Valley House, Authorities Say

Dernier ExileLadies of the mic.​If you're to believe the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, 38-year-old Sheng Hui Chen is a brave, shit-talking man. In fact, they claim, he pretty much made a lifestyle of it. Not only did Chen allegedly extort mom-and-pop Chinese immigrants by saying he was a ... More >>

Perv With Fake Badge Allegedly Told Middle School Girl in Chatsworth He Needed to Put a Tracking Device in Her Bra

Young girls saw this poseur a mile away.​Updated at the bottom: Cops arrested a mixed martial arts "fighter/trainer" as their suspect in this case. The best part of this story is that middle school girls know a perv-ass poseur when they see one. Police say a twentysomething man with a fake b ... More >>

Google Picks Up Private Data, Including Tax ID Numbers, Mistakenly Put Online by L.A. County Employee

creditrepairshield.com​For the second time this year a breach of people's most intimate data has happened at the hands of Los Angeles County government. The first time involved a missing laptop that contained the names, dates of birth and treatment information of 667 patients at Rancho Los Am ... More >>

Oh Fey, Can You Slay

Christy Karacas on Season 2 of Superjail! and What's Up with The Twins

After three years of waiting, Superjail! is back. It's about time, really. Even in the world of Adult Swim, where waiting periods of more than a year between seasons is normal, the downtime between the first and second seasons seemed kind of long. Adult Swim​If you stayed up until midnight l ... More >>

The OED's New Food Words: Bánh Mì, Doughnut Hole & Nom Nom

Flickr/ninniane​ Language is as adaptive as cuisine, or the notion of a brick-and-mortar restaurant, and so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it changes. The folks at the Oxford English Dictionary routinely add new words, regularizing slang and terms from other languages, and have recently add ... More >>

HEY KIDS, CAN YOU SPELL PARENTHESES?

Supervisor Mark-Ridley Thomas Wants To Get A Handle On Number Of Deaths Of Children In L.A. County's Care

Mark Ridley-Thomas wants to get a handle on the number of deaths of county-supported kids.​Update: The County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved a motion to have one entity at the county track these deaths (PDF). First posted Oct. 28 at 7 a.m. Kids under the care of your c ... More >>

MORE SHIT SOME DAD SAYS

Baby Carriages of the Damned: Kudos with the Child-Rearing, Cardboard Box Stroller Mother!

They say that the first two months of a baby's life are the most critical in terms of their psychological development. Or maybe it was first two years. Whatever. In any case, wheeling them around in these strollers can't possibly be good. 1. The Baby Brain Car ​ This baby is sitting in what ... More >>

Basebawl Bash

Woman Pregnant With Twins Raped, Killed In Venice

Google Maps​A woman 18-weeks pregnant with twins was raped and fatally stabbed in her Venice home, police reported late Wednesday. A 22-year-old suspect from Culver City, identified as Boneetio Kentro Washington, was spotted running from the scene by responding officers who stopped him and mad ... More >>

Hayao Miyazaki on Ponyo

Japanese animation master turns back the clock for his latest feature

The Nuclear Family and One-Night Stand

On a Wig and a Prayer and Musical Improvisation

Life Is Too Short to NOT Be a Disappointment to Your Parents

HOW TO WRITE A BLURB WITHOUT ACTUALLY WRITING ANYTHING

Ziggy Plays Guitar

IN-ZANITY ENSUES!

Octuplet Mom Update: The Circus Continues

Ever since octuplet mother Nadya Suleman was released February 6 from a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, her public image has steadily plummeted  southward. Her early, somewhat-disparaging nickname, Octo-Mom, seems to have come from talk radio, probably KFI. By the time she checked ou ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Rain, Rain, Come Back Again The recent winter storms were awfully photogenic on TV but all that rain was just so much water under the Sixth Street Bridge. The state remains in a drought state and water rationing appears right around the corner for Los Angeles. ReutersA Bridge Too Ugly? Speaking of t ... More >>

Octuplet Blacklash

It had to happen. Immediately after the birth of the Bellflower octuplets, TV anchors cooed and newspapers trembled with feelgood reports of the miraculous C-section. It wasn't long, however, for the births to reveal the fear and anger about immigration and race that simmer just below the surface of ... More >>

Lost

Changeling: Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer, and the system, in Clint Eastwood's latest

MySpace Suicide Mom in Court

Although July approaches, it’s still not too late for a first-time criminal defendant to make her spring debut in federal court. Media Village of the Damned: Press waiting for Lori Drew

Sex and the Globe: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id

Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life

Here Baby Here

Playing down on her luck, Amy Ryan’s star rises

That's Wack

California’s legislature approves 1,000 new laws annually. Insert laugh track here

Joshua: The Badder Seed

Joshua makes the walls of a seemingly happy family come tumbling down

Child Cares

Lovely Lady Lumps

Fashion tips and alternatives for knocked-up knockouts

LA Vida

Fuck Garanimals

If Only Life Imitated Art

How To Survive a Children’s Birthday Party

No, we don’t mean a margarita bar. That would be wrong.

The Parent Trap

Parent gets handcuffed, school district gets embarrassed

The Fleiss Family Bed

Declaration of Independence

Patti Smith speaks