Pee-wee's Playhouse

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 Maintains the Original's Comedy Cred

Comedy Living Room: It's Comedy...in a Living Room

It all started with a red curtain. Roommates Matt Lottman and Frank Chad Muniz realized that the front of their Hollywood rental house resembled a stage one morning when Muniz stood in front of their red-draped front window. "Basically the ball started rolling in our heads," Lottman says, sitting o ... More >>

Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" History: "I Shot The Sheriff" was released in 1973. It's important for a number of reasons, but mostly because it made W ... More >>

Pee-wee's Playhouse Puppet Designer Wayne White Discusses the New Film About His Work, Beauty Is Embarrassing

When filmmaker Neil Berkeley was a college intern and first met Wayne White twelve years ago, he was already familiar with the artist's work. Certainly, you are too. White is best known as a designer for the landmark TV show Pee-wee's Playhouse, where he created, and even voiced, some of the puppet ... More >>

Justin Willman, Alternative Magician, Mixes the Dark Arts With Irony

It's Tuesday night in the loftlike performance area semi-hidden behind Meltdown Comics' retail floor, and a crowd of more than 60 in neatly arranged chairs intently watches the show's youthful host, Justin Willman. He disappears behind a large black cloth, then asks an audience member to name a ... More >>

Alie and Georgia on Classy Ladies: Vintage Dresses, Boy Humor and Cocktails

"Swizzle your beef sticks a little slower," the director says to Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark as they stir their jerky-infused tequila Bloody Marys -- a drink they've dubbed the "Beefy Tomato." It's an odd direction, but every move the women make while demonstrating the drink recipe is supposed t ... More >>

10 Awesome Tattoo Artists in L.A.

When it comes to tattooing, we are fortunate to have an enormous wealth of talent in Los Angeles. Though tattoo culture erupted in mainstream popularity several years ago it was a vital part of L.A. long before that and remains so today. There are artists in every corner of the city, with faithful c ... More >>

Food Party Hostess Thu Tran at Everything Is Festival Tomorrow

Food Party​Tomorrow kicks off five days of found footage feting known as the Everything is Festival at Cinefamily. It's a celebration of diggers, curators, and collectors as much as the weird, funny, campy, boogerfaced footage they unearth. Along with Joe Dante's four-hour legend The Movie Org ... More >>

A Bunch of Shit and Some Other Crap

WAYNE'S WORLD

Elvira's World

Cassandra Peterson, pushing 60 and still Mistress of the Dark

Music Picks: Baaba Maal, Snuffaluffagus & Rats, Carlene Carter and Friends, Country Throwdown

Also, Freestyle Fellowship, Bebe Buell, Billy Joe Shaver and others

Gary Panter

WHAT’S THE SECRET WORD?

Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato

How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America’s subconscious