Richard Pryor

Superman Movies Matter More Than the Comics: A Film-by-Film Breakdown

In Omit the Logic, Richard Pryor Crucifies Himself, Again and Again

10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012

This year felt like a year of growing pains for art in Los Angeles. Maybe that's because 2012 started as Pacific Standard Time -- that regionwide, Getty-funded series of exhibitions on SoCal art history -- wound down and the art community shifted attention from past to present. Maybe it's because th ... More >>

Lawsuit Filed Against Chipotle Over Penny Pinching Rounding Policy

A few weeks ago, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported that certain busy Chipotle locations in the area were rounding -- up and down -- the total amount on receipts to avoid dealing with pesky, inefficient pennies. "The idea," a spokesman told the paper, "Is simply to limit the possible combinations ... More >>

10 Questions for W. Kamau Bell, Star of His New Show Totally Biased on FX, Exec Produced by Chris Rock

5 Revelations About L.A. Music History at the Grammy Museum's Show 'Trouble In Paradise'

Becky Sapp​ For some, Los Angeles' musical history fits nicely into categories; there was bouncing beach pop, Laurel Canyon folk, West Coast rap and Sunset Strip rock. But behind this shroud of notable names and iconic acts, there is a richer, more diverse portrait of music in Los Angeles. Th ... More >>

Marijuana, When Paired With Other Powerful, Quasi-Legal Drugs, Really Works on Pain, California Study Says

strainbrainIt really works.​We never would have guessed this, what with all the self-medicating going in the world, but two powerful, often illicit drugs, when taken together, really work on that pain, a study claims. Seems that Amy Winehouse, Richard Pryor and Kurt Cobain did similar researc ... 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 >>

Glenn Ligon's 'America' at LACMA, With References to Malcolm X and Richard Pryor, is Too Big...in a Good Way

Copyright Glenn Ligon, Courtesy LACMAGlenn Ligon's neon sculpture "negro sunshine," hanging in the window at LACMA​ When the Whitney Museum opened its Glenn Ligon retrospective, "America," in March, they put one of Bronx-born Ligon's signature neon pieces in their Madison Avenue window. The si ... More >>

Patton Oswalt: Geekdom's Pundit

IF THESE WALLS COULD LAUGH

Another Fine Mess: From Chaplin to Bromance

A history of cinematic LOLs in Saul Austerlitz's latest

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

Rock Out With Your Doc Out

SCOTT AUKERMAN: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame

Fabulously, Fucking Weird: Michael Jackson as Video Game Zombie

WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?

Strings Attached

Abandon 405!

What to do in L.A., July 11-17

Presets Preview

The Presets play Los Angeles Tuesday, May 20 at the El Rey Theater. Sorry, sold out. But hey, don't go away sad. Here's the new video for the "You Are the One" from their new album, Apocalypso. You can also download an MP3 of a different mix of the song from the Modular Records blog here. And f ... More >>

SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer's all gone/ And somebody had the nerve to take the herb up out the doobie ashtray/Why they do me that way?"-Devin the Dude If the going hasn't g ... More >>

Lewis Black's History of the Joke

Why did the chicken cross the Appian Way?

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

Evidence Rooms

Glenn Ligon at Regen II, “The ­Seventies Revisited” at dnj

Filthy Waters Run Black

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Sahl-ud!

Prisons, Punks and Don Quixote

Our critics’ guide to the very best of LAFF

People Who Need People

What to do in LA this week

Must See Art

Edgar Arceneaux, The Alchemy of Comedy . . . Stupid at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Party Over Here!

Dave Chappelle raises the roof

Angry Angel

Richard Pryor, 1940–2005

Letters

Pryor Uncut

DVD release captures The Richard Pryor Show in all its short-lived glory

A Writer’s Life

Jervey Tervalon on pootbutts, knuckleheads and contemporary literary fiction

Subterranean Speed-Freak Blues

A Really Big Stew

New music, thoughts for the ages from The Negro Problem's chief agitator

2001 In Review

Gays & Dolls

Laughing out loud in the new century

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Online Music Distribution

if you upload it, they will come – true or false?

First Lady

The queen of comedy gets big laughs

The Green Menace

The best of Sitegeist

Peppermint Twist

The White Stripes’ blues in the red zone

Dr. Kool's Pop Quiz

Keith Thornton, Ph.d., an old professor from the new school, knows rap is here to test you

Neighborhood Bars & Nightclubs

The Green Menace

Darkness Audible

An interview with Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Negritude Adjustment

The finer points of Shangism