Russ Meyer

From Abe to Aliens: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week's list of special event movies ranges from a James Cameron classic to Henry Fonda's take on the 16th president.

Redd Kross Have a New Record After 15 Years

See also: Still a Malcontent: A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off! The McDonald Brothers, the driving force behind punk legends Redd Kross, stand well over six feet tall and have awkward gaits. Ahead of their new album -- Researching the Blues, our today -- they're sitting together ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Billy Vasquez of The 99 Cent Chef

Billy Vasquezthe 99 Cent Chef​Where does Billy Vasquez, the 99 Cent Chef, find inspiration for his blog? At L.A.'s ubiquitous 99 Cents Only Stores, of course. His blog reports on the current food items (some vary from day to day) as well as other under-a-dollar bargains at local markets. Us ... More >>

Roger Ebert's Life Itself: Five Sexiest (Yes, Really) Passages in His Amazing New Autobiography

​ In America's favorite film critic's bestselling new memoir, Life Itself, we learn more about the former Siskel and Ebert host than we maybe strictly wanted to know. We meet Ebert the Catholic Schoolboy, Ebert the Intrepid Boy Reporter, Ebert the Pulitzer Prize Winner, Ebert the Cancer Surviv ... More >>

Play Busty for Me

Fear and Self-Loathing

Stanley Kubrick's first feature, not to be denied

Psych Major

A two-weekend Bergman crash course at LACMA

Movie Reviews: Crazy On the Outside, Daybreakers, Leap Year

Also, Bitch Slap, Youth in Revolt and more

R.I.P-Remix: Jimi Hendrix and Russ Meyer

R.I.P-Remix: Jimi Hendrix Russ Meyer

Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and more

R. Crumb Retrospective at Cal State Fullerton

April Showers of Shindigs: Telekinesis, Snoop Dogg

Plus, Origami Records, Ghetto Gloss and more

Lux Interior Rising: R.I.P., 1946-2009

An eyewitness account of the late Cramps singer’s Astral Ascension ceremony

Lux Interior's Astral Ascension: Jonny Whiteside's Report from the Ceremony

Minister Brahmachari Dale explained their hope-filled transitional view of death, read from the Bhagavad-Gita, recited the 23rd Psalm, and exhorted attendees to concentrate on sending messages of love to Lux's spirit -- and damn, kiddies, it felt like he was right there in the room (when Ivy was arr ... More >>

John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out — Way Out

On gay marriage, the presidential race, the corrupting influence of irony and the release of his new 'Til Death Do Us Part DVD

Rock Picks: R.E.M., Von Bondies, Ladytron

And other May 22-29 shows

Pellicano Trial Prosecutors Rest Their Case

The color of dirt

Russ Meyer: Porn to Be Wild

Mammaries of overdevelopment

Phil Noir: Killing Time

Hanging a jury, listening to Phil Spector’s basement tapes

Phil Noir: Accidental Suicide

Guns, slips and semiotics

Art Tarts and Label Whores Unite

Local shops become once-a-month art galleries

Goodbye, Braddy Daddy

Planet Whatever

Silver Lake . . . as seen on TV

Winnie the Pooh, Annie . . . and Richard Hell

Heart of Dixie

Behind the Blue Door

Legs McNeil gatecrashes the Other Hollywood

Genius With a Hard-on

Russ Meyer, 1922–2004

On the Bright Side of Smut

John Waters returns to his sex-mad (but never mean) moviemaking roots

Ass You Like It

A Show for Posteriority

The Ghastly World of Johnny Legend

Willful Perversity

Matthew Barney and “The Cremaster Cycle”

Icon: Love, Susan of Hollywood

The Coffee Table

Field of Wet Dreams

Build it and they will cum

The McCarthy Era

The institutionalization of shrub fucking

Burning Man

Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

Welcome to the Terra Dome

Rock is dead, long live vampires

Bad Girl

The incredibly strange films of Doris Wishman