Sarah Palin

'1 Image 1 Minute' Event Is Like Show and Tell, But With Republican Porn, Dolly Parton and Horse Bestiality

As part of its 15th anniversary celebration, X-TRA Magazine, a Los Angeles-based art journal, presented the fourth installment of its popular 1 Image 1 Minute event series, in which a few dozen members of the local art community are each asked to present a photograph that is meaningful to them and s ... More >>

Mark Matuszak, L.A. Designer of Obamas' Holiday Card, Sees Thumbs-Down Critique From Sarah Palin

The card (cropped).​Turns out the Obamas' holiday card this year was designed by L.A. artist Mark Matuszak. It's cozy and apropos, featuring First Dog Bo chillin' like a villain in front of a White House fireplace. Good work, Mark. Except that even if President Obama were to bring back Jesus ... More >>

Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Review

Sarah Palin Must Run, Says Jerry 'Peace Activist' Rubin, Who's on 1-Month Hunger Strike to Add More Chaos to GOP Lineup

Palin inspires a diet plan.​In an only-in-L.A. scenario, one ultra-lefty really wants Sarah Palin to run for president. So much so that he's been on a hunger strike for one month to urge the Alaskan to get on the campaign trail. Our old pal Jerry Peace Activist Rubin (that's his legal name) i ... More >>

Sarah Palin & Captial Punishment in New Films By Broomfield and Herzog in Toronto

Werner Herzog​ Friday was Foreign-Born Documentary All-Stars Tackle Powerful Symbols of America day at TIFF. The scarily prolific Werner Herzog (whose first foray into 3D, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, premiered at this festival last year before its blockbuster theatrical run this summer) is back ... More >>

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

Morning News Roundup: Hunger Challenge, Movie Food, Mr. Robata

Happy humpday. Enjoy your morning dose of daffy food news. --Hunting LA's best roast chicken, from Costco to Melisse. [Exile Kiss] --U.S. bans some food from Japan over radiation fears: dairy, fruit, veg. [WSJ]‎ --Break out the skinny jeans. Yelp adds "hipster" as an ambiance descriptor. [NY Pos ... More >>

Hackers Who Targeted Celebrities' Nude-Photo-Filled Laptops Allegedly Aiming at Politicians, Sports Stars Too

Sony / RCAChristina Aguilera was a hacking victim, reportedly.​Updated after the jump with some doubt cast on the latest report. Hackers who allegedly have nude photos and video of Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, and more have apparently also set their s ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Singles Cruise,The Next Fairy Tale, 'Til Death Do Us Part

Also, The Young Man From Atlanta, Oh, Momma and Obama and more

Stage Raw: Groundlings Singles Cruise

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE ​Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>

Could the U.S. Government Cut Off Our Internet, Egypt Style?

Cut the feds cut off the internet?​In light of the Egyptian government cutting off internet access for its up-in-arms citizens, we recently pondered if such a move would ever be possible stateside (say, if Sarah Palin were elected president and she didn't like the comments about her daughter i ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Sarah Palin Takes To YouTube To Criticize Critics' 'Blood Libel'

CBS / YouTubeSarah Palin shoots at critics.​Clearly responding to jabs that her presidential aspirations were the least-important victim of the weekend's massacre in Tucson, Sarah Palin took to YouTube Wednesday to criticize the critics. She said attempts to link her kind of violence-laced po ... More >>

LA Weekly Switches To Disqus Comment System: Tell Us We Suck Faster, More Efficiently

Tell us how much you care.​Dear readers: You know we love your comments. Especially when you call us names and say we got the facts more twisted than Sarah Palin's panties when she's at the NAACP convention (as if). And to that end, we made commenting much easier for you. Forget the old Capt ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/15-11/19

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As you might have expected, A-Frame, in what looks like an old IHOP tricked out with enough pine and track lighting to make it resemble a ski chalet, is pretty different from the legion of gastropubs." First Bite: Take the A ... More >>

'Dancing With The Stars' Election 2010: Is Bristol Palin The Beneficiary Of A Right-Wing Coup?

ABCThis Palin isn't nailin' her moves: And still she gets votes.​Bringing us flashbacks of Al Gore's 2004 loss to George W. Bush (the horror), there's another controversy brewing over the Republicans' alleged, vote-bending ways: That's right, Palin-gate, 2010. And it doesn't involve Tea Party ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"

More Fun With Maps: The Great American Pizza-Guns-Strip Clubs Map

Floating Sheeppizza, guns and strip malls map​ Maps are cool. Maps generated by geography academics are very cool. And maps generated by geography academics which show the relative density of pizza to guns to strip clubs are just flat out brilliant. Which is what this map, by Floating Sheep, a ... More >>

Jerry Brown Steps Into Sarah Palin Controversy At Cal State

​State Attorney General Brown said late Tuesday that he'll look into allegations that the California State University Stanislaus Foundation dumped documents related to its invitation to have Sarah Palin come speak at the school. He also wants to find out why the foundation has refused a Calif ... More >>

The Freedom Tray: How to Be Patriotic While Eating Fast Food

If you're feeling particularly patriotic these days, maybe after listening to President Obama's speech last night, or because you've been following Sarah Palin's book tour (via bus to smalltown America, or private jet when nobody's looking), and want a way to integrate said patriotism into your dail ... More >>

Food Trends For 2010: Fried Chicken or Food Trucks?

Happy December. 2010 is only a few weeks away. It's time, in other words, for the avalanche of year-end round-ups (food trucks! vampires!) and predictions for the coming year. Will we still love burgers and bistros and cupcakes, or will we segue off into something else, like maybe layer cakes. God ... More >>

Twitter Answers The Eternal White Guy Question -- What Are Black People Thinking?

elvis.comHe tried.​The hottest trending topic on Twitter today is #BlackThoughts, and people are opening up like Sarah Palin at a book signing. When he wasn't pillaging for gold, spices, rap skills or Selma Hayek, the white man yearned throughout history to answer an eternal question: What ar ... More >>

LAPD Chief Bill Bratton: A Hero or a Palin?

Ever since Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton announced his resignation last week, it's as if the guy has become some kind of victorious, military hero who fought a horrible, bloody mission in some god-forsaken land...and now he gets to take a well-deserved breather and enjoy the spoil ... More >>

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Award Shows Suck

The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

By Rob Harvilla And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying melange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elev ... More >>

Oh, Sandy, You Came and You Gave Without Us You're Nothing

Election '08: Blogging Live in Las Vegas at John McCain's Last-Gasp Rally

BY MARC COOPER Yo via Blackberry! I'm at McCain rally right now Monday nite in Henderson, Nevada on outskirts of Las Vegas. A poor turnout my friends. I got here 3 hrs ago to beat the crowds. But my daughter just arrived as program is beginning and she got in. This venue holds about 5k and is n ... More >>

A Political Halloween in West Hollywood

If a fun-loving public was looking for a break from a tense political season, the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval was not the place to be. "No on 8" signs, buttons, and stickers were impossible to avoid, and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared in the form of multiple look-a ... More >>

The Red Scare and Average Joes

What we talk about when we talk about socialism

Florida, Florida, Florida: Where Hillary Supporters Turn to Palin and Working-Class Men Love Joe Biden

A week in the battleground

Drive, Baby, Drive: Obama Voter's Car Gets a "Drill, Baby, Drill" Paint Job

Practical joke forces liberal to explain to female Prius driver, "It's not my fault!"

It's Her Party: Sarah Palin Rallies Fans in Carson

Jon Voight appears in support, declaring, "I'm blessed to have met John McCain"

Election '08: The Palin Power Girls

Sheeple: Mob thinking on both sides at the Palin event in Carson

By Daniel Heimpel Saturday was a little weird. First, I was in Carson. Second, I was eating a chicken sandwich from KFC. And third, Sarah Palin was coming to town. Seated at a concrete table in front of the fast food restaurant, I had a good view of the action. A large group of predominantly black ... More >>

Election '08: Palin Post-Mortem and Ifill's Failure

BY MARC COOPER Washington D.C. -- I had a grand time watching the debate in the jam-packed Hawk 'n Dove bar up on Capitol Hill. Lots of roaring and cheering as almost the entire crowd was gleefully playing Palin Bingo. I have so far refused to take Governor Gidget seriously and will hold to my vow ... More >>

Election '08: Let Sarah Be Sarah, But Don't Let her Wear That

All the talking heads are saying that the key to Sarah Palin's success in Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate with Joe Biden is to "let Sarah be Sarah." I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I think the gist of it is that Palin has been over-managed by handlers who are stuffing her head ... More >>

Election '08: A Day In The Life At The End Of The World

My head is spinning and not just because this is the third time I've tried to write this. Unfortunately, as far as clarity and fresh thinking is concerned, my computer kept crashing as I pecked away at these thoughts last night, trying to make some sense of a dizzying day. Maybe my laptop was having ... More >>

Election '08: Postcard From The End Of The World

Rant Alert: Be warned, this is a rant. We don't give President Bush enough credit. Seriously, we have failed to give him his proper due. Here we thought his culture, philosophies (if you can call them that), politics and policies were just wrecking the country. Turns out, they were on the verge of ... More >>

Lehman Brothers Call McCain's Bluff: More Than Lipstick Needed to Mask the Meltdown

Sorry, Phil Gramm, but this time we're not imagining it

Sarah Palin: Secessionist Regrets?

Also, animal torture and the Weekly's moral compass

Election '08: White Privilege

Thanks, Tim Wise, whoever you are. White Privilege, White Entitlement and the 2008 Election By Tim Wise / BuzzFlash / 13 September 2008 [Tim Wise is the author of White Like Me (Soft Skull, 2005, revised 2008), and of Speaking Treason Fluently, published this month, also by Soft Skull.] For th ... More >>

Election '08: Happy Days Are Here Again!

BY MARC COOPER Let's see Lehman Brothers goes bust, Merrill Lynch auctions itself off to B of A, WaMu circles the drain along with countless other banks, Wall Street itself is in the balance and with it the entire global economy teeters on the abyss. Other than that... Alan Greenspan, former Fed C ... More >>

Election '08: Palin By Comparison

Warning, this is a rant. I can't help myself. I'd like to ignore Sarah Palin, but I can't. The Palin factor is just too mind-boggling and too scary. Her popularity continues to drive McCain's presidential bid from moribund to vital to frighteningly possible. She's like a trick mirror in which Ameri ... More >>

Sarah Palin Action Figures, Get 'Em While They're Out of Ammo!

While fumbling through the endless blogs and offbeat news the Internet has to offer, every so often a person comes across nutty online stores that specialize in things like Goldfish tiaras or Mercury Retrograde Spray. Any excuse to bust out the credit card, right? Well, today I found a true gem: Sar ... More >>

You'll Never Be Vice President: A Letter to My Daughter, the Community Organizer

Why didn't I nip all this in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12-gauge?

The Latest Republican Cover-Up: The Presidency of George W. Bush

Ready to hit the reset button: At the GOP convention, plenty of Mac and cheese, no W

Election '08: Who Change What?

According to their new campaign ads, McCain and Palin, or, rather Palin and McCain are the new mavericks, the real agents of change. They'll clean up Washington with their maverick ways and outsider approaches. Uh huh. But they're no agents of change. Rather, they're alchemists, turning their hist ... More >>

Election '08: Governor Gidget -- Sorry, Sarah Palin -- Speaks . . . Once I Was Blind

BY MARC COOPER Governor Gidget appeared on screen melting my heart and conquering my soul. That was after The Mayor of America softened me up. Once I was blind. But now I can see. I agree with every one of their points. Black is white. Up is Down. Slavery is Freedom. Arbeit Macht Frei. We ar ... More >>

Election '08: Beyond The Palin

As I was talking to the editor of the LA Weekly this morning about Sarah Palin, I said that I hoped the American people were smart enough to see through this bit of Karl Rove-ian evil genius. Just as I said it, a Ford van, jacked up to monster truck proportions, powered by a 345 horsepower V-8, went ... More >>

Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere

Hurricane Sarah