Saturday Night Live

A Documentary About Celebrities Creating a Musical in 24 Hours

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Rome wasn't built in a day, but four musicals were created in one. On Jan. 30, a documentary called One Night Stand will screen across the country, giving a behind-the-curtain look at four teams ... More >>

A Robot Ate a Pig Carcass (Among Other Weird Happenings) in Downtown L.A. Last Weekend

If you really want to see a festival that deals with the extremities of the future, any retirement home will do. The 2nd Extreme Future Festival, which took place over two days at the L.A. Center Studios this past weekend, focused on arts and technology produced by "radical voices of the new evolut ... More >>

Lana Del Rey - El Rey Theatre - 6/4/12

Lana Del Rey El Rey Theatre 6/4/12 See also: The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You) Better than... a certain SNL taping. It seems that the yearning need for Lana Del Rey's brand of gauzy Americana that racked the country five months ago hasn't slowed, at least here in L.A., as indicated by her ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Echoplex - 5/12/12

Black Moth Super Rainbow The Echoplex 5/12/12 Better than: watching Usher sing over watered-down techno on Saturday Night Live. In a rare live appearance at the Echoplex on Saturday, enigmatic psych-pop band Black Moth Super Rainbow exceeded their fans' expectations with a mind-expanding performan ... More >>

Alan Zweibel

Lana Del Rey - Amoeba Music - 2/7/12 (With Photos)

Lana Del Rey Amoeba Music 2-7-12 See also our Lana Del Rey slide show. Better Than... peering through the windows of a candy store. Perhaps as a sign of her growing musical and magical powers, Lana Del Rey brought her own weather with her to Amoeba Music. L.A.'s currently going through one of its ... More >>

The Sorry Ms. Jackson

Henry Rollins: The Column! The War On Christmas Starts With Me

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. It's been a few days now, and I am just emerging ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

LinA In LA Party Picks: SNL's Stefon Ain't Got Nothin' On Us

​Anybody's who's ever watched Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" and reads this column knows the flamboyant nightlife reporter, Stefon (played by Bill Hader), and yours truly have similar sensibilities when it comes to colorful clubbing. Midget pirate parties ... white trash drag queen hoe ... More >>

Top Five Rappers In Absolutely Ridiculous Sweaters

Drake and his sweater on Saturday Night Live​The young rap billionaire Drake has a new album out this week. It's probably fantastic! But more important than any critical assessment of his music, it's another opportunity for Drake to assert his commitment to the bemusing art of wearing really a ... More >>

Eddie Murphy's 10 Comedy Bits To Avoid as Oscar Host

Flicker/wereswanEddie Murphy's head is about to get bigger as the upcoming Oscar host.​ What a wild idea: Eddie Murphy as Oscar host. On the bright side, it's a relief from James Franco and Anne Hathaway, whose chemistry last February rivaled that of a sasquatch and Kathie Lee Gifford. For t ... More >>

James Franco to Direct a Documentary About L.A.'s Favorite Industry: Porn

Franco file.​After writing books, teaching at NYU, taking classes at Columbia, hosting Saturday Night Live and, oh yeah, acting in movies, James Franco might have found his true calling: Making a documentary about smut. Because those who can't do teach (or make documentaries), apparently. He ... More >>

Bridesmaids Review

Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways

Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.'​ You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>

The Realest Real Housewives at UCB: A Celebration of the Best Show Ever Paul Scheer!

A. Trachta​Despite that it conflicted with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion show, diehard fans of the series (or at least diehard fans of hilarious women) turned out to see The Realest Real Housewives at the Upright Citizens Brigade last night - a reenactment roundup of the greates ... More >>

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

WeHo Nights: (Andy) Dick in a Box

We were prepared to laugh last night at Lexus' intriguing-sounding "Darker Side of Green" event at Palihouse, a party and lively debate about green issues with SNL funny man Andy Samberg moderating, but --as seems to be the case a lot lately in West Hollywood-- it hit capacity early and the door w ... More >>

MORE SHIT SOME DAD SAYS

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Bill Murray's Tale From the Crypt

Nothing Lasts Forever comes back — for one night only

Revolver Golden Gods Nominations Announced at Rainbow Bar & Grill

It's one thing to hang out at the legendary Sunset Strip haunt Rainbow Bar & Grill and try to soak up as much metal as humanly possible. But when you're there in the afternoon for the announcement of Revolver's Golden God nominees and you realize that the guy who walked past you is Rob Halford, the ... More >>

Today in O-Face News: I'll Have What The Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López Is Having!

In the annals of "Guitar Face"--that pseudo-orgasmic grimace that some players pull-off, pretending they're playing something with the complexity of John Fahey when in fact they're running scales up and down really fast--there is a noble lineage going from the guy from Free to G.E. Smith (the SNL ba ... More >>

Dreaming of a Day-Glo Xmas

Doug Harvey’s mostly psychedelic shopping list

Stage Raw: Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSSTAGE FEATURE on August: Osage CountyTHE LATEST NEW REVIEWSNEW REVIEW MATTHEW MODINE SAVES THE ALPACAS​Photo by Michael LamontOh, dear. Blair Singer's comedy about a washed-out former celeb, Matthew Modine (played by Matthew Modine, somewhere between appealing and app ... More >>

"Like a Boss": Villaraigosa's Work Habits Spoofed in Outlandish Video

Screenshot of video spoofJust the other day, Matthew Olay sent us an outlandish video spoof he made about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's work habits. Olay explained that an L.A. Weekly feature story, titled "The All-About-Me-Mayor," "inspired" the YouTube creation. And, (updating the post ... More >>

Movie Reviews: A Woman in Berlin, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart

Also, Fragments, 12 in a Box and more

Groundlings, in the Study, With the Candlestick

Shearer Fun

Native Los Angeles satirist Harry Shearer turned 65 last week, giving us an opportunity to appreciate his body of wit that stretches from his days performing with radio's Credibility Gap sketch comedy group to writing for Saturday Night Live, Spy magazine and the Huffington Post. Most of us know him ... More >>

Kidnapped by Craigslist

Kidnapped by Craigslist

NBC's Kath & Kim: Glamour Girls Gone Kitsch

The other O.C.

Gettin' Wiggy Wit It

It's a hairy Halloween; why don't you just comb over?

Groundlings Key Party

Julia Sweeney

The angelic atheist

Movie Reviews: Just Sex and Nothing Else, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show and more

Plus this week's film pick: The Band's Visit

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

Theater Reviews: Bunny Bunny, Eenie Meanie, Little Fish

Also Mustang Sally, Glengarry Glen Ross and more

Who Are You?

Auditioning for The Next Best Thing

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Celebreality

Huffing and Puffing

Thank You For Smoking lights up the doctors of spin

Suit Yourself

Sight and Sound

How the Vitaphone Corporation brought them together

Desert Foxes

Jokes, Not Jizz

Jerry Zucker’s Rat Race

No Fries; Chips

Real Cartoon World

The I'm All Like Whatever Generation of MTV's Downtown, plus Random Play and Lenny Bruce

Phil Hartman 1948-1998