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Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names

See also: Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man Burning Man 2012 kicks off on Monday, and unlike our intrepid colleague Nicholas, we are headed to the Playa and looking forward to it. In fact Jack Rabbit, the festival's official newsletter, has been hitting our inbox since February, informing the nearly ... More >>

C is for Cut Off: Jim Henson Company Severs Partnership with Chick-fil-A Over Gay Marriage Issue

Chick-fil-A has seen its last sunny day on Sesame Street: Last Friday, The Jim Henson Company announced that it dropped a partnership with Chick-fil-A, explaining on its Facebook page that it "has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-fil ... More >>

Sesame Street Meets Graffiti in 10 Awesome Artworks by L.A.'s Seventh Letter Crew

There was always something remotely hip-hop about Sesame Street. Elmo, Big Bird, the Count, Oscar the Grouch -- especially Oscar the Grouch -- looked like they'd really seen some shit in their eternal youth. They swaggered through life lessons with a knowing limp, putting some soul into the ABCs of ... More >>

L.A. Observed Preview

Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles

Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012

Two thousand eleven was a year of peaks and valleys for Katy Perry; she made a run at pop supremacy, performed at huge venues for tiny fans, and made gobs of money. Unfortunately, half of that could go to Russell Brand, who filed for divorce at the end of the year. (They're not believed to have a pr ... More >>

Sesame Street Jason Schwartzman Iron Chef = Genius

​Sporting a cape like Liberace and hair like a demented Elvis, Jason Schwartzman visits Sesame Street for a quick turn in "Cast Iron Cook," an Iron Chef parody. Starring alongside Elmo, Schwarzman plays the discerning and dramatic judge, Super Chef, a man prone to screamed exclamations and pur ... More >>

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Review

Sesame Street's YouTube Fans Treated to Porn Thanks to Hackers

Sesame StreetBig Bird, perplexed by the letter 'X.'​Poor kids who dialed up the YouTube channel of Sesame Street yesterday looking for their favorite Elmo and Big Bird videos were instead treated to content said to have been brought to them by the letter "X." As in porn, of the variety mostly ... More >>

Sesame Street Tackles Hunger Issues: Lily the "Food Insecure" Muppet

2011 Sesame Workshop. Photo by: Gil VakninNew Muppet Lily with Brad Paisley and Elmo​ Cookie Monster probably is going to rethink those cookies: on Sunday, Sesame Street will air a primetime special, Growing Hope Against Hunger, in which the Sesame Street residents learn about hunger issues in ... More >>

"H is for Ho": Sesame Street Does "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)"

"Well, if Kurupt gave a ..." Kermit Tha Kingpin ​If Nate Dogg's untimely passing has a silver lining, it's been the mass revisiting of his vast catalog of songs. We found a Nate neophyte (nope, not even "Regulate") and were giving him the YouTube tour when we stumbled upon a Sesame Street ve ... More >>

Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time: Smorgascake [Video]

The Smorgascake from Regular Ordinary Swedish Mealtime​Scandinavian cuisine. It's more than just Noma, Sesame Street's Swedish Chef and Bocuse d'Or-winners. It's the madmen of Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time. A parody of Canadian stunt-cooking show Epic Meal Time, the video series, done i ... More >>

Veronica Sylvester, SoCal Mom, Arrested After Her Girls Get Sick After Munching on Her Marijuana Cookie, Police Say

Sesame Street​Two sisters ages 10 and 11 tested positive for marijuana after they ate their mom's pot cookie, cops say. That mom is now in hot water: 33-year-old Veronica Sylvester was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment, according to the Pasadena Star-News. The Covina girls had retu ... More >>

Stage Raw: John Ferraro (1946-2010)

The COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS feature will return next weekNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin in Much AdoJOHN FERRARO​If you've been lucky enough to see Two Headed Dog's grimy, Beckettian clown show (Clowntown City Limits) -- about a trio of un ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: Monster's Ball

Anonymous Dumbass "Musicians" Block the 101 Freeway

Ditto​A group of anonymous, dumbass "musicians" blocked the 101 Freeway today, deliberately causing a traffic jam to promote their unbelievably stupid song. While other news outlets are happy to play along with the stunt and mention the band and supposed "single," we refuse to give those idio ... More >>

UPDATE: Was the "Katy Perry's Jiggling Boobies on Sesame Street" Scandal a Publicity Stunt for Youtube?

Sesame Street/Youtube Conspiracy?​[UPDATE: We're gonna play a little Oliver Stone here, so bear with us. - A couple of days ago a video "preview" of Katy Perry's jiggling boobies' appearance on Sesame Street was posted all over the web. - Gawker commenters were riled up into sanctimonious outr ... More >>

Top Chef All-Stars Officially Announced With 18 Runner-Up Contestants

Bravo​ Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that the rumors of a Top Chef All-Stars season are true! TV Guide Magazine released an official report from Bravo that the upcoming eighth run of the Emmy award-winning competitive cooking show will include an all-star cast of eighteen runners-up from p ... More >>

This weekend: Scissor Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Pink Martini, Bonerama, the Watson Twins, Dead Confederate, Trey Songz

Scissor Sisters​Scissor Sisters' new album Night Work -- three years in the making, and re-making (they scrapped 18 months of work and started over) -- is a typically frisky, preening mash-up of glam and disco that contains a lot of you're-gonna-have-to-be-there moments. Fun, to be sure. But ... More >>

HOW TO GO TO PINK MARTINI: A PRIMER

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Theater New Reviews: Tooth and Nail, Sarah Sarah, Canned Ham

Also, Groundlings International Airport, Full Disclosure

Canned Ham

Gitmo Torture Music: Songs That Will Break You

Music by Pearl Jam, NIN, R.E.M. used at Gitmo, musicians protest.

THE WEIRD WORLD OF WEINBACH . . . RECORDED!

1961 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

Preschool Confidential

Season two of seminal kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! has arrived. DJ Lance Rock and others attempt to explain its allure

I'd Rather Be Right

NYC-Style Pizzaiolos Rated, Slice Against Slice

Dough!

Cuckoo for Coconuts

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Whoopi Stands Up and Delivers

The Word According to Whoopi

My New Radio Crushes

Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with their girlfriends. And most disturbingly, I discovered that morning host Joe Escalante/Dr. LegalDouche is, apparently, an amateur toreador. Ole! ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Hairy Discussion

The World According to Sesame Street

The Hidden Blade

Stratocaster Collage

Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City for 100 electric guitars

The Many Excellences of Yo-Yo Ma

Sista Act

When it comes to Sugar Water, Jill Scott knows how to share. (Props to Big Bird.)

Yukking Like Rabbits

Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet

Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?

Sesame Osama

Breakfast With Jellyman

The Best of Sitegeist

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

The best of Sitegeist

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

Breakfast With Jellyman

Vintage Voodoo

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins rises from the grave

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux