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Why Do So Many Movie Characters Get Hit in the Balls?

Being a lucky guy, I've only been kicked in the balls once. How did it rate on the comedy scale? Well, it was funnier than a monologue by Chelsea Handler, but not quite as hilarious as my last screening for colorectal cancer. Yet despite the fact that this act hurts like hell, Hollywood still thinks ... More >>

Viagra Alternative Found Over-the-Counter Contains ... Viagra's Active Ingredient

If you ever wanted to try Viagra without the embarrassing visit to the doctor or the street-dealer prices, now's your chance. Apparently an L.A.-based company named Body Basics Inc. inadvertently let that cat out of the bag via an over-the-counter product it calls ACTRA-Sx 500 Dietary Supplement Ca ... More >>

Fireworks FAIL in San Diego: Entire 4th of July Show Blasts Off in Instant (VIDEO, PHOTO)

In the biggest fireworks fail since the invention of Viagra, Port of San Diego officials apologized for a "technical glitch" that turned its 4th of July "Big Bay Boom" into a premature explosion: Yep, all the works went off at once about 5 minutes before the 9 p.m. start time of the show above Glor ... More >>

Forget Viagra: Guns Make Men Appear Larger, UCLA Says

Does this gun make my butt look big? No, but if you're a guy, it could indeed make you appear larger and meaner. That's according to a UCLA statement about the study, which says ...

Fake Viagra Floods LAX: Suspect Barry Johnson Pleads Guilty; Kil Jun Lee Arrested

You know guys, there's no such thing as generic Viagra. And "herbal" Viagra? That's just shite. Shysters out there are taking advantage of the fact that you're too chicken to go to a doctor for 10 minutes and explain that you have boner problems (or that you're a porn star). So they sell some fak ... More >>

LinA In LA Picks: You Only Get to Party Like This Once in a Century

Lina Lecaro The Wolf's wax will put crowds in 11th heaven in Eagle Rock.​Is 11-11-11 a date to fear or to anticipate? Psychologists say it might bring about cases of "apophenia" (the human tendency to find meaning or patterns in randomly occurring data). We can promise this weekend -- which ki ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne's New Book: How To Cure Athlete's Foot With Cocaine

​The Prince of Darkness' new book, Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy is a collection of advice columns for London's The Sunday Times and Rolling Stone. It turns out that these publications were willing to employ a man who once tattooed smiley faces on his knees so he'd have something to cheer him up whil ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Royal Wedding Edition

-- Royal wedding sparks fruitcake boom in U.S. [Fox News] -- Dunkin' Donuts rolls out the Royal Wedding doughnut. No pun intended. [Orlando Sentinel] -- Where to Watch the Royal Wedding in Los Angeles. [The Feast LA] -- Coronation prawn vol-au-vents (a recipe). [BBC] -- Watch The Royal Wed ... More >>

$1.7 Billion Medical Marijuana Market to Rival Viagra Sales This Year, According to Report

DEABuddha is gold.​Born in California in 1996, medical marijuana has grown from a baby bud to a full-blown industry flower that has blossomed across the nation. Legal in 15 states, medical pot sales this year are projected to reach $1.7 billion, according to the self-proclaimed "first ever in ... More >>

Marijuana Might Contribute to Male Sexual Dysfunction (Sorry to Harsh Your Little Mr. Mellow)

Simon WillisonHarder, faster, stronger than weed, apparently.​Yeah, we know: Weed makes you get a freaky deaky and you do it like a porn star after you've partaken of a bowl full of nature's finest. You were a superstar on Valentine's night. Now here's the hangover: Maybe the best thing mar ... More >>

Boing: Valentine's Day Inspires Spike in Viagra Prescriptions

NBCJustin Timberlake demonstrates the steps for a proper Valentine's Day gift.​What's the American guy's popular choice for a super-awesome Valentine's Day gift? Chose one: A) Chocolate B) Roses or C) Dick in a box? The modern man is so sensitive, romantic, and tuned into the feminine psyche ... More >>

Stage Raw: Shadow Anthropology

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO SHADOW ANTHROPOLOGY ​Photo by Nigel DookhooTen years after 9/11, the plight of rural Afghanis caught in the crossfire between American forces and the T ... More >>

Mexican Viagra?: Hilarious Video of Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten Driving Around L.A. with L.A. Times Music Editor

Lydon & Roberts: Coming soon to a comedy club near you!​ Our friends and colleagues at the L.A. Times are slowly dipping their toes into this "new media" thing and they somehow convinced John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols and P.I.L.) to drive around L.A. with music editor Rand ... More >>

Hef Admits To Not-So-Safe, Condom-Free Sex With Multiple Girlfriends (Like A Porn Star) At The Playboy Mansion

playboy.comShocking: Crystal Harris, Hef's bride-to-be, is blonde.​In the wake of his announcement that he'll marry a 24-year-old girlfriend, Angeleno Hugh Hefner defended himself against regurgitated dirt about life at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, although he seemed to confirm many of ... More >>

Hugh Hefner Can't Stop Tweeting About Engagement To 24-Year-Old Playmate Crystal Harris

Hugh Hefner's latest boob job​The horniest old man in history has never let age be more than a number, and his youthful Twitter account -- clocking in at 21 Tweets yesterday -- is further testament to the man's utterly ageless, uh, text-erity. (Unless he's got a Playmate on smart-phone duty, t ... More >>

Year in Review: Top Food and Pot Stories of 2010

N. GalutenThe famed KFC dispensary, which even spawned a South Park episode​Marijuana has been in the news a lot this year. Prop 19 brought the legalization debate to the national forefront, even though it never had much of a shot at passing (despite our Governator's well-documented use during ... More >>

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

BEST LESSON IN PATRIOTISM

VIagra of the masses

Erik Gandini's intoxicating Videocracy, and the case against Silvio Berlusconi

Father-Daughter Team Charged For Allegedly Selling Fake Viagra

​A father-daughter duo from Orange County has been charged on suspicion of selling a "misbranded" drug that contains an untested chemical analog of a key ingredient in Viagra. The pills, called Vitalex and sourced from compounds made in China, were allegedly marketed as "all-natural" sexual en ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Final Destination, Halloween II, World's Greatest Dad

Also, Cloud 9, Laila's Birthday and more

Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Land of the Lost, My Life in Ruins, Pressure Cooker

Also, Corked!, Downloading Nancy and more

Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer to Make Its LA Debut in April

Sounds pretty awesome to us: Vintner and Musician Maynard James Keenan, best known for his work with Tool and A Perfect Circle (and Caduceus Cellars), will bring his long running Puscifer project, a cabaret/circus/Vaudeville/music act, to LA for the first time on April 4. The act/band/whatever pla ... More >>

Monkey Glands Are a Girl's Best Friend

America's Cocktail Mixmaster-Elect, Dale DeGroff, dropped into the new and swankily (but not too poshly) improved Cole's tonight to promote his book, The Essential Cocktail. His "lushly" photographed recipe anthology of drinks from booze's Golden Age brings a touch of class to our downsized world. W ... More >>

Pucker Up Turns 200!

Celebrating a gala anniversary with a look back at a near decade of debauchery

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist

Why Don't We Do It in the Dirt?

Top 10 e-mail responses to the question, “Where would you have your last lay in apocalyptic L.A.?”

Sweatin' Safari

Film Reviews

Barnyard, Brothers of the Head, The Night Listener and more

C'mon, Dodgers, WTF?

6 meditations on the Blue Sox

C’mon, Dodgers, WTF?

6 meditations on the Blue Sox

Clitoris Envy, or What I Learned in Female-Orgasm Class

Nightranger

Terminator Genes

Repetition in politics, news, big business and human suffering

The Fox Convention

Watching with O’Reilly and Kristol et al.

Time of Misery

AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

The Fatty Arbuckle Memorial Awards for 2003

The Fourth World

Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

Total War

Replace the DMZ with the DFZ (Duty-Free Zone)

Drugs, Guns and Money

Busted, a new anthology, and the case for legalization

L.A. Reverential

With Boomtown and Robbery Homicide Division, the city is in

Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink

Goldmember and other double entendres

Genteel L.A.: Life on the Lawn

On and Off Our Backs

Sex and satire in The Fluffer

The Good Woodsman

The boogie days and nights of Ron Jeremy

Dark Stars

Micro-East Collective in the race for space

Rock & Roll Jinx

Viagra to your door via the Internet

The Fat Man Sings

A journal of obesity in America