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Girl Talk: Readers Argue About Henry Rollins' GOP Takedown and Steven Leigh Morris' Deep Throat Skepticism

What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?

The 47th Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravensthe is Sunday, February 3, 2013. Kickoff is 3:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, 6:30 Eastern Standard Time, 5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time. It's on CBS, with the yakking portion of the show beginning at 3 p.m. in Los Angeles ... More >>

Job! Topless Robot, Home of 'Nerd News, Humor and Self-Loathing,' Is Looking for a New Editor

Topless Robot, home for "nerd news, humor and self-loathing" is looking to immediately hire a new chief blogger and editor. Yes, really!

L.A. Weekly Sold to Voice Media Group

The L.A. Weekly has been sold. Since October 2005, this newspaper has been owned by Phoenix-based Village Voice Media. Tonight, it was announced that the Weekly, along with the dozen other alternative newsweeklies in the chain, has been sold to a new, Denver-based entity in a management buyout: Voi ... More >>

LA Weekly Wins Big at Association of Food Journalists Awards

The Association of Food Journalists conference is taking part right now in Washington D.C., and this afternoon over lunch the ceremony took place for the AFJ's annual awards. 42 winners were announced in 13 catagories. LA Weekly took home two prizes during the awards: Food Editor Amy Scattergood t ... More >>

Love the Beans, Hate the Beaner: Even White Supremacists Can't Resist a Good Burrito

Read This Now, or Almost Now: Lucky Peach Issue 4

It is now time for your regular Lucky Peach update. Because we love David Chang as much as you do, perhaps even more so after his recent pit stop at UCLA. (Dinner afterwards? At A-Frame with Jonathan Gold, Peter Meehan, and Amy Rowat, if you keep track of these kinds of things). Because the next ... More >>

The Manny Pacquiao Misquote: A Timeline

Salon's sometimes media critic Mary Elizabeth Williams just wagged her mighty finger at the rumor mill that has become online journalism -- a system that allowed Manny Pacquiao to be misquoted as saying gay men should be "put to death" yesterday. In truth, Pacquiao's original interviewer deceptively ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Michael Doven, Tom Cruise's Personal Assistant, Spied on Him For Church of Scientology -- Report

Oprah​If you wonder how the creepy Church of Scientology keeps tabs on its superstar converts (and -- perhaps -- digs up a little dirt?), Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief of our sister paper, Village Voice, might have found out. His mega-scoop today: Between 1991 and 2005, Cruise's personal ass ... More >>

Shaanxi Gourmet: More Fun with Hand-Shaved Noodles Untranslated Menus in the SGV

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​Shaanxi noodles? We know from Shaanxi noodles. The hand-shaved variety, first at Dow Shaw/Heavy Noodling, then at JTYH, have been a mainstay of San Gabriel Valley gourmandism for decades before most Westsiders could point out Shaanxi on a map. But in New York, Xi'an ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Samples New York's Best Eateries During Beard Weekend

'LA Weekly' Names Underachiever Keith Plocek as New Web Editor

Keith Plocek comes to LA Weekly.​True story: An acquaintance of ours wanted to go for this job. We said, sure, if you can waive a wand and make six-figure traffic appear instantly, you're in. The shoes of LA Weekly's former web honcho Erin Broadley are huge (like Ru Paul size). She was nothin ... More >>

The 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Poll

From best to worst, the results are in

Top 10 Worst Lyrics of 2010

​This year there have been some pretty bad lyrics. And then there's been some pretty, pretty atrocious, awful bad lyrics. And then there's been some hellish verses like something that would spew from Satan's hairy anus. And then there's...well, you'll see. Here, for your poetic enlightenment, ... More >>

SeriousEats Claims Foie Gras Can Be Ethical. Can It? Jonathan Gold's Opinion

SeriousEats.com​Last week, SeriousEats published a thought-provoking piece about foie gras production, claiming the process can be ethical and perfectly humane -- if done correctly. In Los Angeles, foie gras recently stirred up controversy when animal rights activists protested Providence for ... More >>

Vatican Claims Homer Simpson Is A Catholic: We Don't Believe It

Simpsons' Homer and Bart are said to be Catholics.​The be a cartoon character is apparently divine in the Vatican's eyes. The Catholic church's house organ, L'Osservatore Roman, has declared that "Homer J Simpson is a Catholic" in an article titled "Homer and Bart Are Catholics." To drink on ... More >>

Snakes On The Loose Terrifying New York City Residents

The Daily NewsYep, that's the actual snake. ​Our inaugural week of detailing all the ways New York City is a horrible place has focused on pests, first with news that bedbugs had shut down a Niketown store in Manhattan. We followed up with a report on the city's ingenious plan to harvest opossums ... More >>

Welcome to Mi Pueblito: The Small-Town, Family-Farm Lifestyle That We Cherish Is Being Preserved Thanks to Mexican Immigrants

Los Angeles Times Shut Out Of 2010 Pulitzer Prize Awards

Mark Fiore.​The Los Angeles Times was shut out of the list of 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners. The paper was a finalist for a joint entry with ProPublica for "their exposure of gaps in California's oversight of dangerous and incompetent nurses, blending investigative scrutiny and multimedia storyt ... More >>

SENIOR MOMENTS

The State of Music Journalism in 2009 (and puppies)

The State of Music Journalism in 2009 (and puppies)

LA Weekly at SXSW: Party with Us at La Zona Rosa with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The xx, Superchunk and Surfer Blood

Well, we're going to be very popular in Austin come South by Southwest time. The reason? Our annual SXSW fete, held each year at La Zona Rosa, will feature -- get this -- the xx, Superchunk, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Surfer Blood. It will take place on Friday, March 19, from 12pm - 5pm. ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY! -- EUGENE MIRMAN

Power-Duo the Covers!: Supergrass Offshoot Hot Rats at Spaceland Tonight

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey are bona fide Britpop stars in the UK as core members of Supergrass, a band that never fully made it in America. Coombes and Goffey took a hiatus from Supergrass sessions to mess around with some of their favorite tunes as a White Stripes-style "power duo." The resulting ... More >>

Jay Reatard Found Dead in Memphis Home

Renegade punk rock singer Jay Reatard was found dead in his midtown Memphis home last night. Our sister paper the Village Voice has collected a few remembrances of the raucous, trouble-hungry singer. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal has the scant details surrounding his death. More info after th ... More >>

2009 Film Poll: A Whole World of Hurt

Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama tops our annual critics' survey

New York Film Festival: Window on the World

New home, old mission for 47th annual event

Vote or Die: Ultimate Guide to SXSWi Panel Picking

'Tis the season for SXSW panel Twitter deluge, or as one attuned tweeter put it, "How to Annoy Your Friends with Social Media Pestering to Vote for Your SXSW Panel." Because we've also spent the better part of the morning slogging through the SXSWi panel goat rodeo (moment of Internet Zen: Yoga For ... More >>

This Week in Media WTFBBQ: This Internet's Dead Anyway

Maybe it's because of the looming Memorial holiday, but social media was kind of dead this week. Seasoned party crashers ourselves, we decided to see what the real media kids were up to. It turns out like everyone else in America they too were having a BBQ... a WTFBBQ. Here are our findings, separa ... More >>

Pelisek finalist at IRE against team of 14 journalists

Veteran L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek has been awarded the finalist prize by the globally prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. for that organization's highly coveted Tom Renner Award, which honors outstanding reported on organized crime or other criminal acts.Christine's am ... More >>

Weird Things We Found at SxSW

It speaks volumes for the nature of a media industry event when, along with the requisite Diet Sodas and veggie plate, there are mini Colgate wisp toothbrushes given out at the concessions table. While we'll leave you to consider the implications of why you would need a mini toothbrush at a tech con ... More >>

SXSW Random Photo(s) of the Day: Procession for the Future: March 14, 2009

SXSW Interactive Random Photo(s) of the DayWhat: Procession for the Future Location: Congress and 7th Street, headed towards the Texas State Capitol BuildingWhy We Stopped and Watched:Proof that locals still rally to "Keep Austin Weird." Plus, George W. Bush gave us a thumbs up while wearing priso ... More >>

The Moment You've All Been Waiting For: We're Coming Out!!!

Erin BroadleyEvacuation ChairBetween 7-9 p.m. is a crazy time at SXSWi Austin; everyone is drinking at the free happy hours trying to chat, tweet, and ping in order to find the night's parties, hookups, and alternate sleep opportunities. Two that are on our radar right now are the Techset party at ... More >>

Tonight at 826LA East: LA Music Writers Hold a "Seminar," Discuss Amazing Opportunities in Journalism

Tonight at the ever-inspiring 826LA East in Echo Park, directly behind the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a bunch of music writers will be discussing their, er, craft, no doubt addressing hot button issues in the ever-exciting world of music journalism, a profession that is growing by leaps and bound ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2008: LA Shut Out of Top Ten

The critics apparently aren't feeling LA music this year; it's been twelve years since LA snagged the number one spot on the estimable Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll (for Beck's Odelay). All the city got in the top 20 of the album category this year was a #13 nod for No Age's Nouns, and She ... More >>

Film Poll 2008: WALL-E World

The little robot that could tops another chart

Between the Frames

How two refugee academics and a gaggle of moonlighting novelists shaped a golden age of Weekly film criticism

Q-Tip's-"Move"

I can't tell how much I like Q-Tip's, The Renaissance. It's good sure, but it's impossible to listen to without noting the elephant in the room: the fact that Q-Tip has been a.w.o.l. for most of the decade and y'know, that whole "centerpiece of one of the greatest groups of all-time" thing. So wi ... More >>

Ella Taylor reacts to the reactions to her review of Sex and the City

By Ella Taylor I caught a lot of flack, most of it out of New York, for my negative review of Sex and the City. Outraged fans of the show and the movie accuse me variously of being “morbidly obese” (just pleasantly plump, I swear) and style-retarded (well, one does try); too young to apprecia ... More >>

The Best True Crime Stories of 2007

They are the modern versions of monster stories. True Crime writers seek out such tales every day, finding them in two sentence-long police blotter blurbs, law enforcement sources lamenting the one that got away, or victims looking for justice. They pile on hours of research and interviews, buil ... More >>

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe

Action taken in solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Two Weeks in Manhattan

A veteran critic turns rookie programmer for the 45th New York Film Festival By Scott Foundas From The Reeler On Monday, July 30, as I arrived in New York for my first tour of duty on the New York Film Festival selection committee, I received an e-mail announcing the death of Ingmar Bergman -- one ... More >>

Crank that Crunk

Got in last night. Don't even ask about the airplane flight. OK, ask. Horrible, horrible drunk musician-esque type guy sitting behind me, using f-words muchly, trying to impress the unimpressed female next to him. He was under the unfortunate impression that everything he thought, and then said, was ... More >>

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