Dwayne Booth

“Lou Ferrigno is a fucking asshole, that’s what I’m taking home with me from the 2007 Comic-Con, a fucking asshole!” The speaker was a 40-something-year-old man, freckled, strawberry-blond hair, bald and sweating bullets, his pale skin appearing fair enough to sunburn at the pop of a flashbulb. He threw down......

M Bar is in a strip mall, crammed like a dark little hole into an enormous two-story, L-shaped concrete monstrosity in the New Jersey section of Hollywood, at the corner of Vine and Fountain. It has a Jewish deli, a Thai takeout place, an Italian takeout place, a Mexican takeout......

Inventor of American standup commentary, surrogate older brother to Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, forgotten uncle to Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks, revered godfather to Bill Maher and Jon Stewart and — before he decided to sacrifice the sharpness of his wit exclusively to the cutting of George Bush’s free......

Like a cockfight, the event at UCLA’s Royce Hall seemed as if it had been put together surreptitiously to evade detection by anybody but the most ardent fans of the most uncomfortable Thanksgiving conversation imaginable: namely, one about God and politics. “I tend to begin any talk on this subject......

In 410 B.C. the Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote a play called Lysistrata. The story was about Athenian women barricading themselves inside the Acropolis in protest of the Peloponnesian War and promising to withhold sex from their husbands until they agreed to declare peace with Sparta. On March 3, 2003, more......

At the Santa Monica Public Library last Monday night, beneath chrome light fixtures that looked suspiciously like UFOs from the mushroom-cloudy ’50s, Scott Ritter, the former weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq, did his best to make everybody in attendance feel like crap. But only in......

Norman Mailer walked slowly from the back of the Writers Guild Theater using two canes, his knees as brittle as cookies, his body matronly and small, his brow furrowed, both of his tremendous ears containing hearing aids, his eyes as fierce as little knives.Applause followed him the full length of......