Libby Molyneaux

There's a riot goin' on — of laughter! (Sly Stone would approve.) L.A. Riot is the inaugural three-day comedy festival taking place on one square block of downtown. The lineup is the cream of the funny, with — take a breath — Maria Bamford; improv with Matt Besser and Horatio......

Rejoice: Jackie Kashian appears this week at Beth Lapides' UnCabaret. L.A. WEEKLY: You've been a professional standup for more than 15 years. Is it still fun to get onstage? JACKIE KASHIAN: A great stand-up set can fix a bad day. Weirdly, only a good set can fix a bad set......

You can read all about the bands you shouldn't miss at the FYF Fest elsewhere in this paper, but the festival has a strong comedy component with Maria Bamford, Matt Braunger, Baron Vaughn, Brendon Walsh, Brent Weinbach, David Cross, DJ Douggpound, The Eric Andre Show, Greg Barris, Jerrod Carmichael, Jim......

Now that the Olympics are over and we're all seasoned judges of synchronized diving and beach volleyball, we can apply our new expertise on the local level. Bring a chair and look serious as you watch the Manhattan Beach Open, part of the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series. Did......

With Mystery Science 3000, creator Joel Hodgson and his crew of quick quippers invented astute and clever movie-riffing as entertainment and even won a Peabody Award. Since 2007, the group has been known as Cinema Titanic and has been playing select dates to ever-growing live crowds. Hodgson, along with Trace......

Comic Bil Dwyer returns with Stardumb!, "the game show that celebrates the silly side of celebrity" with a helluva a lineup: Andy Kindler, Oscar Nunez (The Office) Baron Vaughn (Fairly Legal) and Karen Kilgariff (Karen Kilgariff). Dwyer and co-host Erica Rhodeso mercilessly pry into their guests lives with such categories......

Two fantastic — and free! — arts festivals take over downtown today, which is really pretty amazing when you think about it. But don't think too hard — just go. Perform Chinatown takes place for the fourth year with the mother of performance artists, Karen Finley, doing her first L.A......

Megan Mullally (Children's Hospital, Party Down, Will & Grace) and Stephanie Hunt (Friday Night Lights) return to Largo with their band, Nancy and Beth. Their band? How did that come to be? "I met Stephanie last summer when we did an indie movie in Austin together called Somebody Up There......