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Meet Brooke Candy: Rapper, Stripper, Warrior

Brooke Candy's given name is Brooke Candy, and she was born on 4/20. (Trust that we used our journalistic skills to verify this information.) Her father worked behind the scenes for Hustler when she was growing up in Oxnard. If her parents are surprised that she's become a stripper and......
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Five Songs to Fuck to Tonight

See also: Five Songs to Make Love to Tonight There are times you and the lucky person sharing your bed want to stare into each other's eyes and breathe "I love yous" -- and then there are times you want your face pressed into a pillow and your partner's eyes......
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Mary Poppins

When Bob Crowley's elaborate set is unlatched and drawn back to reveal the distraught home that soon will be whipped into ship-shape by Mary Poppins, it's hard not to wonder if the creative team is drawing a parallel between the magic-dusted Disney show and Ibsen's A Doll's House. After leaving......
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Why L.A. Is a Terrible Place to Be Single

Last night, we read a terrific piece Amanda Hess wrote for The Atlantic earlier this summer, "Is Your City Making You Single?" Hess relocated to Los Angeles from Washington, D.C., a year ago. In the article, she examines the differences between dating here and there. She points out that L.A......
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Five Songs to Make Love to Tonight

We all have that playlist, the sexy one we cue up as we turn down the lights. But lately, ours has gotten tired -- it's like when we go to the gym and know precisely how many songs we have left until our run's done. Our sex soundtrack? It's so......
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Blame It on Beckett

There is no way John Morogiello's comedy about the internal drama at a nonprofit theater's literary office should be interesting. After his bushy-tailed new intern insists a script cut he made actually does work, burned-out dramaturge Jim (well-played by Louis Lotorto) bellows, "That is in here!" before motioning to their......
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Are Bartenders Just Strippers With Clothes On?

Last week on Jezebel, Lindy West posted one of Hooters' new ads. Here's the premise: a lifeguard is bored and grossed out by watching old ladies do water aerobics. Two owl puppets pop up above his shoulders, the ol' angel vs. devil gag. One tries to keep him focused on......