Stephanie Carrie

The Tangled Web We Watch: Hipsterhood, a Silver Lake Web Series That Mixes Irony With Heart

Stephanie CarrieMarch 28, 2013

When filmmaker Shilpi Roy first moved to Silver Lake, she was uber-judgy of her faux fur–wearing, haute caffeine–imbibing neighbors. Then one day she found herself in skinny jeans, married to a man wearing a fedora, and realized, "Hey, these hipsters ain't that bad." Roy's hilarious web series, Hipsterhood, is her......

JASH: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts Create a New YouTube Channel

Stephanie CarrieMarch 19, 2013

See also: *James Urbaniak's Faux-Vlog Is a Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles It's 2 p.m. and I'm sitting on a blue exercise ball in an office at Culver City Studios, across......

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

Stephanie CarrieMarch 14, 2013

Unlike many fledgling web series that use broad comedic strokes to up the laughs per second, faux-vlogging gem My Bastard Son combines the naturalistic acting of shows like The Office with absurd circumstances and very specific characters. The grainy, five-minute video shows James Urbaniak (American Splendor) trying to connect with......

Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold

Stephanie CarrieFebruary 19, 2013

See also: *Our Streamy Awards slideshow *Our profile of Jenna Marbles, from our People Issue The 3rd annual Streamy awards, honoring excellence in original online video, streamed live online (appropriately) Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium. More than ever before, nominees ran the gamut of new and old media faces......

'Women of L.A.': Six Questions for the Creators of the Controversial Online Video That Deems L.A. Women Superficial

Stephanie CarrieFebruary 15, 2013

See also: *10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A. *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. *What's It Like to Watch 10,000 Cat Videos? Ask Kate Hill Jamie Abrams and DJ Lubel are either comedy geniuses, bitter mysogynists or something in between. Regardless of the......

Meet the L.A. Couple Who Are Finalists for the Doritos Super Bowl Ad Contest for the Third Year in a Row

Stephanie CarrieJanuary 22, 2013

See also: *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *'Bark Side' Super Bowl Ad, With Star Wars' Imperial March Sung by Dogs Tyler Dixon and Heather Kasprzak met as nemeses at the Super Bowl in Dallas in 2011. Both had created award-winning ads selected out of thousands by Doritos to......

#FindTesla Hashtag Mobilizes Hundreds in Silver Lake to Search for a Lost Dog

Stephanie CarrieJanuary 7, 2013

In a city where no one walks, hundreds of volunteers took to the hilly streets of Silver Lake this past week in search of Tesla, a 25-pound Terrier/Poodle mix, who bolted from her home in search of her owner, Alex Berg, just before New Years Eve. Berg, the artistic director......

Axe Cop, a Comic Book Character Created By a 5-Year-Old, Gets a Fox TV Show

Stephanie CarrieDecember 28, 2012

You know who never gets writer's block? Five-year-olds. Probably the only reason they aren't all prolific novelists is they don't have the patience or know-how to do the typing. Lucky for 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle, he's got his 29-year-old comic illustrator brother, Ethan, to sketch his imaginings. Malachai is 8 now,......

Rainn Wilson's Website SoulPancake Gets Serious, With Web Series About Death and L.A.'s Homeless

Stephanie CarrieDecember 14, 2012

In 2008, Actor Rainn Wilson (NBC's The Office) wanted to create a space on the internet where people could discuss life's big questions with total strangers. You know, what Socrates and Plato would have done if they had access to adequate bandwidth and a YouTube deal. Knowing nothing about building......

Two Awesome Improv Teams. Each Won UCB's Cagematch 44 Straight Times. And Then They Faced Off…

Stephanie CarrieDecember 7, 2012

An unprecedented battle of improv awesomeness took place at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater two nights ago. Since its LA chapter opened in 2005, UCB has been hosting a Cagematch every Wednesday night at 11 p.m. Two teams compete by performing one 20-minute improv set each. They can do whatever......

Food

Live At Lucia And MaruMart At Comic-Con – Here’s What’s Popping Up

IKI Nori Is An Omakase Gem For Everyone, Hidden In Plain Sight

The Airliner Soars Again And More Collabs – Here’s What’s Popping Up

Music

BLXST Puts in the Work on ‘Labor of Love’

OC MENA Festival Delivers Epic Debut — with MC Abdul, Dana Salah and Anees

PHOTOS: OUTLOUD Music Festival Lights Up WeHo Pride Weekend

Entertainment

‘Evil Dead Burn’ Director Director Sébastien Vaniček on Making the Franchise’s Most Brutal Chapter Yet

Review: ‘Rose of Nevada’ Time Travels Through the Desolation of Britain’s Working Class

From a farm boy in a mennonite village to a jewish woman in hollywood, it’s a been a journey for Yona Speidel

Arts

The Historic St. Vincent Medical Center Of LA Lives On As The Hospital Of Emotions

Art News: Parallel Practices, Plus California Light and Space

Art News: Erotic Terrains, A Human Atlas For LA And Unseen Hollywood History

Culture

Getting Social: The Northwind Experience, A Lord Of The Rings Concert And Skull Canyon

Lebron James Announces He Is Leaving the Lakers for Free Agency

LA Weekly Nets Multiple Wins at the 2026 Southern California Journalism Awards, including Print Journalist of the Year

Cannabis

SpacePoppers: The Power Duo Popping A New Era of Snackable Edibles

From Cannabis Pioneer to Mushroom Mogul: How Justin Hartfield is Mapping the Future of Wellness with ShrooMap

From Farm to Door: How Legal THCA Flower Delivery Works

Stephanie Carrie

The Tangled Web We Watch: Hipsterhood, a Silver Lake Web Series That Mixes Irony With Heart

JASH: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts Create a New YouTube Channel

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold

'Women of L.A.': Six Questions for the Creators of the Controversial Online Video That Deems L.A. Women Superficial

Meet the L.A. Couple Who Are Finalists for the Doritos Super Bowl Ad Contest for the Third Year in a Row

#FindTesla Hashtag Mobilizes Hundreds in Silver Lake to Search for a Lost Dog

Axe Cop, a Comic Book Character Created By a 5-Year-Old, Gets a Fox TV Show

Rainn Wilson's Website SoulPancake Gets Serious, With Web Series About Death and L.A.'s Homeless

Two Awesome Improv Teams. Each Won UCB's Cagematch 44 Straight Times. And Then They Faced Off…

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