Photo by When You Awake Last week Last Call with Carson Daly did a tour around Los Angeles doing special 30 minute episodes entirely dedicated to an up and coming artist. On Thursday Carson dedicated an entire episode to Echo Park's own Robert Francis . At one point he even compares Robert to Bob Dy...

I share Charles’ disappointment with K’naan’s show, but not because it betrayed hard-line hiphop protocol: no, I just thought the music was fair-to-middling. K’naan undeniably has lyrical skills—especially for an ESL speaker—and a dramatic bio that surely could fi...

The beautiful thing about science fiction is the mystery surrounding the premise. Since the writer gets to create the world, but can’t simply create it from scratch, there’s usually an interesting adherence to reality that acts as the anchor for whatever strange creatures and new physics...

On tonight's season premiere of Dancing with the Stars, Bruno called "that Bachelor guy" a loser (complete with hand gesture) and Lil' Kim dedicated her first dance to "all my girls in the Federal Detention Center." That's all I really......

If the Warriors' Stephen Jackson is Bruce Leroy, the mystical martial artist who possesses "the glow," then who is the evil Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem? The Warriors guard waxed philosophical about his game on Bob Fitzgerald's KNBR-680 San Francisco radio show on Sunday. And in trying to describe...

In the opening credits of the Watchmen, accompanied by Bob Dylan's song The Times, They Are A 'Changin', the credit sequence shows a brief history of masked heroes. The scene that stood out for me was the party for Sally Jupiter’s retirement from The Minutemen, which is based on Leonardo da Vinciâ...

She's one of my favorite manga artists. Yes, I know she primarily draws smutty boy porn and whatnot, but whatever. She's an AMAZING artist, nevertheless. Well, she has three or four series that she started but have been on hiatus for quite some time (by "quite some time", I'm talking like 3+ years)....

This is a little gallery of scary-ass robots that want to kill you so they can mate with your computer. This particular model is called "My Spoon" and was designed to help people with no arms or really sucky arms to eat. As you can see, it's about to choke out Japanese Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe...

I'm attempting to pull a coherent review of last night's Mt St Helen's Vietnam Band/Say Hi show out of my early afternoon hangover (thanks, Frank), but for now, let me just say that the recent confluence of local ice cream and indie rock has my full support. There's Full Tilt, of course, the White C...

  According to a new study published in the British Journal of Urology International men who subject themselves to devices similar to the torturous one pictured above in hopes of growing their penises actually do grow their penises. And in a pretty big way, if the results are to be believed. Th...