Is it about that time? Time to start winding down for the weekend? And finally, a weekend of sunshine and not rain! We couldn't resist sharing with you a little video to get it going right. An unlikely combination to be sure, after all when was the last time you thought of Tom & Jerry and the Sugarhill Gang in the same sentence? Well it's a tale of friendship, of sticking up for your......

ART Check out artist Steve Keene's take on famous album covers in a show called "Covers of Covers" up now through next Friday at the Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank. Cartoon Network Studios // 300 N. Third St. Burbank // Free FILM A new film series launches tonight at Santa Monica's Aero Theater, spotlighting screwball comedies, with a double feature of 1939's Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert and 1937's Easy Living with Jean Arthur. Both......

Relatively speechless tonight because there's so little on TV and yesterday was pretty lame as well. The final schmaltzy segment of Tin Man aired to much disappointment, and Nip/Tuck started out great but fizzled about halfway through the episode. Tonight though, Tyler Perry actually returns to the show he created and that's a big deal so check TBS at 9:00pm. [Please note how I'm specifically not mentioning the Julia Roberts special on AMC as she......

HBO is kicking off the season with a slew of offerings, so for those of you moneybags who pay for premium TV, enjoy: 9:00pm Tell Me You Love Me HBO - This new sex drama, purportedly featuring actual X-rated penetration, is rapidly approaching overhyped status. Despite the hot and heavy action, supposedly it's very depressing but because of the sex I'm sure it will last at least a season. Now if only those poor Geico......

By week's end, LA is littered with dozens of free rags. LAist reads the weeklies so you don't have to. If there's anything we missed, let us know, or better yet drop it in the comments section below. LA Weekly reviewed the gaffe-filled Q & A between Democratic presidential hopefuls and Hollywood gays. While not one candidate came out clearly in support of gay marriage, Bill Richardson slipped so hard as to insinuate that......

Saturday Other than sporting events, including NFL pre-season football (we're practically only just out of July for chrissakes), all there is, if you are a glutton for punishment, is a Doris Day Marathon on TCM - the 12 movie block started at 3:00am so you'd best pop some corn and get that ass on a couch. Sunday 10:00pm Roast of Flavor Flav Comedy Central - Snoop, Patton Oswalt, Jimmy Kimmel, and the rest of......

There's only one network that would dare give you the raspberry: and that's G4TV, who will be premiering episodes of an animated "Spaceballs" this fall - you know, that Star Wars Mel Brooks parody you watched about seventy-six times in the 80's? Variety says: Encompassing a one-hour pilot and 13 half-hour episodes, project represents the first scripted series greenlit by the new TV division at MGM, led by Jim Packer, president of the worldwide......

If you are gay or European, or considering becoming gay or European, this record may already be yours. For the heterosexual American who has never heard of Mika, however, fret not. You will not be excluded from this elite club. This album is for you, too. Perky, discoed, electro-pop ala Scissor Sisters (but less Elton John, and more Queen) awaits your every, equal opportunity, partying need. Road trip? Perfect. Getting ready to go out......

OUT TODAY: Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go (Sonic Unyon) Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men Belinda Carlisle - Voila [Bonus Disc] (Rykodisc) Bloc Party - Weekend in the City (Vice) Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (Blue Horizon) Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky) Dexys Midnight Runners - Projected Passion Revue (Umvd Import) Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five (Zedtone) Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High......

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there was the coolest movie ever: Star Wars. As it was loved by men, women, and children of all ages, a year after the movie was released it was decided to produce a Christmas Special that would appear on CBS, some think aimed at kids. The two hour "holiday" special was so bad that even children hated it. Roundly panned, it was deemed by......

There's nothing premiering on TV tonight, so it's time for all you couch potatoes to put down the remotes and do a little something different -- like see a movie or something. Big movies opening this week: >> The Guardian: Like Top Gun, but with swimmers. >> Open Season: Cartoon animals on film -- how original! >> School for Scoundrels: Billy Bob teaches Napoleon Dynamite how to grow cojones. But if you'd like to......

Last night I had a dream I was walking on an empty freeway with a martini in one hand and a beedog in the other. Bathrobe clad with a cigarette dangling from my mouth like Valley of the Dolls meets The Color of Money, I flag down Mr. T, who is speeding by on a tractor while singing “Private Eyes,” by Hall and Oates. We exchange knock-knock jokes and arrive at an oceanfront condo......

Oh thank Heaven! Today is 7/11. Happy 7/11. All good little boys and girls can go to 7/11s today and get a free lil Slurpee-brand ice and sugar drink for nada. The LA Daily News tells us that each store will only have 500 specially marked cups to hand out free Slurpees in, so run out of work NOW and get yours. But beware the Brain Freeze! see above Minnesota rockers Soul Asylum return......

Apparently the creator of Ren & Stimpy is hot for Mischa Barton but thinks Nicole Richie resembles a biology classroom human skeleton. Cartoon Brew (who liked the Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise sketch) points us to cartoonist Katie Rice's blog where she has a bunch of these Kricfalusi sketches of our favorie gossip rag regulars. Somehow these are still a lot more forgiving than gallery of the absurd.......

Last week, we told you about the upcoming Tim Burton Garage Sale. This week, Tim Burton is livid. While the yard sale is happening, Mr. Burton has nothing to do with it. While Burton won't name names, The Wow Report is claiming it is just Lisa Marie trying to make a quick buck. Sorry for the confusion. There may indeed be cool Tim Burton gear at the sale but he's not happy it is......

See, stars are just like us. They have yard sales. Cartoon Brew tips us off that Tim Burton and his wife, Lisa Marie (That's what Cartoon Brew says. LAist thinks he's married to Helena Bonham Carter), will be having a yard sale this month in Azusa. Amongst all of the fancy name brand stuff the Burtons will be selling at discounted rates will be movie memorabilia. We're pretty well stocked on our Nightmare Before......

John Kerry has conceded in the Presidental Election. George Bush has given his acceptance speech. And all the while, cable news channels like MSNBC are getting lazier and lazier. LAist remembered when there used to be a time when the graphics and scrolling news at the bottom of the television screen used to be fresh, exciting and new. But lately, cable news channels have apparently hired chimpanzees who are really fast typists as their......

WHAT MAKES A CARTOON CARTOONY? An In-Person Tribute to Animator John Kricfalusi at The American Cinematheque September 7 - 8, 2004, 8 pm for both screenings The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood welcomes animator John Kricfalusi for a special two-night tribute. The first night is a retrospective of Kricfalusi�s work, including an uncensored episode of Bakshi�s "Mighty Mouse," "Boo Boo Runs Wild," commercials, webtoons and some brand-new, no-holds-barred "Ren and Stimpy"......