While rightly lauded for originating The Office, I think Extras is Ricky Gervais' true masterpiece. I mean, how can you possibly top Harry Potter flicking a rubber into Dame Diana Rigg's hair? I'll tell you how--have David Bowie improvise this song for Gervais' hapless Andy Millman. Unfortunately (really unfortunately), Gervais decided against another season of the show, but Season 2 is now available on DVD. Buy it. Watch it. Live it. more ›

A man in a Members Only jacket sits at the counter of the diner where Tony Soprano and his family have dinner. It's the very last scene of The Sopranos, and the stranger's presence is one of many theories that has developed from the show's controversial ending. In an attempt to shed some more light on this matter, we investigated the famous piece of outerware in earlier, more innocent times with General Hospital star... more ›

Like I explained on Saturday, I am doing a social experiment, I put myself on Jdate and am documenting it for all on LAist. F-ing Tony Pierce can convince me to murder my own mother if he gets enough cocktails in me…. So Bachelor #1 called before the weekend and we made plans to share some Sunday night drinks at a swanky hotel, not Hollywood faux swanky, but classy swanky. After an entire Sunday... more ›

Mudface, Guilt by Association, Damcyan, Aghori, Enemy Inside, Purgatory @ Whisky more ›

Reggie Bush is the New Kobe Bryant In terms of scandal. An eight month investigation has led "investigators" to the conclusion that Reggie and his family accepted over $100,000 in itemized bribes from prospective agents while he was in college. Now look, I may be a Bruin, and I may love Bruin football and despise Trojan football with all my heart and soul - but you gotta' love Reggie. Reggie Bush is and will... more ›

Every week in Living in Sin, Jen Sincero provides advice to LA's sexually confounded. You can see her column in print in the LA Alternative Press, or have it sent to you every week by signing up for her newsletter. Ask Jen your questions: all are posted anonymously. more ›

First off, The Stranger's Seattle books department has hit another one out of the park with "Being Savage: Dan Savage's Older Brother Reviews His Younger Brother's New Book." Read it and chuckle in that pleasant feeling of being included in the inner circle. Ben makes comments like "Danny doesn't go far enough, he pulls his punches." This about a man who writes one of the most sexually explicit columns in Internetville? It's funny to hear what his older brother thinks of him. more ›

It's confession time here in Booksville, LAIST. Zadie Smith, author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man and her most recent, On Beauty, will be appearing not once, but twice, this Sunday in Los Angeles: at Dutton's Beverly Hills at 2 pm, and at 826 LA at 6. We have known this for almost a month (we posted about her Booker Prize nomination here) and tried to write a post about it for that length of time. And we have, thus far, failed. The book is too good, and the multiplicity of themes too overwhelming. more ›

Last night, we were in the Silverlake Lounge trapped in a conversation with a guy named Mikey who, seemingly has more stories and more freestyle rhymes than we have words. Innaway is setting up the stage while this guy Mikey keeps going on stage and standing behind the turned off mic trying to get all eyes on him. It occurred to us that the stranger probably shouldn't have had that last shot, that we probably shouldn't have given a pound when he introduced himself by complaining that some girl thought of him as "gangsta" because now we're stuck with this drunk former mariner who claimed he was from Wichita, Kansas and had gotten in a car accident and lost his brother's dog just hours befre he ended up in this dark night club. Now he thinks he's our friend. more ›