Boulder International Film Festival

Movies are constantly being produced all over the world, hoping to achieve international success and make a name for themselves in the flick bizz. The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) is where films from all over the world congregate and …

T-Pain in concert

Ah, hip-hoppers, always ranting about “caps” and “blunts”—and Toshiba products?! I don’t know about you, but if T-Pain is willing to put his street cred on the line by claiming, “It ain’t hardcore unless it’s hexacore,” then maybe I need …

Machine Head in concert

The band that once described itself as the heavy metal outfit that delivered the “Oaktown beatdown,” Robb Flynn and Co. have been blowing amps and liquefying ear drums ever since Machine Head dropped Burn My Eyes on the Roadrunner label …

Smoke Screens

Sometimes the best thing to do is to curl up with a good flick on the tube while you’re relaxing in your living room . . . but what if you went out to catch the movie—and the living room …

Cypress Hill SmokeOut

Billed as “the all-day mind opening experience,” Cypress Hill’s annual SmokeOut festival returns with a stellar lineup featuring Sublime with Rome, Korn, The Dirty Heads, Thievery Corporation, Wiz Khalifa and Café Tacuba. There’ll also be a host of spinning going …

“Gothic”

As one of the most progressive art venues behind the Orange Curtain, the OC Museum of Contemporary Art dedicates its exhibition space to alternative, cutting-edge imaginings that focus on what it calls, “the quality of encounter.” Experimentation and social engagement …

Rebelution Peace of Mind Tour

Rebelution celebrates the love and good vibrations with its unique hybrid of Cali reggae, ska and roots that’s all about the positivity. Originally from Santa Barbara, the quartet specializes in kick-back, worry-free attitudes and are never short on dispensing the …

High Times 2012 Medical Cannabis Cup

Hey, why should Denver and San Francisco get all the fun? Not any more as the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup is (finally!) coming to L.A. this month with the world’s finest meds competition. Call it “Clash of the Titans” …

Advanced Auto Parts Monster Jam

Wow, has it been 30 years already? Make that 30 years of car crushing, fender bashing, big-air getting action because Monster Jam fans (a most discriminating lot) will settle for nothing less. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the …

A Little Dab’ll Do Ya

Patients flock to new forms of concentrated cannabis and ways to ingest them
 
Medical cannabis patients from Southern California and beyond have begun embracing forms of concentrates in record numbers this year, watchers say. A historic rollback of prohibition is allowing …

Granolatown

New TV series Portlandia skewers the subcultural silliness of Oregon’s wheat germ-soaked city
 
Portland, we’ve learned thanks to the new counter culture touchstone of Independent Film Channel television series Portlandia, is where young people go to retire. The city’s comfortably close …

Locked Up Abroad!

Strict-as-hell Japan treats a patient like a criminal
 
Japan is famous for a lot of things—spectacular natural beauty, excellence in the arts and technology and outstanding cuisine, to name a few.
But in 2011, two events—both of which took place in the …

Clearing the Air

Attorney General Kamala Harris wants state lawmakers to clarify California’s MMJ regulations

If California Attorney Gen. Kamala Harris seems confused by the state’s medical marijuana laws—to the point that she recently sent letters to state legislators asking them clarify what Proposition …

Religious Medicine

Unity Lewis breaks down marijuana’s significance
 
If you enjoy authentic underground Cali hip-hop with a sociopolitical edge, the music of Unity Lewis is what you’re looking for. Also known as Young Precise for the surgically precise lyrical delivery, the man is …

Foul Play

Bob Saget is always funnier when he embraces his dark side
 
It’s easy to talk to Bob Saget. He’s friendly, down-to-earth and unfailingly self-deprecating. It’s when you sit down later to try and transcribe the interview that you realize you’ve got …

Who’s Your Daddy?

Danny Tanner rocked television fatherhood—but he wasn’t alone
 
Bob Saget is a complicated man. He’s got layers of personality, but the one we all remember him by most is Danny Tanner—that dorky, clean freak, single father that raised D.J., Stephanie and, …