L.A. Weekly | Steven Leigh Morris

Pee-Wee's Big Comeback: 18 Years After a Fall, Paul Reubens Returnsnew

Pee-wee Herman is a fey and infantile parody of an awkward child circa 1961, even though the movie Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is set in the 1980s. When called names by the neighborhood bully, he chirps back, “I know you are, but what am I?”

L.A. Weekly | Steven Leigh Morris | 01-22-2010 | Performance

Tags: Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman, Los Angeles

The Web Show for Misfit Teenage Girls and Women in Their 30s Who Like to Knitnew

Each five-minute weekly episode of Cute With Chris is now viewed by 100,000 to a million people, depending on where it lands on global search engines. As a result, Chris Leavins sardonically describes himself as both a cult leader and a microcelebrity.

L.A. Weekly | Steven Leigh Morris | 01-23-2009 | Tech

Tags: Chris Leavins, Cute With Chris, web tv

Critic-o-Meter: Grading, or Degrading?new

On Friday, theater critic-mavens Isaac Butler and Rob Weinert-Kendt officially launched their ambitious labor of love, Critic-o-Meter, a blog ratings system inspired directly by Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and philosophically by Zagat.

L.A. Weekly | Steven Leigh Morris | 12-12-2008 | Theater

Tags: theater, Reviews, web culture, aggregation, Critic-o-Meter

The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Railnew

With all the bad news out there about L.A.'s public transportation, it's no wonder that so many of us don't even bother trying to get anyplace by bus or light rail. But after spending several months traveling around the city on trains and buses, I can report that our local transit has improved over the past couple of decades.

L.A. Weekly | Steven Leigh Morris | 12-01-2008 | Transportation

Tags: transportation, Los Angeles, mass transit, public transportation, buses, light rail, subway

Retired Russian Army Colonel Criticizes U.S. Actions in Iraq Even as Tanks Roll in Georgianew

Yuri Yuryevich, also a former journalist, says the idea of Russian censorship was concocted by the West -- investigative journalism no problem as long as president isn't criticized.

L.A. Weekly | Steven Leigh Morris | 08-18-2008 | International

Tags: Iraq, Georgia, foreign policy, international, censorship, Russia, war & peace, Yuri Yuryevich