I'm deeply saddened by the deaths of Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks this year. Forty-six years ago I attended what has been described as the greatest Allman Brothers show ever, what Trucks called "the night we played until after the sun came up."
Tommy Chong is preparing for cancer surgery at the end off the month. At the Las Vegas Hempfest on Oct. 3, he joked, "The Republican Party and Tommy Chong have one thing in common: We're both having problems with assholes. I've got a tumor and the Republican Party has Trump."
Sean Penn, who played Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," decided to portray another character recently: a journalist. In this role, he scored a major coup by interviewing the notorious Mexican drug lord, "El Chapo" Guzman, shortly before his latest capture.
If Attorney General Eric Holder really wants to overhaul drug sentencing laws, he should encourage Congress to pass mandatory maximum punishments and eliminate minimums.
Want more proof that Rep. Earl Blumenauer is the coolest guy in Congress? Well, he attended Willamette Week's Cultivation Classic judging contest in Portland on Apr. 30 and handed out the awards.
While notorious pot seed salesman and cannabis activist Marc Emery awaits the final phase of his release from U.S. prison and deportation to Canada, his wife Jodie is hoping to get the Liberal Party's nod to run for Parliament.
The vitriol against Miley Cyrus has reached a fever pitch. So we asked blogger Beth Mann to explain what's really behind the "slut-shaming" of former Hannah Montana.
