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The Waffle: Hollywood’s New Breakfast Joint/Bar
“hey, i wanna check out this new place daily candy wrote about today.the waffle. i checked out their menu and it sounds cool and they’re open til 4am on fri/sat nites.” My friend Shelley IM’d me this last week. I gave their menu a look-see, Googled them and found that not…
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Return to Corky's: the HerEx reunion
Alumni of the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner, as they called it toward the end, are gathering March 13 at the L.A. Press Club. The...
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Marathon Man -- Running Off at the Mouth
What year is this again? What city? The Los Angeles Marathon gimmicked Sunday’s race to get a more thrilling finish. The 20-minute head start for women runners gave the victory and a six-figure bonus to the winner, the Russian woman...
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The "Here in Van Nuys" Shop at Cafe Press.
For years, fashionable people in Van Nuys, the divas you see waiting at the bus stop, the ladies pushing the shopping baskets and the 250 pound 10-year-olds tagging cinder block walls, have quietly suffered because there is not a single stylish place to shop in Van Nuys. (Target excepted).Now, I…
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Gangbanger Margaret B. Jones is Really Peggy Seltzer, Valley Girl
Margaret B. Jones = big lying liar. Not a foster kid, didn't grow up in South Central, didn't deliver drugs, didn't even go to U of Oregon. Oh the humanity. But she once met some gang types. She's really Campbell...
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You Got A Map You Ain't Showin' Me, Magellan? [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("nicknames_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· Freckles. Cowboy. Skeletor. Sweetheart. Mergatroid. Chachi. Oliver Twist. Hoss. Just a handful of the nicknames that Sawyer has called people on Lost over the years. [YouTube via Detroit News] · We have no idea how they pulled…
Drew Barrymore Feels So Much Better After Giving Those Starving African Children A Fraction Of Her 'Music And Lyrics' Salary [Celeb Causes]
newVideoPlayer("drewmillion_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");It's Oprah's Big Give fever! YOU get to give! And YOU get to give! EVeryBOdy GETS to GIVE! To start the ball rolling, we offer documented Mac-enthusiast Drew Barrymore, who made a donation of $1 million of her personal fortune to an…
Extra, Extra: Insert Metaphor Here
Photo by pink_fish13 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Police are investigating the tragic shooting death of Los Angeles High School's Jamiel Shaw. The football MVP was gunned down by gang members last night. The 17-year-old's mother is on her second tour of duty in Iraq. The…
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Does Nicole Kidman Have The Meanest Publicist In Hollywood? [Of Publicists And Idiots]
Publicists tend to be one of two things: boring, lips-sealed mouthpieces armed with "no comment" at every twist and turn or loud-mouthed toughies whose sole duty on this planet is to defend their Amazonian clients. Nicole Kidman, for better or worse, is repped by the latter: one Catherine Olim,…
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Matt Dillon Thinks A Dirty Pap's A Dirty Pap, Regardless Of Age [High School Shutterbug]
newVideoPlayer("tmzmatt_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");Austin Visschedyk, Kid Pap: Name ring any bells? We devoted several electronic column inches to the juvenile paparazzi after he was profiled by the NY Times, one of a growing member of a new tween underclass toiling in the Hollywood trenches. Like…
Stevie D is like the new Dane Cook. Only funny.
The latest comedy star from the Great American South is heading to Hollywood in a 1978 Trans Am called The Kentucky Porsche and heading to a television set near you. In the tradition of Jeff Foxworthy, Larry The Cable Guy and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock’n’roll comic who calls himself Stevie D…
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Sally Struthers Doesn't Mind Being Photographed, No Matter How She Looks [Dirt Sandwich]
newVideoPlayer("ds3_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");If there's one thing you can count on in a world that's wild at heart and weird on top, it's that the celebrity infotainment shows will come up with at least a handful of moments every week that'll make you groan, chuckle and hurl simultaneously. As…
Mrs. Roper Makes A Triumphant Return To Hollywood [A Call To The Bullpen]
As reality TV star Lauren Conrad brilliantly illustrates, the best part of fame and celebrity might just be knowing that you're allowed to dress like Mrs. Roper from Three's Company and still considered to be "fashion forward." [Photo Credit: Bauer Griffin]
Guide to March Rock Music Residencies
Test Your Reflex plays this month at Hotel Cafe on Wednesdays | Photo by Luke Wooden via their MySpace Despite SXSW starting up this week with 100+ Los Angeles based bands heading over there, residencies are growing stronger and more venue-diverse across the line, especially on Monday nights…
Kate Hudson On Katherine Heigl: 'Who Is She?' [Catfights]
With two superstar parents and a lifetime spent travelling in Hollywood circles, you'd think Kate Hudson would be pretty up on her brethren in the acting community (especially those actresses gracing the cover of just about every other glossy on the newsstand). But apparently the name Katherine…
Argument Leads to Freeway Shooting
Los Angeles: North Hollywood officers find victim of a single gunshot wound at Lankershim Boulevard and Hesby Avenue. On March 1, 2008, around 1:50 a.m., 26-year-old Bunthan Roeung and his friends were driving on Hollywood Boulevard when they had a...
Camera-Hogging Ladies Of 'The View' Can't Wrap Their Heads Around The Shameless Famewhores Of 'Celebrity Rehab' [The Tough Questions]
newVideoPlayer("drewview_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");Dr. Drew appeared on The View today to update the world on the status of his Celebrity Rehab patients (tally: one jailed, one Scientology convert, the rest currently missing). The hosts had a difficult time swallowing one point in particular,…
Rutles reunion brings Neil Innes to Hollywood!
Neil Innes, subject and star of the new musical documentary feature, The Seventh Python from our pals at Frozen Pictures, is coming to Los Angeles! Neil will be joining legendary Eric Idle, erstwhile Beach Boy Ricky Fataar and the dour-faced John Halsey-- AKA Dirk, Nasty, Stig & Barry-- to…
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Photo Essay: The LA Marathon
Photo by ve®onica via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Thanks to our shutterbug readers, our LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr was gifted with some shots from yesterday's 23rd Annual LA Marathon. Pictured above is Tatiana Aryasova in the middle of the group, who won the "Banco…
And the Dodger Talk host is...
Emmy winning writer, director, producer and blogger Ken Levine will do the post-game honors on KABC 790 AM this season. Levine has done play-by-play gigs...
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40 Year-Olds, Air Pollution, Petra Haden [To Do]
· Because you just realized you are old: Forty-year-olds look back at their teenage selves, in this concert reading of a musical called 40 is the New 15 at the The Colony Theatre. · Because you like breathing: How Air Pollution Affects Us All- Forum 2008 at the Mark Taper…
Streetsblog Makes Home in Los Angeles
Photo of the 605 Freeway by billaday via Flickr It's about time. As of today, NYC Streets Renaissance's StreetsBlog has officially franchised out to our city, that is, you know, duhhhh, full of streets and the love and hate of them. NYC Blogger Aaron Naparstek welcomes the LA Editor and so do…
First Racy 'American Idol' Photo To Surface Is Something Of A Letdown [Disappointments]
We're still holding out for the American Idol scandal motherload, but so far, we've had to settle for underwhelming pseudo-dirt regarding the wig-wearing, gay-stripping skeletons hiding inside some of the male contestants' closets. Even that Idol scandal mainstay--the racy photo--is a little bit…
Politics wins again at LAT website
News and politics did well in the LATimes.com stats for February, so maybe there's hope yet. Politics blog Top of the Ticket led the pack...
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Hillary in Texas: Droppin' Them G's!
If you listen to Hillary Clinton (born and raised in Park Ridge, IL) campaigning in Texas these past few days, you will notice that the woman of a thousand personalities is dropping the "-ing" so that her cadence will appeal to the Lone Star State.Running becomes runnin', hoping and praying is…
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Have You Seen These Bones?
When plain old ski masks just won't do, what's a neighborhood robber to do? For one thief in such a predicament, the solution was to don a skeleton costume and to hit up a Jack In the Box and a mini mart in North Hollywood in an attempt to get some cash. The heist at the Jack In the Box on…
Hugh Hefner Wants Olsen Twins in Playboy, Loyal Readers Promptly Cancel Subscriptions [Sexy Boys]
Has the Hef finally reached that age where he should start relegating his casting decisions to someone with, ahem, better vision? After understandably courting Lindsay Lohan to pose for Playboy following her NY Mag shoot (Note: we may have typed the phrase "following her NY Mag shoot"…
Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Tom Petty To Headline Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco, August 22-24
RADIOHEAD PRETTY MUCH GETTING USED TO THE WHOLE “BILLED WITH JACK JOHNSON” ROUTINE AT THIS POINT This Just In! Another Radiohead/JJ mash-up hits the west coast in August: Radiohead, Tom Petty and Jack Johnson lead the lineup for the debut of the Outside Lands Music & Arts…
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A highly placed Defamer operative asks: "Which ... [Blind Items]
A highly placed Defamer operative asks: "Which hunky entertainment news anchor has been quietly dismissed for showing up to work drunk? (Quite a feat, considering some of his co-workers' track records.) But the real dirt is even better--apparently, he's gone through all of this once before." Hint:…
Van Halen Tour Dates Rescheduled; Not Cancelled
Now that the rumor mill has died down (thanks again TMZ, see what you started), Pollstar recapped a statement from tour organizer Live Nation this afternoon regarding the state of the Van Halen tour at present: Despite gleeful rumors to the contrary from other “news sources,” Van…
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Is Your Little Blessing a Tagger?
God, sometimes we love Orange County. It's such a parody of itself at times, which we admire. Especially when it comes to brilliance like the following found over at Laughing Squid. You see, the city of Santa Ana (oy) wants to help parents determine, via the graphic above, whether or not their…
It's a sad day in the blogosphere when the ... [Rumors Gone Bad]
It's a sad day in the blogosphere when the one bit of happy news we've heard all day proves to be a complete farce. Us has just posted a statement from Winona Ryder's rep informing all Wino4eva enthusiasts that the actress is not, in fact, engaged to boyfriend Blake Sennett. Poor Winona. Just when…