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Family killer John List was the subject of a landmark tabloid television re-enactment
Family killer John E. List has died at 82. The former Sunday school teacher murdered his wife, mother and three teenage kids in their home on November 9, 1971. He'd planned the murders meticulously, lined up the bodies, left a classical music LP on autoplay and disappeared into the wind. It was…
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New FM news station coming
Radio One has agreed to sell KRBV-FM, also known as V100, to the company that used to operate KBIG and KZLA here. Bonneville is paying...
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Pellicano Trial: Chuck Roven Up Tuesday
Hollywood producer Chuck Roven will testify tomorrow. Maybe now we'll find out what really happened between director John McTiernan and Roven over the movie Rollerball. Pellicano Perp Walk: Big-Time Movie Director John McTiernan Cops Guilty Plea UPDATED: McTiernan-Roven Demystified…
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That’s All You’ve Got?
A Tuesday night poetry reading at the Beat Museum Squeezed into a hard gray folding chair and I’m not drunk enough for this shit but a friend is reading so I have to attend A young man steps to the mike, yellow-blonde hair, barely old enough to shave His hand trembles as he recites from the…
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Extra, Extra: Gas Prices Gone Way Down
Photo of the Watts Towers by cyrenakh via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Gas prices have gone down in California... two-tenths of a penny. W00t! A Villaraigosa/Yaroslavsky mayoral slugfest in next year's election? Nope, sorry. Zev wants to stay County style, at least for now. A…
More ramping up at AP
The every-burgeoning Los Angeles entertainment desk of Associated Press snagged a photo editor from Getty Images. Press release on the hire of Guinevere Smith as...
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L.A. observed via Bhutan
Lisa Napoli did a nice story on today's Marketplace about Ngawang, a 23-year-old DJ in Bhutan who is visiting — and discovering — Los Angeles...
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LA Times Festival of Books Announced
The weekend of April 26 is more than a month out, but one of the coolest festivals in this city has recently launched their updated schedule for this year's literary fête -- the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The event, which is the same weekend as Coachella, is full of panels, stage…
As Downtown Discussion Heats Up, MacDonald Leaves FilmL.A.
By Eric Richardson A production shoots on the 4th street freeway last August. Variety reports today that FilmL.A. president Steve MacDonald is leaving to take a job outside the entertainment industry. Over the weekend the AP pushed an article on Downtown filming, giving a good overview of the…
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LAT's Krikorian to join public defender
Greg Krikorian, a Los Angeles Times veteran who is the lead reporter on the Anthony Pellicano trial, applied for and received the recent buyout. He's...
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Sam approves of Sun-Times ribbing
CEO Sam Zell enjoyed the little dig his Chicago Tribune got in on the rival Sun-Times, which held a contest to let readers' express their...
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Netflix Site Down; Millions Left To Discover Other Entertainment Options [Video Ga Ga]
If you made plans to watch something that Netflix was scheduled to deliver to you tomorrow (probably Perfect Strangers: The Complete Second Season, Disc Four), now might be a good time to find something else to do. Seems that Netflix has been undergoing some major technical issues all day, issues…
Aptera Typ 1: To Hit California Roads This Year
Photo via Aptera's website As we wait for the first Tesla dealership to open here in Los Angeles, many others are looking for a something a wee bit more affordable than $99,000. And while a nearly $30,000 car is not considered to be "on the cheap," you probably save in the end with this…
LA WordPress Users Group at The Farmers Market (Sunday, April 6, 2008) - Upcoming
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David Schwimmer, The Chapin Sisters, Tex Avery [To Do]
· Reel Talk with Stephen Farber at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood screens Run, Fat Boy, Run, followed by discussion with director David "Ross" Schwimmer. · Get into the groove with The Chapin Sisters at the Echo, Bell X1 and the Submarines at the Troubadour, AJ McLean (of Backstreet Boys…
Video of the Day: PE With Coach Wiener
Is your jump shot lacking? Are your rebound skills not up to par? Well never you fear, Coach Wiener is here! Honor Student (an up-and-coming Los Angeles sketch/short-film troupe) brings you the latest installment of the Peabody-winning* sports series, "PE With Coach Wiener." *J/K on the…
James Caan Gracefully Slides Further Into His Cranky Old Man Phase [A Call To The Bullpen]
boomp3.com And another thing about these fuckin' kids today is that they don't know how to wear a pair of pants. How do you fuck that up? Whatever happened going down to Brooks Brothers and having some tailor taking your measurements and coming back with a pair of pants that fits? And what's…
Eliot Spitzer isn't half as perverted as the NY Post
According to the New York Post, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will pay to watch couples have sex. And according to our robust San Fernando Valley multi-billion dollar porn industry - so will EVERYONE else....
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greengelato's good food guide
really cool google map of yum places to eat
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Corinne Bailey Rae only seemed least likely to be involved in a scandalous, tragic, drug-related death
Looking back, it seems easy enough to figure which of the UK song girls who became big Starbucks stars in the past two years would not wind up with a drug-related death on her biography, let alone in her marriage. From cutting marks to flesh-eating bacteria, scrawny Amy Winehouse has been up…
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Neil Aspinall was the 5th... or 6th or 7th... Beatle
A tinge of sadness touches the Rutlemania! opening in New York this week, as Neil Aspinall, The Beatles' original road manager and, for forty years, the man who ran their empire, died there last night at 66. UPDATE: One of the more fascinating segments of Neil Aspinall’s obit is the revelation…
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TV Junkie: Monday - Bush's War
Here on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War with over 4,000 American dead and tens of thousands of Americans wounded PBS' Frontline launches its two-part special "Bush's War". Of course conservative pundits will accuse PBS of being the citadel of the liberal media but Ann Coulter, Sean…
Defamer Exclusive: JC Chasez And Chace Crawford's Cabana Rendezvous...With Photo! [Citizen Paparazzi]
Chace Crawford, the Gossip Girl star so pretty that one bat of his lashes is enough to instantly knock crowds of his tweenage fanbase clear unconscious, has been linked quite a bit lately to former NSYNC member JC Chasez. Not even a suspiciously timed and worded Page Six item describing the actor…
Rachael Yamagata @ Hotel Cafe, 3/18/08
Last Tuesday, singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata (MySpace) performed two sold-out shows at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. A former Hotel Cafe Tour alumnus, Yamagata's appearance there two years ago drew fans from all over Southern California, and these shows were no different, with fans lining…
Elisabeth Hasselbeck On The Subtle Differences Between PB&J Sandwiches and Cannibalism [Choosy Mothers Choose JIF]
newVideoPlayer("revfight_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");In these politically charged times, we are hard pressed to think of four more qualified individuals to address the delicate issue of race and religion than three comediennes and a former reality show contestant. That said, we don't cast The View,…