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OC Sheriff's Investigator Found Dead in Unmarked Car
An on-duty Orange County sheriff's investigator was found dead in the driver's seat of an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria in Aliso Viejo on Wednesday. The veteran investigator's body was found about 2:30 p.m. in an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria parked in the parking lot of a shopping center in the…
Two and a half winners in this week's Opinion L.A. News Quiz
We have results in this week's Opinion L.A. News Quiz: One slam dunk, one squeaker and one stalemate. Limerick honors easily go to Mariposa's own Bob Arbogast, who provided the following succinct description of Detroit's mayoral controversy: There once was...
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"SHUT THIS THING DOWN, PLEASE!" Gawker Media joins our protest against filthy TMZ.com
"I can find nothing entertaining or redeeming in any of the site's content. It's all just base and poorly written and arbitrarily amoral. I'm just as complicit in the whole awful celebrity-industrial complex as they are, but good god let's try to have a little style while we ruin people's lives,…
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Kithaus.
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Kithaus., originally uploaded by Here in Van Nuys. It seems that this is not the time to discuss real estate. A realtor,…
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Extra, Extra: Hate, Skate, Evacuate
Photo by kristi.nicole via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr One week after being subdued in his cell with a taser gun and lapsing into a coma, 35-year-old Orange County inmate Jason Jesus Gomez has died, officials announced today. Gomez, who was in jail for a probation violation,…
USC Death in Dorms Appears to be Drug Overdose
At 12:01 p.m. today, the USC Department of Public Safety received a call from a Resident's Assistant in New North (dorms) that a student was not breathing. Captain David Carlisle of USC's DPS said that campus police arrived shortly after the call as well as Los Angeles Fire Department…
'Anthrax a gift from Osama'
Photo by hello_winnie via Flickr Oh, that nefarious and elusive Osama bin Laden is at it again... Someone tagged the side of a cargo container of a truck that arrived at the Long Beach Harbor. It read "Anthrax a gift from Osama." The mid-morning incident prompted a hazardous materials…
Daytripping to Riverside's Mission Inn
The Mission InnIt's not often that the Franklin Avenue crew makes it to the Inland Empire -- er, the 909. But our pals Denise and Geoff were finally making things legal, so it was off to San Bernardino county on Saturday.The couple -- who met at Variety, by the way (it's a Hollywood trade paper…
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The Hunted Becomes The Hunter [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("cereallindz_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· Times sure are tough for La Lohan these days. With her her bank accounts rapidly dwindling, it appears that she has been forced into indentured servitude alongside the likes of Surfer Dude and Spiky Tips as one of Harvey Levin's…
Dear LAist: Can I Get Some Hybrid Parking Clarification Here?
Dear LAist; So the City Council changed the law for hybrid car parking on Friday, then reneged it yesterday. So as of today, what the hell can I do?So here's the deal: As of right now, the pilot program for hybrids that has been in effect for the last few years is still current today. That…
it's off to D.C. for me!!!
Tonight I leave for a weekend jaunt back to D.C. and the surrounding environs, a place I like to call “where I grew up.” From age 0 – 18 that part of the U.S. shaped my life. From age 18...
Diablo Cody Takes Us to Cafe Triste [Honest To Blog]
newVideoPlayer("junoextra_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");Oh cruel fate, to learn today that Ellen Page was one deleted musical scene away from certain Oscar victory. Thankfully, the kind people at Amazon have righted the sitch (man, we're getting Diablo'd just thinking about it), offering the Cafe…
Ten Weekends of Renaissance Festivities
If you went to Renaissance School March 15, or even if you didn't, two months of living history activities will give you an opportunity to practice your knight and pirate...
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DWP Rate Hikes Get Initial Approval, Councilman Uses Death as One Reason
Photo of the DWP Parking lot by Omar Omar via Flickr This morning, the Los Angeles City Council gave a first round of approval for water and power rate hikes, saying infrastructure is needed to be updated. Over the next year and a half, monthly rates are expected to increase to around $7.25…
After Delay, 7th Street Finally Getting Lit?
A city crew installs wiring at the corner of 7th and Hill. Photo by Eric Richardson. A little over ten months after the fixtures were installed on the sidewalk, the pedestrian lights installed on 7th street east of Hill look to finally be getting a chance to light up. A Bureau of Street…
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LA Weekly - Eat+Drink - Khun Dom: Undercover Thai - Jonathan Gold - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
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Pellicano Trial Update
Chris Rock testifies Friday at 8 AM. I hear Michael Ovitz, and former journalists Bernie Weinraub and Anita Busch, will probably testify next week. MORE
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Hall and Oates Playing Troubadour in May
Daryl Hall and John Oates will “Return to the Troubadour,” performing at the legendary L.A. venue for the first time since they first played there 35 years ago. The shows will take place on May 22-23, two days after the best-selling pop-rock duo of all time are saluted with a musical…
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Jamie Lynn Spears' Wedding To Include One Hot Body, One Bridesmaid Named Britney [Engaged And Underage]
There's some good news and bad news to report regarding Juno Lynn Spears' wedding plans and, in standard fashion, we'll present the bad news first: Jamie Lynn will apparently not be getting hitched, nor moving back to, LA. Sorry to disappoint any of you who adore the sounds of helicopters circling…
This Month in Comedy
Comedy-rich LA has a lot to choose from. Here are some highlights for the month of April: Upright Citizen's Brigade LA has Jeff Garlin on Sundays and Greg Proops & Ryan Stiles on April 9th. Jon Lovitz @ The Laugh Factory Hollywood every Thursday April 4-6 Jay Mohr @ The Brea Improv April…
Cefiore's 7th Street Competition: The Drug Store
The Carrier Center, at 600 W. 7th, soon to be the site of an unlikely dessert competition. Photo by Eric Richardson. Frozen yogurt chain Cefiore is expanding into the Financial District, looking to open its second Downtown location in the Carrier Center at 600 W. 7th. When it does, its…
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Best Non-News News Item of the Day: Junk Email is Bad! Junk Email Spreads Viruses!
Once again, the Daily News has saved us all from despair, anguish, and strife by providing Angelenos with vital news about our city. From the folks who brought you "Breaking News: Patchy Drizzle Expected This Morning" comes "Junk e-mails spreading that promise erotic celebrity pics, Glendale…
Bruce Vilanch, Gutter Twins, Fools Fest Films [To Do]
· Lainie Kazan and Bruce Vilanch co-host "An Evening of Legendary Bingo" to benefit Media City Ballet at Hamburger Mary's. The listing says of the hosts: "one was Barbra Streisand's understudy for Funny Girl on Broadway; the other a child model for Lane Bryant," but we can't, for the life…
Nikki Finke's Obit for Guy McElwaine--Where Is It?
Nikki Finke's reporting that Hollywood institution Guy McElwaine died this morning, but the post seems to be MIA on Deadline Hollywood Daily. And speaking of Ms. Finke, NY Observer has a non-story about some sort of omission. She wrote about someone without mentioning that the guy was with a…
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The Music Box @ Fonda - 2008 - Spectacular Hollywood Special Events Venue!
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She & Him Add Second Vista Theater Show, Tickets Now On Sale
She & Him: M. Ward & Zooey Deschanel HEADS UP She & Him @ Vista Theatre Mon 4/28
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Male alive!
My former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette colleague Tim McNulty has a witty piece today about the quest for "the biggest prey this primary season . . . Pennsylvania's voting-age white male." McNulty writes: "The species is described -- depending on who's talking...
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TV Junkie: Wednesday
Spike has a new, totally original show that is essentially 'Cops' for the Drug Enforcement Agency and it has the totally original name 'DEA'. “Television viewers will get the same unprecedented access to the inner workings of the DEA as our camera crews – the raids, the risk and the…
Harvey Levin: Portrait Of A Gossiphound As A Young Man [The Wonder Years]
newVideoPlayer("levinyoung_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");Back in the early 1970s, when Lindsay Lohan's firecrotch was but a twinkle in young Harvey Levin's eye, the gossip kingpin was a politically-active student at the University Of California Santa Barbara. This recently resurfaced newsclip (exact…
Next thing you know, they'll be dropping their radio ventriloquist acts too
I'm a fan of vestigial cultural survivals, but even I reacted to news of the shutdown of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Orchestra with an incredulous "There are still radio orchestras?" To give some perspective, the legendary Arturo Toscanini-conducted NBC...
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AFTRA/AMPTP Start Formal Talks April 28
Statement from AFTRA today: “In order to advance the interests of all performers, out of concern for the health of the entertainment industry, and in the spirit of union solidarity, AFTRA has decided to commence negotiations with the AMPTP on April 28. AFTRA is committed above all to improving…
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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul :: Council of Los Angeles
Website of St. Vincent's thrift store in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles.
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Finke makes news again
Deadline Hollywood Daily blogger Nikki Finke didn't disclose that a law firm she wrote about is representing her in a lawsuit against E-Trade over surreptitious...
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You Still Have 2.5 Hours To Become a Minor Political Functionary!
Thanks to the most exciting primary season in years, there's been an understandable lot of talking about the process of selecting a presidential candidate, especially regarding Delegates, Super Delegates, and of course, Mutant Delegates from the sewars. Unfortunately, there's been a kind of…
Shakira Takes Celebrity Sex Tape Scandals To Whole New Level: The Threesome [Sex Tapes]
Another week, another sex tape rumor. But unlike the somewhat harmless photos of good girl Kristin Davis that caught our attention a few weeks back, the news that Shakira and boyfriend Antonio de la Rua may have recorded each other Pam-and-Tommy style aboard a yacht sounds a bit racier. As one…