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How to pronounce Hong-Chih Kuo
Very interesting blog post about the linguistic nuances of the Taiwanese lefthander's last name....
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Expat comfort food: The quirky mix at L.A.'s Hong Kong-style coffee shops
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Bad Blood
Crazy-ass superbitch supermodel Naomi Campbell was all-out denied by a Brazilian blood bank yesterday when she tried to donate! Allegedly, she couldn’t give her life juice because she had had surgery too recently (to remove a cyst), not because she’s so cold blooded. Pa dum pum! In…
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LAist @ ad:tech SF
LAist is at ad:tech SF to cover developments in media as well as how advertisers are planning on targeting you everywhere-anytime. There are ad:tech conferences all over the world but this is the big one with their annual awards ceremony and everything - winners were announced tonight and are…
Yet Another Really Bad Marketing Idea...
I just saw Brad Garrett of Fox's Til Death interviewed by Entertainment Tonight's newest correspondent: an M&M. A red one. Garrett didn't even look embarrassed. Needless to say, the candy was more hard-hitting than Mary Hart.
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Gators go wild in Dr. Ruehl's Realm of Bizarre News
The Realm Of Bizarre News, Episode XVIIIn today's episode, Tabloid Baby pal, contributor, columnist-- and TV & movie-- Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D. tackles grave matters-- and wrestles alligators! And gets bitten!
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Boyle Heights Fire Smokes Traffic*
Photo by Callie Miller/LAist A fire starting in a one story commercial building around 5:45 p.m. this evening added to this afternoon's rush hour traffic, with both 6th and 7th Street bridges closed and traffic being diverted to side streets. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the…
Home of the Jewish American Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Chapter
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Very Pro Forma At SAG-AMPTP Talks
DAY 2: SAG and the AMPTP issued another statement about their negotiations that says nothing. Talks will resume tomorrow at 10:00 AM. I hear everything is very "pro forma" at this early stage. In other words, no fireworks yet.
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Extra, Extra: More Green For Your Scene
Photo by kpeII via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The elderly women known as the 'Black Widows' have been found guilty of murder conspiracy. Partial verdicts were read today against 77-year-old Helen Golay and 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt for their roles in two murders. A…
Bert Fields To Testify Possibly Friday...
So Hollywood's uber-litigator Bert Fields keeps getting bumped, and bumped again, so the earliest he could take the witness stand in the Pellicano federal trial is Friday, according to my colleague Steven Mikulan who's reporting on it for DHD and LA Weekly. Tomorrow, lawyers on both sides will…
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Price of Gas Going into 'Unchartered Territory'
Mark Lacter at LA Biz Observed is reporting that "the per-barrel price of crude was reached in after-hours electronic trading after the Energy Department reported unexpected declines in U.S. crude inventories and refinery operating rates." That means a barrel is now $115.31 easily tipping…
Rickrolling The Baby [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("rickbaby_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); · Sure, Rickrolling is a fun way to amuse yourself while harmlessly pranking your friends. But were you aware it might have added benefits, such as quieting your cranky infant? [YouTube] · Meet Tricia Walsh Smith, who's harnessed…
Jason Segel Enters Exclusive Full-Frontal Male Nudity Club In 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' [The Full Monty]
Judd Apatow has fulfilled his promise to "shake Americans from their squeamishness about male anatomy in movies" by featuring Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel completely nude in the movie's pivotal break-up scene. And as the LAT pointed out yesterday, Segel's manhood provides the film's…
LAist Inbox: $200 Ticket for Smoking on a Burbank Sidewalk?
Photo by marcbenton via Flickr On LAist's "Contribute" page, there are three ways you can participate: submit a link, join the LAist Featured Photos group on Flickr or leave us an anonymous tip. And one reader did more just leave a tip, he submitted an entire rant. It's a good rant and it…
Robert Downey Jr. Will Plug 'Iron Man' By Continuing His Ongoing Public Discussion About Drugs And Sex [The Drug Years]
Though we certainly feel pangs of sorrow for the impossible-not-to-adore Robert Downey Jr. whenever we read the latest interview with him unloading his thoughts on what it was like to be a druggie, we're wondering if it's possible to publish a story about the guy without it feeling like a public…
Hiller commits to LAT foreign bureaus
In a Q&A with Forbes' Louis Hau, L.A. Times Publisher David Hiller answers one of the lingering questions about the future paper: The Los Angeles...
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Hiller commits to LAT foreign bureaus *
In a Q&A with Forbes' Louis Hau, L.A. Times Publisher David Hiller answers one of the lingering questions about the future paper: The Los Angeles...
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The Papal Chase
I wouldn't get into a theological argument with my fellow Pittsburgh native Archbishop Donald Wuerl, of Washington, D.C. But the archbishop has an unorthodox view of what goes on in American law schools. Wuerl is chancellor of the Catholic University...
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Remembering Virginia Tech at UCLA
Photo by Ric Francis/AP It was a year ago today that a student gunned down 32 people in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech. The incident was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Today at UCLA, college students, alumni and family members of gun violence victims participated in a…
Don't Go In There For A Good Ten Minutes [A Call To The Bullpen]
boomp3.com Beloved Coen Brothers regular John Goodman was spotted exit a restroom in Malibu early this morning. Goodman did his best Ace Ventura impression and said that he did not want to go in there for a while. "I had one too many wings the other night over at Happy Endings," Goodman…
Different Cities, but Same Story on Sidewalks
Sidewalk closure on Grand Avenue, across from Disney Hall. Photo by Eric Richardson. Just a few weeks ago we ran a piece chastizing the city for talking up a pedestrian friendly Downtown, while at the same time allowing sidewalks to be closed indefinitely. It seems the problem isn't…
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LA Sues Blue Cross, Max Penalty Could be Over $1 Billion
For the second time, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is suing a health plan provider, the first being Health Net Inc. in February. Today, the announcement to sue Anthem Blue Cross of California and Anthem Blue Cross Life & Health came after launching www.protectingtheinsured.org, a city…
Downtown Delegation Heads North to Ride Streetcars
A Portland streetcar in the Pearl District. Photo by Phillip J. Salzman. Councilman Jose Huizar leads a trip to the Pacific Northwest this week, as a delegation of approximately two dozen head to Portland and Seattle to ride streetcars and learn how a similar system could work here in…
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Jews Off the Hook At Last as Christian Mini-Moguls Fight Amongst Themselves [Holy Wars]
Come for the illustration featuring Jesus locked in fisticuffs with a Jewish studio mogul, but stay a while at Heeb Magazine for Eric Kohn's nifty survey of how Mel Gibson ruined it for the rest of the Christians trying to get a leg up in Hollywood. Well, kind of: It turns out all the conspiracy…
Shaming the right people
Pope Benedict XVI’s comment on his flight to the United States that “we are deeply ashamed” of pedophile priests may not appease Catholics in Boston who are upset that his American tour will bypass their archdiocese. But the pope’s full...
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Seagal vs. Chan
Hey would-be Beijing protestors, watch out for Jackie Chan. The Hong Kong action hero isn't putting up with any lip, as Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker reports: Chan told me he's also going to be part of the torch relay...
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L.A. Times Book Festival: Mark your calendars
The L.A. Times Festival of Books seminars are stronger in areas like mystery, journalism, Hollywood and kids books than food writing, with lots of notable writers attending like some of my favorites Susan Straight, Denise Hamilton and Francesca Lia Block. But anyhoo, here's the food-oriented sked:…
TV Junkie: Wednesday
MTV's "The Real World" returns for its 20th season which is scary because I remember the premiere of this show back in 1992. My roommates and I, and our significant others (or not) would get together and watch the show which seemed scarily innovative at the time - _anything_ could happen! From…
Uwe Boll: 'How Can I Be The Worst Director Alive When Michael Bay Walks Among Us?' [Extended Challenges]
The Stop Dr. Uwe Boll online petition ticks ever upward, a sort of virtual career death clock whose every added signature brings us one tantalizing step closer to the million required to ensure the director never unleashes another atrociously realized video game adaptation on a public who strongly…
Supremes Say Yes (Sort of) to Legal Injection
Today, the US Supreme Court voted in the much-watched case of Baze v. Reese that lethal injection doesn’t violate the eighth amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. This means that California’s executions will likely start up again. (The LA Times covers the CA…
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Come to Think Of It, All That Death and Torture in Iraq Really Is Kind of Hilarious [Laugh Riots]
There's plenty of studio hand-wringing and noose-tying to go around as movies about the Iraq War yield one box-office bomb after another. But a feature in this week's Village Voice reveals a new strategy for getting over those wartime blahs and rolling back into the black: Make 'em laugh! Not that…
Found in LA: Darth Vader Loose in the City
So, it was just a typical Los Angeles day of running errands. And then I noticed that across the street, Darth Vader was waiting at the bus stop with a group of seemingly oblivious commuters. Still kind of typical, since I live near the studios. Of course I had to get a picture for you guys.…
DEVELOPING: Coachella Poster-Makers Shore Up Gaping Hole In Official Coachella Poster
The hole-in-the-poster which at one time led to rampant very little speculation as to what new headliner might fill its gap has now been officially shored up over at Coachella.com, with the unpronounceable-in-any-tongue symbol of Prince pointing menacingly now toward the surname of Friday’s…
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Snarky Website Drives 'Grey's Anatomy' Star To Binge Eating [A Call To The Bullpen]
boomp3.com This photograph of Katherine Heigl was taken after she received word that once again she was the punch line of a joke on gossip site. She then proceeded to eat all the sweets that the craft services table had to offer, including one quickly devoured Hostess cupcake. Reportedly,…
AXIS Dance Company Rolls into the Southland
Twenty years ago, former champion equestrian Judith Smith became involved with a movement class for wheelchair-bound women. She, herself, had injured her spinal cord in a car accident and could no longer ride. The class created its first choreography, which piqued people's interest and…
Introducing The First 'Step It Up & Dance' Contestant With An Inevitable Gay Porn Past [Zip It Up And Dance]
The Circle of Vaguely Latino-Looking Reality Stars With Gay Porn Pasts continues with news (and accompanying suite of fleshy, very NSFW photos) that Step It Up & Dance contestant Michael, described by Bravo's official site as living by the motto, "life is my canvas, the beat is my soul, crank…
Machine Project's Giant Joystick
Perennial abLA favorite Machine Project is hosting a super fun video-game-themed event this Thursday in conjunction with the Echo Park Film Center:Have you seen King of Kong, that documentary about extreme videogame nuts who battle over the title of World...
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Actors Are Doing It For/To Themselves
While we wait to see if there's a SAG strike or not. Let's take a moment on this internet to actually think about actors for a change. Tricia Walsh Smith did a video about her divorce. Wow. As one video responder puts it, "You just admitted to God and to da world that you never…
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Club Store Opening Provides a City Opportunity
The City Employees Club of Los Angeles is prepping to open a retail presence at 120 W. 2nd street. Photo by Ed Fuentes. The City Employees Club of Los Angeles will soon be opening a retail presence at 120 W. 2nd street, in the space formerly occupied by Lofty Dog. According to Robert…
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Barracuda Meets Herakut; Laurel Cyn. Art Revealed
Photo of Herakut in their process by Carmichael Gallery Germany street art duo, Herakut, is in Los Angeles this week and on Monday they hit up Melrose clothing store Barracuda's roof. Herakut's first U.S. art show opened Saturday night with great success at the Carmichael Gallery of…
The Anti-Idea Train rolled inexorably closer ... [The End Of Ideas]
The Anti-Idea Train rolled inexorably closer to derailing today with word that Orlando Bloom is among principals involved in remaking Le Cercle Rouge, the great Jean-Pierre Melville heist film from 1970. We don't know what flip-flopped our stomachs more: the idea of the milquetoast Bloom slipping…
Man on Bicycle Killed by Gunfire
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives are seeking the public's help for their investigation concerning a 24-year-old man who was murdered while sitting on a bicycle at around 12:45 a.m. on April 15, 2008. The victim, Vidal Jose...