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Revealed: The Long-Lost Fourth Jonas Brother!

Teenage heartthrobs Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Antonio Jonasraigosa and Nick Jonas participate in Earth Day festivities thrown by Disney. (Photo via Disney press release.)

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One of L.A.'s First Bloggers Hits The Decade Mark

(Flickr pic by AAJA-LA).That's Darleene Powells in the middle, along with me and former Fishbowl L.A.er Kate Coe. Darleene organized the recent AAJA panel we participated in on the intersection of journalism and blogging -- a subject Darleene (who now works at KCBS/KCAL on their web team) has…

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L.A.'s Most Functional Jogging Suits

Conceptual artist Sarah Ross' "Archsuits" don't look all that comfy, but they are quite functional: "Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and allow a wearer…

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Presented Park Plan a Start, but Illustrates the Need for a Cohesive Transit System

Kathleen McMullin asks a question about the park model. Photo by Eric Richardson. County Supervisor Gloria Molina welcomed the crowd gathered to hear of plans for a redone Civic Center park with a warning: dreaming is nice, but at the end of the day something's got to be built with the…

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She Is SO Off The Wagon…

Check out this video of Amy Winehouse totally drunk and full on slurring her words… Well, it’s better than smoking crack! Tags: Amy Winehouse, Drugs, Drunk, VideoShare This

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Devil's Night

Home of the Angel City Drive-In

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Morning Buzz: Tuesday 4.22.08

Guilty of both homeless murders Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, and Helen Golay, 77, were convicted of murdering two homeless men by running them over to collect...

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Tribeca Film Festival's Industry Events

2008 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL   Filmmaker & Industry Events and Panels   New York Filmmaker Party hosted by ESD (invitation only) Tuesday 4/22, 9PM–1AM, Tribeca Cinémas   Vanity Fair Party (invitation only) Tuesday 4/22, 7:30PM   Juror Lunch (Invitation only) Wednesday 4/23, Noon  …

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AMPTP Disses WGA For Fi-Core Reveal

Here's yet more fallout from that WGA East and West leadership's decision to make public to its members the names of those writers who went fi-core during the strike: April 22, 2008 -- The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers issued this statement today regarding an unfair labor…

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Win Tickets to See John Malkovich in "Seduction and Despair"

The show is Saturday, May 3, 2008, 8pm and Sunday and May 4, 2008, 8pm Barnum Hall, Santa Monica. The show is described as: Actor John Malkovich and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra present "Seduction and Despair," an original multi-media concert presentation directed by and starring the…

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Thanks, TMZ Staff, for showing off your illiteracy

This just in from the corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com: Bitter "Idol" Reject Claims She's Not Bitter Posted Apr 22nd 2008 7:15PM by TMZ Staff Bitter: n. 1) One who complains about the length of time spent with a singing coach on a show one was kicked off of more than 5 years ago... Note…

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Mystery Behind ICM's New Talent Hire

There seems to be some confusion in the agent world exactly why ICM just hired back alumnus Scott Wexler as its newest talent tenpercenter. Wexler has been a manager at three different management companies -- AMG, 3Arts, and Anonymous Content -- but I'm told his biggest clients, Josh Lucas and…

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Extra Extra: Go Green!

Photo at Joshua Tree by Lush.i.ous via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Want to read an article by somebody who actually doesn't have their head up their ass re: the whole "eating sustainably" thing? Get thee over to NY Times, where Michael Pollan tells you why you should bother…

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Video of the Day: Bicycle Riding on the 10, 405

Via StreetsblogLA Bicycle riding on a road designated by Caltrans as a highway/freeway is illegal except when there is no reasonable or possible route for a cyclist to take (for example, you can ride your bike on Interstate 5 through Camp Pendelton). It's safe to say, there are plenty of…

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Special Orders do upset the Grand Canyon State

Lest we think the Special Order 40 controversy is just an L.A. thang, the Arizona state legislature has voted overwhelmingly to prohibit local police departments from instituting similar rules. According to AP: The bill also would prohibit county and city...

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How We Met A Sitcom In Dire Need Of Some More Britney [Short Ends]

newVideoPlayer("himmusic_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· Apparently How I Met Your Mother's Canadian mall-star of the 1980s Robin Sparkles had a disappointing follow-up called "Sand Castles in the Sand." Nope, still not funny. [CBS] · Larry King's CNN contract is extended until 2010, at…

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Tales from the 720

Each year for the past four, I've picked a few months to forgo the parking pass that my work necessitates and couple LA’s public transportation system with my trusty bicycle to make the 15 mile round trip each day. One late night, when I didn’t want to chance the Wilshire corridor without…

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Remembering A Simpler Time, When Electronic Checkers Were Just Fucking Checkers [Culture]

Apropo of nothing save the fact that it's nearly quitting time and this is the funniest fucking thing we've seen in as long as we can remember, we offer you just a taste of the mightygodking.com blog's treasure trove of Atari 2600 cartridges, "discovered at a garage over the weekend." Who knows…

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Let's make Earth Day actually mean something this time

Another Earth Day is upon us, and to me the 'celebration' of such seems to be about encouraging folks to hop in the Prius, rush out to the nearest participating retail establishment, whip out the charge card and purchase some (imported, of course) environmentally conscious thingamajig or…

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Taconomics

While L.A. worries about the fate of taco trucks facing stricter county regulations, London's worried about the impact of immigration policy on curry joints. The Guardian reports: Thousands of curry restaurant workers gathered in London yesterday to demand that the...

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'Marge, I wanna be a monorail conductor. It's my lifelong dream!'

After the odd news that broke this morning about the verboten action of snapping photos in Disneyland parking lots, more news comes out of the House of Mouse today -- in the form of transportation. Ray Bradbury may want a monorail in Los Angeles, but Disney is the only place you'll actually…

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Ang Lee Adheres To Strict 'One For Me, One For The Gays' Policy [There Will Be Remixes]

After a brief fling with steamy Chinese art-core, director Ang Lee is heading back to the comfortable terrain of the Gays, the lauded director having already explored that topic's various themes in such previous Queer Cinema classics as Brokeback Mountain (doomed lovers on the Wyoming plain), The…

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Home Depot tries again in Tujunga

The Home Depot project on Foothill Boulevard that ran into a mountain of community opposition is back on the agenda. The store applied to City...

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SAG Does "Nearly 100" Indie Strike Deals

The Screen Actors Guild is wisely following the WGA playbook and pushing ahead with its month-old program helping indie moviemakers to weather a strike, if there is one, as long as they don't have financing or distribution deals with any AMPTP-represented studio or company. Now SAG is about…

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Green Apple Festival w/ Juliette and the Licks @ Santa Monica Pier, 4/20/08

This past weekend, the Green Apple Festival (MySpace), billed as "America's Largest Earth Day Celebration," was held in eight cities across the country (with the exception of Washington D.C., which was reportedly rained out), including here in Los Angeles. Performing live music on Sunday at…

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Marketing 'Baby Mama': Universal Tries The Kitchen Sink Approach [Seeing What Sticks]

newVideoPlayer("babyrecut_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); Ever since Mean Girls became a runaway success back in 2004, Tina Fey has been riding a wave of near universal acclaim. Her ability to ride that tasty wave of popularity for the last four years without succumbing to any nasty wipeouts has…

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Zell's Tribune rescinds smoking fee

As of January 1, the Tribune began charging employees who smoke $100 a month more for their health care. Today the new Tribune did away...

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