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Midnight Movie: A New Kids In The Hall Video!

Car Bangers | Kids In The HallUploaded by kidsinthehall Dave, Kevin, Bruce, Mark and Scott are back and doing an original series for 60Frames - this is the newest sketch. [NSFW - again, sorry about that and sorry if you are at work at this late hour, I will have a beer in your honor] …

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Outdoor Living Rooms' Bring Touches of Cheer to Central Los Angeles

[26 Apr 2008; NYT] "The idea was to enable low-income communities to create their own social spaces and improve their neighborhoods without bringing on gentrification."

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Friday B.O. Totals: 'Baby Mama' Berths No. 1 Just Ahead of 'Harold & Kumar'

FRIDAY 10:45 PM: It will be an "up" weekend at the box office -- finally -- compared to last year now that very early Friday totals have just come in to me. And, once again, my box office gurus called it right. Universal's female buddy comedy Baby Mama pairing 30 Rock's Tina Fey and SNL's Amy…

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MARKOFTHEBEAST ~ Los Angeles

455 + H.E.R. = <3

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Extra. Extra: Attractive to the Eye & Soothing to the Smell

Photo by Rick O! via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A shark attack off the shores of San Diego killed Dr. Dave Martin, a retired veterinarian and triathlete from Solana Beach. Martin was taking part in an early morning group swim near Fletcher Cove when the incident occured; an…

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Sia Brings Joy to Malibu

KCRW just began to present "Sessions" at the intimate 500 seated person capacity Malibu Performing Arts Center. Last night's show featuring Sia sold out within seven minutes, but that's no surprise for the friend of Zero 7 in such a small space. KCRW was kind enough to share some photos from…

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You Can't Always Bet On Black [The Clip Show]

· Despite the best efforts of Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes gets three years for tax evasion. · The birth of Viacom's new premium cable channel riles future galactic despot Les Moonves. · Let's hope this is just a bump in Lindsay Lohan's Road to Wellville. · Whither…

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Video Break: Portishead in Portishead

For those of you who couldn't see Portishead rehearse their Coachella set last night we bring you the next best thing, them playing on your computer real tiny like. Here's a video of Portishead performing at Portishead, the English town that till the 90's was primarily known for nothing. …

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David Spade Not Afraid To Curse In Front Of Small Children [Hollywood PrivacyWatch]

PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week (depending on volume), so send them in early and often—without them, we'll surely be forced to endure another Pellicano trial! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or…

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2,361st Hollywood Star Goes to Eisner

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes No longer the CEO of Disney, but now immortalized on Hollywood Blvd. in the Walk of Fame, Michael Eisner was joined by Mickey, Minnie, current CEO Bog Iger and John Travolta (whoa, that moustache) when he was honored with a star today. The chosen spot, of course,…

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The Wet-Nosed Sycophants Of The GE Board [Short Ends]

newVideoPlayer("job30_defamer.flv", 463, 269,""); · 30 Rock's GE CEO Don Geiss sure knows how to stack a board, doesn't he? Wave a little bacon over their noses, they're putty in your hands. [30 Rock] · This is it! One more night before your appointment with the Demonshlonged One in…

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Portishead's Rehearsal Show @ The Mayan, 4/24/08

My camera wasn't allowed in, i guess because its a "private rehearsal" or something, so instead of the horrible cellphone-cam pics i took, here's a nice pic provided by the band. And how did this guy get his nice camera in there? And why does he have "all rights reserved"?! UGH! With the…

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Jonah Hill Is Workin' on His Fitness! [A Call To The Bullpen]

boomp3.com Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jonah Hill's initial baby steps into a regular work out routine were thwarted by a nosy photographer. Hill politely asked if the photographer could leave him alone, seeing as how Hill had successfully finished his first block. Unfortunately for all…

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Wearing the pants

According to a New York Times article, “Pants May be Touted as the Coming Thing, but Women Seem to Prefer Dresses.” Included as evidence? Quotes from the 1941 classic “Citizen Kane” and allusions to a decades-old short story, “The Girls...

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What CAA's Kevin Huvane Is Doing To Risk Losing His Many Actress Clients

CAA partner Kevin Huvane is throwing a belated birthday party on Saturday night for recently released from prison Joe Francis, the scandalous founder of Mantra Films Inc, which produces those disgusting Girls Gone Wild soft-porn video and DVD series which have prompted so many complaints that…

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How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove [Consumerism]

Hot on the heels of their gripping exposé of what it's like inside an American Idol taping (apparently that studio is much smaller in person, and there's a man wandering the aisles prompting the audience to applaud!) the NY Times continues their series Things On the West Coast That Don't…

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Weekend Art Openings: Duchamp, Childhood, Miller

Friday Forty-five years ago, a small museum in Pasadena garnered an exhibit of the modern art forefather's first retrospective. Beginning today, that small museum, now known as the Norton Simon, is presenting Marcel Duchamp Redux. The installation will display several works owned by the…

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Thanks to This Week's Advertisers

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." A Wolf at the Table, the new memoir from Augusten Burroughs, in stores on Tuesday. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week.…

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'Hobbit' Director Debate Ignores Critical Fact that 'Hobbit' is Rubbish [Middling Earth]

There's been much to-do over the last day about Peter Jackson's hiring of Guillermo del Toro to direct the two-part Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit. Among our favorite dissenting opinions belongs to Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir, who pulls out his Cannes '06 interview notebook to look up del…

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County to Open 'Project 50' Office on the Corner of 5th and Main

Corner space in the Pershing Hotel, formerly King's Market and a pawn shop, will become offices and medical space for Project 50. Photo by Eric Richardson. Prime retail space on the corner of 5th and Main will soon become administrative and medical offices for the county's Project 50. …

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Times Sports gets hard-nosed about sources

L.A. Times Sports Editor Randy Harvey felt he had to bang his writers and editors over the head yesterday about the paper's rules regarding unnamed...

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Virginia City Revival's Grand Entrance

As the red carpet action wound down at the NME awards Wednesday, local band Virginia City Revival made the entrance of the evening! The band pulled up in a flatbed truck, blasting live music down Wilshire Boulevard. Still rocking, the lead singer, Reverend Josey DeVille and guitar player Gaby…

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Heather Locklear And Denise Richards Square Off In Bikini Deathmatch [Cougars]

Former BFFs Heather Locklear and Denise Richards have mutually enjoyed watching each other's respective star status fall farther with each passing year, but the good news is they both share something in common to smile about. While it's not exactly an Emmy, they both look hot in bikinis. Heather's…

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FOTC @ Amoeba, 4/24: Did You Go?

Anybody make it out to Amoeba last night to catch Flight of the Conchords? Come the 6pm hour I was deep in thought, hunched over the Coachooser in the Sandalwood Conference Room at the Marina Del Rey Courtyard Marriott with a team of analysts determining the precise location and time of their…

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Alarcon on 'News Conference'

Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon will guest on Sunday's "KNBC News Conference," hosted by Laurel Erickson at 9:30 am on Channel 4. She wants...

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TV Junkie: Weekend Edition

This weekend it's all about BBC America's programming with new seasons of "Robin Hood", "The Graham Norton Show", and "Wire In The Blood". I've seen previews of "Robin Hood" and it's a more than worthy replacement for "Torchwood" whose season (dramatically) ended last Saturday with the…

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Brad Pitt's Chilling 911 Bear Attack Call [Dirt Sandwich]

newVideoPlayer("ds11_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); How quickly the week rolls by when we know a brand new Dirt Sandwich—Defamer videographer and part-time, uncredited massage therapist Molly McAleer's attempt at making some condensed sense of the week in tabloid television—is waiting…

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Retro Friday: L.A.'s 1970s Dance Party

For a decade in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one-time "Boss Jock" The Real Don Steele hosted his own dance party on KHJ-TV, Channel 9. In this 1974 episode, Gary Glitter guests. I don't know what I love more: Don's microphone, the "Real Don Steelers" dancers, or the note at the bottom of the…

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Fallen fruit forages in Silver Lake: Hail the loquat!

I would love to join the Fallen Fruit folks for thir annual nocturnal fruit forage in Silver Lake on Wednesday, April 30 from 6-7:30. Unfortunately, I think I've already committed to like eleventy other things at that very moment. But if you want to tag along to look for fruit on the ground --…

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No Less than 10 Festivals this Weekend

Celebrate your weekend. | Photo by ronnie44052 via Flickr Not everyone is going to Coachella this weekend. For those who choose to stay put in Los Angeles, the city is literally filled with events this weekend: AltBuild Expo at SaMo Civic Auditorium: an eco-friendy building & design…

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Your Weekend To Do's [To Do]

FRIDAY · Coachella weekend is finally upon us. Too much will be said about it, so we will not waste everyone's time with more about it here. · Chelsea Handler will continue her impressive streak of not being funny tonight at the Wiltern. · The Egyptian hosts a Fangoria…

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PHOTO FICTIONS: New Narrative Photography @ Show Cave

Since it's so close to where I live in Historic Filipinotown, I've been wanting to check out Show Cave for awhile. I think their new photography show, "PHOTO FICTIONS: New Narrative Photography" curated by Rodney Ascher, is what's finally going...

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Obama 2008! ~ Venice

Venice ~ CA

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LAO guide to the book festival

In her new travel guide "Great Escapes Southern California," Donna Wares describes author D.J. Waldie's ritual for the weekend of the L.A. Times Festival of...

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