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Midnight Movie: Animation from Season 2 of "This American Life"
This American Life: Season 2 Animation A really great animated piece by Chris Ware & John Kuramoto from Season 2 of "This American Life" (Showtime).
Primetime Pilot Panic: CBS Rejects Geena
It didn't help that Nina Tassler is a longtime best pal of Exit 19 star Geena Davis because I'm told the CBS drama pilot (CBS Paramount TV / ABC TV Studios) is DOA. Sheesh, what are friends for?
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Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Nixes 'Spaced'; And Good News For Shaun Cassidy Pilot
UPDATE: I also just heard that FBC gave a "cast contingent" pickup to the Shaun Cassidy drama pilot Inseparable (ABC TV Studios). Despite all the buzz, and exec producer McG, and a "phenomenal cast", Spaced is a no-go, I'm told. FBC just turned thumbs down on the WBTV/Wonderland pilot, which…
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Endangered California desert tortoises are under siege - Los Angeles Times
Hundreds of the reptiles relocated from an Army base east of Barstow face other threats, including predation by coyotes.
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Stevie Wonder: What Sinatra was to JFK...
Or is Stevie the new Mark Russell? We heard these clips the radio this morning. Hilarious! Twenty-one thousand people! And another reason Hillary and Bill should bow out so we can get this thing started for real...
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NY Times does Sgt. Recruiter
The NY Times, which sometimes seems to cover L.A. almost as much as the L.A. Times, drops in at Sgt. Recruiter on Hollywood Blvd. this week. There are some odd observations -- a gaggle of pony-tailed moms are somehow equated with "loud look-at-me types," while a blond philosopher offers that "it's…
Primetime Pilot Panic: CW's '90210' News
The Beverly Hills, 90210 Spinoff 90210 (CW/CBS Paramount), a slam dunk pickup, is hiring writers at the CW. I hear a deal is close with Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah to run the show. Original alum Jennie Garth is joining cast.
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Primetime Pilot Panic: 2 ABC Renewals? And There's Something About Ashton...
I hear already-on-the-air one-hour Eli Stone and half-hour Miss/Guided, exec produced by Ashton Kutcher, are "really in the mix" at ABC. The network also picked up Ashton's family oriented game show, Opportunity Knocks.
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Fresh & Easy to add British items after all
I pooh-poohed people who were looking forward to digestive biscuits and treacle when Tesco's Fresh & Easy first opened around L.A., but apparently enough people asked for British items that they plan to add more, according to the Orange County Register's story on changes at the chain. They've…
Los Angeles Events, Things to Do, Event Calendar, Nightlife, Parties, Activities, Concerts, Shows in Los Angeles - Going
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Los Angeles, CA City Guide | Search Local Businesses, Events, Restaurants and Bars in CA - AOL City Guide
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Extra, Extra: Can You Dig It?
"Sherman Way Beautification Project," by kpe II via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr. A Fresno sheriff will allow researchers to start digging for human remains under the former estate of Charles Manson, where Mr. Helter Skelter hid after a 1969 summer killing spree. A woman's…
Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Picks Up Toon
FBC has picked up the animated comedy from Mitch Hurwitz Sit Down, Shut Up (Sony Pictures TV / Granada / Tantamount) to series. Fox Sitcom 'Back To You' Cancelled, 'Til Death' Renewed, 'The Inn' Picked Up Primetime Pilot Panic: Still More News Primetime Pilot Panic: Updated Info Primetime…
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40 Graffiti Artists to Bomb Venice Walls on Sunday
Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist LA Goldrush is an international exchange of Graffiti artists from Italy visiting Los Angeles this week. Now in it's second year, organizers Raptuz (Milan) and Man One/Crewest Gallery (Los Angeles) have created a series of events throughout the city, one that many…
Clicklist: Fair trade day edition
>> John Oliver suggests a label for all non-fair trade items on Comedy Central . >> A Fair trade map! Find out where the fair trade towns and organizations are via this Google maps mashup. Maybe I can just get rid of my list of fair trade coalitions altogether. >> An interview with fair trade…
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DVD Review: "The Passion of Greg the Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies Volume 2"
DVD: The Passion of Greg the Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies Volume 2 Release Date: May 6th, 2008 While you may not have to be a dedicated Greg the Bunny aficionado to love The Passion of Greg the Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies Volume 2 you at least have to appreciate dirty puppet humor.…
Laura Veirs @the Echo, 5/6/2008
Laura Veirs is one of a great many thoughtful singer/songwriters working today, but she has distinguished herself with a crystalline, albeit nasally singing voice and light, ethereal melodies. Her albums, the most recent being 2007's Saltbreakers, offer up songs rich in natural imagery all…
Screening Tonight: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
“Welcome to violence, the word and the act”. Those are the opening words from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the Russ Meyer cinematic ode to cool screening tonight at the Vista in Hollywood. Starring the voluptuous badass Tura Satana as Varla, FPKK is the story of 3 drag racin’ go-go…
San Francisco: 1st fair trade city or 7th fair trade town?
As of today, the US officially has a fair trade city: San Francisco! NoCalians are celebrating with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at Dolores Park in San Francisco; they’ve timed their announcement to fall on World Fair Trade Day. San Francisco may be the first fair trade city, but we…
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Eye Nosh: Prix Fixe at K-Zo
LAist Featured Photos pool contributor kristi.nicole shares with us a shot from a recent six course tasting menu meal at K-Zo in Culver City. Over on Yelp, K-Zo scores high with fans of high-end sushi, with one Yelper promising that if you hand yourself over to their Mr. Keizo for an…
Pencil This In: Saturday
Photo by WishByNight via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr TRAIN Ditch your car today and take the train. Today is the first National Train Day, stressing the use of public transportation including our local train system. There will be events for the whole family including train…
This Weekend in Rock: Dark Meat, HP Music Fest
Photo by WishByNight via LAist Featured Photos Two festivals music festivals today: one large in scale, one large in heart. The Greek Theatre hosts the LA Latin Jazz Festival tonight as the Highland Park Music Festival goes throughout the day starting after 1:00 p.m. at Zeppelin Music. …
Pangea Day - Home
'A global event bringing the world together through film.' First event held 10 May '08, second planned for 2010. Result of filmmaker Jehane Noujaim's TED Prize.
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29-Day Giving Challenge: Day 27 — Flags to bottles to booklets
[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days] What this giving challenge has taught me so far: I get way too much stuff. So I’m giving away all the little things in one big post: >> A Tibetan prayer flag garland — plus 3 small sticks of incense. >> A DVD of…
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The Great Psychobilly Blog Road Trip of 2008: Day 6, Part 3
I thought I was safe.When Anthony Neil Smith announced he was going round to spread the word about Yellow Medicine I figured he wouldn't head out this way. But then he grabbed Patti, Dusty and that crazy fucker in Maine.But still. He wouldn't come out here. There are laws against that kind of…
Greenopia LA for Mother's Day
Ranunculus and Anemones | Photo by pink_fish13 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Is it too much to ask that all businesses, big and small, have a Green rating associated with them? Something akin to LA’s restaurant classifications, where the average consumer is clued into the…
Don't Blow Your Chance to see My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine, who is playing a string of sold out shows in the UK is going to play the Santa Monica Civic Center, and you can get tickets RIGHT NOW. as of me writing this they are not sold out. The band who hasn't played in the US for more than 17 years will be playing two shows in…
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LAistory: Thelma Todd's Roadside Cafe
LAistory is our new series that will take us on a journey to what came before to help us understand where we are today. We began with Val Verde, the "Black Palm Springs" and now we go to Thelma Todd's Roadside Cafe. This December 16th, it will have been seventy-three years since Thelma…
ON SET DRAMA UPDATE: SAG Orders Actors On David O. Russell Film To Leave; Jessica Biel & Jake Gyllenhall Sidelined
EXCLUSIVE! SATURDAY AM UPDATE: I'm told by knowledgeable sources that David O. Russell's indie political comedy Nailed which began filming April 15th was shut down by the Screen Actors Guild on Thursday because of a "cash crunch". I've also learned the shoot is in trouble with both the…
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Metallica Playing Wiltern Wednesday (5/14) - Tickets On Sale Sunday (Tomorrow - 5/11) at $200/throw
HEADS UP AND BANGING Metallica @ The Wiltern Wed 5/14 This Just In: Metallica will play the Wiltern this Wednesday, the latest installment in what is fast becoming a trend of aging musicians expecting exorbitant fees in intimate Los Angeles venues: (Los Angeles, CA May 10, 2008) :: Silverlake…
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Online art directory of gallery exhibitions & contemporary visual fine artists - Re-title.com
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Weird Los Angeles: It's Raining Blood!
In a previous episode of Weird Los Angeles we spoke of strange things such as fish falling from the sky. Even stranger still, there have been accounts of even more bizarre, and grisly 'objects' descending from the zenith. Flesh! Such sinister showers were recorded by the Los Angeles News…
graffiti archaeology
"The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years."
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Today’s World Fair Trade Day
Hello World Fair Trade Day! Yes, today, May 10, is World Fair Trade Day. And I hope you’re reading this before noon (or 3 pm on the east coast) because that’s when the World’s Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break happens. Fair trade, in case you’re a newbie, is about promoting…
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Blackmail, extortion ... the old badger game
Earlier, I wrote about some of Los Angeles' oldest murder cases from the turn of the century. In one of them, a man named John Slovinski shot himself with a shotgun. He had been arraigned in a case involving attempted... Earlier, I wrote about some of Los Angeles' oldest murder cases from…
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