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Must-Haves for the Girl About Town

Shopcast powered by ThisNext The urban jungle is the sort of place you don’t want to get caught unprepared, especially at night. Here are a few recommendations on what every girl needs to get through our city’s nightlife — how to get a stronger cocktail, what to do when…

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Jamiel Shaw and gangs

Here’s how it works: It isn’t always if you’re a member of a gang…. Sometimes it’s where you grew up….or who you were friends with in elementary school….or who you’ve known all your life because you grew up down the street from each…

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Faces of Downtown - Roger Gendron

Historic Core resident Roger Gendron Photo by Jeannine Denholm. When Peter Y. Hong of the LA Times wrote his March 13, 2008 article titled "Downtown Not the Center of it All," it created a lot of discussion about what was really happening Downtown. Many residents were upset about the…

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Celebrate Bike to Work Week Downtown

A nifty backpack from last year's Bike to Work day. Photo by Eric Richardson. May 12 - 16 is Bike to Work week, and Downtowners have a number of opportunities to join into the two-wheeled fun. Whether you ride to work or just ride to ride, there are Bike to Work week events Downtowners…

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Primetime Pilot Panic: 'Filthy Rich' OKed

I'm told CW picked up How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls (WBTV/Alloy), which was expected. And I, too, think the title should be changed to "Surviving The Filthy Rich" as rumored. (Or, even better, "This Is Our Money-Grubbing Attempt to Clone Gossip Girls But Not Call It A Spin-Off".)

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Primetime Pilot Panic: SAY IT AIN'T SO! Tori Spelling In '90210'?

I know there have been lots of rumors to this effect in celebrity mags and infotainment shows. But one of my reliable TV business sources is hearing that Tori Spelling is going to be in the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff just picked up by the CW. Well, it's official: 90210 is ruined. Please, Les and…

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Yvonne Innes creates a garden for George

The Times of London reports this morning something that our pals at Frozen Pictures have known since the summer, when they filmed for The Seventh Python at Neil Innes' home in England: Yvonne Innes, Neil's wife and accomplished garden designer, has designed a Garden for George Harrison for the…

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The Boston Emmys were handed out last night, but did Bill O'Reilly get one and did Mensa member Barry Nolan protest as he'd promised?

So they divided up the local Emmy awards at a hotel in Boston last night. That's the ceremony that former tabloid television host and self-proclaimed Mensa member Barry Nolan had promised to protest a special Emmy given to fellow former tabloid television host Bill O'Reilly by bringing…

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Palate looks ready to roll; Newsflash: Cheesecake Factory crowded

Hordes of hungry mothers storm the Cheesecake Factory First, the obligatory Americana report. Observation 1) The line snaking all the way down the sidewalk for the Cheesecake Factory before opening on Mother's Day was kind of pathetic. Observation 2) The patio at…

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Attention, Les & Barry: Broadcast Giant Files For Bankruptcy, Blames CW Ratings

Talk about a Maalox moment: this is the sort of major news that, coming as it does right before this week's upfront presentatioins by the networks, can give CW co-bosses Les Moonves (CBS) and Barry Meyer (Warner Bros) heartburn. According to the business wires, Pappas Telecasting Inc, the largest…

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“Get Shorty” Was Just A Movie, Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina, a.k.a. that guy from “Law & Order,” was arrested today at LAX (the airport here in Los Angeles, not the nightclub out in Las Vegas - I hate that damn nightclub!) Why was he arrested, you ask? Because he tried to get on on airplane with a loaded .22 caliber…

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Chivas Can't Get a Win

Photo by Jimmy Bramlett/LAist When a team is missing three of their regular starters, it's very difficult for them to win. With defensemen Claudio Suarez suspended for one game, Lawson Vaughn out six weeks with a facial fracture and Jonathan Bornstein out six weeks with a sprained LCL, the…

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Top 10: Reasons to disbelieve

What were people in the mood for last week? Not bromides about good government, public service or political commitment, that's for sure. P.J. O'Rourke's chainsaw tour of liberal platitudes brought in more than four times the traffic of the next-most-popular...

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Extra, Extra: It's Never Too Late to Call Your Mom

Photo by Daniella Zalcman via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Maybe actor Dennis Farina was taking his former role as an L&O detective too seriously when he packed his suitcase and headed to LAX this morning. Authorities arrested Farina on charges of carrying a concealed weapon…

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Week Around the Ists

Photograph of the Reverend Al Sharpton by Armchair Messiah on Flickr Gothamist watched a series of civil disobedience events, protesting the Sean Bell shooting verdict, unfold across the city--over 200 people, including the Reverend Al Sharpton, were arrested. Somewhat related, on behalf of…

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Primetime Pilot Panic: CBS 'Unit' Probably

I just heard that well-liked veteran show The Unit "probably picked up at CBS".

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Lakers lose in OT, series tied

The Lakers made up a 12-point deficit in the last four minutes to even make it into overtime, but the Jazz rolled to a 123-115...

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CNN.com - Stuck at the airport? - Aug 29, 2006

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Books On Our Radar: Fictional LA

Any Angeleno worth their salt knows this city can be both bright and happy or sinister and dark by quick turns or subtle steps or shameless spirals. There is much to celebrate about LA and much to shy away from - which makes it the ideal city-as-character in many a writer's novel. A few new…

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Primetime Pilot Panic: '90210' Picked Up; CW Renews 'The Game'

UPDATE: I've just been told that, as expected, the CW has picked up 90210, the spinoff to Beverly Hills, 90210. I reported earlier that it received the OK to hire writers. I hear the deal is closed with Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah to run the show, and the script is being rewritten. CW renewed…

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“But I am green. I’m a weirdo –”

No, it’s not easy being green. Watch Sad Kermit shoot up, say “fucking,” and strum madly in NIN’s Hurt, Radiohead’s Creep, and Elliot Smith’s Needle in the Hay, respectively. (via kottke) My header used to read “It’s not easy being…

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Do TV Programmers Hate Their Mothers?

Oh, mama! It couldn't have been coincidence or ''shuffle'' programming that put these movies on cable on Mother's Day: First, ``Saving Private Ryan,'' a World War II-theme film whose plot is kick-started with the news that some American woman is...

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Jamiel Shaw killed over gang ties not race, report says

Jamiel Shaw, the high school athlete whose murder has provided a new rallying cry for the right in the immigration wars, may have been killed...

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Eye Nosh: Make Tacos, Not War

May 1st was Taco Truck Night here in LA, and we've been talking tacos for quite some time now. This shot--named "Make Tacos, Not War"--from 护士黑鹰 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr captures the simple pleasure that is getting a taco from a street vendor, in this case in the…

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Cinespia - Cemetery Screenings 2008

Movies in the Cemetery - Saturday Nights

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Classical Pick of the Week: Erotica LA

This week’s classical pick doesn’t really have anything to do with erotica, unless you reason that Beethoven’s "Eroica" Symphony ushered in the Romantic Era of classical music, which was said to have encouraged intimate and passionate (erotic?) feelings inside the listener. Anyways, the…

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Primetime Pilot Panic: Fans Can Rejoice; Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse' Welcomed

  I'm told FBC has picked up Joss Whedon's new Dollhouse (20th Century Fox TV) for mid-season. Given his rabid Whedonesques, who don't take rejection well, I don't see how the network could have said no this time around. 

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Photo Essay: Dark Meat @ The Echo, 5/10/08

There were nearly as many people on stage as in the crowd at the Echo last night to witness the phenomenon that was a 35-minute set from Dark Meat, the 17-piece psychedelic rock collective from Athens, Georgia. Dark Meat has been tearing up small venues in the South for a few years. Now…

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Pencil This In: Sunday

Photo by coffeextv via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. MUSIC Check out the Viper Room’s Sunday night music special, Free Form Orchestra, free with RSVP. Original music created by some of L.A.’s finest young emerging talent, these guys and girls will really blow you away with…

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Tonight in Rock: Syd Straw and the People

Photo by WishByNight via LAist Featured Photos Syd Straw and the People @ McCable's Guitar Shop (read the LAist interview with Syd) The Warlocks, The Meek, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ Alex's Bar Ben Taylor, David Saw, Schuler Fisk, Molly Jenson @ Hotel Cafe Alex and Sam, February Fifths…

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