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Little Tokyo's Cheap Thrills
Adventures in frivolous pursuits
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
The voyage to Little Tokyo so often begins with a craving for ramen and ends with (best-case scenario) a souvenir maneki nekko ear pick, or (worst-case scenario) an inflatable bug wrist bracelet that serves no other function than scaring the pets. You saw it. You knew you didn’t need it. But you definitely could… Keep Reading »
Little Tokyo's Cheap Thrills
Adventures in frivolous pursuits
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
The voyage to Little Tokyo so often begins with a craving for ramen and ends with (best-case scenario) a souvenir maneki nekko ear pick, or (worst-case scenario) an inflatable bug wrist bracelet that serves no other function than scaring the pets. You saw it. You knew you didn’t need it. But you definitely could… Keep Reading »
AdultCon '08: Porn Stars, Toys and Goodies
Stars and starlets of your favorite carefully hidden DVDs sign autographs, hock merchandise, and pose for pictures. … View Slideshow »
Coachella Fashion: Sundress Mess, (No On) Neon and The Headband's Last Hurrah (We Hope!)
Style Council
Props to those who actually managed to write coherant blog posts from Coachella on a daily/nightly basis. After spending about 1 1/2 hours in traffic leaving the fest Saturday night (which we hear is actually on the short side compared with others and would have been longer if not for some extremely aggressive driving) and … Keep Reading »
JURY VERDICT: PELLICANO GUILTY
Thu, May 15, 12:51 pm
The federal trial of infamous Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano ended today with a jury verdict finding him guilty of all but one of the racketeering and conspiracy criminal counts against him. Reports from inside the courtroom say he sat expressionless while the verdicts for himself and his co-defendants were read. Pellicano had been charged with 77 [...]
URGENT! Jake & Jessica Sidelined Again: IATSE Shuts Down David O. Russell Film
Thu, May 15, 12:03 pm
EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that, this time around, it's IATSE who has put the screws to the Capitol Films indie film Nailed because its crew members weren't being paid. The pic's union members had been begging IATSE for weeks to get involved over all the payroll irregularities. Friday was supposed to be the deadline set for the crew to get paid since [...]
Wkd Prediction: 'Narnia 2' To Total $80M
Thu, May 15, 12:00 pm
That's the number -- $80 million -- which my box office gurus are estimating for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian's 3-day weekend haul. Showings of the joint Disney/Walden Media fantasy pic start in major outlets among the 3,929 theaters at 12:01 AM Friday, but of course the major moolah will be made during Saturday [...]
Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory
Thu, May 15, 7:56 pm
Anthony Pellicano, onetime “P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identity […]
Gay and Happy at a West Hollywood Candle Shop
Thu, May 15, 6:02 pm
The phone started ringing at Timothy Jay Candles a little bit after ten o’clock in the morning, and it didn’t stop for the rest of […]
California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage!
Thu, May 15, 11:18 am
Citing the 60-year-old landmark case Perez v. Sharp, which struck down California's ban on interracial marriage, the California Supreme Court ruled today that denying same-sex […]
REVOK and AUGER in Hollywood
Thu, May 15, 4:12 pm
On a low wall near an empty lot on Franklin near Cahuenga in Hollywood there's a fast and mean REVOK / AUGER tag. […]
OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park
Mon, May 12, 3:09 pm
Down a little driveway alley next to Brooklyn Projects in Echo Park is an excellent collaborative piece between OBEY and SABER. Enjoy: All photos […]
Obama Iron Man
Tue, May 6, 10:21 am
Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd […]
Marc Cooper
Sweetie
I've been cooped up all day and most of the night trying to finish off a writing project to I haven't closely followed the mini-flap over Barack Obama calling a female reporter "sweetie." Oh jeez, how did this crap ever start? Did I, back in the 60's, have something to do with this sort of strait-jacketing [...]
Working Class Heroine
It was far too beautiful a day in Southern California to have spent much time following the West Virginia primary. Taking a late afternoon bike ride is when I finally tuned into the results -- just in time to hear Hillary's victory crow. What a humdinger! She more or less lifted Jesse Jackson's who-cleans-the-bedpans speech [...]
Fatal Attraction
Here comes the last rattle on the snake. Hillary Clinton will sweep the West Virginia primary and... and... and who knows? Isn't it wonderful how she's the loser in the race for the Democratic nomination and yet she's all we're talking about? Instead of talking about the foolishness, say, of John McCain's free-market proposals [...]
More Feelings About How The Dems Could Blow It
Sun, Apr 20, 12:18 am
Back in January I wrote about how the Dems have an innate knack for losing what would appear to be impossible elections to lose. Seems […]
Feeling About George Clooney, Adam Carolla and The Dem Debacle
Mon, Apr 14, 10:36 am
Why don't people go see George Clooney movies? First the great Michael Clayton, last year's best American flick and now Leatherheads? I saw Leatherheads yesterday […]
Feelings About Rolling Stones at 64
Mon, Apr 7, 11:33 pm
That's not how long they've been around, though it seems that way, but, rather, Mick Jagger's age when Martin Scorsese filmed the recently released concert […]
Daniel Hernandez
Mourning in China *
These are two images from the devastation in Sichuan province, southwestern China, from the International Herald Tribune. Now, pity for the human toll of nature's fury is not normally an impulse we heed on Intersections. What can be done? Right...
Transsexual Mexicans, man and woman, to marry
There's an extraordinary story making the rounds in some Mexican papers this week, about a couple madly in love and struggling to have their union recognized, or at least not ridiculed, by Mexican society. It's Diana and Mario, transsexuals, both...
Hip-hop kiddie TV taking over: It's 'Yo Gabba Gabba!'
My brother Sergio was the first to introduce me a while back to "Yo Gabba Gabba!," a TV show aimed at kids that he was almost as excited about as my nephew, Eligh, his youngest of two. No. He was...
I dreamed I had unprotected sex with Jack Nicholson & got knocked up
Thu, May 15, 9:54 pm
3.57am: I dreamed I had unprotected sex with Jack Nicholson & got knocked up. FTR, Jack says, "Ohh, boy" right before he comes. In my […]
The Popularity of Pornography in Art and Film
Thu, May 15, 9:28 pm
Every Thursday, Naked City expands your pornographic worldview with tales from the far reaches of the earth. Four international pornographers share this space to tell […]
Staten Island Gets Its Very Own LGBT Center
Thu, May 15, 12:34 pm
Staten Island is getting its very own LGBT Center, and it's opening this week with the support of Community Health Action of Staten Island. […]
Great God Pan
Peter Poffenberger visits the Land of Mu-Tonight!
If you tuned in last week, you are already know the Ooze Out program's first attempt at visiting Polynesia was aborted due to a long layover in Gatlin, Nebraska (which we quite enjoyed, thanks Malachai!). But all things happen for a reason in God's universe. This week we've booked a direct flight to the Friendly Islands where Ooze Out correspondent…
An Election Without Meaning
In a country happily wrapped up like a Quizno's sammy in the sacred dyad of current events— American Idol and the upcoming. . . "election"—we know how hard it can be to know how we're supposed to feel about all this important stuff. While Hillary and Obama brashly plow through campaign budgets that would feed the third world for a…
Who let the dogs out?
Last year Mammoth Lakes police officer Sergeant Paul Dostie took his human remains detection dog Buster up to the Barker Ranch above the Panamint Valley where Charles Manson and his cohorts were captured in 1969. The dog honed in on two sites where Dostie claims there's a possibility of human remains being buried. Whose remains? According to forty-year-old hearsay and…
Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts
Thu, May 15, 10:05 pm
A few nights ago I caught a late night re-broadcast on CNN about the NY Philharmonic's "historic" (read: trying too hard) concert in Pyongyang, […]
Tonight in LA: Ghanian Hip Hop, Blowfly and Les Nubians, Among Others
Thu, May 15, 5:17 pm
Okay, so on the surface perhaps a slow Thursday night in LA. No grand slams, it would seem, few hipster throw-downs. But I would like […]
Newspaper industry death watch vs. music industry death watch: Why did the NY Times fire music biz reporter Jeff Leeds?
Thu, May 15, 1:00 pm
It's been a bad month or two for music industry reporters at America's major daily newspapers. You probably remember the LA Times' retraction of Chuck […]
Touched By A Tranny
Thu, May 15, 4:10 pm
We've been calling plus-size punny (lad)y Jackie Beat our "favorite drag queen" for years (and that's saying something... we know a lot of crossdressers!) and […]
Melrose Misplaced
Thu, May 15, 12:26 pm
Once the epicenter of all that was hip and cutting edge in fashion, Melrose -at least the part between La Brea and Fairfax- is […]
Beauty Mark(et)
Mon, May 12, 5:15 pm
They put Cahuenga on the clubber map, made manicures and martinis a classic combo (wish we could always sip a cocktail while getting clipped and […]
Joss Whedon's Killer Dolls or American Apparel Ad?
Thu, May 15, 5:02 pm
You make the call!Wired's got this first pic of Eliza Dushku and the cast of Joss Whedon's Killer Dolls TV series, in their tight-fitting, unadorned […]
Lego Indiana Jones Has a Thirst for Adventure, Misogyny, and Beating People Until Their Limbs Fly Off
Thu, May 15, 4:03 pm
There's a lot to love about this new, full-length Lego Indiana Jones trailer, even if you're not as fascinated with […]
Microtransaction Microreviews: Defend Your Castle and LostWinds
Thu, May 15, 1:33 am
Despite Corky Thacher’s compelling concept art, New Line Cinema ultimately went with Peter Jackson to direct the Lord of the Rings trilogy.Sooner or later – […]
Comic Countdown to Penny Arcade game
Thu, May 15, 12:14 am
To help drum up even more anticipation for their highly anticipated game On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One, Penny Arcade's Mike "Gabe" Krahulik […]
MY FAILED VIDEO GAME TV SHOW
Wed, May 14, 5:33 am
I believe the children are our future, so enough time has passed that I can talk about my failed adventures in creating a TV show, […]
Nature Trumps
Garcetti office-contracted workers are chainsawing cottonwood trees and other plants on River islands as part of misguided clearcutting operation
I’m hearing that Mitch O’Farrell (him again) at L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti’s office has contracted with “Aztec Fire Fuel Department” for two trucks’ worth of supposedly “at risk” individuals to cut out the bamboo-like arundo donax plant growth on the islands in the Glendale Narrows area of the River bordering Atwater Village. However, the crews [...]
IT?S ALL VERY DE-MURALIZING: Hahamugna ?Meeting of Styles? mural vandalized/erased with whitewash, apparently by County-hired workers operating under Soviet-style orders from County Supervisor Gloria Molina
What was there before the vandalism… What’s there now, after the vandalism… What used to be there… What’s there now… Click here to see more images of the mural that is now gone forever.
Disturbing news.
I’m told that workers under contract with L.A. County whitewashed the entire “Meetings of Style” mural site over the weekend.
Equality Wins!
Fri, May 16, 1:37 am
In a decision that hearkened back to the 1948 opinion overturning the prohibition against interracial marriages, the California Supreme Court decided that same sex couples […]
California Parks Rescued As Other Programs Are Trashed
Fri, May 16, 12:10 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s newest budget cuts are huge blows. There are cuts to foster care, health coverage, cash assistance for children, food programs and the […]
Grief and Politics
Thu, May 15, 10:07 pm
Thursday, New York Times Bureau Chief Jennifer Steinhauer, wrote a good round up of the emotional/cultural/legal winds that still swirl around the murder of Jamiel […]
Not Our Problem
Thu, May 15, 8:00 pm
I hate to interrupt the ongoing flag pin and orange juice obsessions, but this seems like a big deal to me: Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday[…]
Unitary Flyboy
Thu, May 15, 6:37 pm
So McCain declares Mission Accomplished in Iraq --- in 2013. Yea. War is over. Someday. Maybe. Even more good news. McCain also says he's going to be different than Bush and be more transparent and seek congressional approval. According to his faithful hound, Huckleberry Graham,[…]
Basic Civil Right
Thu, May 15, 11:56 am
by digby It's a proud day to be a Californian: California's Supreme Court today struck down the state's statutory ban on same-sex marriage, finding the state's constitution "properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and[…]
Direland
NEPAL'S FIRST GAY MP SPEAKS -- Nation's Two Largest Political Parties Embrace LGBT Rights
I wrote the following article for Gay City News, New Yorks largest lesbian and gay weekly, which published it today: In an historic breakthrough, the leader of Nepal's largest LGBT group, the Blue Diamond Society, has been named to a...
ROME TURNS RIGHT: Berlusconi Chalks Up His Second Victory This Month
The following article was written specially for DIRELAND by this blog's Rome correspondent, veteran expat journalist Judy Harris: ROME – This Sunday and Monday 5.8 million Italians were asked to return to the polls for a second time this month...
ITALY'S ELECTIONS: VIAGRA FOR THE DOLDRUMS?
The following article was written specially for DIRELAND by this blog's Rome correspondent, veteran expat journalist Judy Harris: ROME, April 4, 2008 – Unlike America’s, Italy’s national general election campaign is blissfully short, and so, called barely two months ago,...
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