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Danny DeVito
Inside the Blood Factory
By RENA KOSNETT
The last time I went to Danny DeVito’s house, I had trouble parking. There was a huge star-tour van blocking access to his home. DeVito is, of course, exactly the kind of Hollywood royal that tourists come to Los Angeles hoping to see… Keep Reading »
Danny DeVito
Inside the Blood Factory
By RENA KOSNETT
The last time I went to Danny DeVito’s house, I had trouble parking. There was a huge star-tour van blocking access to his home. DeVito is, of course, exactly the kind of Hollywood royal that tourists come to Los Angeles hoping to see… Keep Reading »
Meat Loaf
Do you love me?
By SHELLEY LEOPOLD
Rock Opera. Internet Sports. Architectural Digest . . . Meat Loaf lives the fantasy. It’s been a long time since I first noticed the sweaty, stringy-haired young Texan with the flowing red scarf on MTV back in 1981. Even longer since his 1975… Keep Reading »
Joseph Del Real and Benjamin Tovar Martinez
The dragon keepers
By JOHNNY NAVARRO
When you walk down a flight of steps to a basement off an alleyway behind Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, you leave the yuppie bustle of Old Town and enter the dragon. At least, that’s how it felt about six months ago when four… Keep Reading »
Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory
LA Daily
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 theft. As Judge Dale Fischer began reading the first of the jury’s guilty verdicts at 12:15 p.m., Pellicano displayed the stoic bravado he showed throughout the nine-week trial. However, by … Keep Reading »
Chelsea Handler
Horizontal hostess
By SIRAN BABAYAN
With Heather Locklear–like blond tresses and a killer rack God must’ve bestowed on her as a very early bat mitzvah gift (“sweater rockets,” she calls them), Chelsea Handler looks more like an Aaron Spelling muse than cable television’s female version of David Spade… Keep Reading »
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Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory
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Nightranger
Super Tuesday
By Lina Lecaro
Ed Banging; Ponytail checks out; rock-star mash-up; Lemmy see that
Pucker Up
Ladies Love Gay Male Porn
By Tristan Taormino
I just got back from a weekend at the University of California at Santa…
Fan Fiction Friday: The Hardy Boys in "Tabling Frank"
Fri, May 16, 2:56 pm
You knew this was bad when you saw the Hardy Boys were involved, right? Well, you're half-right; Joe is safe and sound in this short […]
The Perfect Soundtrack for a Dodgeball-Based Murder Spree
Fri, May 16, 1:08 pm
Ladies and gents—please hit pause on your iTunes, and direct your webcranks to No Balls, No Glory immediately. There you will find what would be […]
Savage Love
Not Open to an Open Relationship
By DAN SAVAGE
Plus, breaking the news about extramarital pregnancy without breaking the marriage
Kiss Me Undeadly
By DAN SAVAGE
Safe sex, safer bondages and readers' comments on the "campsite rule"
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Rock Picks: The Dirtbombs, Robyn, Dizzee Rascal
By L.A. Weekly Music Critics
Also Blowfly, Kathleen Edwards and more
JURY VERDICT: PELLICANO GUILTY
Thu, May 15, 12:51 pm
UPDATE: Here is LA Weekly's account...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 [...]
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 [...]
Features
New Fiction: "Sunday"
By JOE DONNELLY
Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story
Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed
Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods
By CHRISTINE PELISEK
Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?
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