Celebrity Rehab

At the Prism Awards, Hollywood Honors Accurate Portrayals of Mental illness

Hollywood has a checkered history of covering mental health and substance abuse, reaching bottom with Nightmare on Elm Street. A young Johnny Depp played the killer as a schizophrenic, imprinting that image of mental illness on millions. To counteract such stigma, the Entertainment Industry Counci ... More >>

6 Other Boxing One-Man Shows We'd Like to See

See also: *Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good Mike Tyson's much-hyped one man Broadway show (and Spike Lee joint) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth came to L.A. for just a few performances this past weekend. In it he apparently comes clean about his past by admitting ... More >>

Black Flag Are Back Together

Black Flag is back together, and are almost done with a new album, according to an SST press release. See also: Black Flag's Damaged Changed Punk, and L.A.: 30 Years Later, Its Impact Is Still Felt The lineup is Greg Ginn on guitar, Ron Reyes on vocals, Gregory Moore on drums and Dale Nixon on bas ... More >>

Steven Adler: "The Past 20 Years Have Been a Hell Ride For Me"

Pacing back and forth in a dressing room at the House of Blues on Sunset, Steven Adler can't control his emotions. His new band, Adler, is performing their first show in Los Angeles in the same neighborhood where he first made his name as the drummer for Guns N' Roses. For a person who has played ... More >>

National Reality TV Awards: Kim Kardashian Didn't Show, But the Helicopter Dude From The Bachelorette Was There

So Kathy Griffin has this term of, well, not endearment -- whatever the opposite of endearment is -- for the Creative Arts Emmys. She calls them "The Schmemmys," basically because they're the nerdy little sister of the Emmys, where the supposedly second-tier awards are given out. We don't know if M ... More >>

Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Aims to Rescue Sex Actresses: The Industry Wants Her to Shut Up

Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him

We were saddened by word that Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock fell into a coma last week. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old Los Angeles native (real name Seth Binzer) is now conscious, though he remains in an intensive care unit at a local hospital. We love the guy, and figured this was as goo ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Lisa D'Amato Could Be America's Next Top Rap Chick

​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Lisa D'Amato won the America's Next Top Model all-star competition last week. Not bad! But we knew her back when s ... More >>

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Bad boys Sean Penn and Nicholas Ray

Monster Movie: Bob Forrest Talks Rock and Rehab

​It's one thing for a rock musician to get sober (you can't fling a cigarette butt outside a coffee shop without hitting one in Los Angeles), but it's another to devote your life to helping others wrestle those demons. Bob Forrest was once one of the most promising front men in the L.A. music ... More >>

Death, Drugs and Rock n' Roll- "Don't Knock The Rock's" Timely Glimpse into Musicians' Triumphs and Tragedies

Lina LecaroAllison Anders and Patty Schemel​There is a segment in the riveting new documentary Hit So Hard- The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel that explores the concept of "Saturn Returns" (the astrogical phenomenon which is said to influence and test a person's life development be ... More >>

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Covers Joy Division At MusiCares MAP Fund Show

Lina Lecaro Dave Gahan feels it at Nokia.​Happy Birthday Dave Gahan! The Depeche Mode singer turns 49 today, but he came frighteningly close to never seeing this milestone. Fifteen years ago, he in fact died from an overdose at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood and was brought back to life ... More >>

Can Reality TV Ever Really Rock?

Lina Lecaro Reality's realest rockin couple (from Cali): Millionaire Matchmaker's Rachel Federoff and Destin Pfaff at Svedka party.​This past weekend, LA played host to the "Reality Rocks Expo," a two-day celebration of "reality, unscripted, factual, and lifestyle" television at the LA Convent ... More >>

Marijuana: Tucson Massacre Suspect Jared Loughner Was 'Habitual' Pot User

Suspect Jared Loughner.​An Army official says Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner, who wanted to sign up for military service two years ago, was a "habitual drug abuser." The revelation brings up the question of whether marijuana played a role in an apparently troubled man's life. While ca ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 5, Rachel Uchitel

VH1Hot chick Uchitel.​What "Hot Chicks In The News 2010" list would be complete without the inclusion of at least one Tiger Woods girl? We know, that was so last year. But this hot-chick story has legs. In this case, we have Rachel Uchitel, the ground zero of Tiger Woods girls, the one who th ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan And Paris Hilton Get Caught In Snow, And Dr. Drew Explains Why Cocaine Is Hot (Q&A)

Dr. Drew.​Cocaine? In this economy? Strange how things recycle. The era best known for white lines was the 1980s, the decade of Reagan, Armani and new wealth, but also a horrible early '80s recession and a late 1980s housing bust. With Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton both admitting to apparent ... More >>

Rodney King To Wed Juror In His Civil Suit

After the beating.​Rodney King, the forever famous victim of a horrific, videotaped police beating that set off the 1992 riots, is marrying juror number five from the civil trial that awarded King $3.8 million, RadarOnline reports. Apparently King began dating the woman, Cynthia Kelley, shor ... More >>

"When you're in that state of mind, you'll put your pee-pee in anything": GnR's Steven Adler Talks about His New Autobiography, Overcoming Addiction, Slash's Text Message Obsession, and His Unconditional Love for his "Ginger" Buddy Axl Rose (and Stryper!)

"Axl is a ginger, so he doesn't tan very well": Steven Adler, unmuzzled​No man's danced with "Mr. Brownstone" and dodged death as many times as original Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler, one of the architects of the greatest '80s hard rock album. After surviving "twenty-eight ODs, three bot ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Released Early From Rehab: Reality Show Rumors Abound

​The door had barely shut behind actress Lindsay Lohan as she was released from rehab at UCLA Tuesday and rumors were already flying about the possibility that she would appear on ABC's Dancing With The Stars or VH1's Celebrity Rehab. Lohan got out early after serving 23 days of her 90-day ma ... More >>

The Morlocks Play the Blues

Revived band gives the Chess songbook the L.A. punk treatment

Nightranger Takes Over Indie 103.1 Online Tonight

​They may not have Jonesy anymore, but Indie 103.1's internet version, does retain some of its most beloved shows: Joe Escalante's Barley Legal (Fridays), Passport Approved (Saturdays), Chaos with Full Metal Jackie (Sundays), Native Wayne's reggae show (Sundays) and Suicide Girls Radio (late S ... More >>

Tila Tequila Suicide Hoax Prompts Warning From LAPD

Tequila!​The Los Angeles Police Department over the weekend issued a warning to reality television star Tila "Tequila" Nguyen after receiving calls to check on her welfare. She tweeted disturbing, bloody pictures of herself and then stated that "I feel tired. I'm going to take my medicine and ... More >>

Conviction Kitchen: The Cook, His Wife & 24 Ex-Cons Start a Restaurant

Guess I haven't been checking in with the parole officer enough lately (or watching Planet Green, like who gets Planet Green, except maybe Emeril?) because I completely missed this. Finally, a reality show that combines the best of Top Chef, Cops and Celebrity Rehab. Conviction Kitchen mixes togethe ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/19 - 1/22

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But it is in Thai Town, where the hollow-stemmed water vegetable is usually translated as "morning glory," that it seems the most compelling - possibly because of the slight buzz we imagined we were getting when we tho ... More >>

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Anthony Kiedis Gets Iggy Pop's Sweat in His Eye, Receives Stevie Ray Vaughn Award

View more photos in the "MusiCares: Anthony Kiedis, Iggy Pop, Ronnie Wood, Steve Jones @ Club Nokia" slideshow. Colin Young-WolffAnthony Kiedis at the fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit"I'm not crying, that's just Iggy Pop's sweat in my eye," joked Anthony Kiedis at the MusiCares fifth annual ... More >>

LA-ist Looks Back on L.A. Riots and Rodney King Today

Caleb Bacon of LAist has posted a thoroughly engaging and sympathetic piece on Rodney King, the now-44-year-old black motorist whose savage beating by LAPD cops in 1991 would result a year later in citywide rioting. That 1992 violence, which exploded 17 years ago today, has been eradicated from the ... More >>

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L.A. Weekly Newsmakers: Columnist Mark Groubert on Dr. Drew Live, Jonathan Gold vs. Heal the Bay in L.A. Times

Last night L.A. Weekly's Mark Groubert stopped by Dr. Drew Pinsky's nationally syndicated radio show, Dr. Drew Live, to chat about his articles on Congresswoman Diane E. Watson and Proposition 5, plus his upcoming book on addiction in America. Earlier this year, Groubert was also on Pinsky's show t ... More >>

Listen to "Rehab City" Writer Mark Groubert on Dr. Drew's Radio Show

Mark Groubert, who wrote the three articles that make up "Rehab City" in the June 27 issue of LA Weekly, was a guest on Dr. Drew's nationally syndicated radio show yesterday. Dr. Drew Pinsky is of course the long-time co-host of KROQ's Loveline, and various MTV spinoffs, which have gotten increas ... More >>

Rehab or Bust: A Guide to L.A.'s Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers

Celeb Rehab's Surreal Aftermath

Picking up the pieces of reality excess