Children's Programming

Victoria Justice: The Kids' Choice

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "I think you go right here," says Victoria Justice, guiding a reporter toward her house in the Encino Hills, overlooking the mountains and just down the street from Martin Lawr ... More >>

Nickelodeon: Kid's Nutrition Enemy Number One?

Despite his relatively healthful diet of kelp jerky, seahorse milk and bran flakes, SpongeBob SquarePants is being accused of leading children astray in nutrition. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has placed a wanted ad with the Nickelodeon character looking disgruntled and rocking a 5 ... More >>

The Big Bang Theory of Product Advertising: In the Cereal Aisle, Dudes Rule

Last week the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory offered a spot-on observation about something funky in the world of cereal. As the brainiac crew of scientists settled into breakfast, astrophysicist Raj (played by Kunal Nayyar) began to rattle off the names of cereal mascots like Tony the Tiger, Toucan ... More >>

Altadena 'Walmart Neighborhood Market' Is Latest in Chain's SoCal Invasion

Rumors were flying, but as of this morning, Wal-Mart affirms to Altadena Patch: the company will be moving into an empty building at Lincoln and Figueroa. Construction will begin immediately, and "Wal-Mart is aiming for a January of 2013 opening," reports Patch. And so, little by little, we see the ... More >>

Disney Bans Junk Food Ads Aimed at Kids

The Walt Disney Co. announced yesterday that it will ban some junk food ads on its television channels, radio stations and websites aimed at children by 2015, Reuters reports. Disney is also starting its own "Mickey Check" label for food it deems to be nutritious, to help promote certain healthier f ... More >>

Exclusive: Levitt Pavilions Announce Summer Line-ups

In an exclusive to West Coast Sound, the Levitt Pavilions in Pasadena and MacArthur Park have revealed the lineups to their massive, free summer concert series -- almost 100 shows between the two venues. This year features everything from Latin alternative to folk, indie and world music. Highlights ... More >>

Sesame Street Meets Graffiti in 10 Awesome Artworks by L.A.'s Seventh Letter Crew

There was always something remotely hip-hop about Sesame Street. Elmo, Big Bird, the Count, Oscar the Grouch -- especially Oscar the Grouch -- looked like they'd really seen some shit in their eternal youth. They swaggered through life lessons with a knowing limp, putting some soul into the ABCs of ... More >>

The Unseen Side of Mister Rogers

If you were a child anytime in the last 40 years, or the parent of one, at some point you've had a moment with Mister Rogers. Perhaps many. And in those moments, through the lens of TV, he looked you straight in the eyes, and in his soft-spoken manner told you, in one set of words or another, that h ... More >>

Magic Straws: A Chocolate Milk Alternative

Just when you thought nothing could be as simple and plain (or boring) as unflavored milk, Magic Milk Straws come along. While the magic is debatable, we can imagine that the straws enchant calcium-conscious parents and their kids. Stuffed with tiny candy-like pieces in pink, brown, and white, the s ... More >>

Unexpected Collaboration

Put Down Your Comic Book, There's a New Convention in Town

Cry Baby Lane VIDEO: Watch Nickelodeon's 'Banned' Halloween Movie Online

Viacom (Please don't sue me?)Scaredy cat.​So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick "Cry Baby Lane." According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and on ... More >>

Sesame Street's YouTube Fans Treated to Porn Thanks to Hackers

Sesame StreetBig Bird, perplexed by the letter 'X.'​Poor kids who dialed up the YouTube channel of Sesame Street yesterday looking for their favorite Elmo and Big Bird videos were instead treated to content said to have been brought to them by the letter "X." As in porn, of the variety mostly ... More >>

Sesame Street Tackles Hunger Issues: Lily the "Food Insecure" Muppet

2011 Sesame Workshop. Photo by: Gil VakninNew Muppet Lily with Brad Paisley and Elmo​ Cookie Monster probably is going to rethink those cookies: on Sunday, Sesame Street will air a primetime special, Growing Hope Against Hunger, in which the Sesame Street residents learn about hunger issues in ... More >>

Kids, Brush Your Fangs After This One!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Return to TV in CG Animated Series for Nickelodeon

Shannon Cottrell​See more photos in "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Preview Night," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day One," "San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Day Two." Friday night, Nickelodeon brought Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans a sneak peek at what's in store for the franchise with a pizza party at Ba ... More >>

WAYNE'S WORLD

NIGHTRANGER: THE GIFT OF GABBA

Yo Gabba Gabba's 'Party In My City' Entertains Breeding Hipsters and their Kids ("Kidsters"?)

Lina LecaroThe biggest show -and wildest crowd- Nokia Theatre may have ever seen. ​ Kiddie faux-hawks, fashionably mismatched tutu ensembles and tattoos (fake on tykes, real on moms and dads) swarmed upon L.A. Live in downtown this past weekend, when the trendster tyke sensation Yo Gabba Gabb ... More >>

WHO'S YOUR FOOFAH?

UPDATE: Was the "Katy Perry's Jiggling Boobies on Sesame Street" Scandal a Publicity Stunt for Youtube?

Sesame Street/Youtube Conspiracy?​[UPDATE: We're gonna play a little Oliver Stone here, so bear with us. - A couple of days ago a video "preview" of Katy Perry's jiggling boobies' appearance on Sesame Street was posted all over the web. - Gawker commenters were riled up into sanctimonious outr ... More >>

Top Chef All-Stars Officially Announced With 18 Runner-Up Contestants

Bravo​ Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that the rumors of a Top Chef All-Stars season are true! TV Guide Magazine released an official report from Bravo that the upcoming eighth run of the Emmy award-winning competitive cooking show will include an all-star cast of eighteen runners-up from p ... More >>

HOW TO GO TO PINK MARTINI: A PRIMER

SHAKE, RATTLE & WIGGLE

Twenty-Year Old SoCal Resident Has Longest Tongue In The U.S.

​Hollywood actor and Southern California resident Nick Afanasiev has the longest tongue in the United States, according to San Diego television station Fox 5. Measuring 3.5 inches from the middle of his closed top lip to the tip of his tongue, Afanasiev's tongue is just 0.36 shorter than that ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Schedule: Emily the Strange, Yoshitaka Amano, Buffy the Musical

Check out our Comic-Con picks for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday is Kids' Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Throughout the day, there will be lots of events for the young ones. But, if you don't have kids and you're not completely exhausted, there might be a few panels for you too. If you've been ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Friday Schedule: Adult Swim, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Archer and More

Friday, June 23 is Star Wars Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Bring a lightsaber. SDCC announced its Friday schedule this morning. Even if you're one of the few that isn't into Star Wars, there will be plenty to do. Here are our picks from the schedule. Feel free to leave your own in the comment section. ... More >>

Slime, the toy: Now With "Elegance" Aroma

Remember Slime? Before Nickelodeon cornered the market on slime, the gooey substance was available as a toy made in the late 1970s by Mattel. It came in a little plastic trash can with or without eyeballs, worms, or tadpoles. It was heavenly. It was one of those toys that should never have been take ... More >>

Nickelodeon Nymphet Baits Indie Crowd With Jeff Buckley Name Drop

Miranda Cosgrove is a Disney Nickelodeon nymphet (of the chaste-looking variety, i.e., a "not-a-Britney"). Many of our readers probably have no idea who she is, unless they're acquainted with children who watch her show iCarly, or are sad pervs who themselves watch her show iCarly. Anyhow. She put ... More >>

Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby, Dies at Age 89

San Luis Obispo Tribune reports that Art Clokey, creator of the classic children's television show Gumby and co-producer the series Davey & Goliath, died this morning at the age of 89. Bridget DeVries ​ Though Clokey lived in the San Luis Obispo area, his landmark claymation series, Gumby, has ... More >>

LA People 2009: Stand-in — Jon Donahue

Chris Brown Remains Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Nominee

Chris Brown, the R&B crooner, is facing jail time if convicted of two felonies arising from the alleged February beating, in Hancock Park, of his pop-star girlfriend, Rihanna. Still, Brown, who has already lost an endorsement deal with Wrigley gum because of his troubles, got some good news tod ... More >>

Midnight Countdown -- to L.A. Cable TV Blackout

As of yet there is no sign that telecom giants Viacom and Time Warner Cable have settled their dispute over new pay rates -- a no-prisoners battle that threatens to pull the plug on L.A.'s two-million Time Warner cable TV customers. At issue is Viacom's demand for an extra $39 million to be paid by ... More >>

Preschool Confidential

Season two of seminal kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! has arrived. DJ Lance Rock and others attempt to explain its allure

Package Check: The Jonas Brothers' Rock Camp

Kevin, Joe and Nick try out Disney's High School Musical tricks

Insane in the Lanes

Catwalkin', swag dolin', 10-pin bowlin', kid lovin' party time

When Supergood Meets Superbad

High School Musical 2

Whoopi Stands Up and Delivers

The Word According to Whoopi

My New Radio Crushes

Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with their girlfriends. And most disturbingly, I discovered that morning host Joe Escalante/Dr. LegalDouche is, apparently, an amateur toreador. Ole! ... More >>

The World According to Sesame Street

The Hidden Blade

Life of the Party

Diz McNally

Sista Act

When it comes to Sugar Water, Jill Scott knows how to share. (Props to Big Bird.)

Wrestling With Demons

Mario Duane Gardner, 1968 - ­2002

Naughty Nick

Animation giant plays anti-union toon

Sesame Osama