Dancing with the Stars

Musicians' Union Protests Outside of Tonight Show, Kimmel

Yesterday, the American Federation of Musicians staged a protest aimed at TV shows with live bands, here and in New York. In the Los Angeles area they picketed outside of The Tonight Show, Dancing With the Stars and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The 116 year old organization claims its performers haven't been ... More >>

Jason Shmelnik, Dancing With The Stars Veteran, Dies With Two Others in Valley Crash

One of three young people who died in a fiery crash over the weekend was identified in reports as Jason Shmelnik, a 21-year-old who had performed as a youth on Dancing With the Stars' "Champion Kids" competition in 2007. He was not driving when the BMW he was in careened out of control, reportedly ... More >>

Celebration of Dance

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

Kristen Bell's Hosting the CMT Awards? Here Are Five Alternatives That Would Be Even Worse

See also: If You Don't Like Country Music You're a Blue State Elitist It's time for the much-anticipated annual CMT Awards, held tomorrow night on Country Music Television. But even those who don't know much about country -- or think the whole thing is little more than a red state conspiracy -- ar ... More >>

Top 10 Gyms in Los Angeles

If there's anything we are not lacking in Los Angeles, it's places to work out. But finding the perfect gym to tone, slim down or -- dare we even say it -- find a date is a highly subjective decision. Then there's that old real estate rule of location, location, location; you want something close t ... More >>

Roll Up! L.A.'s Magical, BYOB, Pants-Dropping, Pole-Dancing Mystery Trip Is Waiting to Take You Away

You're standing on the corner of Third and San Vicente in a silly hat on a Sunday morning, sipping a Bloody Mary from a blue Solo cup, ready for anything. You were told to bring a beach towel, a $2 bill, a vegetable and your favorite movie candy, among other things, but you have no idea why. This is ... More >>

Etta James Dead at 73 in Riverside

At 73 years old, R&B legend Etta James has finally lost a drawn-out battle with leukemia. The Los Angeles native and longtime resident passed away at Riverside Community Hospital, a medical center near her most recent residence in Riverside, where she had been receiving 24/7 in-home care. She was a ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Millions of Milkshakes (Day 28)

Where an ice cream shop like Milk builds layered, elegantly crafted milkshakes replete made with superlative ingredients in carefully constructed combinations, Millions of Milkshakes devotes itself to diversity, an array of candy, fruit and syrup toppings in a mind-boggling array of permutations. ... More >>

Hines Ward, Pittsburgh Steelers' Wide Receiver, Stopped at Gunpoint by LAPD in North Hollywood

Hines Ward fouled by LAPD?​Updated with a shoulder shrug from Ward, via ABC, after the jump. Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver [added]: and Dancing With the Stars contestant Hines Ward was ordered out of a vehicle at gunpoint this morning by police. Welcome to L.A. So what was the problem, o ... More >>

ABC Pulls Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Watch Some Dancing, Drink Some Chocolate Milk

Jamie Oliver​ If you tuned in last night to see Jamie Oliver, with or without his tomato suit, fighting the good fight on the streets of Los Angeles, if not in its public school cafeterias, you will have been disappointed. And though you doubtless enjoyed Dancing With The Stars as much as we d ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Ballroom With a Twist

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Also, Room Service, Traces and more

Stage Raw: Room Service

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE ​ Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I mean, actors -- have run up a $1200 bill at a posh hotel in 1930s Manhattan, and their producer Gor ... More >>

MS. GRIFFIN AND HER BIG CHRISTMAS BALLS

Adam Carolla Fan Defends His Remarks Criticizing Los Angeles, Says 'L.A. Sucks. L.A. Should Know That'

adamcarolla.comAdam Carolla with L.A.-based blogepreneur Andrew Breitbart.​Podcaster and onetime Dancing With The Stars contestant Adam Carolla had some harsh things to say about the leadership of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his City Council cohorts in a recent piece in Los Angeles mag ... More >>

Adam Carolla Rips L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa In Latest Issue Of 'Los Angeles' Magazine

adamcarolla.comAdam Carolla with Dr. Drew Pinsky.​Podcast blowhard and onetime Dancing With The Stars loser Adam Carolla is no fan of the Philippines, same-sex parents, and Hawaiians, as his would-be assassins listeners know. L.A.'s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, is also on that list, apparently ... More >>

Bristol Palin's Last Supper: Thank You, TMZ

We owe TMZ so much. News of what William Shatner is wearing. The details of Charlie Sheen's $20,000 text messages. Pictures of Ryan Seacrest doing pretty much everything, from exiting Mozza to walking around Paris with his parents. Now we know exactly what Bristol Palin and the rest of the Dancing w ... More >>

Bristol Palin Receives 'DWTS' Death Threats, White Powder In Envelope

ABCDancing with the devil​And here we were all worried about Obama. Turns out the real (debatably) political celebrity in danger of civilian attack is Bristol Palin, currently among the remaining three finalists at the "Dancing With The Stars" studio in Los Angeles. According to TMZ, Palin an ... More >>

'Dancing With The Stars' Election 2010: Is Bristol Palin The Beneficiary Of A Right-Wing Coup?

ABCThis Palin isn't nailin' her moves: And still she gets votes.​Bringing us flashbacks of Al Gore's 2004 loss to George W. Bush (the horror), there's another controversy brewing over the Republicans' alleged, vote-bending ways: That's right, Palin-gate, 2010. And it doesn't involve Tea Party ... More >>

Bristol Palin Accused Of Using Political Connects To Advance On 'DWTS' Despite Crap Dance Moves

OK MagazineSecond-generation MILF in red​Tea Party mascot and walking pro-choice ad Bristol Palin can't seem to catch a break. First, Mama Palin's strict hockey-mom platform ruled out an abortion. Next, Bristol had to call it quits with baby daddy when the world found out she wasn't the only ... More >>

Magnolia Bakery: Top 5 Things To Eat When You're Not Eating a Cupcake

Elina ShatkinCupcakes from Magnolia Bakery.​In July, when Magnolia Bakery opened its first (but surely not its last) Los Angeles outpost, I was weary of the hype, fueled by local cupcake fanatics as much as by any PR firm. The breathless chronicling of Magnolia's search for a location, the pro ... More >>

Snacking with the Dancing With The Stars Cast: Turns Out They Actually Eat

ABC/Christie Bishop​ If you're a fan of ABC's reality dancing competition Dancing With The Stars, most likely you're accustomed to its blinding bedazzled outfits, bantering between the judges and contestants' complaints about blisters, sore muscles and bruised egos. But one thing that seeming ... More >>

Via Eater: Anthony Bourdian (Imagined) on Dancing With The Stars

This is beyond hilarious. From Eater, a post imagining an alternate universe in which Anthony Bourdain goes on Dancing With The Stars, which apparently premiered (again) last night. "During the show Anthony Bourdain's wife tweeted that a few years ago he was asked join the show (both Rocco DiSpirito ... 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 >>

RENT GOES HOLLYWOOD

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L.A. To JFK Nightmare Flight On Virgin America Was A 16-Hour Tour

​A Virgin America flight from LAX to New York's JFK over the weekend turned out to be a 16-hour "fight from hell," some passengers told the New York Post (spotted at LABizObserved). The drama on Saturday happened when the weather at JFK was too poor for the plane to land. It circled above New ... More >>

Today in Small Time Crooks: Maroon 5 Producer Who's Gonna Make You Star Possibly Not Really Him

Maroon 5​Eric Valentine is a record producer-about-town with credits ranging from Nickel Creek to the All-American Rejects to Good Charlotte to, well, Maroon 5. He also can get your tracks on a bunch of high-profile soundtracks (Transformers!). Dude knows industry people and, if you're an aspi ... More >>

FOR LOVE AND HOOFING

AREN'T YOU NICK LACHEY'S BROTHER?

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Or, Dancing With Larry

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Cinc It Down

FIND OUT WHAT "MERENGUE" REALLY MEANS!

The Woz on Dancing with the Stars

Oh man. Steve Wozniak is going to be on Dancing With the Stars. I don't watch the show, but they've now found the one star that would make me start. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs. I wonder if they tried to get Jobs to dance as well. Or Bill Gates. That would have been the ultim ... More >>

Oliver Wang on Ozomatli's Three-Night Stint at H.O.B. (with Chali 2na Back in the Mix)

The first time I ever saw Ozomatli was in 1997, when they played the Elbo Room in San Francisco; their dozen or so members barely fit the tiny stage. The second time I caught them was less than six months later, at a UFW march in support of strawberry workers in Watsonville. The two spaces couldn't ... More >>

Farewell to Goa, and Other Club Closures

Adios, amigos

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’Stache Box

And Falcon Fest

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Into the Groove

Last weekend was all about Coachella (see this week's paper), but there is much that I didnt have room for and you, the lucky SC reader get extra scoop...and pics! But first, let me digress a bit and tell ya about this insane party I went to the night before heading out to the desert. You've probabl ... More >>

We Heart Denim...Honest

I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even though denim and sportwear are LA's greatest exports - or at least most lucrative - how exciting can a pair of jeans get, right? Maybe that's why I ... More >>

Reality Without Apologies