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Katherine Webb: Meet The L.A. Model Who Made Brent Musburger Drool On-Air (PHOTOS)

Meet Katherine Webb, a Miss USA contestant who became America's sweetheart almost overnight. Besides being the target of Brent Musburger's on-air drool during ESPN's broadcast of the BCS championship football game Monday, it turns out that Webb is a West Hollywood-based model (photos at the bottom ... More >>

Comedian Cash Levy Explains His Odd Path to Stand-up Success

See also: *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles It's around 11 a.m. on a Wednesday as Cash Levy enters a banquet room within the pleasant, faux-sylvan Etiwanda Gardens event center near Rancho Cucamonga. Sixty employees of a major Southern California u ... More >>

Middle of Nowhere Director (and Former Rapper) Ava DuVernay on the Future of Black Film

See also: *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles It's around 11 a.m. on a Wednesday as Cash Levy enters a banquet room within the pleasant, faux-sylvan Etiwanda Gardens event center near Rancho Cucamonga. Sixty employees of a major Southern California u ... More >>

Eric Yee, Yale Dropout, Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Valencia Schoolkids, Aurora Style, in ESPN Chat Room

Updated at the bottom with personal details on Eric Yee, and the comments that may have triggered his arrest. (Headline has been changed to reflect the suspect's identity.) Originally posted at 9:30 a.m. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is refusing to release the name of a young Asian man in h ... More >>

A. Martinez Hired at KPCC; the Madeleine Brand Show Gears Up To Go National

This morning marked the last broadcast of KPCC's the Madeleine Brand Show. Don't fret, your favorite Babe of NPR will still be heard weekday mornings on Southern California Public Radio--she'll just be bantering with a swarthy new co-host. Brand, who has hosted the eponymous hour-long show since 2 ... More >>

Brian Banks, Ex-L.A. High School Football Star, Has NFL Tryout With Seahawks After Rape Exoneration

Pete Carroll, the same football coach who recruited Los Angeles High School football star Brian Banks to the USC team one decade ago, is reportedly giving the 26-year-old a second chance after 10 years fighting a false rape conviction. Carroll coaches the Seattle Seahawks now, and has granted the N ... More >>

Super Bowl 2012: No Matter Who Won, Los Angeles Still Loses

Last night's Americana showdown at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis was blaring on the TV sets of 47.8 percent of the nation's households -- Los Angeles very much included. After all, we couldn't bear to be out of the loop on all the Super Bowl tweets and commercials and pop-culture commentary ... More >>

10 Best Sports Bars in Los Angeles

Now that musicians and nerds are the cool kids and jocks are the villains, liking sports has become distinctly uncool. So where are reasonable people of average coolness supposed to go to share their now-lame passion for twentysomething physical freaks throwing or kicking roundish objects for millio ... More >>

Pat Sajak Admits He Was Drunk on Early Wheel of Fortune Episodes

If you refuse to believe things were better back in the day, behold: Pat Sajak says that in his early years hosting the TV game show Wheel of Fortune he would straight-up get drunk during breaks. And he said "hostess" Vanna White joined him. That would be in the 1980s, friends, time of the Jordach ... More >>

Best Taiwanese Themed Sports Bar: The Indian Theme Restaurant

What's in a name? In this case, everything and nothing. Nicknamed "The Taiwanese Hooters," a bevy of waitresses clad in red tank tops, black shorts and Uggs sporting a feather in their hair cheerfully greet you in Mandarin upon entry. Faux Western in décor, with fake log tables, wolf skin and faux ... More >>

Tom Colicchio Cal Ripken, Jr.: The Same Person?

Blame it on a week of traumatic television programming (The Chew, The Boston Red Sox), but while watching ESPN the other day, it became increasingly clear that Cal Ripken, Jr., the longtime Baltimore Orioles player and Hall of Famer, and Tom Colicchio -- well, you know who he is -- not only look ter ... More >>

Rancid - House of Blues Anaheim - 9/7/11

Keith PlocekTim Armstrong​Rancid, Agnostic Front House of Blues Anaheim Downtown Disney September 7, 2011 Better than: Knocking down brews with your bros at ESPN Zone. Sing the song of shirtless guy, he's sweating all over you... The House of Blues is smack-dab in Downtown Disney: no smoki ... More >>

Bryan Stow Assault Suspects Arrested: Bald Man With Neck Tattoos, Possible Female Getaway Driver in LAPD Custody, Reports Say

LAPDAn assault suspect arrested in East Hollywood today is reportedly one of these two. Witnesses say he was bald, possibly making him the one on the left.​Update: 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez is under arrest for the beating. According to KTLA, "he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, ... More >>

USC: No Party for Young Men, Especially if it Involves Vegas, the Super Bowl, and Everson Griffen

Everson Griffen wants you to party in Vegas with him for Super Bowl weekend.​The party pooper administrators at USC's athletics department are telling USC footballer players they better not be attending a Super Bowl weekend party in Las Vegas organized by NFL pro and Trojan alum Everson Griffe ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Michael Voltaggio to open Ink next year. [Daily Dish] -- Jose Andres blasts Congress over pending school lunch bill. [Chicago Tribune] -- Just one dish: District's spam sliders. [Eating L.A.] -- Divided We Eat, on class and food in America. [Newsweek] -- T minus 3: A laid-back guide to Tha ... More >>

Extrapolation Exercise of the Day: Female Rats Prefer Cocaine to Actual Food

A. ScattergoodPSA: This is Turkish delight, not cocaine​ If you spent a lot of time in college dorms in the 80s, the results of a new University of California, Santa Barbara, study won't come as too much of a surprise. Earlier this week, scientists reported at the annual Society for Neuroscie ... More >>

Sporting Arena Concessions: Home To Health Violations

Sporting arenas feed massive quantities of patrons, with the majority of the business taking place during specific, key moments of the game. A glut of health violations, when you think about it realistically, is in no way out of the realm of possibility. Employees are paid minimal wages, and operate ... More >>

The 2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Report: Chestnut Wins, Kobayashi Eats a Sandwich in Jail

Nathan's Hot Dogs​ Top sporting events over the weekend according to ESPN? The World Cup quarterfinals, some baseball, the LeBron watch, and--right up there on the actual ESPN iPhone Top Events page--the Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Just when a competitive eating conte ... More >>

Kogi BBQ World Cup = ESPN Match Truck, Launching Tomorrow

Does Los Angeles need another food truck? Probably not. But sometimes the marketing people come up with something better than Fred Astaire selling vacuums and combine things that actually make sense. What better than hybridizing the cult status of Kogi BBQ with World Cup fanaticism? Enter the ESPN M ... More >>

Hot Pot Plain and Sweet at Yojié Downtown

Ben CalderwoodTwelve "sumo" ounces of angus beef​ Laker fans nosing about downtown for dinner, a flatscreen TV and a means to circumvent the pulsating cacophony of L.A. LIVE are welcome at Yojié, the hybrid swish-swish house a few blocks off the Figueroa drag at Olympic and Grand. You can sam ... More >>

Morton's Puts a Laker Cocktail on the Menu The Recipe

Morton'sLaker cocktail​If you're the sort of person who will be watching the NBA finals out in a public venue, you may have your seat at ESPN Zone -- conveniently located a few blocks away from the Staples Center -- reserved and waiting. You may already be sitting at your favorite sports bar, ... More >>

Commitment to the Raiders

Ice Cube's new documentary chronicles the team's L.A. years

Fairly Big Lunch With Extremely Big Game James

Lennox McLendon/AP File PhotoVintage Worthy​ Laker legend James Worthy will be the featured guest at a special luncheon on Monday, May 17th at Morton's The Steakhouse in Beverly Hills. Since the Lakers finally seem to be playing like defending champions, there's still a good chance that they ... More >>

Carne Asada Sundays Will Continue at Dodger Stadium, Even Without Nomar

Juan Ocampo/LA DodgersNomar Garciaparra serves himself a plate of food at Carne Asada Sunday​Nomar Garciaparra, the 6 time All-Star infielder who spent much of his 14-year career with the Red Sox and a few memorable years with the Dodgers, retired Wednesday. During his three years wearing Dodg ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/4 - 1/8

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If this were a medical school exam, you would have failed miserably. But Lilly's is a taqueria. You have just had lunch." Good Head: Eating Barbacoa at Lilly's Taqueria. "Exploring options. Trying to move fast.. ... More >>

What To Wear While Tailgating: The Cook, The Milliner, His Wife & Her Quarterback. Or Something Like That.

Between tonight's Orange Bowl and the crowds slowly gathering in Pasadena for Thursday's BCS championship game (with all the Longhorn banners fluttering along Del Mar, you'd think that half the faculty at Cal Tech was secretly from Texas), we thought it was time for a little food fashion weigh-in. ... More >>

ESPN To Expand In L.A.: New Site To Be Launched Here

​ESPN, and we're not just talking about "The Ocho" here, is expanding its presence in Los Angeles by launching a regionally focused sports-news site Dec. 21, Reuters reports. ESPN/ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer said the sports network will likely roll out similar sites in New York, C ... More >>

Spike Lee Interviewed at Morton's: ESPN's Lunch with a Legend

Morton's restaurant is known for its juicy steaks and classic martinis. But, Tuesday, November 24, you won't be staring at your filet as much as you will be at Spike Lee, famed film director, producer, writer and actor, as he's interviewed by ESPN radio. The series, Lunch with a Legend, a collabora ... More >>

Wayne Gretzky Film Screening

Morton's restaurant is known for its juicy steaks and classic martinis. But, Tuesday, November 24, you won't be staring at your filet as much as you will be at Spike Lee, famed film director, producer, writer and actor, as he's interviewed by ESPN radio. The series, Lunch with a Legend, a collabora ... More >>

Last Night's #2 NBA Draft Pick Tweets on Beverly Hills Italian

As Henry Abbot, the editor of the ESPN basketball blog Truehoop often points out, NBA players are known to have pretty bad taste in food (Fanning the Fuego at Dodger Stadium

And special guest Benjamin Franklin on immigration

Three Drunken Goats and the Reign of Spain

More tapas and wine, please

ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

It's BCS Championship Game time and, two years after Katrina, New Orleanians are no doubt ecstatic to have the Sugar Bowl back in their fair city. They might not be so thrilled, however, to discover that their city is once again under a deluge. Maybe I'm being a little sensitive, but check out ... More >>

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

Claws and Effect

Everyone’s crowding into Macau Street for the fried crab

The TiVo Hog

Everyone’s crowding into Macau Street for the fried crab

Iran Loses Game, Keeps Hair

Everyone’s crowding into Macau Street for the fried crab

What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear

Everyone’s crowding into Macau Street for the fried crab

Rollin' With the Homegirls

L.A.’s own Derby Dolls skate and rate the local rinks

Nellies On Fire

L.A.’s own Derby Dolls skate and rate the local rinks

Hot-Dogging

L.A.’s own Derby Dolls skate and rate the local rinks

The 'Future Boy' Is Now

Shaun White and the X Games come of age

Pass the Paddles

Our guide to the games

Said's Last Stand

And Rummy the Wrastler

Rise of the Anti-Machine

And Rummy the Wrastler

The Coffee Table, Revisited

And Rummy the Wrastler

Minus 10

24 and counting . . .

The Man Show

24 and counting . . .

Patriot Games

24 and counting . . .

Female Trouble

Artificial insemination, adultery, the dark forces of otherworldly evil, et cetera