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Ellen DeGeneres

  • News

    May 24, 2012

    Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

    Betsy Butler and Torie Osborn woo the carbon-counting strata of Assembly District 50

  • Art+Books

    March 8, 2012

    Big Pimpin'

    Pimp cups have real players and white kids alike dropping cash

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    10 Bizarre Portraits of Ellen DeGeneres

    Pop art will never die, so long as bizarre celebrity obsessions keep it fresh, fun and, y'know, weird. So what's with Ellen? How many renditions of her mug do you think you can handle in one gallery opening? This weekend at the Terrell Moore Gallery, artist Renda Writer assembled his second annual ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2012

    That's a Scary Collection of Ellen Portraits

    Pop art will never die, so long as bizarre celebrity obsessions keep it fresh, fun and, y'know, weird. So what's with Ellen? How many renditions of her mug do you think you can handle in one gallery opening? This weekend at the Terrell Moore Gallery, artist Renda Writer assembled his second annual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Top 10 Famous Vegans

    A recent piece by the Associated Press got us thinking: Where are all the famous vegans? Gossip sites already tell us about famous people dating so-and-so, famous people shopping at some boutique you've never heard of, famous people traveling to some island they own, but we hardly get to hear about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    R.I.P. Aristide Laurent: Pioneering L.A. Gay Activist Co-Founded The Advocate, Fought LAPD Harassment

    billyhic.blogspot.comArtiside Laurent at the Advocate's 40th anniversary bash in -- where else -- West Hollywood.​Artiside "A.J." Laurent, 70-year-old writer and activist, died at his L.A. home on October 26 "after a long illness," the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News reports today. Choosing to s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Schtick or Treat

    billyhic.blogspot.comArtiside Laurent at the Advocate's 40th anniversary bash in -- where else -- West Hollywood.​Artiside "A.J." Laurent, 70-year-old writer and activist, died at his L.A. home on October 26 "after a long illness," the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News reports today. Choosing to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

    If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

  • Music

    February 17, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    James Franco, Anne Hathaway To Host Oscars?

    Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Lil B Disses Kanye West and Claims He Killed Hip-Hop, Cormega Backs Him Up

    Lil B to hip-hop: Eat my swag, bitch.​Bay Area rapper Lil B -- the one who brought you "Ellen DeGeneres," the song, only two weeks ago -- has struck again, releasing a new free song called "I Killed Hip Hop," subtitled ... "MESSAGE TO KANYE WEST." Lest you think it's little more than an atte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Listen: Rapper Lil B's Song About Ellen DeGeneres

    Lil B breaks it down: "Ellen DeGeneres, swag, Ellen DeGeneres, whoop."​In addition to being, well, pleasantly insane, Bay Area rapper Lil B is apparently a big, big fan of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. The member of Berkley hip-hop crew the Pack, who have a new album out called Wolfpack Par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2010

    BEST ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

    Lil B breaks it down: "Ellen DeGeneres, swag, Ellen DeGeneres, whoop."​In addition to being, well, pleasantly insane, Bay Area rapper Lil B is apparently a big, big fan of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. The member of Berkley hip-hop crew the Pack, who have a new album out called Wolfpack Par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Is Ellen The New Oprah?

    ​Warner Brothers executives say their research shows that audiences think The Ellen DeGeneres Show is as good as The Oprah Winfrey Show -- good news, because Winfrey announced she's ditching her program next year. NBC has said it will keep Ellen on its 10 owned-and-operated stations through 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Queer Town: Smashing the Gay Closet in Hollywood

    Soon after openly gay director Todd Holland issued a quasi-apology for telling an Outfest panel audience that young, gay actors should "stay in the closet," Queer Town received an email from Frontiers News Editor Karen Ocamb, the dean of gay journalism in Los Angeles and a highly-respected voice in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    THE FUTURE OF COMEDY?

    Soon after openly gay director Todd Holland issued a quasi-apology for telling an Outfest panel audience that young, gay actors should "stay in the closet," Queer Town received an email from Frontiers News Editor Karen Ocamb, the dean of gay journalism in Los Angeles and a highly-respected voice in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    How to Rock SxSW Without Getting Lost or Losing Your #Skittles, iPhone, and Dignity

    Erin BroadleyUser generated SXSW fortune cookie After getting lost in the cavernous Conference Center and desperately seeking help from one of the SXSW volunteers in order to find the inconveniently located Room C (thank you so much Natalie Shanks), I attended my first panel of the day, "User Genera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Slash Moves Forward on Lawsuit Against Real Estate Agent Who Sold Him Un-Party-Worthy House

    This weekend we read of guitarist Slash's realty woes, and the world's tiniest string section played in the background as the story unfolded. Now, we love Slash. He's by far both the best Guns n Rose and the best Velvet Revolver, but part of this story is a little confusing. It seems he and his wi ... More >>

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

    Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Digital Billboards Become a Bohemian Blasphemy

    Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Valley and Westside take on City Hall's anti-green transformation of LA

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    Barack Obama's Slippery Fund-Raising Slope

    Small donors aside, he's awash in cash from big labor and business. Can he say no?

  • News

    October 23, 2008

    Riding the Cultural Divide with Proposition 8

    What's at stake in California's gay-marriage ban

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Hollywood Trash Collectors: World of Wonder Storefront Gallery

    What's at stake in California's gay-marriage ban

  • Film+TV

    July 3, 2008

    Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved

    L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    SXSW Flashback: Interview With Del Tha Funky Homosapien

    It was my third night in Austin. Devin had just blazed through an epic set that had been celebrated in the appropriate fashion , El-P was currently on-stage and I was wandering around the Def Jux party with four cups of Jack in my stomach, a head full of smoke and the strange desire to approach p ... More >>

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    "And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

    Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

  • Music

    December 13, 2007

    How We Roll

    Derby Dolls: a bout last Saturday; babes in clubland; a dragalicious XXXmas

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2007

    Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

    Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite among strikers was a little cutie with a sign that read, "I'm little but I know how to share." She looked so tired from all that marching in the su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    ELLEN'S GAY

    Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>

  • Music

    November 1, 2007

    Daliwood

    And anarchy on Sunset

  • Film+TV

    October 25, 2007

    Weepy Women, Macho Men

    Are Ellen Degeneres and Bill Maher bringing back the battle of the sexes?

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Bearing the Scars of Oscars

    For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2007

    Why I Wore Flip-flops to the Grammys

    Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 70s halter dress. But still I felt pretty earthy and under-dressed sauntering amidst all the Manolos and Choos that flooded the Staples Center last n ... More >>

  • Music

    August 17, 2006

    Celebrated

    JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11

  • Film+TV

    October 13, 2005

    Project Grizzly

    JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11

  • Columns

    February 3, 2005

    O Brother, Where Art Thou Screening?

    JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Best in Film: Ella Taylor

    JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Our Big Fat Gay Year

    JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    Chicks With Wit

    Have you come a long way, baby?

  • Columns

    August 21, 2003

    Continuing Education

    Have you come a long way, baby?

  • Music

    July 25, 2002
  • Columns

    February 7, 2002

    Readings: Laughing With Wen Ho Lee

    Edited by Kateri Butler

  • Film+TV

    October 11, 2001

    Same As It Ever Was

    Nothing can stop the new fall season

  • Music

    April 26, 2001

    Techno Prisoners

    Nothing can stop the new fall season

  • Art+Books

    August 31, 2000

    HollyWebland

    Dot-coms struggle to create new entertainment form

  • Music

    February 17, 2000

    SLUSH

    Edited by Kateri Butler and Libby Molyneaux

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    Rock & Roll Jinx

    Edited by Kateri Butler and Libby Molyneaux

  • Music

    September 30, 1999

    Slush

    Edited by Kateri Butler and Libby Molyneaux

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Beyond the Kiss

    A Roundtable Discussion on Gay Film, Queer Cinema and the Difference Between the Two

  • Film+TV

    April 1, 1999

    The Matthew Show

    A Roundtable Discussion on Gay Film, Queer Cinema and the Difference Between the Two

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