Entertainment and Recreation Industries

Despite Condom Crackdown, L.A. Porn Industry Has It Easy Compared To China's Repressed Adult Business

zazzle.comChina's crackdown has porn on the skids.​The San Fernando Valley-based porn industry is up in arms over attempts by AIDS activists and even the state of California itself to make performers use condoms. Boo-hoo. The porn industry in China has virtually been put out of business by ... More >>

Porn Industry Argues That Regular STD Tests Are As Good As Condoms

VividCatwoman just says no to condoms.​So the porn industry has been battling to keep its adult videos condom-free -- pretty much the way you, the consumer, want it to be. Except that the state of California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) says state and federal laws a ... More >>

Valley Porn Production Resumes Following HIV Scare

Steve LaSome activists want porn producers to mandate condom-use on-set.​Following last month's HIV scare in adult video, more than a few major porn producers put the brakes on production as the Sherman Oaks-based Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Heathcare Foundation tried to sort out who might ha ... More >>

Porn Industry Group Finally Reports HIV Case To L.A. County Health Officials

The porn industry took its time reporting an HIV-positive actor.​The porn industry's main health-care organization caved and sent the results from a positive HIV test to the county, as mandated by state law. The Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation turned the results in Tuesday ... More >>

Porn Actor Has HIV, But L.A. County Health Department Has Yet To Do Anything About It, According To AIDS Healthcare Group

diebmx via FlickrIs the county lagging on HIV-in-porn report?​Is the porn industry pushing its luck with this latest report of HIV? The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it is. According to AHF, Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare, the group that conducts voluntary STD testing for the adul ... More >>

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Tells City Of Los Angeles To Stop Sanctioning Porn

Jenna Jameson participated in city sanctioned porn. It's true.​That hardcore stuff you watch when your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend isn't looking? It's actually permitted by the city of Los Angeles. You hear that right: What would be prostitution if the cameras and lights weren't on is ac ... More >>

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Calls For Complete Shutdown Of San Fernando Valley Porn Production Following HIV Report

​Sorry guys (and freaky chicks who also like porn -- God bless), but this HIV problem in adult video is getting serious. After two major porn-production players, Vivid and Wicked, stated they were putting "shoots" on hold, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling on all adult video ... More >>

San Fernando Valley Porn Actor Tests Positive For HIV; AIDS Activists Who Want Mandatory Condoms In Porn Say We Told You So

Steve LaAIDS Healthcare Foundation protested outside Larry Flynt Publications recently. ​A porn actor has tested positive for HIV, the industry's health care foundation has told reporters. It doesn't come as a surprise: Several actors in the San Fernando-based biz have tested positive in the ... More >>

AIDS Activists Target Larry Flynt For His Condom-Free Porn

hustlermagazine.com​An HIV/AIDS health-care organization that's been on a tear against the porn industry for its lack of condom use will target Larry Flynt and his Hustler empire at a press conference outside his offices in Beverly Hills Thursday. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced (NSF ... More >>

LAPD Surveils Porn Industry; One Cop Described As A Porn Star's Fan

Aurora Snow.​One of the stranger twists to come out of the Washington, D.C. obscenity trial of John "Buttman" Stagliano and Evil Angel Productions Inc. was an allegation by porn star Aurora Snow, who covered the trial, that one Los Angeles police detective who regularly attended porn conventio ... More >>

State Advisory Panel Considers Mandatory Condoms For Porn Industry

​The Aids Healthcare Foundation is hailing the first meeting of a state advisory panel Tuesday that will weigh whether condoms should be required in adult video shoots. The California's of Department Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) advisory panel on the matter was meeting at the Cal ... More >>

Former Porn Stars File Suit Against Porn Industry Health Organization For Allegedly Releasing Medical Records

​Two former porn stars are planning to sue the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) for allegedly breaching the privacy of their medical records. Representatives of the pair were scheduled to announce the suit Monday with the help of the Aids Healthcare Foundation, which has a ... More >>

California Welfare Cards Can Withdraw Cash From Casino ATMs

​A Los Angeles Times review of records found that California welfare recipients are able to withdraw cash using their welfare cards on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state. The Times crosschecked ATM addresses on the Department of Social Services website with addresses ... More >>

Feds Investigate Porn Healthcare Organization For Allegedly Releasing Stars' Medical Records

The AIM crew, with founder Sharon Mitchell at bottom, right.​The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has opened an investigation of the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Health Care Foundation, the Sherman Oaks nonprofit organization that handles STD testing for the porn industry, it was a ... More >>

American Medical Association Backs Mandatory Condoms In Porn

​The American Medical Association has joined the Aids Healthcare Foundation's calls for a government mandate that porn actors should be required to wear condoms. The association voted at its annual meeting to support legislation to that end, although it's not clear that there is legislation in ... More >>

More Fun With Maps: The Great American Pizza-Guns-Strip Clubs Map

Floating Sheeppizza, guns and strip malls map​ Maps are cool. Maps generated by geography academics are very cool. And maps generated by geography academics which show the relative density of pizza to guns to strip clubs are just flat out brilliant. Which is what this map, by Floating Sheep, a ... More >>

Michael Silva, L.A. Homicide No. 126: Man Found Stabbed to Death in Canoga Park [Update: Suspect Identified]

The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for a 32-year-old Canoga Park man who allegedly fatally stabbed Michael Silva on June 5. According to detectives, Jerry Wizar pulled a knife and stabbed 39-year-old Silva multiple times in the head, back, neck and chest. Wizar and Silva were long time a ... More >>

Porn-Star Murder Suspect Was Chris Tucker To Victim's Jackie Chan

MySpaceThe suspect, Steven Hill, with porn star Sasha Grey.​Steven Hill, the man police allege killed fellow porn actor Herbert Wong, was close to the victim, according to Adult Video News (NSFW). Once source called the two "the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker of porn." Wong reportedly helped Hil ... More >>

NOT THE SWEDISH MEATBALLS YOU'RE USED TO

Lakers' Jerry Buss Headed To Basketball Hall Of Fame

nba.com​The Basketball Hall of Fame was widely expected to announce the induction of Lakers co-owner Jerry Buss Monday morning. The 77-year-old was one of 19 finalists for the honor. In the largest sports deal at the time, Buss purchased the Lakers, the Forum, the Los Angeles Kings hockey tea ... More >>

Group Aiming To Force Condoms On Porn Industry Appeals Case

​The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Thursday that it's appealing a lawsuit it brought in an effort to force Los Angeles County health officials to require condoms on porn sets in L.A. The suit had been dismissed by the Los Angeles Superior Court; now AHF is taking it to the Second Distr ... More >>

Rubbers Revolutionary: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein

Activist wants to save porn actors from STDs. It's been lonely

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Group Says Rules Already Exist To Force Condoms On Porn Industry

Vivid​The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a petition last week with the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards board asking it to enforce condom use at porn-industry shoots and noting that the state already regulates the transmission of blood-borne pathogens in medical settings. "In ... More >>

Roy Disney Was Last In Family To Work At The Company That Bares Its Name

DisneyRoy E. Disney​The death of Roy E. Disney Wednesday marked the end of the line for members of his family working at the Burbank-based entertainment giant created in 1923 by his father Roy O. Disney and by his uncle Walt Disney, a Disney spokesman confirmed to the Weekly. Although Roy E. ... More >>

CityCenter: Vegas 4.0

How Frank Gehry, Nancy Rubins, Cesar Pelli, Maya Lin and others are reinventing California’s favorIte playground

Some Sorta Joke About a Three-Holed Ball

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