Hugh Hefner

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, June 14 LoveyDove CASEY'S PUB One of Los Angeles' choicest homegrown musical sensations, boy-girl adventure team LoveyDove have created an unusually irresistible blend of artful expression, psychedelic atmospherics, ... More >>

Hugh Hefner On the Connection Between Jazz and Sex

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Before he transformed into "Hef," the pajama-clad and priapic founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner was a jazz crooner billed as "the boy with the bop in his v ... More >>

The Invention of the Hot Pocket, and Other Tales From a Conference on Iranian Jews

Though Jews and Iran have had their differences, it might be surprising to learn that the history of Jews in Iran is as old and rich as Hugh Hefner. That 2,700-year history was recognized and honored this weekend at a conference held at UCLA's Fowler Museum in conjunction with its "Light and Shadow ... More >>

Happy Blissyear

Mistress Sex Capital of America? Los Angeles, Of Course

Our eyebrows lifted with indigation when L.A., home of one Hugh Hefner, failed to rank number one in a 2012 list of America's top sugar-daddy cities. As if. Hef is the world's ultimate, blue-pill-propelled icon of pay-to-play papis, proof that money can buy you love, or something blonde. And ours is ... More >>

Air Sex Returns To Los Angeles

See also: *Air Sex Championships @ Bootleg Theater. Los Angeles is the capital of real sex, what with our globally potent porn industry and all -- not to mention Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt and the lingerie biz. But what about faking it? You'd think we might be good at it, seeing that we're also the ... More >>

Books: Dearie, The Remarkable Life of Julia Child Happy 100th Birthday Julia!

To kick off Julia Child's nationwide 100th birthday festivities that begin today (her actual birthday is August 15th), we're taking a look at several books released in honor of the Pasadena native. A boeuf Bourguignon centennial book party, in essence (Happy, happy birthday!). We've seen several g ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Nude Playboy Photos Leak One Week Early: Oops.

Editor's note: The photos of Lindsay Lohan previously published in this post have been removed at the request of Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. ("Playboy"), which did not grant permission for use of its materials. Updated at the bottom: Hef decides to release the issue early after making ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Leaked Playboy Cover: As Nude and 'Classy' as Promised

TheInsider.comLarger-than-life version, below.​Sorry for caring, when there's real Los Angeles news on the line -- but the second we saw, via New York Post Tweet, that Lindsay Lohan's much-hyped Playboy cover had leaked, we couldn't help fawning over it a little. "It's a classic tribute, insp ... More >>

Mike Edison's Book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Five Dirtiest Secrets of the Porn Mag Industry, From Hugh Hefner to Larry Flynt

​ At first, the idea of a three-hundred page cultural history of dirty magazines seems quaint, like somebody writing a book-length ode to the telegram. After all, it's been a long time since Playboy stood for anything other than bad reality TV, and you couldn't purchase a Penthouse right now i ... More >>

Kandyland at the Playboy Mansion: Sugar Daddies, Paul Oakenfold and Girls Flashing their Oompa Loompas

Lina Lecaro A rainbow of femme flavors. ​Half naked ladies (make that completely in the case of babes in body-paint), a gluttonous amount of booze and food (which only about a fifth of the females would actually eat), Dayglo Chocolate Factory décor, and throbbing sounds by Paul Oakenfold-- Ka ... More >>

Sex Survey Finds Angelenos Do it More Than Anyone Else in America

Jimi Photog​It should be no surprise that the city that's home to the porn industry, Hugh Hefner and Charlie Sheen is also the place where people have the most sex in America. The latest Trojan "U.S. Sex Census" puts L.A. the top of the horn-dog heap: We have it 135 times a year, beating ou ... More >>

Kiss and Pay Up: Drake Settles with Playboy

He's got money to blow, right?​Playboy gets (Young) Money. Last June, Playboy Enterprises Inc. sued rapper Drake for copyright infringement. The Hefner empire claimed that The Young Money/Cash Money Records artist's breakthrough song "Best I Ever Had" used samples from the 1975 song "Fallin' ... More >>

The Hills Have Fonts

Pneumonia Outbreak at the Playboy Mansion: Could It Have Festered in the Grotto?

Girls of the Grotto: Worth subsequent diarrhea?​Updated after the jump: At least one "model" (is that what they're calling 'em these days?) who worked the Febuary 3 Playboy event contracted the bug. VIDEO of her harrowing tale, and more proof it came from the grotto. Update: The infection cou ... More >>

Animal Chefs Shook and Dotolo Reveal New Seafood Restaurant: Son of a Gun

N. GalutenAnimal (and Son of a Gun) chefs Jon Shook (right) and Vinny Dotolo​After much speculation and many rumors, Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo have released the name and concept of their new restaurant, opening at 8379 West Third Street. As the Animal team told Food & Wine Magazi ... More >>

The American Salumi Calendar: Finally, A Centerfold For Guanciale Lovers

​Who needs centerfolds when you have charcuterie? Or salumi, to be more specific and a bit more, well, I don't know, centerfold-y. Thanks to American Salumi, you can now get a salumi calendar, supposedly the first of its kind. Technically it's the Year of the Rabbit now, and not the Year of th ... More >>

Hef Admits To Not-So-Safe, Condom-Free Sex With Multiple Girlfriends (Like A Porn Star) At The Playboy Mansion

playboy.comShocking: Crystal Harris, Hef's bride-to-be, is blonde.​In the wake of his announcement that he'll marry a 24-year-old girlfriend, Angeleno Hugh Hefner defended himself against regurgitated dirt about life at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, although he seemed to confirm many of ... More >>

Hugh Hefner Can't Stop Tweeting About Engagement To 24-Year-Old Playmate Crystal Harris

Hugh Hefner's latest boob job​The horniest old man in history has never let age be more than a number, and his youthful Twitter account -- clocking in at 21 Tweets yesterday -- is further testament to the man's utterly ageless, uh, text-erity. (Unless he's got a Playmate on smart-phone duty, t ... More >>

Sean Connery's lack of underpants & 20 other bizarre celeb facts from Rona Barrett

​ So, like Zardoz in reverse, fully-dressed Sean Connery spent the '70s going commando. Meanwhile, Sammy Davis, Jr., collected pornography, and Diane Keaton admitted an oral fixation! Click on through to our Style Council blog to learn all of this and more in this week's Studies in Crap post. ... More >>

8 Reasons Why Your Drug Dealer Hates You

Open for business. Unless you suck. ​It's been said that miserable circumstances are incited when you piss off your bartender, hairdresser or leader of your preferred religious denomination, in addition to a slew of people in other professions (your pizza delivery guy, your fitness instructor) ... More >>

Master of the House of Playboy

Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

Movie reviews: Get Low, Life During Wartime

Also: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno and more

LA Weekly Cover Story: Hugh Hefner Defiant In His Defense Of His Empire And The Playboy Lifestyle

Steve ApplefordHef and girlfriend Crystal Harris.​Amid a buyout attempt by the owner of rival Penthouse magazine and decreasing fortunes at the hands of free internet porn, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner remains defiant in his attempts not only to buy the portion of his nudie empire he doesn't ow ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Playboy Jazz Festival

The 32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival had its typical big-name veterans play - George Benson, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer - but it was the lesser known performers who almost stole the show. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. and Naturally 7 made their first appearances and the Pete ... More >>

Money Raised To 'Save The Peak' Near Hollywood Sign

​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday morning that the final amount of money has been raised to "Save The Peak" around the Hollywood sign, preserving a ridge line and preventing it from being developed. At a morning press conference the governor said the state of California has previou ... More >>

BOGIE AT THE BIJOU

Playboy Magazine Could Move To L.A.

​We know -- you're thinking, Playboy already is in Los Angeles. Nope. That's just Hef, who's been known to approve proofs of the adult glossy from the comfort of his robe at home in Holmby Hills. The bread-and-butter work on America's nude-girl-next-door mag has been done out of editorial hea ... More >>

Gleaming, New LAPD HQ Has Brown Lawn, Wilted Palms

​Former Chief William Bratton called it the most-expensive, state-of-the-art police headquarters in the nation, a $437-million, green-friendly monument to the original boys and girls in blue. And yet, something's amiss at the Los Angeles Police Department's new, gleaming, high-tech Police Admi ... More >>

Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

Entertainment for Men

Lenny Bruce: How to Talk Dirty and Influence Auctions

It's been 43 years since "sick," "dirty" standup comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles, but his legacy lives on -- not only in the candid ways in which Americans from academia to the pulpit now feel free to discuss human behavior, or the liberating (and sometimes not so lib ... More >>

Tomb With a View: Bids for Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe's Reach $4 Million

The Ebay bidding on the cemetery crypt space located directly above Marilyn Monroe's is now up to $4 million. For a final resting place, the spot has had a bit of turnover, according to an L.A. Times piece. Originally owned by baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio, it was sold by the Yankee Clipper to Los A ... More >>

IS IT ART? OR JUST NUDIES?

Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

This Tallowed Ground: Wax Museum to Sell 200 Celebrities

If you can't take the heat -- well, let's just say that the Hollywood Wax Museum has announced plans to auction off James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and nearly 200 other wax figures on May 1. The housecleaning sale is the first in the museum's 44-year history and offers something for every genre of c ... More >>

Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

Filming Snoop's Dogg After Dark: Behind the Scenes at The Kress

We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

It's Just Sex

Hugh Hefner is Still Alive!

From Decor to Door Whores

A peek inside some Hollywood hot spots. Plus, LCD Soundsystem and Mondo Hollywood shows

Why Don't We Do It in the Dirt?

Top 10 e-mail responses to the question, “Where would you have your last lay in apocalyptic L.A.?”

Sweatin' Safari

Babes in Babylon

Auctioneer Hef

Mope Springs Eternal

Scientology, cont.

Why Do You Think They Call ’Em Hams?

Def Hef