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Madonna Impersonator Nadya Ginsburg Chats With Us (as Madonna)

Actress, writer for E!'s Fashion Police and Madonna impersonator Nadya Ginsburg (she does a hilarious, spot-on Cher, too) will be doing her one-woman show, Madonnalogues, at the Cavern Club tonight and Oct. 23. Ginsberg, in perfect character as Madonna, sat down to talk with us about the pop diva's ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Holly Madison Parties, But Not Harder Than James Oseland

What's more Vegas than a couple of lesbian folk singers eating vegetarian food?! OK, OK, not what you'd expect for this Sin City season, right? But something had to balance out what would become a Playmate-laced episode of Top Chef Masters, and we're thankful the Indigo Girls were up to the task. L ... More >>

Rick Calamaro: A Nightlife Visionary Remembered

After being found dead in his L.A. apartment Sunday, Rick Calamaro is being remembered as Charlie Sheen's ex-assistant in media reports. But Calamaro meant much more to L.A.'s nightlife scene. His death is suspected to be drug related and followed, we've learned, a month holed up inside his apart ... More >>

The Sugar Daddy Capital of The Nation is Not L.A?

When it comes to sugar daddies, Los Angeles, home of Hugh Hefner and every Hollywood "producer" who ever thought an investment in a film would pay off in the bedroom, ranks number 5 in the nation. That's right, the website SeekingArrangement.com says this capital of sleazy bald men chasing skirt li ... More >>

La Luz De Jesus Gallery's 25-Year Retrospective Exhibit (Part 2)

Lina Lecaro Two heads (and exhibits) are always better than one. Wayne Martin Belger and his skull camera know it...​ So expansive was the exhibit celebrating Billy Shire's legendary -- don't call it lowbrow! -- L.A. art gallery's 25th anniversary, it had to be split into two separate shows, o ... More >>

Cajon Pass Fire on 15 Freeway Stalls Vegas Plans for Labor Day Weekend

Las Vegas SunView of the fire from those lucky enough to already be in Vegas.​Updated after the jump: The 15 South will reportedly be closed all night. The northbound lanes are open, but moving like molasses. Your Vegas trip: Officially a bust. Originally posted at 3:50 p.m. All those early b ... More >>

Party House Crackdown: New L.A. Ordinance Targets Notorious Ragers in the Hills

Lina Lecaro"Kandyland" at the Playboy Mansion​It's no secret: An almost institutionalized circuit of L.A. house parties has long operated in the sprawling estates above Ventura and Hollywood Boulevards. Druggy, boozy, Sheeny "privates" have become integral to city nightlife for a number of re ... More >>

Doug Hutchinson, 51-Year-Old Actor, Marries 16-Year-Old Beauty Pageant Contestant: They Plan to Live in L.A.

E! OnlineHutchinson and Stodden.​In the Creep File comes the story of 51-year-old Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison, who reportedly married his 16-year-old victim sweetheart, beauty contestant and aspiring country singer Courtney Stodden. We were double checking the calendar to make sure it was ... More >>

Sean Bean, 'Lord of the Rings' Star, Stabbed With Shard of Glass in Totally J.R. Tolken-Worthy Bar Brawl

IMDBReady to rage​We're about to OD on stupid celebrity news today, but this one's too amazing to pass up -- a perfect "Game of Thrones" stabbing, involving one of Hollywood's biggest badasses, come true at some low-brow London pub. The Playboy Mansion is even involved (sort of)! So late Sund ... More >>

Studio 69's "Pirates vs. Ninjas" Night Brings Out Epic Props and Partiers

Lina Lecaro Perish Dignam, Adam Lambert and Roxy Contin rrrrrrock matey.​Studio 69 definitely knows how to throw a theme party. The hedonistic underground happening meshes fetishy fashion, art, music and performance in the boldest, most bodacious and imaginative way. We're talking huge, wild p ... More >>

Gilbert Gottfried Fired as Aflac Duck Voice Following Shocking Japan Tsunami Jokes on Twitter

Gilbert Gottfried.​Updated after the jump: Gottfried apologizes. In the Department of Too Soon we bring you comedian and longtime Hollywood actor Gilbert Gottfriend, never one to let taboos, ethnicity or tragedy get in the way of what he thinks is a good joke He was a star of the dirtiest-jo ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

Kat Von D, 'Inked' Hollywood Heartbreaker, Gets All Wifey With Biker Jesse James

Let the tabloid frenzy begin​Updated after the jump: He even Tweets for her in Spanish! Forget those Motley Crüe "Starry Eyes" Kat Von D got tatted down the side of her face in a lovey stupor, leading her straight into the arms of bass player Nikki Sixx. The pin-up centerpiece of "L.A. Ink" ... More >>

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

Sammy Davis's porno, Linda Evans's androgyny & other jewels from Rona Barrett's cavalcade of celebrity non sequiturs

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Rona Barrett's Gossip Super Special Summer Annual Author: Rona Barrett and, presumably, her staff Date: Summer, ... More >>

L.A. Country Club Pays Ultra Low Property Tax Rate; Faces Possible Review

​The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment & Cit ... More >>

Six-String Heroes: Iconic Photographer Neil Zlozower Talks New Book, Mr. Musichead Launch Party, and Making Friends with Rock Stars

Neil ZlozowerEddie Van Halen​"Talking rock n' roll with Zloz is like discussing tan lines with Hugh Hefner or escort services with Charlie Sheen," boasts the Van Halen fans in the David Lee Roth Army (yeah, that's right, army). Not like we'd want to pick a fight with Diamond Dave's soldiers an ... More >>

CREAM OF BROCCOLI

How to Be a Successful Jerry Springer Guest

R. Crumb Retrospective at Cal State Fullerton

Kim Fowley's Lipstick Orgy, Banana Split Sundaes and more

TOO BAD IT'S SOLD OUT!

GO LA: Let's Play Fuck, Marry, Kill With Morrissey, Molly Prather and Christoph Eschenbach

And other reasons to not go straight home after work, May 22-28

I Photograph Rock Stars: Greg Watermann's Gallery Opening at A&I Hollywood, May 7

BY PAUL ROGERS Paul RogersThe first time I worked with Greg Watermann - at Ozzy Osbourne's Beverly Hills mansion for Britain's Metal Hammer magazine in 2002 - he looked every bit the Hollywood rock star photographer. Black-clad like a Nine Inch Nail, blonde "assistant" in tow, he was briskly effic ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Great Buck Howard, Perestroika, Knowing, Sin Nombre

Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Life, Babes in Toyland, Holiday Fever!

Also, Love's Labour's Lost, Shanghai Moon, and more . . .

Sex Trade: Three Views of Erotica

How Deep Is Your Throat?

What to do in L.A., October 17-23

Last Night: Bowling For Boobies 2008 at Lucky Strike Lanes

Check out the Bowling for Boobies 2008 slideshow by clicking on the image above. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/Holly_Madison_Bowls_for_Boobies_in_Los_Angeles'; Monday night at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood, I sat in a bowling booth next to Playboy's Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's ex-main sq ... More >>

Immortal Mayhem

It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

The Coffee Table

All things bright and beautiful

Bust a Move

Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

Girl Against Boys

Salty comedian Sarah Silverman slays the men . . . and the men are grateful

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Way of All Flesh

Naked Music For a Beautiful Tomorrow

God Will Have Huge Curly Hair That Sticks Up Through His Halo

Ken Kesey’s advice to writers

The Erotic Arts

Blackwash

Motley Crue come, uh, clean

Field of Wet Dreams

Build it and they will cum

Style and Substance

Freudian Slippers

And other artifacts from the archetypal couch

The Dark Ages

Sculpture garden honors the Hollywood 10

The Prisoner

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's leading writer, out on tour

Y2KAOS

Talking Back to Mom

Re-reading the Feminine Mystique