Jessica Simpson

Five More Iconic Key Club Shows

The Key Club's last day is today! Ever since West Coast Sound broke the story of its impending closure, local music fans have been mourning the place. Personally, we've been to the venue hundreds of times, and worked there as a DJ during Metal Skool's heyday for about two years. We believe the venue ... More >>

Shawn and Dorian Holley: Tonight Show Singer Marries Lindsay Lohan's Attorney? Only in L.A.

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here One Friday afternoon a few years ago, just as lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley dropped some highly confidential paperwork discussing her client's alleged illicit activities through the mail slot of a lavish home in the hills, she realized she had the wrong ad ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: John Mayer's Body of Work is a Wonderland

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] John Mayer has been persecuted for years. Way back in 2003, the Village Voice mocked his music in an article called "Phal ... More >>

Suri's Burn Book: The Ultimate Dig at Our Celeb-Obsessed Culture, Now in Book Form

In our celeb-obsessed culture, it seems everything is fair game. We gather around blogs that pick apart stars' outfits and possible romantic entanglements and other scandals. So are celebrity children fair game? Blogger Allie Hagan attempts to make light of that idea. However, being a 25-year-old p ... More >>

The Most Overrated Male Musician Sex Symbols

See also: Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Last week, we unveiled the Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time. As usual, there were cries of "What about that one guy I think is hot?" We agree with some of them. Jim Morrison was a talented mess with serpentine hips that ... More >>

PHOTO: Car Shears Fire Hydrant, Unleashes Epic Geyser on Northeast L.A.

Just as Los Angeles was breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon that the rainstorm had finally passed, some terrible driver had to go and shear off a fire hydrant in the Rose Hills. That's all it took for an epic, 10-storyish geyser...

John Atterberry, Music Exec, Died Today Following Friday's Sunset & Vine Shooting Spree Caught on Video

Tyler Brehm on Facebook.​Updated at the bottom with victim John Atterberry dying today. First posted at 11:12 a.m. Friday. A suspect was dead this morning after at least one LAPD officer responding to a "man-with-a-gun" call at the iconic intersection of Sunset and Vine opened fire, police to ... More >>

Jeweler at Store Favored by Jessica Simpson, Sandra Bullock, Robbed of $1.5 Million in Jewels During Lunch Stop in Santa Monica

susanfosterjewelry.com​Update: Cops say the victim didn't work for Susan Foster Exquisite Fine Jewelry but might have made a sales call there before the robbery (more details after the jump). Suspect descriptions also after the jump. A man who works at a might have paid a sales visit to a Bre ... More >>

L.A. Firefighter Cut From Beneath Collapsed Roof of Dane Cook's Former Hollywood Mansion With Chainsaw; Now 'Fighting for Life'

Virtual GlobetrottingDane Cook territory, in better days​Update: The firefighter, Glenn Allen, was declared dead at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, February 18 -- a tragic end to a heroic 38-year career. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lowered city flags to half-staff and said, "My thoughts and prayers are w ... More >>

Top 10 Worst Musician-Endorsed Stocking Stuffers, Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Top 10 Worst Stocking Stuffers Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Top 10 Popstar Clothing Lines that Put Madonna and Lourdes' New "Material Girl" to Shame!

In this week's Nightranger column, we cover last week's Macy's Passport "Glamorama" event at the Orpheum Theatre downtown. The event was scaled back from years past live music-wise (Macy Gray and Eric Hutchinson performed short sets in between the runway looks) but the production was still top-notch ... More >>

Music Picks: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Donovan, Ana Tijoux, John Wicks

Also, Janelle Monae, Devendra Banhart, the Low Anthem and others

Billy Corgan Births New Trippy Record Label Featuring The Germs, Fancy Space People and More

​You'd think Billy Corgan would be exhausted by now -- dodging paparazzi with his new girl Jessica Simpson, spending countless hours in the studio tinkering with the upcoming Pumpkins album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, oh, and let's not forget running his God blog. We get it, the man's busy. Bu ... More >>

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

LA People 2009: Heavy Metal’s Afterbirth — Steel Panther, the Band

Best Fitness Guru: Harley Pasternak

Best Metal Die-Hards: Steel Panther at the Key Club

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet: Celebrity Rehab, Lifetime Style

The cure for a fictional Lindsay Lohan? Flyover country and Jenny Craig–thin Valerie Bertinelli

Three Degrees of The Strip

Greetings style council readers, today we offer links to a tantalizing trifecta of videos for your viewing pleasure. The first from author/original club kid James St James, the second from actress-turned rockstar-turned-actress again Juliette Lewis, and finally a clip of Tony Romo attempting to ro ... More >>

HOOCHIEWOOD

Heidi Montag may be the most annoying person on television (and that includes Donald Trump, Dr. Phil and the entire cast of every dating/singing/dancing/cooking "reality"/contest on the tube right now). Still, we were willing to give her new clothing line for Anchor Blue a chance. After all, we wer ... More >>

It's A Wrap- LA Fashion Week Trend Report

Another LA Fashion week has ended and now that we’ve recovered –from the clothing cacophony and that nasty cold that’s been going around- it’s time to survey the overall style statements. Yes, there actually were some, and not surprisingly, many came from the crowds not the runway (remember ... More >>

Ask a Mexican! Las Puertas

Never realized Jim Morrison was the equal of Morrissey and Charles Bronson among other Mexican guero icons.

Beat Streets

Un-Fashion Week

I've been unnoticeably absent from Fashion Week this season for no real reason other than I have been doing lots of random shit. It's not 'cause of any beef I may have with Smashbox (even though I am on Fern Mallis' shitlist after accidentally misquoting her in a piece I wrote for the LA Times - she ... More >>

His Smile Looked Really Out of Place

Grammy notes from the Style Council

Bad Charlotte

The Charlotte Church Show

Film Reviews

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Sexy Secrets

Waste Not, Crunch Not

Activism doesn’t have to smell like patchouli

Pollo Libre

Swag Hounds

Sleight of Hand, Slight of Mind

Crumbelievable!

A Well-Worn T

Tee Is for Tits

Periel Aschenbrand’s 100-percent-cotton awareness

A Short Shorts Story

Jersey Girl

Rachel Pally’s fashion for all

Dancing Fools, Baby Jane, John Doe and a Midnight Cowboy

Willie Nelson & Friends

Strange Love

What happens when Hollywood stops worrying and embraces the GOP

Where’s the Beef?

Rustling makes a comeback in California

Bad Girls

Women critics in sexually retro America

Getting their hey ya yas on

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Ask Mr. Gold

Buck Fushers

Edited by Kateri Butler

Wish Upon a Popstar

The Devil in Miss Spears