John Travolta

5 Reasons John Travolta is Definitely, Absolutely NOT Gay

Okay -- we know what you're thinking: John Travolta is super friggin' gay: He makes Andy Dick look like a mixed-martial arts heavyweight from Brazil. But hear us out: Some of the allegations against Travolta in recent years seem more like gay fantasies than journalistic reality. We even reported t ... More >>

Slash Gets A Walk of Fame Star: "The Very Street Axl Rose Will One Day Be Sleeping On," Jokes Charlie Sheen

In case you don't trawl celebrity news, Slash got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. To celebrate the occasion, a phalanx of paparazzi and fans showed up -- not to mention radio host Jim Ladd and even goddamn Charlie Sheen. The star for the 46-year-old former Guns N' Roses axeman sits ... More >>

John Travolta Is a Gay Massage Fiend, Lawsuit Claims

Updated at the bottom: Maybe it was all just a bad dream. The first guy has withdrawn his suit. First posted at 1:54 p.m. Monday, May 7. When a Los Angeles man wrote a book that claimed John Travolta was a well-known cruiser of gay massage spas in town, we were a bit doubtful. First, why didn't o ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Planned Parenthood Food Fare, French New Orleans, Bacon & Sides, Beer Festival, Foie Gras Dinner, Paris Cookbook Fair

Planned Parenthood Food Fare If watching male politicians go into overdrive trying to limit women's access to birth control left you with a queasy feeling, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare. The headliner is chef Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern) along with an e ... More >>

John Travolta's Stolen Mercedes Helps Crack Gone in 60 Seconds-Like Theft Ring

Updated at the bottom with the condition of Travolta's ride, with photos of the leftovers. First posted at 12:20 p.m. The movie Gone in 60 Seconds, every 20-year-old frat boy's favorite "cult" film about stealing the dream rides on their dorm room walls, featured a motley crew of high-tech antihero ... More >>

The Book of Leonard

Pulp Shakespeare

Don Ferrarone: The Ex-D.E.A. Badass Who Finds Stories for Hollywood

In the credits he's usually listed as associate producer. What it really means is that he's the guy who finds stories. Don Ferrarone, ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agent, finds the real-life people -- the bodyguards, serial killers, narcs, dealers, soldiers, assassins, snipers, henchmen, sp ... More >>

John Travolta Denied Table at KFC

John Travolta stars as Terl in Battlefield Earth.​In this town, stories about John Travolta and food are as ubiquitous as threadbare casting couches and sitcoms about schlubby Neanderthals married to improbably hot women. Still, this tidbit should have a place of honor in the annals of Travolt ... More >>

John Travolta's Mercedes Still Missing: Why Did he Leave it on a Residential Street With Parking Restrictions?

A car like Travolta's missing SL.​At the risk of rumor and innuendo, John Travolta really wants his 1970 Mercedes 280 SL back. Santa Monica police today circulated photos of a vehicle that looks like the missing car in hope someone will spot it. It was reported stolen at 3:46 p.m. on Sunday a ... More >>

Pulp Shakespeare

Top 10 LA Weekly News Stories Of 2010: Sex, Drugs, One Absurdly Long Tongue And The 'Attempted Lynching' That Shook Los Angeles

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

John Travolta Threatens To Sue Over Allegations That He Cruised L.A. Spas For Men

Saturday Night FeverTight white suits and high-heeled shoes are so not gay.​We told you so. Allegations that John Travolta was a gay bottom who cruised L.A.'s spa scene seemed pretty far out to us, not only because it was hard to believe an A-lister would risk his career for a semi-public BJ ... More >>

John Travolta Was A Gay-Sex Fanatic At L.A. Spas, Author Robert Randolph Claims (We Have Our Doubts)

John Travolta gay?​Travolta threatens to sue. See our update. John Travolta, the actor who taught men how to strut, is gay? That's the revelatory allegation making the tabloid circuit this week as an L.A. author allegedly outs Travolta and other Hollywood luminaries in his self-published book ... More >>

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 >>

Today in Awkward Dates: When Weezer Bassist Met Orientalist Hooker

Jillian Lauren is this week's LA Weekly cover girl. She worked (worked?) in the Sultan of Brunei's harem when she was younger. Now she's married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner and lives in Eagle Rock. From our own Gendy Alimurung's interview with the former harem girl/current rock wife: Six years ... More >>

Cuttle Bone: Cuttlefish, A Tasting Menu The Cuttlefish Mating Ritual

Jonathan Gold​If you've ever tried the Insalatina Tiepida Di Polipo e Seppia Arrostita Con Carciofi, Asparagi e Fave at Vincenti Ristorante in Brentwood, and we sincerely urge that you make a reservation today, then you are familiar with the exquisite tenderness of cuttlefish, the way its fles ... More >>

Spielberg, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise Asked To Give Up Private Jets

Winograd.​Congressional candidate Marcy Winograd has formally asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a handful of mega-stars to stop flying via private jet in and out of Santa Monica Airport because of the pollution the planes cause for neighbors in the neighboring, L.A. city community of Mar Vi ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Ninja Assassin, Old Dogs, The Sun

Also, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The End of Poverty? and more

LA Stories: The Wacky Adventures of the RZA (featuring Sister-Luvin', the Black Tank, and Travolta in Drag)

​Here at West Coast Sound we have been long-time fans of the RZA's 2005 book The Wu-Tang Manual, a really inspirational retelling of the conception and formation of hip-hop's unlikeliest spiritual gang. So we were thrilled when we learned earlier this year that The Abbot was working on a follo ... More >>

Chaating in the House of Samosa: New Samosa House Coming Soon

Samosa House, the popular Culver City Indian grocery and café, is opening a new restaurant on the corner of Overland Ave. and Washington Blvd., a stone's throw from Starbucks and Sony studios. In keeping with tradition, the new restaurant will be vegetarian, with soy versions of chicken and fish, s ... More >>

Remembering The Roxbury, Plus Playhouse Hosts BPM's Biggest Bash

In this week's Nightranger, we toddle around Hollywood's newest super-club, Playhouse, a gorgeous mega-production-geared space opened by club impresarios Elie Samaha and Rob Vinokur. Samaha, also a movie big-wig, is best known for famed '90's hotspot The Roxbury nightclub on the Sunset Strip, and d ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Death In Love, 500 Days of Summer, Severed Ways

Also, The Poker House, The Queen and I, and more

Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes

Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

In-Flight Husband

Marriage takes off on a plane — then crash-lands

Bolt's Leashed Lightning

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

The Porn of Pain

Suffering may be the great, undying subject of cinema, but at any film festival worth its salt, the escalating volume of calamity, catastrophe and apocalypse means that the conscientious (or congenitally miserabilist) critic risks drowning in pain porn. Stumbling from divorce to rape to abuse to end ... More >>

Strike Struck, Oscar Lives!

What to do in L.A., Feb. 22-28

Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>

Costume Party

Hairspray: Tame Waters

Hairspray isn’t exactly outré

Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

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

Ryan Seacrap flaps & flashes

I can take him on American Idol, but when E!'s golden boy gets on the red carpet the verbal diarhea is downright embarrasing. I'll take Isaac Mizahri feeling up starlets over Seacrest's creepy oggling and suggestive remarks any day. Well, actually maybe not. This shit is hilarious! Here's just a few ... More >>

Sesame Street Forever

A serious consideration of an estimable discography — because it’s time

Before Bling

Hip-hop’s storied past

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