Larry King

Valentine Road is a Great, Urgent Doc About the Murder of an LGBT Teen

Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold

See also: *Our Streamy Awards slideshow *Our profile of Jenna Marbles, from our People Issue The 3rd annual Streamy awards, honoring excellence in original online video, streamed live online (appropriately) Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium. More than ever before, nominees ran the gamut of n ... More >>

5 Films People Will Be Talking About at Sundance

For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes--and those of many a filmgoer--will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah, reportedly experiencing its chilliest winter in a decade. Their collective hope: to discover at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26) the next Beasts of the ... More >>

Top Five Metal Christmas Songs (Now With More Manowar!) \m/

So you're looking for a way to celebrate Christmas without having to sacrifice your metalhead cred in the process? If the guys from Immortal caught you tapping your foot to Mannheim Steamroller, you'd lose all corpse paint privileges with no questions asked. So to help you save (painted) face, we've ... More >>

Storefront Brings the Old World to Los Feliz

Lately I've been thinking a lot about an online trailer for an upcoming documentary by Erik Anjou called Deli Man, which chronicles the culture of the American delicatessen through interviews with such L.A. authorities as Norm Langer, Jackie and Marc Canter and, of course, Larry King. (If you can sp ... More >>

I Had Zero Interest in Celebrity Home Tours...Until I Went on One

When I moved to Los Angeles a year ago, I swore that I would never be caught dead on a celebrity-homes tour. I couldn't care less whether the Kardashians lived in a mansion with an infinity pool or a gingerbread house constructed by sugarplum fairies. The buses cruising the streets reminded me o ... More >>

Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. Goes Kosher

Guzzle & NoshAssort bagels from the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co.​Just in time for Rosh Hashanah (Wednesday night, people), the Beverly Hills outpost of the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. is going kosher. The restaurant, which closed over the weekend to make the conversion, will re-ope ... More >>

LAUSD Becomes First California School District to Mandate Gay Curriculum

Instinct MagazineL.A. is officially leading this parade.​The "Stop SB 48" campaign may be doing its darndest to shield California youth from the horrors of learning about gay and lesbian contributions to history, but the religious bigots behind it are bugs under the shoe of the L.A. Board of E ... More >>

Larry King: Gay Teen's High Heels And Makeup Set Off Murderous SoCal High School Attack?

Markusram​The story of a 15-year-old boy killed at a Southern California high school campus because of his high heels, lipstick and effeminate sexuality was playing out in court in L.A. this week. Brandon McInerney was 14 when he shot Larry King a day after the 15-year-old walked around in hi ... More >>

Neighborhood Eats: Brooklyn Water Bagel Company

No matter what MLB strips from Frank McCourt -- his ego, his baseball team, his dignity (actually, he did that all on his own) -- there's one thing they can never take away: the plaque bearing his name at the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company. At the recently opened Beverly Hills bagel shop, t ... More >>

Larry King: Ryan Seacrest Has Been My 'Jeans Supplier' for Seven Years (VIDEO)

Don't tell Seacrest -- Larry shops Juicy​Larry King was looking all kinds of fly in three different shades of purple last night on the freshly revived "Conan." But for once, we looked past the suspender/tie/button-up combo to a whole new side of Larry: his bottom half. Before you go calling u ... More >>

Top 5 Metal Christmas Songs (Now With More Manowar!) \m/

TK Top 5 Metal Christmas Songs Ever (Now With More Manowar!)

Larry King Fever: L.A. City Council Observes First Annual 'Larry King Day' Tomorrow, Declares Him 'King For A Day'

CNN87 years old and finally signing off​Tonight is the last episode of "Larry King Live" on CNN, which comes as a welcome distraction for the DWP-divided L.A. City Council this casual Friday. (Don't worry, reruns of "Larry King [Not] Live" will probably haunt you the rest of your life, like M ... More >>

Laura Schlessinger Ending L.A.-Based Radio Show Following N-Word Outbursts

"Dr. Laura."​It wasn't surprising to see Los Angeles-area-based radio host (KFWB, AM 980) Laura Schlessinger announce that she was letting her contract expire at the end of the year after last week's Kramer-like outbreak of n-word rounds fired from the conservative's mouth as she spoke on-air ... More >>

Beverly Hills To Celebrate Sept. 2 As "9.02.10 Day"

​If there's a Southern California city that has collective low self esteem and really doesn't pat itself on the back enough it would have to be the rarely praised hamlet of Beverly Hills. You might have heard of it -- city of 35,000, swimming pools, movie stars? Just in case you haven't, the ... More >>

Wyclef Jean Confirms He's Running for President of Haiti

Putcha hands together: Wyclef Jean​Wyclef Jean, the former member of the Fugees, will appear tonight on the Larry King Show to confirm the rumors he's running for President of Haiti, CNN reports. If elected, it's likely his speeches will be kind of meh, except for the ones where he gets Laury ... More >>

Larry King Pulls The Plug On 'Larry King Live,' Says He'll Still Host Specials

​Larry King, the 76-year-old talk show host who's been smeared by critics over ratings and poked fun of by comics for his age, stated Tuesday that he's calling it quits. The Los Angeles-based Larry King Live show has been on the air for 25 years. At the beginning of Tuesday's program, he mad ... More >>

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LA Music Picture of the Week: Snoop and Larry Roll Like Dat

Snoop D. O. Double G. and his buddy, Larry K. I. N. Single G. (from Larry King's Twitter account--a medium he helped invent through his loopy newspaper column): ​

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/22-3/26

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "...it's safe to assume that few of us have ever been as voracious as the planet Neptune, which may have, according to a paper by Steven Desch quoted by The New Scientist, once slurped up an entire super-Earth and stole ... More >>

Larry King Tweets About the 5 Second Rule

With thanks to a blog post from LA Observed editor Kevin Roderick, we happened upon this delightful tweet on The 5 Second Rule from, of all people, Larry King. Who knows how many similar gems from the mind of Larry simply vanished into the ether before the days of Twitter. LA ObservedLarry King twe ... More >>

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

The Jewing of Westwood

Happy Birthday Mr. President: All Buttercream Frosting is Bipartisan

It's President Obama's birthday today. He's 48. The President is not taking the day off, but working at the White House, meeting with advisers and having lunch with the Senate Democratic Caucus. On the agenda: health care reform, the economy, and cash for clunkers. "Chuck E. Cheese was booked," Pres ... More >>

Michael Jackson Memorial: The View from Inside the Staples Center

View photos from the Michael Jackson memorial at the Staples Center. And then the casket came in, and washed away the helicopter swarms and camera eyes staring at us outside. We, the few witnesses, an itsy representation of the world at large, gathered in an arena downtown to bid farewell. Before t ... More >>

Los Angeles Invited To Party After Dodger Victory

"We're going to party at my house. We're going to party like rock stars, if you can find my house," yelled an enormous sweat and champagne-covered man to the frenzied crowd at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night. The “man” was Manny. And indeed he is the man right now in this Dodger-crazed City of ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival

Steve Tatham

Putting on the ointment

Burn Notice: Tune In, Zone Out

And other untaxing fare for the jet-lagged

Sahl-ud!

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

Week of the Living Dead

Give PEACE^� a Chance

14 Hairstyles of the Pundits

They Hate Me, They Really Hate Me

On winning "The Eisner" at the Disney trial

Optimal Precocity

The decidedly grown-up pleasures of Shrek 2

Disney Goes to the Dark Side

The Battle for the Mouse�s heart and soul reaches epic proportions

Primary Notes

Crashing Comdex

Freaky Sundays

Carniv�le comes to town, plus Navy NCIS, Threat Matrix and Joe Pantoliano in The Handler

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Journalist and the Pop Star

The Sonofabitch Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans' attack of the heart

Paradise Lost and Lost and Lost . . .

The bombing in Bali and sniper mania

Murder at the Vanities

Royal Treatments

Walk Like a Man

See Owen Run

Another top gun goes Behind Enemy Lines

Apocalypse, Tuesday

Filthy Lucre

And stirring conscience