Maria Shriver

A Solo Show About Growing Up a Pornographer's Daughter

Liberty Bradford Mitchell has lived in L.A. for 15 years. She's the mother of two and a sometime yoga instructor who has dabbled in theater — acting and writing — on and off since college. She's also the progeny of the Mitchell brothers — the notorious porn moguls who ran the Mitch ... More >>

Equality California Hires New Leader, But Will John O'Connor Divide or Unify Gay Rights Activists?

It took one year and ten days to find a new, full-time executive director, but the gay rights group Equality California has hired a super-connected fellow named John O'Connor. "John is a bold leader with a history of leading nonprofits into the next phase of their journeys," said Clarissa Filgioun ... More >>

Could This License Plate Save California's Arts Funding Crisis?

You've likely noticed this sun setting behind an iconic row of palms as it darted in front of you on the 405. But unless you've got one of these specialty plates screwed on your own Prius, it's unlikely you knew that it supports the state's art funding. "I had lived in California my whole life, and ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger Turns Cad -- Again -- over Divorce Fees: He Refuses to Pay for Maria Shriver's Attorney

Maria Shriver can't believe her ears.​Arnold Schwarzenegger has a real tin ear about his impending divorce from Maria Shriver, how the public feels about him, and how to avoid adding to his sad reputation the new title of Reigning California Cad. Arnold is insisting that Maria pay her own divo ... More >>

Mildred Baena and Schwarzenegger's Love Child, Joseph, Upon Learning His Dad Was the Terminator: 'Cool!'

Hello MagazinePhoto shoot!​Of all possible media outlets, Schwarzenegger mistress Mildred "Patty" Baena has chosen to speak with England's Hello Magazine for her much-anticipated coming-out interview. (She's been hiding out since news of her love child with the former California governor broke ... More >>

Gigi Goyette Lawyers Up With Gloria Allred, L.A. Sex-Law Guru; Will They Take Arnold Schwarzenegger to Court Over Affair?

Gigi Goyette, the first alleged Ahnold mistress to speak up since his separation.​How Gloria Allred has avoided the walking, talking sexual-harassment case that is Arnold Schwarzenegger up until now is a mystery. Allred is the poker face of sex law; as her clients blubber, she quietly extermi ... More >>

L.A. City Council Claims to Have Solved Budget Shortfall -- But Their $7B 'Plan' Tiptoes Around Unions, Makes No Real Plans at All

Council Prez. Eric Garcetti: game face.​This morning, the LA Daily News and Daily Breeze throw around the word "realistic" in their wire-service headlines on the City Council's 2011-12 budget, approved last night. How horribly misleading. The piece begins with an eerie quote from City Council ... More >>

Mildred Patricia Baena PHOTO: Mother of Schwarzenegger's Love Child Has Nothing on Maria Shriver

MySpace50-year-old Mildred Patricia Baena​Updated after the jump: Photos of the snazzy $268,000 Bakersfield spread, rumored to have been purchased for Baena by her loving baby daddy. Do we smell a buy-off? Also, a photo of the "couple" in 1994 confirms: She's got nothing on Maria Shriver. Upd ... More >>

Arnold Love Child Jokes: Jay Leno vs. Conan [Video]

NBCJay Leno gave it to his pal.​Arnold Schwarzenegger's revelation that he fathered a child out of wedlock 10 or so years ago was a present to America's L.A.-based late-night talk shows. In fact the muscle-man actor has been giving steadily to the cause of monologia since 2003, when he elbowe ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Split: Trying to Cope Over Troubles in Storied 25-Year Marriage

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver on their wedding day.​Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are living apart while they figure out what to do about their troubled marriage, according to the Los Angeles Times. She has moved out of the fantastic Brentwood home they share. The former ... More >>

Schwarzenegger Predicts Victory For Jerry Brown?

​So Patricia Sellers is an editor-at-large at Fortune, and as such she hangs out in L.A. restaurants where you might just happen to run into people like Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger.Upon bumping into Schwarzenegger on Monday at Le Pain Quotidien, Sellers asked the governor what he thoug ... More >>

Kennedy Clan Member Becomes Mayor Of Santa Monica

​Happy birthday, Mr. Mayor. It's not exactly the White House, or even the California first lady's office. But Santa Monica City Hall does have one of the more potent and groundbreaking political bodies on the West Coast, and now it has a member of the Kennedy clan, Bobby Shriver, as its leader ... More >>

Chad Griffin: One Man Behind Marriage for All

Shriver-gate: Maria Apologizes

California First Lady Maria Shriver apologized after paparazzi snapped her driving while talking on a mobile phone, sans hands-free device. Husband and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the state's "hands-free law," which mandates that drivers must use hands-free devices such as Bluetooth he ... More >>

Shriver Schwarzenegger cell phone dustup

It's pretty hilarious to see the headlines this morning after a paparazzi standing on the street corner just down from the Brentwood home of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger caught the former newswoman again yammering on her cell phone while driving a huge black whatever SUV.On the video, whi ... More >>

How to Be a Successful Jerry Springer Guest

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, Dies

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died early this morning at the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She was 88 years old. Shriver was the sister of former president John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. She was a ... More >>

Huckleberry Hounds: The Brunch Crush at Zoe Nathan's New Cafe

Even the governor waits his turn

Proposition T: The Most Divisive

Things get absurd between slow-growthers and pro-growthers in Santa Monica

"Parks and Wreck": Reporter's Wide-Open Spaces?

Also, Palisades residents respond to Weekly's "Rathouse" cover story

California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriage

How Republicans accomplished what the Dems could not

The Jig Is Up, Tracey Ullman!

What to do in L.A., April 25-May 1

Maria Shriver for Obama

Maria Shriver, the first lady of the state of California and cousin of Caroline Kennedy, has endorsed Senator Barack Obama. Shriver made an impromptu appearance at an Obama rally at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Sunday, where Michelle Obama, wife of the presidential candidate, Oprah Winfrey, and Carolin ... More >>

Villaraigosa's Media Affair

Telemundo, where his girlfriend is an anchor, lavishes him with free airtime

¡Ask a Mexican! The Assimilator

Why does Arnold Schwarzenegger keep putting his foot in his mouth and talking smack about Mexicans?

Along Came Scary

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Raw Deal II

Inside the fateful 2004 meeting where aides steered the governor wrong

Arnold’s Gray Day

A portrait of a troubled term

Props to You, Warren

Beatty gets up off his rocker in time to KO Terminator takeover

Reverse Recall

The Arnold revolution runs out of spin

T-Bone’s Dream

Katrina victim washes ashore in Echo Park, goes to NASCAR race, kisses Sandra Bullock

Bulworth? B.S.

The problem with Warren’s posturing

Rehabbing Arnold

The governor’s personal recovery plan

Arnold’s Abyss

Can Dick Morris save the spiraling governor?

The Wayward Governor

Why Arnold terminated bipartisanship

This Budget Hurts

Governor Arnold talks about his budget — and the outcry over cuts

Blowing Up Government

Inside Gov. Arnold’s plan to restructure Sacramento

The New Energy Governor

Arnold needs to get cracking on the state’s looming crisis

Scream IV

Arnold and the tax hike to come

A New Sheriff in Town

Gov. Arnold starts the revolution

Paradise Terminated

Building California’s new government amid sniping and groping

Conan the Governor

The view from the top

The Face in the Toilet Bowl

Why Arnold could flush the feminists

Predators

Arnold survives his coming out

Big Media’s Bamboozle

Why radio’s wrong to already call the recall

Sex, Lies and a Complicit Media

Why not demand total recall from Arnold?

True Lies

A week in the life of the Terminator, the candidate hiding in plain sight

Reign of Chaos

What a mess faces California politics and finances

Totaled Recall

Rise of the political machinations

Mr. California