Nancy Grace

Q & A With Orange is the New Black's Kate Mulgrew: Prison Food, Hair Advice Thoughts on Chicken Kiev

Even if you've only watched a couple episodes of Netflix's new women-in-prison series Orange is the New Black, one fleeting glance at a group shot of the ensemble cast of Jenji Kohan's comedy-drama based on Piper Kerman's memoir of the same name and you will remember Galina "Red" Reznikov. She's the ... More >>

Sundance Next Weekend Fest: Three Best Films to See

Whitney Houston: Regrettable Punditry And 'Too Soon' Reactions on Video

Bill O'Reilly​When a celebrity dies in L.A., it's a somber moment. But it's also an opportunity for competition among journalists and pundits. Members of the media can make mistakes, over-reach, and downright go too far. That was the case for some of the coverage of Whitney Houston's untimel ... More >>

2011, A Jam Of A Year The Master Food Preserver's Fundraiser At Homegirl Cafe

In keeping with years past, we fully expect that about the time we polish off our last turkey sandwich, the online barrage of 2011 best/worst lists involving topics we've already heard entirely too much about this year will begin (holiday cocktail recipes, anyone?). Nothing against Casey Anthony or ... More >>

Director John Waters Talks Amanda Knox, Striped Socks, and Underpants Bomber

Patrick Range McDonaldJohn Waters, left, and James Egan​Last Friday night, legendary film director John Waters sat down with L.A. Weekly for a friendly, often times hilarious, chat, promoting a new book that features his media interviews over the past 46 years: John Waters: Interviews. Univer ... More >>

Casey Anthony Mask Made For Hollywood Video Shoot up For Sale on eBay: Scare The Kids For Halloween

eBayCasey Anthony mask.​Among all the creepy Casey Anthony stuff on eBay (t-shirts and trial tickets) you'll find something truly scary: A Casey Anthony Halloween mask. The seller ("prophunter," appropriately) is based right here in L.A. The listing says "let's never forget poor Caylee." Yea ... More >>

Doug Stanhope: Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

​ Instead our usual insipid questions with the brilliant comic, Mr. Stanhope enlisted his fans to submit their own insipid questions. Do you think social media is a positive or detrimental thing? It's like a dildo on a power-drill. It depends on how you use it.

Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

Doug Stanhope

Lesley Herring, Hollywood Woman Missing for 2 Years, Gets Nancy Grace Treatment on CNN Tonight

Lesley Herring​The media has been roundly criticized for its "missing white woman syndrome" -- giving way more play to missing, young (attractive) Anglo females than those of other ages and ethnicities. So it's refreshing when we buck the trend. Nancy Grace, who has made a franchise of miss ... More >>

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

Swiss Miss: Roman Polanski Loses Bail Bid

The first inning of what could prove to be long losing game for director Roman Polanski ended Tuesday with Swiss authorities rejecting his application for bail. The Associated Press quoted Swiss justice ministry spokesman Folco Galli saying, "We continue to be of the opinion that there is a high ris ... More >>

Jasmine Fiore: Crime Time Celebrity

​​​One week after her murder, Jasmine Fiore's immobile face continues to gaze from monitors at Web surfers and TV viewers. We, in turn, are transfixed by the made-up mask, with its doll-like eyes and the head coiffed in a swirl of bright blond hair. The grislier the details of Fiore's death, ... More >>

Jasmine Fiore Murder Frenzy

L.A. Observed's Kevin Roderick fumes over KNBC's ultra-cheesy Web coverage of murder victim Jasmine Fiore, whose body was discovered inside a discarded suitcase last weekend in Orange County. Roderick's headline, "Murder just another chance to say 'naked,'" refers to Channel 4's necrophiliac descrip ... More >>

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

Phil Noir: The Human Stain

How Spector left his mark on Lana Clarkson

The Notebook Guy

Vanished series creator Josh Berman keeps the world in three rings

Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

John Powers on summer's slithering freaks and creeps

Highly Flammable

Jerry Bruckheimer’s newest TV law firm, TNT & G, blows up the image of the earnest defense lawyer

If Only Life Imitated Art

They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They?

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers