Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

Turbo and Joey, a Web Series About Jersey Guys Trying to Make it in Hollywood

Half of the word "typecast" is "cast." Versatility may be prized at Juilliard, but selling your brand is the real key to Hollywood success. Case in point: Fast-talking, tanned and toned Jersey natives Jeremy Luke and Joey Russo began filming short videos based on their lives as struggling actors in ... More >>

Riddick Is Like a Grisly, R-Rated Kids' Book

Kennedy, the MTV VJ Everyone Loved to Hate, Has a New, Salacious Memoir

You know you're a polarizing figure when Courtney Love takes a liking to you. For anyone who regularly watched MTV from 1992 to 1997 during the height of grunge and gangster rap there was no presence on the network more memorable (or more irritating) than the single-named Kennedy, she of the nerdy ... More >>

Why Is Everyone So Pissed About the EDM Reality Show?

As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a competitive EDM reality ... More >>

Stand Back: These Los Angeles Bands Are About To Blow Up

The new year couldn't come at a better time. Forget Superstorm Sandy, school shootings, Snooki's baby, Rihanna and Chris Brown's reconcilliations. Let's start fresh, and let's do it with some new music. Here are eight fantastic local bands, all of whom are set to break big in 2013. The best part? Y ... More >>

Did Mitt Romney Go Brownface in Attempt to Woo Latino Voters?

If you thought Mitt Romney's week couldn't get any worse, it just did. The blog Democratic Underground seems to have called it first: The Republican candidate appears to have gotten darker in only a day's time. Fine, you say, he has property on the beach right here in Southern California. It happen ... More >>

Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera Arrives in L.A., Co-Written by Danny Franzese (aka the Gay Friend in Mean Girls)

You probably know him as Damian, the flamboyant scene stealer from the 2004 film Mean Girls, where various quips ("I want my pink shirt back") earned Danny Franzese a modest cult following consisting primarily of tweens and queens. While his film cohorts Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan graduated to 30 Ro ... More >>

Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question

Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>

Your Shows of Shows

Angel City Eats: Where Joe Friday Kim Kardashian Meet Over Donuts This Weekend

jgarbeeA Gumdrop Sculpture In Progress​Beginning this weekend at Gallery KM, Joe Friday ("Dragnet") gets to spend the next six weeks with Kim Kardashian. We're sure that Mr. Friday is thrilled. At least there will be plenty of yin-yang marshmallows and food-inspired sculptures on hand. The e ... More >>

If You Like It Then You Shoulda Put a Lid on It

Why This Song Sucks: Pitbull's "Give Me Everything"

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Pitbull's "Give Me Everything," featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer History: "Give Me Everything" is the second single from Pitbull's Planet Pit, which is ... More >>

Italian Food Fest Feast of St. Gennaro This Weekend

San Gennaro FoundationAunt Chippy, Guillermo, Cousin Sal and Uncle Frank from "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in a cannoli-eating contest during the annual feast.​ Hollywood is preparing to paint the town red, white and green this weekend when the 10th annual Precious Cheese Italian Feast of San Gennaro ... More >>

Top Ten Metal Bands With Strange Gimmicks

Oderous Urungus of GWAR​See also: Top Five Metal Guest Vocalists That Make You Say "WTF" When it comes to our musical preferences, we pretend that we value artistic integrity, strong musicianship, and meaningful lyrics above all else. But in truth we often fall for a good gimmick. Whether it' ... More >>

Top Five Worst Vodkas: Don't Drink These Now

flickr user mixedsoup​Full disclosure: We are not inherent vodka fans, though we have been swayed by the occasional lilting cocktail based on Hangar One's Buddha's Hand vodka. But we'll get straight to the sour apple martini point: Our Top Five Don't Drink These Now Vodkas. 5. Bakon Vodka Mu ... More >>

Arno Shore: Jersey Shore Kids Work a Pizzeria in Italy

A. Scattergoodgood pizza​ In case the world needed another reason to hate us, the Jersey Shore kids have been deported (okay, not exactly, but we wish) to Italy to film the fourth season of their hit MTV reality show. The Guidos and Guidettes, some of whom aren't even Italian, will be roaming ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Exclusive: City Bans Bottle Service From All L.A. Clubs

Lina Lecaro's Top Dance/DJ Picks for This Weekend

Lina Lecaro Mandatory deodorant checks at the door of Avalon will begin April 1 at Control. ​ After a Spring summit with LA's top club promoters, we have some exclusive scoop to share that may very well change the culture of clubbing as we know it! You wont read this anywhere else, folks! Sta ... More >>

Grammy Party Report #2: Model DJs at Colony, MSTRful Turntablism at Roxbury, and an Un-Friendly Reception at Paramount

Lina LecaroDance floor fatales at Colony​ One of the best things about Grammy Party Weekend? Getting to check out the velvet roped dens du jour one might not frequent in Hollywood in fell swoop. Most pre-Grammy events this year were at the newest and nicest swankpits in town (Roxbury, Supper ... More >>

Nightranger: It's a Mad, Mad World

Five Baldwin Hills Hooligans Arrested For Cycling Under The Influence At 1:30 A.M.

Master of the CUI​The peaceful community of Baldwin Hills transformed into a veritable Isla Vista last night, as five allegedly drunk bicyclists in a pack of 15 -- riding in the dark, with no helmets or fluorescents, switching lanes and directions like bees juiced on maraschino -- were arreste ... More >>

Top 10 Songs For the Apocalypse (Bird Death? Crabicide? Snooki's Book? Signs of the Endtimes!)

TK 10 Songs For the Apocalypse

Jersey Grub Truck Hits L.A. Streets This Weekend

Jersey Grub Truck​ Some say the only good things to come out of New Jersey have been Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, and more recently, the MTV-driven trainwreck/cultural phenomenon that is Jersey Shore. But come this weekend, another East Cost transplant -- The Jersey Grub Truck -- plans t ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Cops, Pints, Paula Deen Jell-O

-- Too Many Sommeliers, Not Enough Training. [ZesterDaily] -- Colorado prison inmates raise fish for food. [The Denver Post] -- Greek restaurant Xandros has a crisis of faith, identity, ownership, something. Cops, etc. [Eater LA] -- Could the days of the British "pint" be numbered? [Reuters] -- ... More >>

LAPD Brings You The Gift Of 10 -- Count 'Em, 10 -- DUI Checkpoints This Weekend

daytondui.comCheck yourself before LAPD wrecks yourself.​Updated after the jump with new location. First posted at 12:05 p.m. Thursday. This weekend the LAPD is going to be on you like orange on Snooki. Seriously. And the DUI is a gift that keeps on giving -- fines, attorney's fees, communit ... More >>

WEST HOLLYWOOD AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE

Dance Club Pick: HALLOWEEN X 3

East Meets West: Jersey Shore's Snooki Tours with Best Coast, Parties with Wavves

This just in: Last night via Twitter, Best Coast's So. Cal surf-pop queen Bethany Cosentino revealed that the band has an unexpected fan (stalker, more like it) in Jersey Shore, erm, icon Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi. Unlikely, sure, but it's hard to argue with the evidence: photos of Snooki with ... More >>

Snooki Goes Kawaii: Jerrod Maruyama's Cute Interpretations of Pop Culture

Jerrod Maruyama is an illustrator from Northern California. He has worked on educational books, company logos, tattoo art and more. He designed Toy Story t-shirts that were sold at the Pixar Studio Store in Emeryville, CA and recently participated in the show "STRIPPED! Art Inspired By The Creativit ... More >>