Nicole Richie

Shawn and Dorian Holley: Tonight Show Singer Marries Lindsay Lohan's Attorney? Only in L.A.

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here One Friday afternoon a few years ago, just as lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley dropped some highly confidential paperwork discussing her client's alleged illicit activities through the mail slot of a lavish home in the hills, she realized she had the wrong ad ... More >>

DJ Douggpound Mines Pop Culture for Gold Nuggets

At gatherings with extended family, Doug Lussenhop has a hard time explaining what he does. They might be familiar with Portlandia, the show for which he's an editor. They may have even seen Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, which he edited and co-wrote, though he prefers if they haven't, if only f ... More >>

What 10 Celebs Would Look Like As Old-Timey Criminals

Drug possession, driving under the influence, vandalism and theft are just a few of the crimes celebrities commit to earn them a mugshot that lives on forever on the world wide web. Celebrity mugshots have become a part of pop culture due to the poses or distraught looks they have. But in the 1920s, ... More >>

Disney's Latest Princess, Sofia, Is Latina!?

Updated below. Um. Maybe she's not Latina after all. First posted at 2:04 p.m. Oct. 18. Disney has a black princess (Tiana, from New Orleans -- yeah), a native American one (Pocahontas) and an Asian one (Mulan). But, until now, America's largest minority group has been shut out of this me-to pagea ... More >>

Buckley School, Sherman Oaks Campus for Super Rich Kids, Granted $40M Charity Loan by L.A. City Hall

Of all disintegrating LAUSD campuses that need a tax-exempt loan to build new facilities, the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks for isn't even in the top 700. This place attracts the richest of the rich. It's like Candyland meets Secret Garden meets Enchanted Forest: Buckley describes itself as "a bea ... More >>

Jane Fonda at LACMA: Barbarella Barbie

Series spotlights the many costumes of a single search for meaning

NIGHTRANGER: THE GIFT OF GABBA

Yo Gabba Gabba's 'Party In My City' Entertains Breeding Hipsters and their Kids ("Kidsters"?)

Lina LecaroThe biggest show -and wildest crowd- Nokia Theatre may have ever seen. ​ Kiddie faux-hawks, fashionably mismatched tutu ensembles and tattoos (fake on tykes, real on moms and dads) swarmed upon L.A. Live in downtown this past weekend, when the trendster tyke sensation Yo Gabba Gabb ... More >>

WHO'S YOUR FOOFAH?

Beauty Is Pain: L.A.'s Popular 'Brazilian Blowout' Bashed For Toxic Fumage

Bobby Cooper SalonWe'd rather be doing Brazilian Blow​Nicole Richie swears by it. The Olsen twins bathe in it. (Their hair, you perves.) Lindsay Lohan would go back to jail for it. Studio Noi -- a shmancy little salon in Venice -- blasts it on the daily. From across the country, the ball-bust ... More >>

Digital Pool Party: Digital L.A. at Pagoda Bar

With record heat in Los Angeles it seemed that anyone who had even remote access to a pool had a pool party over the weekend. But what if you didn't have a pool-ready friend or didn't have the cash to plunk down for the Roosevelt or even one of those inflatable numbers? Bikini business card holder. ... More >>

Eminem and Jay-Z to Play at Wiltern Tonight for DJ Hero Launch (UPDATED)

Hot Monday night in LA: Eminem and Jay-Z are doing a surprise show at the Wiltern tonight to promote their new relationship with DJ Hero, the hugely anticipated (and contentious) new game from Activision's Hero franchise. Below is an exclusive look at DJ Hero: The two rap superstars recently si ... More >>

Seasoned Sexpots, Rock Sirens and Frugal Fashionistas

On Pleasant Gehman and Maggie Barry

Sounds From Common, Looks From Louis Verdad & Brian Lichtenberg

Remembering Onyx Proprietor John Leech

Stage Raw: Ovation Awards Tonight (Monday)

THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fake Radio Sing Along

Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

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In Her Madgesty's Court

Also, Paper's trail and Punk Rock Karaoke

Theater Reviews: Eat the Runt, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Cute With Chris

Miss Witherspoon, The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and more

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

Music Makes the Popstars Come Together: Britney, Justin (on stage) and a slew of celebs (in the audience) join Madonna at Dodger Stadium

All photos by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. Two hours inching along Sunset Blvd. to Dodger Stadium from our Silver Lake abode only blocks away, and another one waiting amid bright lights and rabid camera phone-clicking star-mongers who literally cheered like someone hit a home ... More >>

City Gritty

Unfulfilling Sex; sex and the porn star; art Hopping; N.E.R.D. night

It's A Wrap- LA Fashion Week Trend Report

Another LA Fashion week has ended and now that we’ve recovered –from the clothing cacophony and that nasty cold that’s been going around- it’s time to survey the overall style statements. Yes, there actually were some, and not surprisingly, many came from the crowds not the runway (remember ... More >>

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 2: "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" And the Importance of "Branding"

Whether consciously or not, rappers have understood the concept of branding since the on-and-on-to-the-break-of-dawn days. You can listen to everything from the "The Breaks" to "Crank That" and figure out pretty quickly that they were performed by Kurtis Blow and an autistic 4th Grader with a rud ... More >>

So '07: The Way We Wore

How to know if you were a fashion victim in '07

Nightranger: Role Model in the Brown Bottle

And glamour ghouls

Beat Streets

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

Mischa Barton's Bender

Her dogs were fine. The radiator of her mother's SUV; not so good.

Bone for the Holidays

Who’s ruffing it when you leave town? Not your pooch

Welcome to the Jungle

Clusterfucked

Mickey Avalon’s True Hollywood Stories

Death, drugs, rap and redemption

Nightranger

Nightranger

A Short Shorts Story

California Girl

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

From the Minds of Babes

Oxygen imports comedian Julia Davis’ disturbingly funny Nighty Night

Rich Dog, Poor Man