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Divorce Party: The Musical Tries to Put a Positive Spin on Its Subject Matter

Dr. Phil's Stolen '57 Chevy Found Safe And Sound (Sort Of): PHOTOS

Sheriff's deputies said late yesterday that they have recovered the apparently beloved 1957 Chevy of one Dr. Phil. His personality, however, was no where to be found. (Pa-dum-pum). But seriously, cops indicated the Bel Air was found as part of a ring that has seen multiple recoveries and arrests:

Jamie Lynne Grumet, TIME's Breastfeeding Covergirl, Can't Stop Posing for Creepy Magazine Covers

We love breastfeeding. We especially loved breastfeeding when we were small, bald and toothless. It's a beautiful thing, and no woman should ever be told when or where she can or can't breastfeed. Because when baby hunger strikes, Mother Nature abides, mmk? But what we can't figure out is why Jamie ... More >>

Red Bastard

We love breastfeeding. We especially loved breastfeeding when we were small, bald and toothless. It's a beautiful thing, and no woman should ever be told when or where she can or can't breastfeed. Because when baby hunger strikes, Mother Nature abides, mmk? But what we can't figure out is why Jamie ... More >>

Does Madea's Witness Protection Mark the Mainstreaming of Tyler Perry's Iconic Character?

For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry's Madea is little more than a mammy -- an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to celebrate. And unforgivably, when compared to Flip Wilson's Geraldine or even Martin Lawrence's Bi ... More >>

What Cookie Monster Will Be Eating at the Daytime Emmys

In case you were wondering what Regis and Kelly, Dr. Phil, Alex Trebek and Cookie Monster will be noshing on at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards presentation at the Beverly Hilton this Saturday afternoon (airing at 5 p.m. PT on HLN), here is the rundown. (If you are a starving would-be soap actor ... More >>

5 Gustavo Dudamel TV Cameos We'd Like to See

Floppy-haired conductor Gustavo Dudamel made an appearance on Sesame Street last week to teach Elmo a musical thing or two about a musical thing or two -- including the definition of the word stupendous. You know what would be truly stupendous? For the affable maestro to show up on some other TV sho ... More >>

[VIDEO] LAPD Save Man From Suicide Jump by Handcuffing Him to Downtown Apartment Building, Giving Him Wedgie

YouTube​A 30-something man who had reportedly just broken up with his girlfriend tried to commit suicide off a downtown L.A. apartment building, towering over the 100th block of East 7th Street, on Thursday evening. And we might be reporting the incident as a tragic death today, if not for one ... More >>

L.A. County to Bypass Judge, Declare Dogs 'Vicious' for Minor Offenses Like Chasing or Causing Heart Attacks

Who, me? Vicious?​Update: The ordinance is a done deal -- unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors. According to City News Service, "one attorney who has defended the owners of allegedly vicious dogs says the new ordinance could mean a death sentence for exuberant puppies." Originally ... More >>

Jamie Oliver and the LAUSD Call Truce: On Jimmy Kimmel's Show

The Jamie Oliver saga continues, played out -- as it has been since the British chef and television star first came to Los Angeles -- in the media more than in any school, cafeteria or kitchen. Oliver and new LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy sat down together finally last night. On the set of Jimmy ... More >>

'Golden Voice' Homeless Man Ted Williams Had A Foot In The Door In Broadcasting Before: Is He Skipping A Step?

CBSMaybe we should just call him 'The Voice.'​Even with his vow to enter rehab, the story of Ted Williams, a homeless man discovered on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, is a real American fairytale. Only days ago he was panhandling at the side of a highway. And now he's touring L.A. (getting de ... More >>

Ted Williams, The 'Golden Voice' Homeless Man With On-Air Dreams, Already Worked In Broadcasting In L.A.

Ted Williams, onetime L.A. journo.​Turns out golden-voiced homeless man turned rehabber Ted Williams, whose story of life on the street was punctuated with job offers from Kraft foods and the Cleveland Cavaliers, has some experience in broadcasting already. Perhaps his story isn't a dream com ... More >>

Dr. Phil To Ted Williams: Time To Take Your Golden Ass To Rehab

Columbus Dispatch / YouTubeSEO star of the century​Why are we all so obsessed with Ted Williams, Ohio bum turned hottest item on the vocal-chord market since Justin Bieber? Unlike the Biebs, we're thinking his long, flowing (dread)locks couldn't have much to do with it. But the two YouTube s ... More >>

A competent California is not high on uppers most of the time! PLUS: You can buy Dr. Phil's pants!

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Competency Achievement Packets: Vehicles and the Law and Interpersonal Family Relationships Date: 1982 Publishe ... More >>

Pop Quiz! In California, can women get driver's licenses? Can Democrats?

​ Back in '82, the Los Angeles Unified School District hit students with these very questions as part of their well-intentioned yet often goofy Competency-Based Education Program. This week's Studies in Crap post, over on our Style Council blog, takes us back to the days of Competence, when ... More >>

Mother Of Sasha Rodriguez, Girl Who Died Of Ecstasy Overdose Following A Night At Electric Daisy Carnival Rave, Says Teen Didn't Know She Was Taking E

Facebook.Sasha Rodriguez didn't know she was taking E?​Sasha Rodriguez is the young raver who might have changed everything, but not before losing her life to ecstasy. After attending L.A.'s Electric Daisy Carnival in June the 15-year-old died of an apparent ecstasy overdose. Her mother, Grac ... More >>

Jerry Brown To Talk About Corey Haim, Prescription Drugs On 'Dr Phil'

Corey Haim.​State Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown will appear on the Dr Phil show Wednesday to talk about prescription-drug crime and the link he made recently between a pill ring and the death of actor Corey Haim, according to a statement from Brown's office. Brown a ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Subject Was Roses and Emmett Till

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSUnderstating the ObviousThe Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett TillBY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS​No bed of roses: Sheen and Conroy on a sterile promontory: ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

Octomom as Reproductive Lightning Rod

Do the prolife and prochoice sides in L.A. finally agree on something?

OctoDrama: How the Octuplets Story Keeps Evolving

When we first heard about the birth of eight infants in Bellflower last January, there was no sign that the story of Nadya Suleman, now better known as OctoMom, would become a modern fable about fame and public disgust. Today pundits and late-night TV comics attribute our hunger for OctoMom news to ... More >>

Pretty in Pinksy

When we first heard about the birth of eight infants in Bellflower last January, there was no sign that the story of Nadya Suleman, now better known as OctoMom, would become a modern fable about fame and public disgust. Today pundits and late-night TV comics attribute our hunger for OctoMom news to ... More >>

GO LA: Alvin Ailey, Karen Kilgariff and the Bloody Truth About Downtown

(But not all at once): What to do, March 20-26

Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

(But not all at once): What to do, March 20-26

GO LA: Rum, Sodomy and John Waters’ Filthy World

Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

The Daily Morning Show

Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Mass Transit Becoming Mass? Figures show the MTA is keeping some of the ridership it won when gas blew past $4 per gallon last year. Are Angelenos finally embracing buses and trains? L.A. TimesLa Habra Site of New OctoHouse Prudential Realty claims Nadya Suleman's father has purchased a 2583-square- ... More >>

Filming Snoop's Dogg After Dark: Behind the Scenes at The Kress

We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, Must Read After My Death, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Also, Dog Eat Dog, Echelon Conspiracy and more

OctoPorn: Will Octuplets' Mom Suck It In for Vivid Entertainment?

Movie Reviews: Delhi-6, Fired Up, Madea Goes to Jail

Also, Chain Link, Moscow, Belgium and more

Octuplet Mom's Publicist: "There's Nothing Left to Defrost"

As a press representative for Union Pacific Railroad, Joann Killeen has plenty of experience with train wrecks, which may explain why she is handling publicity for Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother who gave birth to octuplets last month. You might say Killeen is the 47th member of the maternity tri ... More >>

Personality Crisis

As a press representative for Union Pacific Railroad, Joann Killeen has plenty of experience with train wrecks, which may explain why she is handling publicity for Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother who gave birth to octuplets last month. You might say Killeen is the 47th member of the maternity tri ... More >>

HOOCHIEWOOD

Heidi Montag may be the most annoying person on television (and that includes Donald Trump, Dr. Phil and the entire cast of every dating/singing/dancing/cooking "reality"/contest on the tube right now). Still, we were willing to give her new clothing line for Anchor Blue a chance. After all, we wer ... More >>

Farce in Carson

A corrupt Los Angeles suburb tries for a comeback - and lands on YouTube

will.i.am Solves Your Girl Trouble

The Black Eyed Pea doles out some Fergielicious advice on his new CD — and online?

Lisa Lampanelli

The Black Eyed Pea doles out some Fergielicious advice on his new CD — and online?

Lindsay Lohan Rules in Georgia Rule

The tabloid darling shines in Garry Marshall’s otherwise tepid troubled-teen tale

He Put a Spell On Me

Prince works magic at the Rio

Christmas in April

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

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The Tears of Tyra

For the week of February 24 - March 2

Burial in the Sky

Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke

Crashing Comdex

Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke

The Mossman Prodigy

Filmmaker Mark Moskowitz rediscovers a lost first novel

Revisionism Revisited

The Civil War and Ours