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Jerry Hopkins: Jim Morrison's Biographer Finds a Strange Kind of Bliss in Bangkok

10 Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next Jenna Jameson

See also: *Veruca James, Accountant Turned Porn Star: "I'd Always Been Wild" *Top 10 Strip Clubs in L.A. *Porn Star Tasha Reign's Secret Life as a UCLA Student Los Angeles is home to lots of dreamers; would-be actors, musicians and writers all flock to our golden shores trying to find their place i ... More >>

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

Ray Bradbury-Themed Art Exhibit Opens in a Gallery Located Where the Sci-Fi Master Once Lived

Ray Bradbury, the fantasy-fiction mastermind who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and really did believe man would make it to Mars sooner than later, moved to L.A. from Illinois in 1934 as a teenager. His family first lived around Western Avenue. Then, in 1942, they moved into a Craftsman bungalow at 670 South ... More >>

Tim Dax, Amina Noir: Adult Performers Acted in Innocence of Muslims

Updated at the bottom: Well, that makes sense. The film's director is reportedly a soft-porn veteran. First posted at 1:08 p.m. It was only a matter of time before some of the D-list actors in the almost comical Innocence of Muslims were outed as porn stars and adult models. We would laugh except ... More >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #5-1

*Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List 5. Avril Lavigne Combining ... More >>

11 Craziest Nude Scandals in L.A. in the Last Year (Photos NSFW)

Lots of crazies get in trouble in our fair city, and lots of those crazies are also nude. Just this week a naked man (above) climbed a radio tower in downtown L.A. and threatened to jump. Do they have this problem in, say, North Dakota? What is it about L.A. that brings out the unhinged unclothed? ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Reportedly Paid $600K to Party in Vegas on NYE

You know you've done something right, in life, when you find yourself sorting through half-million dollar offers just to show up and do a little V.I.P. shimmy at some cush Vegas hotspot on New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world panics over which miserable laser pit is worth a week's wages. The ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera History: God (likely) intended for Maroon 5 to be an important-but-middling critic's darling, ... More >>

Gallery Girls, Dr. Sketchy and L.A.'s Sexy Underground Drawing Clubs

Kandyland at the Playboy Mansion: Sugar Daddies, Paul Oakenfold and Girls Flashing their Oompa Loompas

Lina Lecaro A rainbow of femme flavors. ​Half naked ladies (make that completely in the case of babes in body-paint), a gluttonous amount of booze and food (which only about a fifth of the females would actually eat), Dayglo Chocolate Factory décor, and throbbing sounds by Paul Oakenfold-- Ka ... More >>

Lenora Claire: P.T. Barnum With Boobs

Yvette Vickers, Ex-Playmate and 'Attack of the 50 Foot Woman' Starlet, Found Mummified in Beverly Hills Mansion One Year After Death

Yvette Vickers played mistress to the 50 foot woman's husband​Update: County coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter tells KTLA News today that Vickers died of heart disease. But, he said, he's not sure when she died. In a sprawling, 1920s-era stone-and-wood estate in Beverly Hills, former B-list ... More >>

Banned from Chateau Marmont for Tweeting

TV host and former "Apprentice" contestant Jenn Hoffman says she was banned from the Chateau Marmont for tweeting about one of its celebrity guests. According to Hoffman, two weeks ago she was eating dinner at the celeb-friendly hotspot when model Rachel Hunter (you may know her as the ex-Mrs. Rod ... More >>

Legionella Bacteria at the Playboy Mansion: OK. It Totally Festered in the Grotto.

MySpaceBack away slowly​Update: Confirmed, once and for all, by the LA Times: Health officials identified legionella bacteria in a whirlpool spa at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles during an investigation in February that began when people were sickened after attending a fundraiser. We're n ... More >>

Odd Future's Cosmic Cousin: Meet Spaceghostpurrp and Sip Sum Intergalactic Gangsta

​Rick Ross and Spaceghostpurrp are both from the Carol City community in Miami. Both are steeped in Uncle Luke's 2 Live Crew carnival of raunch--Ross' women wear panties that look like shoestrings, and Spaceghostpurrp's strippahs have already lost theirs. But Ricky Rozay has employed the J.U.S ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 5, Rachel Uchitel

VH1Hot chick Uchitel.​What "Hot Chicks In The News 2010" list would be complete without the inclusion of at least one Tiger Woods girl? We know, that was so last year. But this hot-chick story has legs. In this case, we have Rachel Uchitel, the ground zero of Tiger Woods girls, the one who th ... More >>

Former 'Baywatch' Beauty Donna D'Errico Says TSA Agents Singled Her Out For Body Scan At LAX (You Know, Because Her Body Is So Friggin' Scannable)

PlayboyD'Errico, in the days when security wasn't so tight.​You're an underpaid TSA security guard. Nobody likes you. Not even your own mother. How do you fill those eight hours a day? Picking out hot chicks MILFs for the notorious full-body x-ray scan, of course. At least that's (sort of) th ... More >>

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

IT'S SORTA LIKE CANNES, BUT WITH MORE BOOBS

Music Picks: Liz Pappademas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mad Professor, Bill Frisell

Also, Taylor Swift, Los Tres, Saint Motel, David Allan Coe and others

Lawsuits Gone Wild: Joe Francis Taken To Court (Again)

Gawker​A Playboy Playmate who is suing reported Douche of the Decade Joe Francis (of Girls Gone Wild fame) for damages resulting from an alleged assault is asking a court to throw out Francis subsequent counter-suit. Francis, who has been accused of assaulting the fairer gender in the past, f ... More >>

THIS IS THRILLER

Tomb With a View: Bids for Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe's Reach $4 Million

The Ebay bidding on the cemetery crypt space located directly above Marilyn Monroe's is now up to $4 million. For a final resting place, the spot has had a bit of turnover, according to an L.A. Times piece. Originally owned by baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio, it was sold by the Yankee Clipper to Los A ... More >>

R. Crumb Retrospective at Cal State Fullerton

Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

Sahl, Folks

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

Movie Reviews: The Great Buck Howard, Perestroika, Knowing, Sin Nombre

Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Stage Raw: The Sequence

Good Day, Jillian

The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead

My Fashion Week Haute List

Between all the schmoozing and the boozing, the cruising and the perusing (someone stop me, please), it was near impossible to find the time to do any actual writing about fashion. Now that I've had a few days to process the peculiarly exhausting whirlwind that is LA Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios ... More >>

Examining Farrah

Blue Moon

After 20 years, Bobby Bare emerges with the year’s most beautiful album

Jingo Bells

Prime-time pride, manly girls vs. girly girls and fear of a black dream team

Bad Girls

Women critics in sexually retro America

Girl Against Boys

Salty comedian Sarah Silverman slays the men . . . and the men are grateful

The Empress’s New Clothes

Serena, to the dismay of many, makes the scene

Heir of the Dogma

Group 101 goes global

Grand Delusion

The Way of All Flesh

Naked Music For a Beautiful Tomorrow

Books From Our Contributors

Can’t Go to Sleep

X-Rated eBay

Are You . . . Experienced?

Real Cartoon World

The I'm All Like Whatever Generation of MTV's Downtown, plus Random Play and Lenny Bruce

Talking Back to Mom

Re-reading the Feminine Mystique