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We Lurked Outside the Rolling Stones' Rehearsals in Burbank

Last week, the center of the rock & roll universe was located in an industrial part of Burbank. In one room at CenterStaging studios, Paul McCartney was rehearsing with his band for their upcoming world tour. Next door, his old pals and supposed rivals the Rolling Stones were preparing for their fir ... More >>

$ellebrity: Photographer Kevin Mazur Discusses His New Film About Gossip, Paparazzi and the Cost of Fame

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage It's possible that the price of fame has never been higher -- and not just in the tried-and-true Hollywood storylines of fame, fortune and the tragic falls from grace. In his new documentary $ellebrity, seasoned celebrity and event photographer Kevin Mazur ... More >>

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

Burn! 10 Questions with Jeff Ross About His New Comedy Central Show

Comic Jeff Ross' balls are as big as his mouth, which is on fire every week on his new Comedy Central show, The Burn with Jeff Ross, where he rips "the world a new asshole, one crack at a time." You probably know Ross as the Roastmaster General, the network's go-to-guy for its annual celeb roasts wh ... More >>

A Diamond Jubilee Year: The Queen In Cupcakes, A Lamprey Pie Dilemma A Recipe For Her "Chocolate Perfection" Pie

After Mother's Day, it seems only fitting that we celebrate the Queen Mother. More so in a Diamond Jubilee year, as Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the British throne next month (the British monarchy is the exception to the typical 75-year diamond anniversary rule). You are p ... More >>

Russell Armstrong's Real Housewives Suicide: How Will Bravo React?

Via taylorarmstrong.com.​Local venture capitalist Russell Armstrong, estranged husband of Bravo TV star Taylor Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, was found dead Monday, having hanged himself in the Mulholland Drive home of a friend. Immediately several members of the Bravo fami ... More >>

William and Kate -- and Dead Princess Diana -- Creepily Immortalized in Beverly Hills Gallery on Eve of Royal Visit

PatchUnveiling of "Ordinary People": All the Beverly royals were there.​That Newsweek cover was creepy enough: Princess Diana, digitally aged and strolling alongside her new daughter-in-law as if Our Lady had survived the limo accident that shook the world. But at a posh unveiling Wednesday a ... More >>

OK, Everybody, Time to Get Royally Pissed!

Prince William's Groom's Cake Revealed The Royal Family's Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe

Eating RoyallyChocolate Biscuit Cake (Background)​If you enjoyed a tabloid-free weekend, let us break your fast with the latest Royal wedding reception menu gossip: Prince William has chosen a groom's cake made of tea biscuits and chocolate. A groom's cake? Though groom's cakes are more comm ... More >>

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

A Recipe From The Chef: The Royal Family's Chocolate Birthday/Yule Log Cake ( Now Wedding?)

Leonardo FrusteriThe Royal Yule Log​When we talked with Darren McGrady, the Royal Family's former private chef (and later Princess Diana's chef -- yes, he considers those two very different titles), he told us about cooking for the Queen of the kitchen, as well as his thoughts on the upcoming ... More >>

Q & A With Darren McGrady, Princess Diana's Former Chef: The Royal Family's Kitchen, Why He Moved Stateside The Next Royal Wedding

Aaron Lynette, Toronto StarDarren McGrady, Expat Yorkshire Pudding Expert​Darren McGrady's résumé reads pretty much like your average private chef's story. He earned a culinary arts degree and trained in a top restaurant kitchen (Savoy Hotel, London) before hitting the private sector -- and ... More >>

Q & A With Former Royal Family Chef Darren McGrady, Part 2: Cook and Tell

Daily Mail The Royal Family's 20th Century Party Portrait With McGrady​In the first part of our interview with Darren McGrady, former private chef for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh and later Princess Diana, the chef was sharing why he turned down a job as Prince Charles' chef (Camilla), as w ... More >>

Genndy Tartakovsky Talks Sym-Bionic Titan

Have you been watching Sym-Bionic Titan? The Cartoon Network show, which ends its first season Friday night, follows the adventures Lance, Ilana and Octus-- a soldier, princess and robot, respectively-- who flee from their home planet of Galaluna and must now adjust to ordinary high school life whil ... More >>

Snoop Dogg's Bizarre, Old-Lady Anglophilia Confirmed with "Engagement Party" Track for Lady Di's Son

"'Sup Royals!": Is a British old lady trapped in the body of Snoop?​Snoop Dogg has had a peculiar relationship with the Brits: sometimes they don't let him in, sometimes he gets in trouble there, but he keeps trying to flirt with his UK fans again and again. A while back he said he wanted to ... More >>

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Actress/producer Tilda Swinton on her postmodern romantic epic, I Am Love

Still A Pistol: PR King Mitch Schneider Looks Back (Ozzfest) And Forward (TMZ)

Celebrating 15 years in the publicity business this month, the Mitch Schneider Organization is more than a PR company, it's a bonafide taste maker. It's garnered both the trust of the music world's biggest artists and promoters (Sex Pistols, X, Coachella, Ozzfest) and consistent consideration from u ... More >>

The King of (Soda) Pop, or Adventures in Musical Capitalism

Funeral Potatoes and Bundt cakes may be more traditional culinary offerings when one attends a memorial service, but this is LA, and he was the King of Pop, so traditional is pretty much out.

Top Five: George W. Bush's YouTube Comedy Threat Levels

With under a week to go until the inauguration of Barack Obama, virtually no-one seems to be mourning the exit of George W. Bush - particularly not the residents of New Orleans, following Monday's bone-headed comments by 43 regarding his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. (Which we feel ... More >>

The Duchess: Royally Screwed

Georgiana of Devonshire, cheated in life and biopic casting

Pat Kingsley

Flack like me

Meat Loaf

Do you love me?

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

Obama (and Clinton) Rally in Hollywood

Hours before the Democratic debate takes takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, hundreds of supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton filled the sidewalks along Hollywood Blvd. In terms of numbers it was probably 85% Obama and 15% Hillary - at most. Above, taking a picture of Gar ... More >>

The Ice Queen Melteth

From art-house icon to Hollywood headliner, Tilda Swinton isn’t afraid to let them see her sweat

The Millennium Consort and Martin Neary

At St. Sophia Cathedral

Seipp addl

The Greatest TV Love Story of My Time

When I was a kid I was forbidden from watching soap operas, while my mother, however, was glued to the TV set each afternoon watching General Hospital. I used to try and sneak my way in, ask my mom annoying questions so that I could get a peak at the banned program. I imagined they did all sorts o ... More >>

Roast Halloweenies

Nothing Like a Dame

Helen Mirren takes on The Queen

Little Sister the Sky is Falling

Stories from a California girl FICTION

We Do, Too!

How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding

Who Hates Their MTV?

How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

Top 5 List-Obsessed Books of 2003

Think Tink!

The new Peter Pan both soars and satisfies

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

12 Art Moments

The City So Nice They Named It Twice

Generation Hex

Douglas Coupland: All Families Are Psychotic

Read the Book, See the Plays

A chatty, catty stage history

Congressman Condom

What the Chandra Levy case says about our democracy

The Short Story

New fiction from Susan Perabo, Dan Rhodes and Stephen Spotte

Circles/Cycles

Failed Promise

The Concorde crash mummifies the ghost of supersonic air travel’s once-bright future

Getting Real in L.A.

Sandra Bernhard, without the irony

Into the Big Machine

Going to Hell for Fun and Profit

A primer

To Di For

Lolita Gets Her Period

Tamara Jenkins' true story

The Art of Artifice

Plays about the birds, the trees and men in drag