One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. From a booth at the restaurant Birds, actress Anna Kendrick eyes a TV commercial across the room. "How about that pocket hose, huh? It's a little tiny hose and it gets big. It's ... More >>
By Tyler Trykowski Could gays of the 1980s imagine what it would be like to be gay in 2013? From the Supreme Court pondering marriage equality to NFL players weighing how best to come out, the way we're gay today is nothing like it's ever been before. And for that modern gay man, West Hollywood ma ... More >>
Anthony Bourdain's new CNN show Parts Unknown debuted last night on CNN. The show, which is very much like his Travel Channel show No Reservations, which ended in November of last year, took us last night to Myanmar, a country that only recently began allowing outsiders in, let alone western film cr ... More >>
Did a sometime Southern California man confess to murder on the website Reddit? A user on the site who identified himself as Naratto used one of Reddit's memes, the so-called confession bear, to say: My sister had an abusive meth addict boyfriend. I killed him with his own drugs while he was uncons ... More >>
See also: Did SoCal Man Admit to Murder on Reddit? A Southern California-based Reddit user recently said he killed his sister's abusive boyfriend and got away with it because he employed a drug, meth, that the victim was already hooked on. The big question is whether this was just a hoax. The user ... More >>
Last week during Anthony Bourdain's Reddit Q&A, when someone asked him why he decided to do The Taste, he responded "I liked the idea that it was the most unlikely thing I could do." At the time I thought, "hmmm ... not really the most unlikely thing you could do." And now that point has been proven ... More >>
A little over an hour ago, Anthony Bourdain jumped on Reddit to answer fan questions. A lot of familiar territory was covered -- why he left the Travel Channel for CNN, why he decided to do The Taste, what his favorite thing to eat in a multitude of places was.
Machinima and Maker Studios, two of YouTube's most high-profile networks, have come under fire from their own talent
Thursday, Jan. 10 The Egyptian Theatre holds its 8th Annual Focus on Female Directors at 7:30 p.m., showcasing short films from a wide range of talents, including Academy Award nominee Julie Delpy and the new-to-directing trio of Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis. One of the most intriguing ... More >>
Members of Lynwood act La Resistencia had about the crappiest Christmas morning you can imagine this year. The skacore band has a recording and rehearsal space in Lynwood, where they normally keep their touring van off the street. On Christmas Eve, however, they moved the van to accomodate a neigh ... More >>
Mayoral contender Eric Garcetti longs to be the candidate of Silicon Beach. He's the candidate who pulls out his iPhone and brags that he "has an app for that."Seeking to bolster his tech cred, Garcetti held a fundraiser last night at the Winklevoss Estate. Yes, those Winklevii: Cameron an ... More >>
When his father was diagnosed three years ago with early onset Alzheimer's disease at age 55, local rapper Lee Shaner dealt with it the way most people deal with traumatic experiences -- by internalizing it. "For a long time, [my family] tried to hide that my dad was sick," says Shaner, who raps u ... More >>
'Tis the season for local and national politicians to co-opt the media into singing their praises. November 6 is right around the corner -- and one positive article by a respected journalist is the (free!) equivalent of 100,000 campaign mailers. But because L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the pres ... More >>
The only thing funnier than an L.A. comedian on shrooms has to be an L.A. bank executive on bath salts -- and, unfortunately, we don't have video of the latter. So we'll have to settle for this retarded-hilarious clip from an early May episode of The Price Is Right, which makes a lot more sense now ... More >>
In Santa Monica's third serious hit-and-run in as many weeks, a 30-year-old woman was killed by the driver of a dark Toyota sedan just after midnight on Monday morning. Friends on Facebook and Twitter identify the victim as Santa Monica resident Claire Rose. They say she was celebrating her birthda ... More >>
Whenever out-of-towners complain about how hard it is to get anywhere in Los Angeles, we try to tell them: It's no more difficult than trying to traverse the entire Bay Area in a single shot. Because this city is HUGE. Like, half the size of Rhode Island. And because of that, we've got a whole serie ... More >>
Cops can never say for sure whether their suspect has been taking bath salts. Like "spice" (imitation marijuana), the synthetic drug is so popular because it can't be detected in urine tests. But unlike spice, which is banned across the country, only two of the 17 chemicals used to make bath salts ... More >>
Jerry Patterson says three men in a Volkswagon Jetta tailed him for two miles after he accidentally cut them off on the I-5. When both cars were stopped in traffic, things turned violent. The two-on-one brawl left Patterson limp, lying on the side of the freeway as his assailants sped away. Foota ... More >>
Of all the "crazy naked man" incidents we've seen in L.A. (and we've seen a lot), the guy who terrorized the Hollywood Hills on June 12 takes the Stanley Cup. Among his various activities that sunny morning:
Last October, at a used auto-parts store in East Los Angeles, a flash mob of impossibly adorable proportions descended upon one little kid's cardboard arcade. Caine Monroy had spent years building up the elaborate, entirely workable game center -- featuring a claw made out of an S-hook, a foosball-i ... More >>
Reddit and Tumblr exploded yesterday with a photo of a barefooted man lying on the hillside of a somewhat crummy-looking park. The man -- by all appearances -- was bench-pressing a goose. Scott Lowell, the B-list actor who originally Tweeted the photo (sort of a George Clooney lookalike who does a ... More >>
Red and Blue are stick figures with a Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck type of relationship. They drive each other crazy, but somehow remain friends. Their adventures are at the center of one of the hottest shows online. In less than a year-and-a-half, Dick Figures has become a YouTube sensation, racking up vi ... More >>
Some Homer Simpson of the Matrix has decided to break down the particulars of various major social media outlets using the round, yellow cartoon patriarch's favorite food: donuts. For those who Facebook with trepidation, tweet (we prefer saying "twit") irregularly, and generally lose their minds wh ... More >>
Liz OhanesianMichael Anissimov and Rachel Haywire of Extreme Futurist FestivalDr. Kim Solez is on a mission. The renal pathologist and University of Alberta professor is currently working to make the lectures from his course "Technology and the Future of Medicine" available to the general pub ... More >>
Viacom (Please don't sue me?)Scaredy cat.So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick "Cry Baby Lane." According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and on ... More >>
HungryHungryHippyYou know the story: Half the family wants one kind of dessert, the other half wants another. (And don't get us started on Aunt Mildred, who can never make up her dang mind.) Normally the solution is two pies, two separate factions, two warring gangs spooning sweets into their ... More >>
Update: "City Council Unanimously Passes Occupy L.A. Resolution -- Protesters Struggle to Distance Themselves From Democrats, Unions." On Saturday night, the number of tents pitched outside L.A. City Hall had nearly doubled from the night before to 256, according to Joe Briones in the media tent. ... More >>
"No Wal Mart in Burbank" via FacebookTry as it might, looks like L.A. County can't keep scandalously low Wal-Mart prices out of its strip malls forever. After almost a decade of resistance from local governments and small businesses throughout California, Wal-Mart has found a loophole in the ... More >>
Newsday via Washington PostJon Finkel, Magic champion and OkCupid "victim."I know this Magic vs. Gizmodo horse has been beaten halfway to hell since Monday, but before the Internet moves onto its next memestorm for good, there's one week-ending piece of information that I feel must be weighed ... More >>
sea turtle via FlickrNext time, try more Xtreme measuresA tree did not grow in Brooklyn early yesterday morning (har har) when a troupe of bicycle thieves -- dead set on jacking a bike tied to a sidewalk gingko -- chopped down the innocent tree in cold blood. [Spotted at Flying Pigeon LA.]
Kevin ScanlonWhen I worked as a scout for Propeller, I dreaded April first. It was already hard enough to find interesting, quality news stories, and having an entire day where I couldn't trust anything I read was just annoying. However, I've always enjoyed creative and humorous things that are obv ... More >>
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