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Farrah Abraham Sex Tape Hits TV

The buzz about Farrah Abraham's sex tape is deafening. And now Vivid Entertainment, which scored the right to distribute the video, is bringing all the action to a television near you. Well, sort of. It depends on whether your particular LCD is equipped with premium channels of the adult variety:

Los Angeles Sugar Daddies Spend $5,448 A Month On Their Ladies?

The economy is dire. People are selling their used underwear on Craigslist. You've downgraded from DirecTV to YouTube. You buy your fresh produce from a freeway offramp! And yet Los Angeles sugar daddies are spending $5,448 a month on their chickadees? Yep. So says the latest annual sugar daddy rep ... More >>

Supercute Bulldog Pup Stolen From Home By SoCal DirecTV Installer, Cops Allege (PHOTOS)

Cops say a 38-year-old undocumented worker installing DirecTV systems took a $2,500 English bulldog puppy from a customer's home in Victorville. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department today announced the arrest of Eduardo Robles on suspicion of grand theft. He's also a felon who had previou ... More >>

How the Dodgers' New TV Contract Exemplifies Major League Baseball's Problems

Cable subscribers are subsidizing a dying industry

Comedian Cash Levy Explains His Odd Path to Stand-up Success

See also: *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles It's around 11 a.m. on a Wednesday as Cash Levy enters a banquet room within the pleasant, faux-sylvan Etiwanda Gardens event center near Rancho Cucamonga. Sixty employees of a major Southern California u ... More >>

DirecTV's Olympics Closing Ceremonies Feed Goes Dark in Los Angeles

It was bad enough that Angelenos and other Americans had to endure watching key medal events long after the results had been blasted worldwide. DirecTV subjected its L.A.-area customers to the ultimate fail last night when its feed of NBC's coverage of the closing ceremonies went down during prime ... More >>

Nic Harcourt Starts Fresh, Talks a Bit of Trash About KCRW

Nic Harcourt hosted KCRW's flagship music program Morning Becomes Eclectic for over a decade beginning in 1998 and also acted as musical director of that station. He now hosts a new weekly radio show, Connections Made by Guitar Center, which runs from 4-5 pm Saturdays on 88.5 FM (KCSN). "[It's] new ... More >>

George Lopez Canceled After Less Than a Year of Following Conan O'Brien Late Night on TBS

Lopez, last night.​Updated at the bottom with a statement from TBS. First posted at 12:27 p.m. They say that Latinos are "the help," but this is ridiculous. After Conan O'Brien took over George Lopez's slot on TBS in November, the move was spun as a comedy all-star package, with Lopez coming ... More >>

Sex Toy Sales to Rival Smartphone Buys in The Next 10 Years: Stars Like Cameron Diaz Popularize This Booming Lady Business

Cameron Diaz talks about this stuff. For real.​Ring ring. Who is it? It's your libido calling. It wants a new toy. And not an iPhone 4, either. A British study making the rounds this week claims that sex-toy sales will rival smartphone purchases in the next 10 years. Of course, your pocket ro ... More >>

Hollywood Execs Such as CBS' Les Moonves Got Massive, Multi-Million-Dollar Raises Last Year

That's the way you do it ... ​Did you get a pay raise in 2010? Didn't think so. But some of the entertainment industry's biggest titans saw jaw-dropping raises -- like, so much cash they could make in rain for for years. Philippe P. Dauman of Viacom (MTV Networks, Paramount, et. al.) saw 150 ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Invents 2-Week Rehab Program, Says He's Ready For Work On 'Two and a Half Men'

Slam rehab for Sheen.​Sorry Dr. Drew, but Charlie Sheen has discovered the secret to condensed rehabilitation. You might say it's not possible, but just listen to the actor talk: "They said get your act together and I did. ... Check it, it's like I heal really quickly. But I unravel pretty qu ... More >>

Emily Bikini Helms So-Cal Based Sex-Toy Shopping Network, Coming This Month To A TV Near You

emilybikini.comBreaking news: Emily Bikini will anchor the Lovers Shopping Network.​You're flipping through the channels and all of a sudden -- boing! -- there it is. A major marital aid, all up in your bedroom. Because going to your local porn shop is too shameful, the SoCal-based Lovers Sho ... More >>

IF YOU'RE LUCKY, YOU MIGHT GET SOME TAIL, IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE MEAN*

*That's lobster tail, pervert.

DISORDER IN THE COURT

Ice T and His Fellow "Law and Order" Icons Immortalized in Pop Art Show

SPECIAL VALENTINE UNIT, Brandon Bird (digitally-colored ink drawings, 2006)​ Young pop artist Brandon Bird has obsessed over the strange phenomenon that is Law & Order for years. The ubiquitous basic cable franchise is probably more universally recognized in the US (and the rest of the world-- ... More >>

CBS2, KCAL9 Off Air In L.A. [Updated]

​Is it mayoral retribution for David Goldstein's investigative reports about workers from his beloved Department of Water and Power drinking on the job? Or maybe the LAPD has ambushed transmission lines to get back at the reporter for his (somewhat thin) report about parking tickets to cops th ... More >>

Fraudster Who Sold Fake Picassos On TV Sentenced

Edvard Munch'The Scream.'​A woman who sold fake Picasso, Dali and Chagall artwork as the real thing on a television auction show was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles announced Tuesday. Authorities say La Canada resident Kristine Eubanks, 52, ... More >>

Summer Movies: Villains and Heroes, Robots and Mad Men

Secret plot for Wall Street 2, huge tracking for Transformers 2

Young Turks Purge at CAA, Sleazy Bribe at WGA, Sour Grapes at ABC

When upheaval at the L.A. Times is the good news

Big Media, Behemoth Media, Bewildered Media

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Gone With the Wind

Santa Anas at night, surfers’ delight. Santa Anas in the morning, homeowners take warning.

Love, Magic and the Quest for a New Suit

The 88 sound like teen spirit but smell like a rock band

They Can’t Handle the Truth

Lies and the lying moguls who tell them

As the World Turns

Not your regular news

DISH and Dat

Vivendi’s Jean-Marie Messier, PBS’s Charlie Rose, MSNBC’s Alan Keyes and the Beeb’s (fictional) Roy Mallard

Song of the Orphan Girl

Amaryllis Kornfeld meets the Westside kids

Reading in Wartime: A Post 9/11 Response

Now! Jerry Springer on Your Satellite Dish!

New law allows satellite TV to carry local channels. The problem is, they don't have the room.

Is TV Dead?

Webcasting tries to go prime time

Go to Sleep With a Toaster, Wake Up With a Microwave

Consumer One

Last in a Three-Part Series

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Off

Taming the digital signal

Downloading the Future

The MP3 Revolution — the End of the Industry as We Know It