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Top 5 Father's Day Gifts for Foodists

In general, dads don't like stuff and they're not fond of holidays or emotional displays. So if you must acknowledge Father's Day, forget the maudlin speeches, the sappy cards and for God's sake forgo the new tie. Most fathers are foodists at heart, be it gourmand or gourmet, so get him a treat to e ... More >>

Venus and Serena Documentary Delves Into the Lives of the Compton-Bred Tennis Stars

3rd Annual Happy Hour Week in Pasadena Starts Tomorrow

Don't let the title fool you, this year's Happy Hour Week in Pasadena will be running for two weeks instead of one. Starting tomorrow, participating restaurants and bars in Old Pasadena, a.k.a Old Town, will offer food and drink specials during their respective happy hours through Friday, March 15. ... More >>

Fake Guy Fieri American Bar Kitchen Online Menu Accused of Fakery

Yesterday, a New York programmer launched a mock online menu of Guy Fieri American Bar Kitchen, complete with spoof appetizers, entrees and sides. Quite a few sites found Bryan Mytko's roast funny, albeit with the occasional voice of protest. Since this initial wave, Gawker has picked up on a tip ... More >>

Former S. Pasadena Kid (and Little Bro) Wins Today Show Chicken Wing Challenge Recipe

Malcolm Bedell, a food blogger from Rockland, Maine, was the big winner in the Today show's first Super Bowl chicken wing cookoff today, with his Apricot-Shellacked Ghost Chile Wings. Why, exactly, is this so unspeakably thrilling? Because he is my little brother! I never would have imagined, when ... More >>

Ten Things We Learned About New Kids on the Block From Their New Biography

Like any girl who came of age in the early 90s, we knew some basic facts on the New Kids on the Block. We knew Donnie was the leader; Joey and Jordan, the cute ones, and the lead singers; Jon, the shy, sensitive one; Danny, the one who looked like a monkey. We knew that our best friend in grade sc ... More >>

Ryan Lochte Is Moving to Los Angeles

America's douche capital is about to get a whole lot douchier: Olympic swimmer and gold-medal douche Ryan Lochte went on the Today Show this morning to tell Matt Lauer, "I definitely want to move to L.A." Why Los Angeles, and not his Florida hometown? "That's been a big goal of mine, getting into ... More >>

Lauren Berger Interned at MTV, Fox and 13 Other Places. Now She's Turned Her Experience Into a Business

Lauren Berger has gotten coffee at MTV. She's gotten coffee at Fox. And yes, she's done it at several other agencies that may not have as much brand recognition. She even broke the darned coffee pot once. These days, the 28-year-old entrepreneur gets others to fetch the java for her. Her web-based ... More >>

How Mark Malkoff Convinced Kate Walsh, Justine Bateman and Other Celebrities to Let Him Sleep Over

Courtesy Mark MalkoffMark Malkoff, left, gets a bedtime story from Phil Rosenthal, who created Everybody Loves Raymond.​Not wanting to spend thousands of dollars on hotels during his recent visit to Los Angeles, comedian Mark Malkoff instead asked a bunch of celebrities if he could sleep at ... More >>

Natalie Wood Murdered? Husband Robert Wagner 'Not a Suspect,' Says L.A. Sheriff

Trouble in paradise?​Could Hollywood darling Natalie Wood's fatal drowning in 1981 have been darker than the simple accident it was once ruled to be? Wood and her husband Robert Wagner (truly L.A.'s royal couple at the time), along with their actor friend Christopher Walken, were night-boatin ... More >>

Greg Kading, Author of Tupac, Biggie Smalls Murder Book, Discusses One Hell of a Week

​At the beginning of the week, former LAPD detective Greg Kading was a bundle of nerves. As first reported by LA Weekly, he was putting his neck on the line Tuesday by self-publishing the book, Murder Rap, and revealing new evidence in the Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls murders that implicates e ... More >>

Casey Anthony: Rumors Abound That She Has Come to Southern California

YfrogCasey and friend.​Updated after the jump with one local reporter saying Anthony wasn't on the plane to SoCal. First posted at 1:08 p.m. Southern California is home to the celebrity who gets off. And we're not just talking about Charlie Sheen. You know: OJ Simpson. Lindsay Lohan. Phil S ... More >>

Your Aerosol Breakfast: Batter Blaster, or Pancakes in a Can

everview.comGetting Past The Reddi Wip Association Is Tough​ We are by nature wary of any nitrous oxide-propelled food product, a pressurized canned food prejudice that we blame squarely on one too many corn syrup and artificial flavor-laden Reddi Wip mustaches as kids. And so when it first h ... More >>

Website Commemorates Kanye West's Top 10 Meltdown Moments

Clashmusic.comWhat next, Kanye?​ Just when you thought America's favorite hip-hop star had put all of his embarrassing moments behind him, you cringe when you hear radio hosts poking fun at his latest...embarrassing moment. This time it's Kanye chastising Matt Lauer while on the set of NBC's ... More >>

Kanye West Interrupts George Bush's 'Today Show' Appearance

Kanye West Interrupts George Bush's Today Show Appearance

Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown Will Not Be Shelving Their Negative Ads, No Matter What Matt Lauer Thinks

Matt Lauer: Why can't political campaigns be as soft and fluffy as the fourth hour of the "Today Show"?​At today's Women's Conference down in Long Beach, Matt Lauer asked Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman to take down their negative ads. Why? Because negative ads are mean, and they make the Statue of Li ... More >>

Nightranger: Evil Wo-Men

Nightranger Goes Gaga for Comedienne Nadya Ginsburg ( Hilarious Gaga and Madonna Impersonations)

We've known of self-proclaimed "edgy, Jew-Talian Tracy Ullman" style comedian/singer Nadya Ginsburg as part of a posse of pals and performers around Los Angeles that includes club king/actor Mario Diaz (Full Frontal, B.F.D), song parody/comedy queen Jackie Beat and burlesque star/reality fave Selene ... More >>

Men and the City

Judd Apatow and Jonah Hill get Russell Brand to the Greek, lose their sexuality along the way

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY GIRL! CHELSEA HANDLER

Q & A With José Andrés, Part 2: Frank Bruni, The White House Garden & How to Eat at Bazaar for Under $50

In yesterday's first part of our conversation with José Andrés, the chef sat down to chat about the Spanish pantry (his, ours), and cooking with Ferrán Adriá, which is where we left off. Andrés, whose La Cienega restaurant The Bazaar opened in the SLS hotel in 2008, spends plenty of time in Los ... More >>

Defamer Calls For NBC Chief Zucker's Head Over Conan Fiasco

NBCJeff Zucker.​There was a time when publications, mostly of the dead-tree variety, would call for heads of leaders, mostly of the political kind. But in this info-stream era, everyone's an armchair studio chief, and every public figure -- not just the one you voted for -- is game. It was on ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady march toward legalization nationwide

Queer Town: Meredith Baxter Comes Out with Help from Gay P.R. Guru

A few weeks ago, TV star Meredith Baxter, who played Michael J. Fox's mother in the hit series Family Ties, made headlines by publicly coming out as a real life lesbian on the Today show. Meredith Baxter​Huge news, indeed.But her announcement was one more example of the very specialized work don ... More >>

Ozomatli to Perform for Barack and Michelle Obama at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Awards

LA band Ozomatli have stood on a lot of stages in their fourteen year career. They've faced 10,000 in Kathmandu, have been shuttled into a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan to perform, have gigged music schools in Burma, have done the Today Show. Next Wednesday, however, they'll play to what is the ... More >>

On the Road to Burma

Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

Updated: Craigslist Declassified

Besieged by politicians and media, the founder of the popular online classifieds site finds an unlikely ally: a victim’s family

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

Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

The Daily Morning Show

Is Leno Ready for Prime Time?

The over-the-hill NBC hack should have shuffled off to ABC

Best Fitness Guru: Harley Pasternak

Agency Clients, an Old Coot, and Counting Chads

What’s making news while Hollywood vacations

The Fearless Personal Inventory

Urban archaeology and the pleasures of mortification

Go Duck Yourself

There’s just something about the crackly skin and the dark juicy meat that has us craving duck now and again...

Yes, Deer

Unfair Game

Joseph Wilson on the cost of telling the truth in Washington

Letters

CitySweep

Curb Your SUV

Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

Coming Back to Earth

The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

Our Peace Movement — Not Theirs

Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet

Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food