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Club 33: Disneyland's Secret $25,000 Dining Club

Club 33 may just be Disneyland's worst kept secret. In fact, depending upon who you ask, there are staff that will give you directions to the "hidden" entrance and others that still adamantly deny its existence. Try calling Disneyland for an official comment on the club and you will be told that the ... More >>

Los Angeles Wants 2024 Olympics

We've done it twice, we can do it again. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today said he put our hat in the ring for the 2024 Olympics. "I am pleased to confirm our enthusiastic interest in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games," he wrote to the U.S. Olympic Committee. The bid ... More >>

A Kind of Love Story

Mormon Temple Fire in Westwood Sparks 'House of Worship' Arson Investigation

A midnight fire on the grounds of the Los Angeles California Temple -- the gargantuan Mormon structure that can be seen from all over the city -- has given the Los Angeles Fire Department's arson investigators their highest-profile job since the Hollywood car-fire debacle. Awesomely, the department ... More >>

Mazatlan, Mexico Is Too Street for L.A. Disney Cruise Line (VIDEO)

bebebloom via IgoUgoMazatlan: Not as tourist-friendly as meets the eye?​OK, we admit, Mexico's kind of scary, what with all the drugs and guns and freaky brown people running around. But is Mazatlan -- one of the only luxury-cruise stops that actually feels a tad bit like a real city, as oppos ... More >>

Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes

Disneyland Gives Imane Boudlal, Muslim Claiming Discrimination, Alternate Head Covering

​Updated, with response from Disney. Disneyland has found itself in a bit of a PR nightmare the past week as they've allegedly not allowed a Muslim restaurant hostess to wear a hijab, a traditional head covering. The woman, Imane Boudlal, has filed a claim with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Comm ... More >>

Ilene Woods, Voice Of Disney's Cinderella, Dies At 81

​Ilene Woods, who provided the voice of Cinderella in the classic film from 1950, died last week at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Canoga Park at the age of 81. According to the Associated Press, she died of causes related to Alzheimer's diseases. Woods was an 18-year old radio singe ... More >>

Nickelodeon Nymphet Baits Indie Crowd With Jeff Buckley Name Drop

Miranda Cosgrove is a Disney Nickelodeon nymphet (of the chaste-looking variety, i.e., a "not-a-Britney"). Many of our readers probably have no idea who she is, unless they're acquainted with children who watch her show iCarly, or are sad pervs who themselves watch her show iCarly. Anyhow. She put ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Lists Gifts, Including Cufflinks From Hillary

​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week filed his annual "statement of economic interests" with the state Fair Political Practices Commission. Obtained by the Weekly, it's a list of valuable gifts he has received, including some interesting ones ...

Oh My Cavalier: Julianna Swaney's World of Girls, Bees, Wolves and Foxes

​ Julianna Swaney draws girls and bees and beekepers and wolves with eyes all over their fur. Her work is fantastic. She does a kind of modern version of the sort of illustrations that might accompany a classic book of fairytales. Not the saccharine, contemporary Disney stuff, but the darker, ... More >>

Nightranger: Boogie Wonderland

DISNEY DOWN AND DIRTY

After Rapunzel and The Snow Queen, Which Fairy Tale Will Spawn a New Princess?

For those of us who grew up on Disney's cinematic fairy tales, going back to read the traditional tales captured by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen can be quite a shock. Who knew that the Little Mermaid not only wasn't named Aerial, but her feet ached and bled with every step? Who rea ... More >>

2009 in Animation: Something in the Way They Move

The most memorable characters were all about the art of the draw

Roy Disney Was Last In Family To Work At The Company That Bares Its Name

DisneyRoy E. Disney​The death of Roy E. Disney Wednesday marked the end of the line for members of his family working at the Burbank-based entertainment giant created in 1923 by his father Roy O. Disney and by his uncle Walt Disney, a Disney spokesman confirmed to the Weekly. Although Roy E. ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Disneyfied Big Oil Hyenas in E. Hollywood

This has to be the most directly political wall mural I've seen. Near the intersection of Heliotrope and Melrose on the wall of a laundry, is this excellent send-up of the major oil companies and Disney to boot. Up until recently this wall had a kind of outer space feel to it and, and was m ... More >>

High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

Roller Coaster of Wub

Disneyland goes all Chili Peppers and shit

Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? It's soooo Keith Richards to say something like that. I've studied him, I've met him, I know. But c'mon even if you're just a casual fan, you're f ... More >>

Cause for Celebration

The Mouse Who Whored

Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

Cash in Your Chips

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Lies and the Dirty Liars Who Tell Them

Mike Ovitz takes the stand

When Might Turns Right

Golly GE, why Big Media is pro-Bush

Verne-al Equinox

Jules around the world, on stage and screen

The Real Thing

The Tower of Spam Lite and Oranges

Top of the Pops

Disney Primeval

Mice Behaving Badly

Front and center at the Disney-Eisner pissing contest

To Speak or Not To Speak

A mixed week for free-speech rulings

Keepers of the Magic Kingdom

Watch closely among Disneyland’s tourists and you might spot the Disneyana people, protecting Walt’s vision and living most of their waking lives in the happiest place on Earth

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions

Space Cadets

Edited by Kateri Butler

Eisner’s Embarrassment

Court Records show Disney boss told dumped Michael Ovitz: 'Nobody ever needs to Know'

Mixville

dendale Grill serves up Silver Lake’s — and America’s — past

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

Someone Fishy

Reeling in Michael Eisner

Salesmanship or Snake Oil?

Punitive dreaming, post-Enron

Protest: Rat Trap

The Tycoon of Toon

LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

Flights of Fancy

Ken Annakin’s magnificent adventure

Paradise Lost, Paradise Found

Sexy Beast, Atlantis and the perils of adventure capitalism

A Complex Edifice

Futurama

Post-millennial déjà vu at Luckman Fine Arts

Mouse Trapped

Affirmative Abstraction