Update: Justin Timberlake signs on as a co-owner and creative director. Earlier: It's a done deal, with the Wall Street Journal reporting today that Specific Media made the purchase for between $30 and $40 million and that it plans to cut the 500 person MySpace workforce in half. What becom ... More >>
Marvin ShaouniInsane Clown Posse: Exclusive interview for LA Weekly The LA Weekly traveled to Detroit to explore the reality and legend of controversial rap duo Insane Clown Posse. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope gave us a revealing, no-holds-barred interview, leaving behind their wicked clown p ... More >>
Down (and out) with the Clown
Vivid EntertainmentTila Tequila proves that there's no wall between reality and porn.L.A. porn-maker Vivid announced Monday that it has "acquired" a Tila Tequila all-girl sex tape and will release it on Valentine's Day. The big question here, of course, is do you care? It's been more than a ... More >>
What will become of Tila Tequila?Ah, it seems like only yesterday that the kids on North Maple Drive in Beverly Hills were the envy of the tech world. Riding high in their leased Audis and rockin' those first iPhones, they were the closest thing L.A. had to Silicon Valley royalty. And now ma ... More >>
Billboard reports an amazing tale concerning rapper The Game's Christmas shopping misadventures at a local mall. Apparently Game and his associate Avante Rose (also, apparently a Tila Tequila associate) were at the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park last Friday and they left their vehicles ... More >>
#failedmenuitems Coke au Vin. Spotted Dick Cheney with Condoleeza Rice. Phlègm Brûlée. Ted Nougat. Elderly Berry Crumble. Hushed Puppies. Risottomayor. Your newest food-based Twitter meme, #failedmenuitems, has arrived. Now, if only we could put Tila Tequila on that list. Have at it, yo ... More >>
This poor man is now the bitch of Tila Tequila and ICPFile this one under: "the Internet and search engines have turned all cool, interesting pop culture into the bitch of the stupidest forms of pop culture." Once upon a time, Drag City was a label that stood for the awesomely weird, from cu ... More >>
ICP Blame Tila Tequila's Boobs for Her 'Gathering of the Juggalos' Attack
Tila Tequila: Now too old for MySpace.News Corp., the owners of MySpace, announced plans to relaunch the waning site with a focus on younger users, a company representative told LA Weekly. At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen recently News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller ... More >>
Tequila!The Los Angeles Police Department over the weekend issued a warning to reality television star Tila "Tequila" Nguyen after receiving calls to check on her welfare. She tweeted disturbing, bloody pictures of herself and then stated that "I feel tired. I'm going to take my medicine and ... More >>
Kickback money can be bad for the enviroment.Holmby Hills' Elliott Broidy has been called "the mystery man of the Israeli economy," but he's had more friends than Tila Tequila, including President George W. Bush (whom he's hosted at his Westside home) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigos ... More >>
Los Angeles is a social media capital (Beverly Hills is home to MySpace headquarters) and epicenter of Hollywood's tweet-crazed narcissists. So we thought we'd take a look at the hottest, social-media-inspired costumes for the quasi-holiday that's tailor-made for L.A.Twitter's dreaded Fail Whale. ... More >>
A few weeks ahead of its conference in Los Angeles, Twitter amended its terms of use to allow for advertising. The move means that the micro-blogging service might finally go for the brass ring by monetizing its huge base of 45 million users. "... We leave the door open for advertising," blogs CEO ... More >>
By Pamela Chelin It was a packed house at Avalon last night in Hollywood with a line extending down the street. DJ AM, who survived a plane crash (along with Travis Barker) in South Carolina recently, threw a party to raise funds for the families of the victims who were tragically killed in the cra ... More >>
People kept asking me "Who is Debra Davenport?" and I kept having to say, "I'm not sure." A bit of googling reveals that she is the CEO of a luxury women's fashion house headquartered in Phoenix Arizona. HauteAZ tells us "She received her B.A. at the age of 19, her M.A. degree at the age of 21, and ... More >>
VIP = Very Irate People
A peek inside some Hollywood hot spots. Plus, LCD Soundsystem and Mondo Hollywood shows
X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes
Sometime after 50 arrived, the art of the narrative wandered into a blizzard of coke raps, artificial hood mythologizing and pandering simplicity. Complexity no longer moved units, and with sales sliding, Scarface xeroxes and ringtone rappers became the safe bets. You can't blame the suits either ... More >>
