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Screw Everyone Who Got Into the Green Day Show at the Echoplex Last Night

Here's what our yesterday morning looked like: 9:45 AM -- We arrive at Village Bakery, consume coffee and "Fightin' Cake" (shut up, it's delicious) 9:46 AM -- The internet informs us that tickets for Green Day's semi-secret last minute show at the Echoplex in support of their upcoming triple albu ... More >>

Sex Farce Meets Diplomacy in Mutually Assured Destruction; Solo Show Mental Creatures Explores Artistic Ambition

Free Wi-Fi Comes to Los Angeles' Comcast, Time Warner Customers (Sort of)

Five of the nation's biggest cable companies today announced they're rolling out free wi-fi hotspots for customers. The markets covered including Los Angeles, New York, Tampa, Orlando, and Philadelphia. The participating companies include Comcast and Time Warner Cable in L.A. and Cox Communication ... More >>

Here Is a Children's Cartoon About Snoop Dogg's Murder Trial

See also: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac's Hologram at Coachella, April 15, 2012 Before kids' programming was relegated to cable, the major networks competed for young viewers. With the relatively new Fox network's penchant for cutting edge programming, their block of '90s shows for kids was no exce ... More >>

Time Warner Cable Launches 'Ryan Gosling On Demand' for Valentine's Day

From "The 20 Most Flawless, Perfect Pictures Of Ryan Gosling At The Airport." Really.​You're welcome, Time Warner, for the free publicity. Don't get used to it. But this time, you knew exactly how to rope a lady blogger into covering your clunky, last-century cable services: all Ryan Gosling, ... More >>

Epicerie Fine: Chef Guy Martin Takes Us Back to Basic Ingredients

Food television already has a Guy in Guy Fieri, but we'll soon have another Guy (pronounced "gee" as in "oui") starting Sunday, Oct. 16th, when French chef Guy Martin and his show Epicerie Fine premiere on American TV. Less of a cooking show and more of an exploration of ingredients, Epicerie Fine ... More >>

Fox, Time-Warner Cable Deal

Fox​It was a happy new year for football fans and other viewers as Fox broadcasting and Time-Warner cable came to a deal after Fox threatened to pull its content from the broadband provider. The announcement late Friday came after Fox extended negotiations and shelved its plans to go dark on ... More >>

Fox Headed For A Pull-Out From Time-Warner Cable

FoxTan Stewie from an episode of Fox's 'Family Guy.'​It looks like Los Angeles Time-Warner subscribers will usher in the New Year with the subtraction of a major network from their cable boxes. Yesterday we told you how the Fox network was threatening to pull its programming from Time-Warner b ... More >>

Fox TV Threatens To Pull Shows In L.A., Nationwide, Over Dispute With Time-Warner

Fox​No Family Guy? No Simpsons? No American Idol? (Well, that last one we could do without). The Fox network is threatening to go dark by the end of the week on Time-Warner in Los Angeles and other cities if the cable company doesn't meet it's demands to pay about $1 per subscriber per month i ... More >>

LACMA Sets Up Film Club

As part of the L.A. County Museum of Art's efforts to channel community concern over its financially threatened film program into needed hard cash, the museum has set up a membership organization called the CineClub. According to a statement issued today, Angelenos who add an extra $50 to any level ... More >>

LACMA Film Program Buttressed

By Tom Christie As rumored, LACMA has received two grants of $75,000 apiece from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and from Ovation TV to prop up the museum's beleaguered film program - and hopefully kick off a new round of community support. Ovation, along with Time-Warner, also pledged an ... More >>

Manny Ramirez's Grand Slam Silences Critics

With his first swing of a bat last night Manny Ramirez laid to rest the loitering demons of doubt and recrimination that have followed his emergence from suspension. On July 3 he took the field against San Diego after a 50-game hiatus for having used an illegal performance enhancing substance. Catca ... More >>

ABC's 'Nightline' Runs with L.A. Weekly Story, Goes Soft

Last Friday night, ABC's Nightline ran a six-minute segment on the end of public access television in California. Although the news show never mentioned our paper, the segment was based on an  L.A. Weekly cover story, "Shutting Up the Little Guy,"  in which we took no prisoners in pointing ... More >>

ABC's 'Nightline' Picks Up L.A. Weekly Story

If you tune into ABC's Nightline at 11:35 p.m. tonight, and you've been reading L.A. Weekly lately, you'll notice a story that may seem familiar. It's all about how former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a foot-dragging City Council essentially killed pub ... More >>

Midnight Countdown -- to L.A. Cable TV Blackout

As of yet there is no sign that telecom giants Viacom and Time Warner Cable have settled their dispute over new pay rates -- a no-prisoners battle that threatens to pull the plug on L.A.'s two-million Time Warner cable TV customers. At issue is Viacom's demand for an extra $39 million to be paid by ... More >>

Jerry Brown to Rescue L.A.'s Public Access TV?

As L.A. Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald reported in a cover story two weeks ago, telecom giants, with City Hall's complicity, are working to shut down L.A.'s richly diverse cable-access TV environment by year's end. Today Leslie Dutton's Full Disclosure Web site announces that veteran free speech ad ... More >>

Shutting Down Public-Access TV

AT&T and L.A. City Hall quietly lead a national push to silence the little guy

Uh oh, Obama asks Antonio Villaraigosa for Economic Advice

By Tibby Rothman Many Southern Californians were mystified by this news from the Wall Street Journal and NBC's Firstread blog: The often stumbling Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose city budget deficit has hit a historic high and who has based his economic plan in Los Angeles almost entirely on a s ... More >>

Wall Street Crisis Begins to Hurt Media Moguls

Be afraid. Be very afraid

Sony Starts Another Spidey, N.Y. Times Unravels Convergence

Oh, what a tangled web

Hollywood Comings, Goings & Just Plain Bad Parking

The latest on the NYT, CAA, HBO and Oprah

John Walsh, Chris Shabel and Miki Jackson

Hollywood gadflies

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Too Fast and Too Furious

Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too

Screwing the TV Viewers

The CW Network is the bastard child of The WB and UPN

They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

The Secret Lives of Cheetahs

Despite critical raves, Carroll Ballard’s Duma may go quietly into the night

How to Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues

12 Steps to better box office

Really Big Packages

Forget what EW says, it’s the moguls’ perks that are out of control, not the stars’

Mex 2 the Max

When Might Turns Right

Golly GE, why Big Media is pro-Bush

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions

The Big Buh-Bye

The Pope on Hope

The Year in Media

I'm sorry Momma

Letters

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

Voices in Disharmony

Maybe

Writing Is Fighting

Sparring for credit on Ali

It’s the Oil

For all of punditry’s hot air, the root cause remains the same

Oldies But Goodies

The television event

Democrats: No More Whining

And a side order of grilled Gephardt, please

Beyond Good and Evil

To the utterly adorable ass-kicking superheroics of the Powerpuff Girls!

Money Talks

A conversation with New Line’s Mike DeLuca

E-Bombs Away

Protest, panic, and the politics of packet monkeys

Was It Good for You Too?

Who got screwed when Time-Warner jumped into bedwith AOL?

Ghostsites

Somebody forgot to take out the garbage on the information superhighway

Downloading the Future

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

Bill and Steve's Servile Adventure

Long hours on the HTML assembly line