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Do We Really Want The Michelin Guide Back In Los Angeles?

The Michelin Guide released their New York rankings yesterday, with the usual fanfare and oohhing and aahhing about who got stars, how many they got, and what that means for the cultural validity of the city's dining scene. For Los Angeles, this time of year might sting a little, bringing up the f ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Christening of a Cadillac

Everything's social this week -- jokes with friends spur a pop-up shop, a four-course meal becomes an exhibition and a group of artists tries to figure out why time can terrify. 5. Dinner-party graveyard In late March, Jason Kraus invited 12 people to dinner. Everyone had to commit to come seven ni ... More >>

Ernest Cline: The Ready Player One Author's 10 Favorite Songs From John Hughes Movies

While in town for SXSW last week, we checked in with Austin native Ernest Cline, the author of 2011 bestseller Ready Player One. It's sci-fi, but totally readable and compelling; the plot concerns a nerdy overweight teen living in a distopian future America where everyone spends all their time in a ... More >>

Henry Alford, Author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?, Tells Us How to Behave

On his website, writer Henry Alford (The New York Times, Vanity Fair) touts some of the raves for his new book about manners, Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners. Isn't bragging considered bad manners? Our interview with Alford, who will be appearing at Book Soup at 6 p. ... More >>

Our Idiot Brother Review

Terrence Malick, The Too-Quiet American

A skeptic confronts the elusive filmmaker of The Tree of Life

Elizabeth Taylor's FBI Files Released, Reveal Extortion Attempts, Creepy Letters

Vanity FairElizabeth Taylor.​The FBI released its files on late actress Elizabeth Taylor today following a flurry of Freedom of Information Act requests from the media. Blogger Michael Petrelis appears to be the first to pick up the release and notes that much of what's in the files pertains ... More >>

Monday Morning News Roundup: Yak Farmers, Vegan Boxers, World's Worst Restaurant More

Guzzle & Nosh​And when we say "news," we mean it in the loosest sense of the word. --"Mrs. Cheeseburger," wife of cheeseburger inventor, passes away. [Denver Post] --Japan faces food radiation problems. [WSJ] --Iodized salt is no antidote for radiation. [NPR] --But red wine might be. [Telegrap ... More >>

Oscar Night Marred by Big Sinkhole on Highland Avenue in Hollywood

oceanUPJustin Bieber and Selena Gomez at the Vanity Fair party Sunday.​Update: The water-main break was fixed and traffic was reopened in time for the morning rush -- about 6 a.m. -- the DWP reports. The eyes of the world are on L.A. Sunday night and we give them ... ... a giant sinkhole. Y ... More >>

Elon Musk's Super-Green Hawthorne Company SpaceX Gets $45,600 EPA Fine For Mishandling Hazardous Materials

​We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried: Elon Musk, the love-him, hate-him chief of electric-car company Tesla Motors -- the Bay Area automaker with the green-friendly halo over its head -- is also the leader of a Hawthorne company that just received a slap on the wrist by federal official ... More >>

After Rehab, Lindsay Lohan Leaving L.A. For New York

​Lindsay Lohan has been threatening to leave Los Angeles for quite some time, but now it looks like she's finally going to do it. After she wraps up her stint in rehab at UCLA Lohan is headed to New York for good, says her mom, Dina Lohan. The elder Lohan made the comments to NBC over the wee ... More >>

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

Roger Waters vs. Elliott Smith's Wall

Street art in the global village

Sultans of Sand: Photo Exhibit of Saharan Guitar Nomads Tinariwen Opens at Fix Gallery

Sultans of Sand: Photo Exhibit of Saharan Guitar Nomads Tinariwen Opens at Fix Gallery

Google, Bloggers Involved In Theft Says Rupert Murdoch

RupertFox​Rupert Murdoch has been on a tear against Google, vowing to close off content he controls to the search giant and saying the web king, news aggregators and bloggers are all involved in "theft" of content created by journalism organizations like the ones he owns. His comments were ma ... More >>

Royal Rumble: Prince, Queen Latifah, Fischerspooner and the Dukes of DFA

Prince Getts Off At Avalon Post-Oscars Party, Covers the Cars, Rolling Stones and Jimmy Eat World

We'll get to a review of the show in a minute, but first, oblige us to cut to the chase and share/brag/go crazy/get nuts about something: We danced on stage with Prince last night! Near the end of The Artist's astounding covers-packed set at Avalon (for his "surprise" post-Oscar bash), he had one of ... More >>

Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Now We Sample the Season's Picture Books ...

The Coffee Table

Manny Farber Remembered

Film connoisseurs recall a multifaceted artist

Ron Burkle: Poor Little Rich Grocer

L.A.'s billionaire confronts life without the Clintons or instant White House access

The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy

No exit plan

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

What's in a Name?

A lot, says Mira Nair’s portrait of a young Indian-American’s identity crisis

Dining With the Stars

Michelin takes Manhattan

Battle of the Network Stars

It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

Laughing All the Way to the Banksy

Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

Fatherless Manhattan

Yannick Murphy on Here They Come, her new novel of family love

Letters

Really Big Packages

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

Graydon Carter's Hollywood Ending

Vanity Fair editor reportedly calling friends scumbags on eve of Oscars

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

The Coffee Table

Urban grit, hideous homes and smug Brits — our annual roundup of holiday gift books

Get Carter?

L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal investigating Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter; LAT probing whether Carter made deals with Hollywood moguls & companies

Bullshit Detected

Stephen Glass, Chuck Lane and the big dustup at TNR

The Book on Arnold

Making up for the failings of the mainstream

King of Hollywood

The New York Times’ pursuit of an entertainment writer

Shock and Awe

Pro-war propaganda

Beyond Smart

The fetish of knowingness

Hollywood's Dude

Keeping an eye on the ball

The Good, the Bad and the Rest of Us

Mum’s the Word

Under the Lava Lamp

The Good, the Bad and the Fucked

From South America to South Korea

Too Simple

Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen

Mr. Dark

Mr. Dark The new Dennis Cooper. And David Wong Louie, Jervey Tervalon, Richard Rushfield