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Mayor Garcetti Lobbed Some Softballs About L.A. on Jeopardy! Last Night

Some intrepid Jeopardy! producers braved traffic on the 10 to travel from Sony's Culver City studios to L.A. City Hall so Mayor Eric Garcetti could lob a few easy questions about Los Angeles to yesterday's trio of contestants, Siddharth (a student from Virginia), Dorcas (a consultant from Pennsylvania, who I imagine......
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Film-to-TV Adaptations That Were Weird, Bad Ideas

The Paley Center's PaleyFest Fall TV Preview — a dizzying, weeklong fan event that offers a sneak peek at the new shows networks are hoping against hope won't be instantly reviled and hastily canceled — kicked off last night with a screening of Lethal Weapon. No, not the movie that came out......
The Emperor Has No Balls outside of Wacko in August; Credit: Sophia Kercher

Why That Naked Donald Trump Statue Stunt Actually Sucks

Late last week, we all had a hearty chuckle when statues of a nude, nearly dick-less and totally ball-less Donald Trump materialized in several U.S. cities, Los Angeles among them. Our very own live-size, potbellied effigy showed up outside Wacko on Hollywood Boulevard, where it was photographed prolifically by passersby......
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Buy Tickets to Our Fourth Annual Artopia Now Because You Like Surprises

At last year's Artopia, paint-smeared naked people pressed their bodies onto a canvas suspended on a wall. KCRW's Jeremy Sole spun records. Beautiful people milling around downtown's Container Yard made their way through Debi Cable's 3-D, black-lit wonderland and were photographed with live flowers piled on their heads. And I......
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Naked Donald Trump Statue Arrives in L.A. — Minus His Balls (PHOTOS)

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent an untoward amount of time during the primary season insisting that, despite political rival Marco Rubio's statement to the contrary, his hands are adequately sized. The subtext of Rubio's statement wasn't lost on Trump, and he very quickly and publicly defended the size of......