posted by at 3:18 PM on May 03, 2007 Friday, May 4th is Star Wars Day! May the Fourth. Get it?
Here's some ways to commemorate the occasion: Don't be like Leia, and go kiss a Wookie. Just watch out for the headbutt happy Chewbacca that lingers on Hollywood..
. posted by at 11:43 AM on May 02, 2007 A big thanks to Kim of 1947project.com for sending this on to me.
Celebrating their 60th anniversary (whoa! that goes back to 1947!), the fathers of the Verdugo Woodlands PTA are putting on their annual show, "Fathers' Follies"--a cavalcade of.
.. posted by at 8:13 PM on April 29, 2007 (Photo of a nattily dressed FOB attendee.
There were many such men. If young men my age would take a cue from these older fellas and wear some bitchen' threads--and hats--I'd date much more often.) The Los Angeles Times.
.. posted by at 1:15 PM on April 27, 2007 While I can't argue with the Los Anjealous' editors picks for this weekend's Festival of Books, I did want to give special mention to tomorrows 10:30am panel: Blogging and Beyond, with RJ Smith moderating a panel made up of LA.
.. posted by at 12:00 PM on April 26, 2007 I like The Simpsons, and a Universal Studios ride based on their shenanigans sounds like a rip-roarin' good time to me, but at what cost?
How much Hollywood history are we willing to sacrifice to fulfill our theme park desires?..
. posted by at 9:45 AM on April 25, 2007 If you were hoping to get some last minute photos in from of the old Hanna Barbera Building you missed you chance as it's now been completely converted into an LA Fitness location. Cartoon Brew has photos, and a.
.. posted by at 11:37 PM on April 23, 2007 So the bi-annual Brewery Artwalk was last weekend, and I did a great deal of lounging about, holding down couches and stuff, at various friends' warehouse spaces.
I made a good college try to get around and see what was...
posted by at 10:08 PM on April 17, 2007 ...
even for a few hours. Since yesterday, I have been engrossed with the unfolding story at Virginia Tech, taking me mentally out of Los Angeles and hurting at the thought of this horrible tragedy. As someone who still is greiving.
.. posted by at 10:32 AM on April 12, 2007 LA based performance artist, musician, writer, and filmmaker Miranda July has a new book being released on May 15 entitled No one belongs here more than you.
The book tour starts right here in LA at the Hammer Museum. But..
. posted by at 3:25 PM on April 11, 2007 I can't help it. Ever since seeing clips of the upcoming Transformers movie at ShoWest last month, I have been getting excited about the ad blitz for this movie.
Call me a child of the 80's, I just can't contain...
posted by at 2:13 PM on April 11, 2007 While not as cool as as my fantasy of NBC renovating the Palladium and renaming it "Studio 60", the good news is that the Palladium will be getting a major facelift from Live Nation, "the world's largest live music company"...
. posted by at 11:25 AM on April 09, 2007 Has anyone seen one of these DVDPlay kiosks around town? I hadn't even heard of them, but we spotted one at the newly-renovated Von's at 3rd and Vermont yesterday and to say that it appealed to my tech fetish is.
.. posted by at 1:27 PM on April 05, 2007 In response to a plaintive wail that I post about this stuff earlier than, oh, say, the day of, I figured I'd post about this stuff a day earlier.
Some good art events around town this weekend. Artwork by..
. posted by at 1:58 AM on April 04, 2007 Power outage reportedly strike Arclight Cinemas; ticketing system crippled Oops! Who didn't pay the electric bill?
I just went to buy some advance tickets for Spider-Man 3 that were scheduled to go on sale today, but encountered this message on...
posted by at 9:06 AM on March 22, 2007 Tip 'o the cap to Michael for pointing me to this clip from the set of I Heart Huckabees featuring director David O. Russel having a total meltdown in response to Lily Tomlin's persistent nagging: The internet is rife with..
. posted by at 12:43 PM on March 20, 2007 Are you still with me? That image didn't disgust you so much that you were forced to instantly turn off your computer and run down the street screaming for your life did it?
Wow. Imagine that, as that's pretty..
. posted by at 10:49 PM on March 18, 2007 There is currently a large helicopter flying almost directly above my loft. It has been circling for nearly 2 hours.
The helicopter is part of a film crew that is filming a block north of my loft. The crew is..
. posted by at 8:57 AM on March 15, 2007 For the upcoming 1907 Centennial bash at Bedlam Gallery on the 22nd, 1947project.com is inviting foodies, food bloggers (fubloggers?
), and anyone who kinda likes to cook to bring a dish reminiscent of days gone by. While your contribution doesn't..
. posted by at 9:52 AM on March 14, 2007 Filming and the Entertainment Industry in general are both huge sources of revenue for both Angelenos and the City of Los Angeles. I thoroughly enjoy watching movies and I think it is cool that they are commonly filmed in my.
.. posted by at 3:07 PM on March 06, 2007 We get a lot of interesting things via our submission form.
Sometimes we get great tips, other times we get useful followups to a post we've made, but most of all we get generic letters from PR flacks telling...
posted by at 8:07 PM on March 02, 2007 Free live phone sex. Kinda. That's my unrefined synopsis of Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill's "Sex Scenes", a staged reading performed last Wednesday at the Pleasure Chest in West Hollywood.
"Sex Scenes" consisted of a quartet of sometimes harder than...
posted by at 8:02 PM on March 02, 2007 I was slicing Granny Smith apples at my first Grilled Cheese Invitational in 2003 when the knife slipped and drew a serrated slash across the knuckle of my thumb. I stared dumbstruck as blood welled up from the slice;..
. posted by at 3:31 PM on March 01, 2007 me: OMFG!!
2 months of grindhouse films at the New Beverly! Jason: yeah, not bad. You gotta be in heaven me: no way, I'm in hell trying to figure out how I can find the time/cash to see all of.
.. posted by at 3:32 PM on February 25, 2007 Photo by Peggy Archer on Highland Blvd.
near the limo checkpoint via Flickr...
. posted by at 11:15 AM on February 25, 2007 You got your Z in my OMG? You got LOL in my WTF?
BBQ! Here's the most active discussion from this week, get your edumakashun on. - Question of the Week: Does Street Art Encourage Graffiti?
- Markland asks...
posted by at 12:34 AM on February 25, 2007 You know how when you get on the tram at Disney to take you from the parking lot to the front gate and they tell you to stay seated and keep your arms and legs inside the tram at...
posted by at 10:54 PM on February 23, 2007 Went to the Arclight tonight to see a 7:55 screening of Starter For Ten, with a 12-year old looking James McAvoy. There was almost nobody there. On a Friday night?
Is everyone at home watching their pirated screeners of...
posted by at 3:26 PM on February 22, 2007 In an effort to capture some good, lazy PR, a score of Oscar attendees will be rolling up to the red carpet in hybrid and electric vehicles. Global Green USA has lined up 30 cars to shuttle the likes of..
. posted by at 1:59 PM on February 20, 2007 Given the recent talks of Piracy here, I had to pass this on. Xeni Jardin points to Ben Fritz who says: This morning I'm at a press conference about a new anti-piracy study and task force featuring L.
A. Mayor..
. posted by at 8:31 PM on February 19, 2007 One more thing about living in L.A.
- you have to know when the transit shuts down for the Oscars.. The Red Line station will be shut down, and buses will be rerouted, so that no real L.
A. citizens show..
. posted by at 4:57 PM on February 18, 2007 Last weeks discussion about movie piracy makes my experience at Target in Culver City yesterday that much more interesting. Now at this point I'm still pretty skeptical of the whole situation because it was so weird, but this is exactly.
.. posted by at 9:47 AM on February 18, 2007 Who-boy!
The topics that came up this week sure got some people riled up. Names were called virtual doors were slammed. Well, not really but let's just say some folks don't agree.
.. Update on last week's homeless dumping -.
.. posted by at 2:59 AM on February 17, 2007 As you've read, my faith in the Arclight, along with some other authors here, has been tested as their high tech ticketing system frequently runs amuck.
(computerized ticketing gripe posts here here and here, promised improvements here, apologies for lack...
posted by at 10:35 PM on February 16, 2007 So I know Keller is all big on Barney's and its "mint" waitresses. But for my money, there's only one best bar in LA. It's Hanks.
Hidden in the lobby of the Hotel Stillwell on Grand (between 8th 9th...
posted by at 8:45 AM on February 15, 2007 Anyone who knows anyone who is a comedian knows that one of the worst things a comedian can do is steal another comedians material. The only thing worse than that is to steal a lot of comedians material and make..
. posted by at 12:08 AM on February 13, 2007 Like, OHHHhhmiGOD!!
! You guys are sooooooo nice! I'm.
..I'm totally stoked.
Like, seriously! You see, it's my Second Annual 29th Birthday on the 15th of this month, and LOOK--Shepard Fairey's DJ'ing a big ole' birthday party at La Cita! Isn't.
.. posted by at 9:49 AM on February 12, 2007 Are you planning on following The Oscars but can't quite make the educated guesses you'd like on who might win because you haven't seen every single one of the nominations yet?
Well you are in luck because OscarTorrents is here...
posted by at 3:26 PM on February 09, 2007 Apparently for the last 18 years Pollstar has had Concert Industry Awards and LA kind of killed it this year with LA venues pulling down 4 awards and the dude at the Wiltern/Avalon pulling down an award as well...
. posted by at 5:19 PM on February 07, 2007 I pay a fairly hefty sum of money for parking on a monthly basis as my loft doesn't provide spaces for residents. Today as I was leaving my over-priced parking lot I noticed that the gate I normally exit onto.
.. posted by at 3:37 PM on February 07, 2007 Apologies or your welcome in advance to this mention of the wardrobe malfunction at last Saturday's Directors Guild Awards held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.
While the big news was Martin Scorsese's win for "The Departed", the real event...
posted by at 2:17 PM on February 02, 2007 In October, I wrote on my blog:I stood next to W.C. Fields as I watched Chewbacca take off his head and scream obscenities at Spider Man.
It was just another day in Hollywood.Today, via Defensetech, I learned that Chewbacca was..
. posted by at 12:00 PM on February 02, 2007 When I was 13, my sister was 9, and my parents were not quite ready to leave me in charge of the house when they went out. It must have had something to do with that time I poured.
.. posted by at 1:14 PM on January 30, 2007 In 1993 Chris Rock started in one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen.
It was called CB4 and was a mockumentary about gangsta rap, specifically NWA. Chris Elliott starred as the film maker which made it all that much..
. posted by at 9:45 PM on January 29, 2007 So Bill Gates wants to "revolutionize" television, and YouTube wants to share revenue with you to create the next Speak The Hungarian Rapper video. Downside?
There will be more crap to wade through to the good stuff. Upside? At.
.. posted by at 11:34 PM on January 28, 2007 Several months ago now, when I was still working at the LA Alternative, a press release from LACMA came across my desk.
Hidden among a long list of events, workshops and openings was a blurb on their upcoming exhibit, "Masquerade"--a...
posted by at 5:54 PM on January 28, 2007 So I have mentioned before on my blog the lack of notification for filming in my building in Downtown LA. Both tonight and last night they've been filming something involving helicopters. One of the helicopters is the camera bird and.
.. posted by at 12:31 PM on January 27, 2007 An update to this post.
Jane in Progress: Some Culpa for Mea The advice about writing spec pilots, short plays and short film scripts is for those of you who either already have an agent, or those of you who...
posted by at 8:03 PM on January 25, 2007 My friend Jonathan Nail is an actor who blogs. A few of his posts lately have been pretty insightful about the reality of working in television. Daily Musings - Blog Archive - Oh yes, there will be blood.
Guest role...
posted by at 10:16 PM on January 24, 2007 I'm no motion picture historian so if someone is I'd like to know if filmdom has ever had so many movies coming to a theater near me that share the same "_____ _____" title similarity, because lately I've been...
posted by at 8:46 PM on January 23, 2007 I don't actually know how to break into TV writing. Just so we're clear up front, I've never attempted it. The one thing I do know about getting into television is that you need to write sample scripts.
I have...
posted by at 11:17 AM on January 21, 2007 Yap Yap Yap Yap Yap Yap Yap. Here's the 5 most commented on posts of the whole damn week. NYC2LA Comparison - Jillian points out this point by point LA vs NYC comparison which has invited a TON of.
.. posted by at 12:39 AM on January 21, 2007 If I wasn't already up to my neck in a billion and one commitments in the next few months, I would totally do this.
I'd love to know if any bloggers take part in this and move their stories from...
posted by at 4:10 PM on January 20, 2007 It's almost 5PM on Saturday and most people have their evenings well planned out. For those that don't, all of your prayers, burning candles, sacrificing virgins and chopping off pieces of your fingers has worked and you now have..
. posted by at 10:20 PM on January 19, 2007 Soooo, I just wanted to remind everyone of 1947project.com's upcoming 1907 Centennial at Jim Fittipaldi's Bedlam Gallery on March 22nd.
Kim, Nathan and the rest of the wayback machine at 1947project.com have thrown open the doors for entries from..
. posted by at 3:58 PM on January 18, 2007 An open letter to Los Angeles County lawmakers: Over at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvds on Monday night, Sacha Baron Cohen walked away with the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical movie. It.
.. posted by at 10:15 PM on January 17, 2007 24's Jack Bauer can't stop the terrorists from blowing up Valencia - here's the video and info on how to simulate your own nuclear devastation On Monday, just before 10am, terrorists detonated a small nuclear bomb in the northern Los.
.. posted by at 2:02 AM on January 17, 2007 Ok, don't ask how our conversation progressed to this level, just enjoy it: [ed: ok, fine, here's the story].
.. posted by at 11:30 PM on January 16, 2007 In the winter of 2000 I was working teaching classical fine art to kids at a mall in Sherman "Boob Job" Oaks, home of Frankie B.
jeans (the first super low-rise ones, made by one of the mothers of...
posted by at 10:41 AM on January 15, 2007 If you don't play video games, I'm telling you right now to move on to the next post before you get totally bored. If you do play video games..
.OMFG Burning Crusade is almost here!!
!11!!
11!! To celebrate tomorrow's launch of Burning.
.. posted by at 5:36 PM on January 14, 2007 Here's the scene.
The boyfriend and I are settled into our seats. The popcorn is half gone. I'm sitting on the edge of my seat watching the new steamy 007 Bond boy attempt Parkour in the opening chase scene of.
.. posted by at 12:51 PM on January 14, 2007 Actual conversation I had recently with another LA blogger: me: it would be cool if there was a map that showed cool things to do within a block or two off each subway stop Blogger X: ummmm dude me: ?
...
posted by at 11:33 AM on January 11, 2007 Despite the glowing reception oft bestowed on it's other accoutrements, the Arclight's track record with online ticketing has always been less than stellar. Well, the shit must've really hit the fan over the last couple of weeks because Arclight CEO..
. posted by at 10:40 PM on January 08, 2007 Sound Artist and Noise Enabler Bob Bellerue at Dangerous Curve A release came across my desk today for a new event at Dangerous Curve, Downtown. They often have good, high-quality shows, but this one particularly knocked my socks off.
Bob...
posted by at 12:11 PM on January 05, 2007 Last night I wrote about Devin Faraci of CHUD.com getting ripped off by Variety. The article Dade Hayes plagiarized was called What if they Released A Movie And Nobody Came?
and was about a movie called Zyzzyx Road, starring Tom...
posted by at 10:39 PM on January 04, 2007 A few days ago, Devin Faraci of CHUD.com ran a story that I planned to run here (paraphrasing and giving credit, of course). I've had this godawful head cold and haven't gotten much of anything written up, and while I.
.. posted by at 2:03 AM on January 03, 2007 (For those who are still enjoying the bitchfest over where the "real" Eastside actually is, jump to the extended version of this entry for my super duper double-dog dare of gustatory smackdownianism.
) It's my understanding that bLA'ers are encouraged to...
posted by at 11:57 AM on December 29, 2006 Stormtroopers to lead George Lucas into battle at Monday's Rose Bowl Parade I used to think I was a diehard Star Wars fan - heck, I stood in line for hours to just buy tickets when Episode IV was re-released...
posted by at 3:50 PM on December 28, 2006 Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Elizabeth Short's gruesome, unsolved murder with The Lost Weekend of the Black Dahlia - actually a near weeklong series of events including a cabaret show at the 3 of Clubs, a premiere and screenings of...
posted by at 9:01 PM on December 26, 2006 I just noticed that Netflix has a Local Favorites feature - and in my case it shows the local favorites for Los Angeles, CA. As of today, the LA favorites include "Sorry, Haters", "Bubble", "Mi Vida Loca", "LA Story", "Wassup..
. posted by at 1:01 PM on December 25, 2006 It's a simple thing, really. To create a nuclear explosion you fire neutrons at closely packed atoms with heavy nuclei, such as uranium or plutonium isotopes.
When hit by a neutron these heavy nuclei then break apart into lighter nuclei,...
posted by at 11:27 PM on December 21, 2006 Have Friday off? Don't know what to do with yourself? Didja miss Santacon, or did you go, but you miss it already?
Lament not, ye intrepid urban adventurer! The creators of last year's utterly charming Bunny Hop (think a rabbit-y..
. posted by at 4:19 PM on December 21, 2006 How often do you run into a one armed comic with big goofy eyes drawn onto her nub? Never?
Well, you weren't in Rocket Video last night. The boyfriend and I were picking out something entertaining when along came Damienne..
.. posted by at 6:50 PM on December 14, 2006 A schlep Downtown to the former Little Pedros revealed two surprises: First Street Bridge is decorated for the holidays: [click to embiggen] And Little Pedro's, under the auspices of Dana Hollister (Brite Spot, Odalisque, etc.
), is now Bordello's--an aesthetic cross...
posted by at 2:54 PM on December 12, 2006 Technically, Markland beat me to my now-annual pimpage of Ken Roht's fabu "99 cent show" this year, but since the plug got buried in a laundry list of (albeit a good one) of holiday shows and since b.la reader Justin..
. posted by at 2:35 PM on December 12, 2006 If you're looking for a job in the music industry, the competition's going to be just a little more fierce in the wake of Live Nation's firing of 79 people from newly-acquired House of Blues last Friday. Throughout the first.
.. posted by at 3:13 PM on December 07, 2006 To do this weekend and beyond: Petra Haden (That Dog, Afoostic Fighters, solo), Lisa Papineau (Air, Big Sur, solo), and Francoise Blound Blound appear with Crooked Cowboy the Freshwater Indians Monday for free at Mr.
T's Bowl; Spindrift gets...
posted by at 3:39 PM on December 05, 2006 It's Crispin Glover's new movie and it's opening this weekend at American Cinematheque. The movie is described as "Being the adventures of a young man whose principle interests are snails, salt, a pipe, and how to get home. As tormented.
.. posted by at 10:26 PM on November 30, 2006 I just came across a link that was submitted to us several days ago via the Suggest A Story feature.
Hello. I know you've written about the Ambassador in the past and thought you should visit the 3D re-creation..
. posted by at 8:22 AM on November 30, 2006 Cory Doctorow is introducing Kirby Dick at USC tonight for a free screening of This Film is Not Yet Rated Sponsored by the USC Free Culture Club. Cory writes: "This Film.
.." was the best documentary I saw this year.
It...
posted by at 5:19 PM on November 29, 2006 Los Angeles, which contains the faux-city Hollywood, has been the center of the motion picture industry since 1910 when D.W. Griffith moved to a lot in Downtown.
Oddly enough, Hollywood currently films a huge number of productions in Downtown LA,...
posted by at 12:58 PM on November 29, 2006 So I've got a buncha new cool weird things I somehow have to do all in the next few days. If you wanna read more about it, there's discussions of walking cabbages, gonzo photographs, Hot for Chocolate, creepy country,..
. posted by at 4:39 PM on November 28, 2006 So tonight I'm heading over to The Echo to see The Minor Canon play at 9pm. There was a band in LA about five, six years ago called Athalia that put out one or two brilliant, heartbreakingly beautiful ep's.
.. posted by at 9:30 AM on November 27, 2006 [clickerooneyoh on the picture-wicture to embiggifyenate] Nothing's going to make you feel better about your performance at last year's company Christmas party than seeing Bob's Holiday Office Party this year.
LA's favorite Christmastime cult classic is back to add...
posted by at 9:43 AM on November 26, 2006 I think this was the week of incidents. And the discussion there of. Here's the most commented on posts from Turkey week.
L.A. Song, Revisited.
.. - Koga point's out Blender Magazine's list of the top 25 songs about LA.
...
posted by at 8:23 AM on November 22, 2006 Photo by Lasagna Boy of an ice cream shop at the Fairfax Farmers Market selling turkeys. Huh? What?
Has anyone here had an ice cream turkey? TJ Sullivan points out that only 1.8% of Los Angeles area homes "are affordable.
.. posted by at 10:39 PM on November 21, 2006 Ten years ago, back when the Simpsons were only in Season Seven, I went to my first Fringe Festival in British Columbia.
That year, the two plays that stood out the most in my memory were Three Dead Trolls in...
posted by at 2:37 PM on November 21, 2006 The Pernice Brothers' brilliantly morose pop gems, this month's Smart Gals Speakeasy gets all sutainable-like (arrive on two wheels for 2-for-1 admission!), ass-whooping chicks on wheels beat the crap out of each other at 15 mph, Trail of Dead's record..
. posted by at 2:00 PM on November 21, 2006 Just in the last year or so I've been catching up on some of the great movies of days past. Recently I watched Robert Altman's "The Player," which I realized I had seen before, at least partially on cable in.
.. posted by at 10:53 PM on November 20, 2006 Meet actor/director David Arquette and the cast of The Tripper along with Miss Horrorfest tomorrow night See what happens when we pump someone up here at the Metroblogging Network?
They earn international fame and $20,000! Now, Jessica Chisum, aka Black..
. posted by at 1:08 AM on November 18, 2006 Lots has been said here about how great the Arclight Movie Theater in Hollywood is. I think it's safe to say we all love and gush over it.
.. yes, you pay more, but the convenience and ease of the whole.
.. posted by at 11:30 AM on November 16, 2006 I'm not sure when the Miss Horrorfest winner will be announced (it was postponed from Halloween, to tonite on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but now that appears to be up in the air), but I'm still banking my blood money on.
.. posted by at 1:24 PM on November 14, 2006 Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii launch updates Game Daily is listing their "Top 10 Tips for Scoring a Playstation 3", and I think their best advice is to move to Wyoming, where there's a smaller population, the lines will be.
.. posted by at 6:52 PM on November 12, 2006 10 day special engagement tickets for "Dreamgirls" listed for $25 From Jeffrey Wells: For the first ten days of the run of Dreamgirls (i.
e., Friday, 12.15 to Sunday, 12.
24), which is strictly a New York, L.A. and San Fran thing,.
.. posted by at 1:35 AM on November 10, 2006 After seeing the Borat movie, I would guess that most of the $17 million budget for this nearly dogma-style film must have gone into legal insurance.
If that was the case, this may have been money well spent, as star...
posted by at 2:26 PM on November 08, 2006 Info on where you can (and can't) buy a PS3 or Wii in Los Angeles UPDATE (4:00pm): The Burbank Best Buy already has a line for the 11/17 PS3 launch...
details after the jump. I went to the West Hollywood..
. posted by at 11:57 AM on November 08, 2006 If you were a child in the 80's and you tell me that you don't have fond memories of either Atari or Chuck E. Cheese, I'll have to call you a liar, punch you in the liver and challenge you.
.. posted by at 6:48 AM on November 08, 2006 Loyal readers will know that I go out of my way to avoid any theater that isn't The Arclight, mostly because they all suck in comparison.
Every once and a while the movie industry spits on me by making...
posted by at 10:02 AM on November 05, 2006 How are you gentleman? Yet another week of talking smack in the comments. Who said what?
Half of L.A.'s businesses breakin' the law!
- Do you know what the law regarding credit card usage is? David Markland points out..
. posted by at 10:16 AM on November 03, 2006 Theatrical genius Ken Roht's annual fundraisers for the 99-cent show, while not as elaborately produced as the shows themselves, are almost as legendary. While my favorite fundie-wonders thus far have been his low-key, "unplugged" retoolings of famous albums (like last.
.. posted by at 2:11 AM on November 03, 2006 Ok, so it looks like the Borat Movie is playing in a bunch of locations in LA proper.
I suppose I will be seeing the movie at the grove. I still am bummed that it won't be playing at the..
. posted by at 1:22 PM on November 01, 2006 It's Caryn's lucky day! Next Tuesday, to be precise.
She already mentioned this, and now the time has come: Beverly Hills 90210 hits stores in just six days. Buy it at Amazon or your favorite local video store. Preferably the.
.. posted by at 9:08 PM on October 30, 2006 So I am somewhat saddened by the fact that the Borat movie won't be showing at my favorite theater, the Arclight, boo!
I am further saddened by the possibility that I may have to drive to Santa Monica or Paramount...
posted by at 1:44 PM on October 30, 2006 In the time that it took me to open up a new window to post about this eBay auction, it was taken offline. But lucky for you, I captured it in a pdf. (Download file.
) (Thanks to Michael for the...
posted by at 11:11 AM on October 29, 2006 Oh yes, this is exactly what you think it is. An adult parody of The Exorcist and it's making it's theatrical debut right here in LA. According to the website for the file (which is SUPER NSFW so don't.
.. posted by at 2:09 PM on October 27, 2006 Before last week, I had never been to the Griffith Observatory.
My mother grew up in Los Angeles, Boyle Heights to be specific, and she went to the Observatory on numerous occasions, but as I grew up in Northern California...
posted by at 4:46 PM on October 26, 2006 My wife Susan and I are HGTV junkies so of course she had it tuned in last night while I was out riding bikes (and generally commisserating with Eric of Blogdowntown who gave up trying to keep his front tire...
posted by at 3:10 PM on October 26, 2006 The only thing I love more than the Arclight is a good story about the Arclight, and Kathy's post about going to see The Prestige is right up there with the best of them. Chad and I got up from..
. posted by at 10:42 AM on October 26, 2006 I must admit, I'm not a big Halloween person. I don't plan events, don't get a costume together weeks beforehand and since I live in a tucked away place, never get trick or treaters.
But inevitably the day of...
posted by at 12:34 PM on October 25, 2006 Ever since Howard Stern left "Free FM" (née KLSX) for the FCC-free "airwaves" of Sirius radio, I've felt like L.A. radio was the poorer for it.
However, I didn't want to be the poorer for listening to him post-move, so...
posted by at 2:13 PM on October 19, 2006 Looking for something to do tonight? Magician Misty Lee is mixing it up tonight at WOMEN'S NIGHT OUT the M Bar. If you might like to see two lovely ladies tie up a third and then brutally savage her.
.. posted by at 10:49 AM on October 19, 2006 If you want to see some funny on Saturday (before you head up to South Pasadena to crap your pants watching the midnight showing of Poltergeist, that is), I'm going to be in a show at the ACME Comedy Theater.
.. posted by at 10:33 AM on October 19, 2006 Although I'm not interested in being on TV, if you have such desire, the opportunity is here and the time is now.
yourLA is looking for original video content for their daily segment on life in LA. Submit your video..
. posted by at 4:05 PM on October 18, 2006 When I was a kid, I lived in a tract home, with an under construction pool, a tree outside my bedroom window, recovering hippie parents, and a younger sister who had a big clown at the foot of her bed..
.. posted by at 11:59 AM on October 18, 2006 [don't you know to click the pic by now?
] Finally a happy hour I can get behind! It's a spa! No, it's a party!
It's a party at a spa? Yup, this Friday, dtox Day Spa is having another..
. posted by at 6:30 PM on October 13, 2006 Clearly, District 4 Councilman Tom LaBonge wasn't out to make friends this week. His weekly newsletter reports the expansion of red light cameras into CD4 at Western Avenue and Beverly Boulevard (if you're ever snagged by one of these bad.
.. posted by at 10:30 PM on October 12, 2006 It's not every day that you can walk a few blocks from your loft, meander through Downtown Los Angeles and end up at a concert with several thousand people and a few bands that you actually care about.
Last weekend,...
posted by at 2:54 PM on October 10, 2006 Saturday afternoon I had gathered my posse of zombies to practice for the evening event. No, it wasn't for the Zombie walk, which I was bummed to miss; it was for my first performance on stage in about 20 years..
.. posted by at 9:53 PM on October 09, 2006 Caryn and I simply had to go see The Departed today but were crushed to find that it wasn't playing at the greatest theater in all of creation.
Why it wasn't at Arclight I don't know, and also don't...
posted by at 10:50 AM on October 09, 2006 If I see a lot more theater than I end up recommending, that probably goes triple for musicals, which are notoriously tricky things to pull off. That's why I'm so thrilled to be able to jump and down out loud..
. posted by at 10:14 AM on October 08, 2006 Here we go again - this weeks most active comment threads: No Free Rocket Rides at The New Griffith Observatory - The Observatory is reopening and there are some questionable fees involved with it. The comments are full of.
.. posted by at 9:08 AM on October 08, 2006 There has really been no shortage of posts here proclaiming our love for Arclight Cinemas but it's not just because of the fantastic movie watching experience they provide, but also how crappy every other theater is.
LA Frog has...
posted by at 10:18 AM on October 05, 2006 After being closed for three months, the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax is back open with new owners, and in time to present a Halloween lineup of films. Titles include the 1920 version of Dr. Jekyll Mr.
Hyde (with...
posted by at 9:26 AM on October 04, 2006 When I was a little girl, one of my favorite class trips was to the planetarium. I loved laying back and looking at the stars and planets and imagining all the possibilities for other life out there. My dad worked.
.. posted by at 4:21 PM on October 02, 2006 It is expected that within the next few days President Bush will sign into law a sweeping bill that would outlaw online gambling, from sports betting to poker.
(Thanks to the war on terror, this was snuck into a larger...
posted by at 2:51 PM on September 29, 2006 It's a bit late in the week to be dropping this on folks but late is better than never, right? TONIGHT, in Atwater Village is the first Atwater Movie Night in the Red Car River Park. You can roll into.
.. posted by at 11:33 AM on September 26, 2006 I want to like Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, really I do.
I came away from last week's debut with some of my skepticism dispelled and actually feeling pretty good about the show's prospects. I was especially drawn to..
. posted by at 3:11 PM on September 25, 2006 She asked me to go to Inland Invasion with her to see Guns N' Roses. I demurred.
"Do you really want to stand in a field all day listening to bands you don't really like, just to see GnR,...
posted by at 8:00 PM on September 24, 2006 My friend MCME got this great footage of the Furby truck exploding in Downtown LA on the Transformers set today. You can see Furbys flying everywhere! Eric Richardson took some photos from his place as well.
Due to a run-in...
posted by at 9:09 AM on September 19, 2006 There has been plenty of discussion here about filming in residential areas and the impact that has on the people who actually live there - some of who are not actually in the entertainment business! In most cases the..
. posted by at 3:32 PM on September 18, 2006 I took a walk to a hardware store in Koreatown last week and saw this: Has anyone visited the Loud Karaoke Music Zone? Can you get in without a tie on your head?
How is this place clearly so awesome...
posted by at 12:39 AM on September 16, 2006 It's just past midnight and I just got home from the final performance in our Hollywood Bowl season subscription. For me, it marks an end of a really hard summer; we had just gone to the Opening Night Gala at..
. posted by at 3:17 PM on September 13, 2006 Patt Morrison just interviewed "The Black Dahlia" novelist James Ellroy and Dahlia expert Larry Harnisch on 89.3 KPCC, and will be available for streaming rebroadcast online shortly.
According to Larry's blog, it looks like a rift between him and Ellroy...
posted by at 12:10 AM on September 13, 2006 It isn't a vacation or even premiere passes, but if you're interested in winning a prize pack of Black Dahlia movie goodies check out this post here. Entry deadline is today at noon..
. but with less than ten entries..
. posted by at 4:25 PM on September 11, 2006 Earlier today Dave posted about a Banksy piece at Disney. Apparently he installed a Guantanamo bay inmate inside the Thunder Mountain Railroad ride.
The folks at Wooster Collective have gotten ahold of photos of the installation including the one...
posted by at 5:30 PM on September 10, 2006 This week Metroblogging Los Angeles will look at other infamous Los Angeles murders that deserve the silver screen treatment. With last Friday's opening of Hollywoodland, about the mystery surrounding the death of George Reeves, and this Friday's release of The..
. posted by at 12:05 AM on September 10, 2006 Manhattan Beach outlaws most skateboarding - "luge" and "destructive" skateboarding are now misdemeanors. Violators could be sentenced to "up to a year in jail and as much as a $2,000 fine".
"Destructive skateboarding" is defined as jumping "on or...
posted by at 11:02 AM on September 08, 2006 Burning up the tubes this week is seeming bust* of lonelygirl15 - apparently, she's based out CAA. Consternation! Scorn!
This recalls the kerfluffle a few years back about Isabella at She's A Flight Risk, an onliine blog about a...
posted by at 3:08 PM on September 07, 2006 Last night was the Suicide Girls 5th Anniversary Party at Dragonfly on Santa Monica. Caryn and I went and met up with Xeni and danah who had already secured a spot at the bar by the time we arrived..
.. posted by at 11:51 AM on September 07, 2006 Looking for a good time this weekend?
Perhaps you'd be interested in Carnival Hoedown 3 this Saturday under the 1st St. bridge? I've written about Party Scammers parties before and with no exception have had a great time at events.
.. posted by at 4:52 PM on September 06, 2006 "Homeless men bathing in the bathroom.
Librarians threatened. Flashers at story time." See what you're missing by not going to a local library?
The Daily News writes about transients abusing their library privileges. Joel at LA's Homeless Blog asks,..
. posted by at 4:14 PM on September 06, 2006 According to Ain't It Cool, The Black Pearl herself, dread scourge of the seas and star of Disney's blockbuster soon-to-be-trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean, has been mooring in Redondo Beach. Or possibly San Pedro.
I'm not very familiar with either...
posted by at 8:36 AM on September 05, 2006 A few updates on the undeclared marketing battle between Hollywoodland and The Black Dahlia...
The LA Times online, as you can see from my page grab, is happy to provide ad space for both "based on a true crime" murder...
posted by at 1:51 PM on September 04, 2006 Happy Birthday to my city of Angels! Sometimes, you smell like a monkey, but I love you anyway. And without Los Angeles, how could there be a blogging.
la? Sorry about choosing sleep instead of that nine mile walk I'd promised..
. posted by at 1:25 PM on September 03, 2006 On the June 12th episode of The Howard Stern Show, while Christa Miller was on the phone on Mandy Moore's behalf to address Moore's relationship with Wilmer Valderrama, Artie Lange (previously mentioned here and here) talked about his intervention..
. posted by at 8:23 PM on September 02, 2006 Two weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with newly-transplanted L.A.
resident Trent Vanegas (MySpace), who runs the celebrity gossip-oriented Pink is the New Blog (previously mentioned here, here, here, and here), at The Echo. For some reason,..
. posted by at 3:54 PM on September 01, 2006 If you haven't gotten hip to Karie Bible's Film Radar, you probably don't want to know what great movies and film events you've been missing. Film Radar can be best summed as whats fallen off the radar of Moviefone and.
.. posted by at 3:21 PM on September 01, 2006 This satirical video (Digg) about Universal Studios Hollywood and the Universal corporate umbrella, while a bit on the lengthy side, is a great way to kick off that Labor Day Weekend: When Edgar Bronfman Jr gained ownership of Universal.
.. posted by at 2:48 PM on September 01, 2006 It's mid afternoon Friday, and chances are at this point you are sick of the crap you've been dealing with all week and are wishing you had different crap to deal with.
You might even be ready to quit and...
posted by at 12:28 PM on September 01, 2006 A 18 year-old L.A.-based pornstar named Sasha Grey needs your help: When Im not fucking my young brains out on camera and in my personal life I like to hunt down hard to find, out of print or foreign.
.. posted by at 12:16 PM on September 01, 2006 My dad likes to make the old joke, "That movie was so bad, it wasn't released, it escaped.
" Value judge-ments aside (pun intended - I am my father's son after all), Mike Judge's long-delayed "Idiocracy" is in limited release...
posted by at 11:56 AM on September 01, 2006 Cory Doctorow is running a public speaker series on copyright, culture and technology in conjunction with his Fulbright Chair at USC's Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy, and next Tuesday EFF's Jason Schultz will be first speaker. Cory points out that..
. posted by at 11:04 PM on August 31, 2006 News cameraman BeFrank makes no apologies in covering a fluff piece for the day (instead of his usual beat of cop shootings, drive bys, and other violent acts), and gets some great snaps (like the one at right) from..
. posted by at 1:09 PM on August 31, 2006 Photographer Paul Redmond's picture of the week (which gets emailed to me weekly, naturally) is from the Cramps' performance this weekend at Sunset Junction..
.. posted by at 4:26 PM on August 30, 2006 I don't have cable or get any television stations so I'm a little behind on the 411 when new shows come out.
However, by accidental internet wandering I discovered that spy daddy from my fave show Alias (Jack Bristow)...
posted by at 4:35 PM on August 29, 2006 Will wasn't the only b.laer at the Silverlake Streetfair this weekend. Somehow I allowed myself to be dragged there.
We arrived just before sunset on Saturday. Ticket prices had just gone up and I was cranky. Luckily my friend.
.. posted by at 9:27 AM on August 29, 2006 • Today is the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Councilman John (at Mayor Sam) points out that NWNC President Jim Alger is being recognized in Biloxi today for using his own airplane and coordinating relief and rescue efforts that...
posted by at 11:32 PM on August 28, 2006 This weekend, on my first ever paid photo shoot, I saw a sign warning drivers of "controlled" explosions and gunfire, which drew my attention to 8th and Broadway where a massive crew was filming on the set of the upcoming...
posted by at 6:22 PM on August 28, 2006 After my first trip to Universal Studios Hollywood for my birthday a couple of years ago, I walked away quite, um, underwhelmed. My personal feeling is that the place doesn't have the imagination like Disney Land or the fun..
. posted by at 2:20 PM on August 28, 2006 There's been an incredible story unfolding in the news for the past few months. It's about two elderly women, Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt.
They were first investigated for insurance fraud because they were insuring indigent men for millions of...
posted by at 6:09 AM on August 28, 2006 • After you're done with your morning crossword, try deciphering this sign. Photo by Sherrie Gulmahamad is aptly titled "You figure it out" (crossposted on the Metroblogging LA Flickr feed) • Forbes.com unveiled its list of the drunkest US cities.
.. posted by at 12:32 PM on August 26, 2006 News flash, news flash - free parking still available.
Get it while it's hot (but don't be a douche on my street, please)...
...
posted by at 12:24 PM on August 26, 2006 As you can tell from the picture above, taken from my porch, that the wavy-air-things signify fun and the Sunset Junction has begun! The bands have just started and things are starting to pick up. I can hear noise.
.. posted by at 12:15 PM on August 24, 2006 • LA Taco takes issue with an unwritten Riverside ordinance against $1 tacos they read about in the Press Enterprise, where writer Dan Bernstein describes being denied one taco a la carte: "The best she could offer was three tacos.
.. posted by at 3:28 PM on August 23, 2006 Hep Team LA will be giving free vaccinations against hepatitis A and hepatitis B at this weekend's Sunset Junction Street Fair.
While they're targeting gay men, who are most at risk for the viruses, straight men are also encouraged to...
posted by at 12:05 AM on August 23, 2006 I just went to the Vista for the second time to see Snakes on a (mother effing) Plane. Sure, it's no Arclight but being greeted at the door by a man with a big, fat rubber snake around his neck..
. posted by at 7:06 PM on August 21, 2006 deresolution: an urban parable: chapter 4: english by Chad Moore and his Los Angeles-based online novel is now, well, online..
. Quentin relates his story with the usual panache between frequent sips of his vodka gimlet. "So, I'm the last bloke.
.. posted by at 8:20 AM on August 21, 2006 For the grownup set only.
...
WHO: Sexy Vivid-Alt stars Charlotte Stokely, Kimberly Kane and Gia Jordan will host a celebration of "Skater Girl Fever," the hot new movie from Eon McKai's Vivid-Alt, written and directed by the ever entertaining...
posted by at 8:16 PM on August 19, 2006 As I'm working my way through this week's TV I missed on the DVR, I came across The Colbert Report's profile in Better Know a District of California's Fightin' 31st! That's right, our very on Xavier Becerra finally made it..
. posted by at 8:22 AM on August 18, 2006 Earlier this week, Joystiq reported about an L.A.
-themed computer/videogame (following in the footsteps of other L.A.-themed games such as Burnout 2: Point of Impact, Midnight Club II, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and True Crime: Street of L.
A.) called..
. posted by at 3:42 PM on August 16, 2006 I'm disappointed to have heard the news that well-known character actor Bruno Kirby passed away yesterday. He was only 57, and apparently had been battling leukemia.
He was one of my favorites, and was great in an episode of Entourage...
posted by at 1:46 PM on August 15, 2006 Jeffrey "the Dude" Lebowski was voted the number 2 best fictional character based in Los Angeles by blogging.la this month so it's no secret we love the Dude. And since my tickets are safely procured I can release the.
.. posted by at 10:25 AM on August 10, 2006 Name: Jules Winnfield Residence: "our man from Inglewood" Area code: 310, Baby!
We got no friends in the 818 Former Occupation: Hit man in the service of Marsellus Wallace Current Occupation: Walking the earth like that Kung Fu guy...
posted by at 7:35 AM on August 09, 2006 Everyone knows that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is based loosely on Los Angeles, which is why there are matching landmarks and things that make you feel right at home while playing the game. The folks at LA based..
. posted by at 3:10 PM on August 08, 2006 More teases for two films that "fans" of true Hollywood crimes are looking forward to: Aint It Cool News debuted three one sheets for "Hollywoodland", about the investigation into George Reeves alleged suicide. Each poster features a different principal character.
.. posted by at 12:04 PM on August 08, 2006 As David suggested (and thanks to everyone else who chimed in) here's the tiny response card that I'm sending in to the EIDC from the filming of a Mass Mutual commercial on my street on Sunday.
The card was left...
posted by at 11:34 AM on August 07, 2006 In an L.A. Times article this weekend, reporter Claire Hoffman gets a rather unpleasant look into the life of "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis: He has turned on me, and I don't know why.
He's going on and on...
posted by at 11:20 AM on August 07, 2006 There was a lot of talk when Chicago came out in 2002 that it was the remake of an older silent film which itself was a remake of a Broadway musical circa 1926. I'd heard that the silent film..
. posted by at 10:18 AM on August 07, 2006 When it comes to furniture design it's "chair freak, c'est chic" and the Eames are the tops..
. Design Within Reach along with the Eames Foundation and Herman Miller for the Home® are presenting the Eames Film Festival by screening..
. posted by at 12:32 PM on August 02, 2006 I mentioned Chad Moore's Los Angeles novel deresolution: an urban parable on blogging.la in mid-July.
I hope you had a chance to read up because he's just published the third/next chapter called "jazz" on his blog. Renzo has half..
. posted by at 9:22 AM on August 01, 2006 I'm serious, this is a major concern. Of all the truths we know to be self evident, that all men are created equal except rockstars who are way better than everyone else is top of the list.
I mean, one...
posted by at 11:03 AM on July 31, 2006 I love the Arclight (oh boy do I ever) but their website, not so much. It's been discussed here on blogging.la that their site has some unnecessary difficulties more than should be allowed.
Last night went online to see...
posted by at 12:12 AM on July 29, 2006 The trailer for "The Black Dahlia", the film adaptation of James Ellroy's novel, is now available online...
and putting my interest in the real life case of Elizabeth Short's murder aside, it looks like a creepy, fascinating film noir...
. posted by at 8:52 AM on July 27, 2006 A couple bits of LAcentric movie news: Zach Braff will be the younger incarnation of Chevy Chase in "Fletch Won", a prequel about the Los Angeles based investigative reporter. As a fan of both the two original Fletch films and.
.. posted by at 8:27 AM on July 27, 2006 While at the Arclight last Friday for the screening of Clerks II (fantastic) and the Kevin Smith Q-and-A (see Sean's post) I saw the trailer for Quinceañera.
Apparently, even though a true movie fan, I hadn't heard about this...
posted by at 4:07 PM on July 26, 2006 I wrote the other day about how loco local writer Nikki Finke was trashing Clerks 2 and not like you'd expect, saying it was full of dick jokes and junk, but saying it was a box office failure. I pointed..
. posted by at 11:29 AM on July 26, 2006 The MicroSoft Network (MSN) has been producing little travel guides for a while now, and their newest on about LA is the Top 15 Places to Spot Celebs in L.A.
. It's nothing new location wise, Runyon Canyon, The Newsroom Cafe,..
. posted by at 9:26 AM on July 26, 2006 Virginia transplant, one time Womp Skater, and blogger Jessica Stover is, like most people who've moved to Los Angeles, here to make movies. Unlike many of us, she has yet to give in to the studio system, and has looked.
.. posted by at 2:07 PM on July 24, 2006 It's a perilous movie full of peril but hardly anything is as good as watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I must admit, I was a late-bloomer to the Holy Grail having seen it for the first time...
posted by at 11:52 AM on July 24, 2006 Earlier this month, I had mentioned (potentially NSFW) the return of Dessarae Bradford (MySpace Music) to Erotica LA: [Bradford was] a woman Xeni Jardin discovered at Erotica LA two years ago (here, here, here, and here). Bradford was still..
. posted by at 10:22 AM on July 24, 2006 I went to see Clerks II on opening night and blogged about how packed the theater was. In fact, all the shows that day were sold out, which isn't that surprising since I can count on one hand the number.
.. posted by at 6:25 AM on July 24, 2006 My dreams have come true - the first season of Beverly Hills 90210 is being released (finally) onto DVD by Paramount this November 17th according to TVshowsonDVD.
com! You can even put your name on the contact list on Amazon..
. posted by at 9:40 PM on July 21, 2006 This is the coolest billboard I've ever seen. Does anyone know the story behind it?
I wanna know who Emily is and what she looks like and I wanna know who Stephen is and what he looks like! I need..
. posted by at 9:39 PM on July 21, 2006 A few weeks ago Jason sent me a note that there were some additional showings of Clerks 2 at Arclight and that Kevin Smith was doing a Q A afterwards. Being a huge fan of his movies we picked up.
.. posted by at 9:27 AM on July 20, 2006 As luck would have it, last night we stumbled into The Little Cave.
It's great! Plenty of bats and black glittery ceilings, comfy seating and a swell bartender. The masterminds behind the place have gone to great lengths to.
.. posted by at 12:17 AM on July 20, 2006 There's a couple of unusual movie showings in the next two days that I thought I'd share with you all.
First of all, there is a screening of Labyrinth tomorrow at the Goldwyn theater in Beverly Hills. Official event info..
. posted by at 11:11 AM on July 13, 2006 Hollywood screenwriters..
.undervalued..
.ignored..
.no respect..
.Wallace Beery wrestling picture..
.blah blah blah. The Artful Writer's Craig Mazin is fed up with all you Finks out there and poses the question: Somewhere during the recent battles here on Artful Writer, it occurred to me.
.. posted by at 4:01 PM on July 12, 2006 Holy crap.
I don't have much info on this yet but it looks like McSweeney's or some such subsidiary is going to be putting on six concerts to raise money for children's literacy programs in 826 Writing Centers. Stereogum has..
. posted by at 6:14 PM on July 10, 2006 I was back in the arcade at Little Tokyo Shopping Center last weekend and spotted this awesome title: Gal's Panic 3. Sadly, the game is way more lame the title would suggest.
Similar to some of the English-language bar top...
posted by at 12:00 AM on July 10, 2006 Just what Los Angeles needs, another gossip blog...
kidding. Pink is the New Blog is actually already a veteran on the gossip blog scene and one of my daily stops on the internet. PNTB blogger Trent rolled into his new home.
.. posted by at 5:38 PM on July 08, 2006 Fans of local crime stories have two movies to look forward to later this summer, both claiming to be "Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
" Hollywoodland stars Ben Affleck as George Reeves, the original TV Superman who was found dead of...
posted by at 1:37 AM on July 08, 2006 So I've been on an 80's movie kick for the last few months and I've watched a good many classics. Tonight I just finished one really bad one, that I really loved as a kid, The Neverending Story. I really.
.. posted by at 2:55 PM on July 06, 2006 I have a thing for John Cleese; especially a young John Cleese (see above picture from 1969 - Reow).
I mean, how can you not love a guy who silly walks, was in Holy Grail, got better after being...
posted by at 9:20 AM on July 05, 2006 A few months back I posted about Hollywood MobMov, basically some dudes with a movie projector in their car that would take over a parking lot and show a movie drive-in style on the side of a building. I signed..
. posted by at 11:18 AM on June 30, 2006 Like so many other people in LA, I went to go see Superman Returns this week. That, in and of itself has nothing to do with LA, BUT did anyone else who saw the film notice that Jason White (played.
.. posted by at 1:32 PM on June 28, 2006 Thursday, Central Casting is holding an open casting call for the next year's potentially disastrous Michael Bay production of Transformers.
Unfortunately, they're only looking for 16-17 year-olds and 18-23 year-olds that look like high school students. That's too bad for..
. posted by at 7:30 AM on June 27, 2006 "With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant..
. posted by at 12:04 PM on June 26, 2006 I am now reporter of all things Pirates of the Caribbean! If you didn't attend the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at Disneyland last Saturday and you didn't watch the live web-cam, boy do I.
.. posted by at 9:29 AM on June 24, 2006 If I were gay (not that there's anything wrong with that), I think I'd want to sleep with Mr.
Moviefone. Not because of his sexy voice that confidently gives out instructions, or because he's a gazillionaire, but because I know..
. posted by at 3:28 PM on June 22, 2006 The LA Times' Calendarlive.com points out the kids at Party Scammers today and wants to make sure you know about: PARTY SCAMMERS GARAGE COMEDY PRESENT: YOUR 8 YEAR OLD BIRTHDAY PARTY Monday June 26, 2006, 9pm @ El Cid - Free!
...
posted by at 3:33 PM on June 21, 2006 While I have zero interest in turing Metblogs into one of the those kind of blogs (you know, gossip site) because fellas like Defamer and Perez Hilton do is so fabulously anyway, this news is too fantastic not to...
posted by at 7:36 AM on June 21, 2006 You want to be successful, right? Who in LA doesn't? Well, in case you aren't successful yet YD Industries is offering just the thing for you this Saturday - it's SUCCESS - The YD Way in L.
A.! That's right,.
.. posted by at 2:56 PM on June 20, 2006 I love my movies and so does the rest of Los Angeles!
The LA Film Festival begins in just two days - opening June 22 and running through July 2. The best part about the festival is the "Dark..
. posted by at 4:01 PM on June 19, 2006 Just wanted to offer a quick congrats to several L.A.
residents for being mentioned in Entertainment Weekly's list of Favorite Online Entertainment Sites for 2006 (June 23rd issue, pages 38-40): Mark Lisanti @ Defamer. Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks..
. posted by at 8:57 AM on June 19, 2006 I keep meaning to drop by the monthly screenings that RES Magazine puts on at the Egyptian Theatre. I don't actually know that much about RES Magazine other than that every time I take a look at it it is.
.. posted by at 7:03 AM on June 19, 2006 We pillage, we plunder, we riffle, we loot - drink up we've changed the ride!
Blogging.la has discussed the re-vamping of our generation's favorite Disneyland ride Pirates of the Caribbean in order to update it to be more in..
. posted by at 12:02 AM on June 18, 2006 I just finished watching Mi Vida Loca and like usual I decided to do a little post movie trivia research. I found this interesting article about the idiosyncrasies of Echo Park and Chicano gang life that the movie failed to.
.. posted by at 2:06 PM on June 17, 2006 I am a late convert to the Joss side of the Force - I started with Firefly, worked back through seven seasons of Buffy, and recently caught season 5 of Angel (i.
e. "the good season"). (aside - for comedic.
.. posted by at 2:50 PM on June 16, 2006 Of course, it goes without saying that everyone is coming to Subject Line Here tonight.
But what about tomorrow? Where can you sit in fine, fine air-conditioned comfort and laugh your ass off tomorrow? Ladies and gentlemen of Los.
.. posted by at 12:38 PM on June 16, 2006 When I realized that my ever-so-busy schedule would prevent me from seeing Sunset Boulevard at the Arclight on June 21st, I decided that at the very least I should rent it from my favorite video store (which has everything).
.. posted by at 9:32 AM on June 16, 2006 Last week David posted about Shane Nickerson's Subject Line Here, a show that consists of eight bloggers (including Shane, Colleen Wainwright, and Wil Wheaton from b.
la as well as Annie Sertich, Carly Milne, Paul Davidson, AJ Gentile, and J-Sto) reading...
posted by at 5:45 PM on June 13, 2006 I've never attended an event or screening at the Silent Movie Theatre other than my own wedding. It was an..
.interesting experience. It was also the most gorgeous wedding ever.
That theatre is really something. Anyway, I was surprised earlier to..
. posted by at 11:21 AM on June 11, 2006 Ensconsed within the verdant Topanga Canyon hillside ampitheater of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum at the beginning of last night's opening performance of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," I realized I can't let another six years go between visits to this..
. posted by at 11:18 PM on June 10, 2006 I guess local blogger Dave Navarro is some kind of musician or something because he's got a band and they are shooting a video. And they want you in it!
Well, that is if you have dark clothing that...
posted by at 5:04 PM on June 09, 2006 I've been a happy Netflix for years now, I think I've had an account with them almost as long as they've been in existence, and until recently I've never had much of a problem with their service. Since I moved..
. posted by at 8:00 AM on June 09, 2006 One of my artists, Coop, who shares my love of horror films, sent me a link to the 1994 "Cult Memories" essay written by the estimable Barbara Steele that is newly online. Mainly about her experience on the Italian.
.. posted by at 3:56 PM on June 06, 2006 If you prefer a shot of whiskey, two bit whores, six shooters and unruly facial hair over emo haircuts, you'll be happy to know HBO has reached a compromise with David Milch.
Instead of evicting the residents of Deadwood after...
posted by at 5:58 PM on May 30, 2006 Full disclosure: I'm a former member of the company that's currently running The Cherry Orchard, and did the flyer design, too. Further disclosure: I go to most productions of Chekhov light on hope and heavy of heart: he's really, really..
. posted by at 12:19 PM on May 29, 2006 I have to admit that I find Steven Seagal fascinating. Even more so now that he has fashioned himself into a blues musician.
And is now on tour. And this Wednesday he will be performing at the El Rey Theater..
.. posted by at 12:26 PM on May 26, 2006 Metroblogging Mos Eisley eat your heart out!
The Los Angeles Convention Center will host Star Wars Celebration IV from May 24th to May 28th, 2007, corresponding with the 30th Anniversary of the original release of Star Wars. Short of a..
. posted by at 4:51 PM on May 25, 2006 Spotted at the theater on Robertson just south of Beverly. Release date 8/18/06.
You'll want to request that day off from work ASAP...
. posted by at 1:45 PM on May 25, 2006 Another one of those fantastic LA moments, I can't promise this is 100% accurate but it's what I remember: Girl: So what time are you heading over there? Guy: Maybe an hour or so, there's a porn shoot in.
.. posted by at 10:43 AM on May 25, 2006 The BF and I went to the 8:25 show of An Inconvenient Truth at the ArcLight last night.
(No, we didn't take public transportation; yes, we carpooled.) I'm pleased to report that (a), the theater was close to full;..
. posted by at 10:20 AM on May 25, 2006 Jillian invited all y'all to the b.la Goth meet-up on Saturday at Bar Sinister.
I met up with Kevin and Annie before running into Jillian. Was anyone else there that I missed? Now, there was a lot of discussion on.
.. posted by at 11:15 AM on May 22, 2006 Zuma Dogg made it in the LA Time's with an article titled "Zuma Dogg Wags Tale in Council's Face" ya'll!
Click here if you don't know who Zuma Dogg is. Oh and homeboy has a myspace page too!.
.. posted by at 11:13 AM on May 22, 2006 For as flipped out as my new consciousness about impending global doom has me, there are some bright spots.
One of them is the re-jiggered Al Gore, whose modest, longterm, road show on global warming/impending doom has been transformed into...
posted by at 2:55 PM on May 20, 2006 A new f'n blogging.la advertiser, Save Deadwood! is arranging a posse to rescue the TV show from impending gallows.
HBO has so far failed to exercise its options on the cast's contracts for a fourth season of "Deadwood". The drop..
. posted by at 11:15 AM on May 18, 2006 So fellow Blogging.la contributor Hexodus has a white pitbull named Banana who wins the Bitchin' Dog Of The Week Award.
Just check this video he captured of her at play in Elysian Park to see what I mean and to...
posted by at 9:01 AM on May 15, 2006 Over the weekend I unexpectedly dropped by LACMA, saw some sweet art (including one of my favorite paintings) and wandered the grounds a bit. The coolest part was seeing tar randomly bubbling out of the ground in random spots around..
. posted by at 10:31 PM on May 11, 2006 After two days at e3 I've seen just as much of the World of Warcraft booth the video game world that I can stomach. While this year seemed a little less poundy-music and flashing-lights than previous years it was.
.. posted by at 9:28 PM on May 11, 2006 LA's best (and possibly only) self proclaimed "Gay Edge" hardcore band, Gayrilla Biscuits, have released another solid sounding limited 7 inch.
You can pick this beast up at Amoeba in Hollywood, Amoeba in San Francisco or Vinyl Solution in...
posted by at 12:29 AM on May 11, 2006 I met up with Bill, Wil, Courtney, 5000! and Xeni today at e3, here's a few mostly game related photos that I snapped. Will be roming around tomorrow as well.
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.. posted by at 2:35 PM on May 09, 2006 Party Scammers is at it again.
This time at the Little Temple tonight, Tuesday May 9th with CLASH OF THE TETRIS RETURNS! For those unfamiliar with the craziness that is Party Scammers events, this one is all about Tetris. Head.
.. posted by at 1:26 PM on May 09, 2006 It took a year of nagging, but last Sunday my girlfriend finally convinced me to go ride a paddle boat around Echo Park Lake.
I've been resisting because, to be honest, I think Echo Park is pretty gross. I'm probably..
. posted by at 9:39 PM on May 07, 2006 JAmussen at LA Voice is asking if there are any iconic childrens books that take place in Los Angeles, such as "Make Way for Ducklings" featuring Boston. New York has The Cricket in Times Square and Eloise (for starters); Paris.
.. posted by at 1:31 AM on May 06, 2006 Like most people, clowns kind of creep me out.
And for some reason, so do the billboards and ads for "The Room" I've seen around Los Angeles for a couple of years now. I'm not sure if its the lazy..
. posted by at 5:55 PM on May 04, 2006 That's a babelfish translation since my lovely, Spanish-speaking domestic partner is elsewhere, but what it's supposed to say is "Conga Room is Closing." After eight years of serving up spicy Latin and world music, the Wilshire hotspot founded by Brad.
.. posted by at 1:58 PM on May 02, 2006 It comes up every once in a while .
.. you have visitors coming to town and you don't know what to do with them.
Especially when they're on a budget. One of the cheap things to do, one of the..
. posted by at 9:25 PM on April 30, 2006 If the idea of watching a fractured fable with music by Tom Waits and book by William S. Burroughs is your thing, you're going to want to love the The Black Rider now playing through June 11 at the.
.. posted by at 10:57 PM on April 27, 2006 If you've never been to Cinespia, aka the Cemetery Screenings, let me fill you in: You watch a movie.
At night. In a cemetery. How much more of a pitch do you need?
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