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Little Tokyo's Cheap Thrills
Adventures in frivolous pursuits
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
The voyage to Little Tokyo so often begins with a craving for ramen and ends with (best-case scenario) a souvenir maneki nekko ear pick, or (worst-case scenario) an inflatable bug wrist bracelet that serves no other function than scaring the pets. You saw it. You knew you didn’t need it. But you definitely could… Keep Reading »
Little Tokyo's Cheap Thrills
Adventures in frivolous pursuits
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
The voyage to Little Tokyo so often begins with a craving for ramen and ends with (best-case scenario) a souvenir maneki nekko ear pick, or (worst-case scenario) an inflatable bug wrist bracelet that serves no other function than scaring the pets. You saw it. You knew you didn’t need it. But you definitely could… Keep Reading »
AdultCon '08: Porn Stars, Toys and Goodies
Stars and starlets of your favorite carefully hidden DVDs sign autographs, hock merchandise, and pose for pictures. … View Slideshow »
Coachella Fashion: Sundress Mess, (No On) Neon and The Headband's Last Hurrah (We Hope!)
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Props to those who actually managed to write coherant blog posts from Coachella on a daily/nightly basis. After spending about 1 1/2 hours in traffic leaving the fest Saturday night (which we hear is actually on the short side compared with others and would have been longer if not for some extremely aggressive driving) and … Keep Reading »
Primetime Pilot Panic: 'Filthy Rich' OKed
Sun, May 11, 10:20 pm
I'm told CW picked up How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls (WBTV/Alloy), which was expected. And I, too, think the title should be changed to "Surviving The Filthy Rich" as rumored. (Or, even better, "This Is Our Money-Grubbing Attempt to Clone Gossip Girls But Not Call It A Spin-Off".)
Primetime Pilot Panic: SAY IT AIN'T SO! Tori Spelling In '90210'?
Sun, May 11, 10:09 pm
I know there have been lots of rumors to this effect in celebrity mags and infotainment shows. But one of my reliable TV business sources is hearing that Tori Spelling is going to be in the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff just picked up by the CW. Well, it's official: 90210 is ruined. Please, Les and [...]
Attention, Les & Barry: Broadcast Giant Files For Bankruptcy, Blames CW Ratings
Sun, May 11, 10:00 pm
Talk about a Maalox moment: this is the sort of major news that, coming as it does right before this week's upfront presentatioins by the networks, can give CW co-bosses Les Moonves (CBS) and Barry Meyer (Warner Bros) heartburn. According to the business wires, Pappas Telecasting Inc, the largest privately-held commercial broadcast operator in the [...]
Narco war update: El Chapo's son goes down
Sun, May 11, 5:04 pm
Fresh off a staggering surge of killings of high-profile anti-narco agents and investigators in Mexico, the latest big-time victim in the country's wild drug war […]
Robert Nudelman: A Tireless Defender
Thu, May 8, 5:39 am
Several hours after I heard Robert Nudelman had died at the age of 52 at his father’s home in Tucson, Arizona, I was driving on […]
Sex crimes investigator assassinated in Juarez
Wed, May 7, 10:19 pm
Berenice Garcia Corral was commander of the sex crimes unit of Chihuahua state's State Investigation Agency before masked men shot her in her driveway in […]
Obama Iron Man
Tue, May 6, 10:21 am
Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd […]
Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton
Mon, May 5, 4:09 pm
That windowless brick of a Sears store may be closed, and a lot of the old auto repair spots are being torn down for who […]
Alvarado in Echo Park - REVOK, AUGOR
Fri, May 2, 5:42 am
The sun was already going down fast by the time I noticed this gem on retaining walls going up a hill in Echo Park. […]
Marc Cooper
We, The Hard-Working White People
I told you so, didn't I? I said a few days ago that I want Hillary and Bill to stay into this thing to the bitter end, that I want it to go right through Puerto Rico, right through the summer, and right onto the floor of the Democratic National Convention! I said that every new [...]
Clintdone
So what's up with Hillary? Everyone, including Madame Senator, knows very well she's hit the end of the line. Why the vow, then, to soldier on? No problem. Hillary --and Bill-- just think it's a nifty idea to hold the whole Democratic Party hostage for a few more weeks. Why not? They did it for eight [...]
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Tuesday night Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic nomination -- again. He did it the first time when weeks ago he racked up a dozen primary victories and built his insurmountable delegate lead. We've spent the last half-dozen weeks or so indulging in a Second Life fantasy that granted Hillary Clinton some sort of real viability. That [...]
More Feelings About How The Dems Could Blow It
Sun, Apr 20, 12:18 am
Back in January I wrote about how the Dems have an innate knack for losing what would appear to be impossible elections to lose. Seems […]
Feeling About George Clooney, Adam Carolla and The Dem Debacle
Mon, Apr 14, 10:36 am
Why don't people go see George Clooney movies? First the great Michael Clayton, last year's best American flick and now Leatherheads? I saw Leatherheads yesterday […]
Feelings About Rolling Stones at 64
Mon, Apr 7, 11:33 pm
That's not how long they've been around, though it seems that way, but, rather, Mick Jagger's age when Martin Scorsese filmed the recently released concert […]
Daniel Hernandez
The creeping march of narco violence in Mexico
The war between Mexico's cartels and law enforcement agencies reached a chilling new height this week. Assassins ambushed the acting chief of Mexico's federal police, Edgar Millan Gomez, as he walked into his apartment in Col. Guerrero in Mexico City...
Immigration check-points, while driving, yes, south
That's right. As immigrants are leaving the country, federal agents have been staging check-points and rounding people up. The L.A. Times, reporting from the San Diego-Tijuana border, says that ICE is actually defending this policy. In the article by Richard...
Lurid advertising: 'That's why she's my mommy'
This is a billboard that shows a beautiful young mother shielding the eyes of her child from something awful, maybe a traffic accident, or a bloody crime scene. The image feels taut and in motion. It is clearly playing to...
Pornographers Out to Sea and Back Again
Fri, May 9, 4:48 pm
Tony and Peggy Comstock make some of the freshest, most interesting and intimate commercially available porn available today at their company Comstock Films. But for […]
woke up from a dream where I was sitting under K's balls
Fri, May 9, 4:34 pm
7.25am: woke up from a dream where I was sitting under K's balls and pushing my face up. 11am: at the outdoor art show. There […]
Samuel Domingo's Photos of Anaelenapena
Fri, May 9, 1:31 pm
Fact: breasts are squishy. But seeing boobs poked at makes me squirm nonetheless. But the rest of this Flickr set of photos of Anaelenapena by […]
Great God Pan
Peter Poffenberger visits the Land of Mu-Tonight!
If you tuned in last week, you are already know the Ooze Out program's first attempt at visiting Polynesia was aborted due to a long layover in Gatlin, Nebraska (which we quite enjoyed, thanks Malachai!). But all things happen for a reason in God's universe. This week we've booked a direct flight to the Friendly Islands where Ooze Out correspondent…
An Election Without Meaning
In a country happily wrapped up like a Quizno's sammy in the sacred dyad of current events— American Idol and the upcoming. . . "election"—we know how hard it can be to know how we're supposed to feel about all this important stuff. While Hillary and Obama brashly plow through campaign budgets that would feed the third world for a…
Who let the dogs out?
Last year Mammoth Lakes police officer Sergeant Paul Dostie took his human remains detection dog Buster up to the Barker Ranch above the Panamint Valley where Charles Manson and his cohorts were captured in 1969. The dog honed in on two sites where Dostie claims there's a possibility of human remains being buried. Whose remains? According to forty-year-old hearsay and…
The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex
Fri, May 9, 5:00 pm
When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't […]
The Weekend in Music: Quiet Storm Action with Keith Sweat, Abe Vigoda, Punky Reggae and The Parson Redheads
Fri, May 9, 4:42 pm
If you're looking for some nookie this weekend, as in: your special one has been hesitatin', and you've been motivatin' but there is no reciprocatin', […]
DJing on EastVillage Radio.com right now!
Fri, May 9, 11:48 am
Hello internet users. In about 10 minutes I will be co-DJing with my friend Brian Long on his long-running internet radio show Infinite Eargasm. That […]
The Kids In the 'Secret Show' Hall
Thu, May 8, 10:41 am
CFIWest / Steve Allen Theater, HollywoodMay 7(l-r) Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Bruce McCullochA line of comedy fans dozens deep snaked around the corner of Berendo […]
Tim & Eric's Awesome Show live @ the Echoplex 5.5.08
Tue, May 6, 7:04 am
They're so sweet and innocent. Photos by Rena Kosnett.Writing about the experience of seeing Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job! live on tour […]
Coachella Fashion: Sundress Mess, (No On) Neon and The Headband's Last Hurrah (We Hope!)
Mon, Apr 28, 11:42 am
Props to those who actually managed to write coherant blog posts from Coachella on a daily/nightly basis. After spending about 1 1/2 hours in traffic […]
New Batmobile Suggests Batman Might Have Issues with Things Besides His Parents' Murder
Fri, May 9, 5:04 pm
As Newsarama's always wonderful blog points out, when Batman #676 arrives next Wednesday—the first issue of the "Batman R.I.P." storyarc—he's getting a new Batmobile, seen […]
I Also Want to Irresponsibly Report on Kid Icarus Wii
Fri, May 9, 4:14 pm
Here's the timeline:1989—Nintendo releases Kid Icarus, which is awesome.1990-2007—Nothing.2008, Yesterday—IGN's Matt Casamassina says he's "really looking forward to Kid Icarus Wii" on an IGN podcast.So […]
Mario Kart Wii [REVIEW]
Sun, May 11, 9:45 am
See the polished version over atVillage Voice Media.com's Game On column, or find it in any free Village Voice paper near you (near the skin […]
Top 5 Videogame Items My Girlfriend Doesn't Realize I Own, And It's Better That Way
Fri, May 9, 12:10 am
I have a closet full of videogame stuff – literally: a closet, full. In truth it’s more of a closet-and-a-half, the boxes beginning to […]
Grand Theft Childhood vs. Katherine Kersten: Fight!
Thu, May 8, 12:52 pm
Normally I'd let Kevin have the last word on conservative columnist Katherine Kersten's latest rant; I'd be too busy kicking prostitutes in the teeth to […]
Nature Trumps
IT?S ALL VERY DE-MURALIZING: Hahamugna ?Meeting of Styles? mural vandalized/erased with whitewash, apparently by County-hired workers operating under Soviet-style orders from County Supervisor Gloria Molina
What was there before the vandalism… What’s there now, after the vandalism… What used to be there… What’s there now… Click here to see more images of the mural that is now gone forever.
Disturbing news.
I’m told that workers under contract with L.A. County whitewashed the entire “Meetings of Style” mural site over the weekend.
Molina still extorting FoLAR over properly permitted Meeting of Styles mural, which she wants completely whitewashed
L.A. wants to whitewash graffiti mural By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 1, 7:01 PM ET LOS ANGELES - It was a graffiti artist’s dream come true: 10,000 square feet of concrete and a permit to paint. Families brought their kids to watch as hundreds of muralists, using their own materials and working [...]
Crusade of the 6th Graders
Fri, May 9, 1:31 am
I’m at a death penalty conference. More on that later. But in the meantime…. Here’s a story about some local kids who are […]
The Murderer, the Prosecutor, the Stripper…..and the Supremes
Thu, May 8, 12:03 am
It is a dramatic legal story….but with a twist. And it’s a hell of a twist having to do with a well-known prosecutor and […]
Helping Burma
Wed, May 7, 11:59 pm
Disaster aid for Burma isn’t easy because the government is not exactly outsider-friendly. But my friend Richard Walden and Operation USA are already on […]
Grave Appearance Problems
Sun, May 11, 1:00 pm
A decision by a military judge on Friday to disqualify a top Pentagon official from any further role in a Guantánamo war crimes case was a major new challenge to the Bush administration’s legal approach to the war on terrorism.The ruling, in the case against[…]
Saturday Night At The Movies
Sat, May 10, 7:11 pm
Sky high Fe: Downey carries the torch for Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. forges a head. By Dennis Hartley Although it’s about a month too early according to my calendar, the season of popcorn has now been officially thrust upon us with the release[…]
FDL Book Salon
Sat, May 10, 3:59 pm
by digby The Good Fight “Ours is a time of great political disaffection, and I understand it, because so far in this new century, we have failed the people of this country. We’ve got a lot of damage to repair. There are no magic bullets.[…]
Direland
NEPAL'S FIRST GAY MP SPEAKS -- Nation's Two Largest Political Parties Embrace LGBT Rights
I wrote the following article for Gay City News, New Yorks largest lesbian and gay weekly, which published it today: In an historic breakthrough, the leader of Nepal's largest LGBT group, the Blue Diamond Society, has been named to a...
ROME TURNS RIGHT: Berlusconi Chalks Up His Second Victory This Month
The following article was written specially for DIRELAND by this blog's Rome correspondent, veteran expat journalist Judy Harris: ROME – This Sunday and Monday 5.8 million Italians were asked to return to the polls for a second time this month...
ITALY'S ELECTIONS: VIAGRA FOR THE DOLDRUMS?
The following article was written specially for DIRELAND by this blog's Rome correspondent, veteran expat journalist Judy Harris: ROME, April 4, 2008 – Unlike America’s, Italy’s national general election campaign is blissfully short, and so, called barely two months ago,...
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