Emile Hirsch surveys a giant green screen...DEAD AHEAD! | Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers Anyone else as not excited as I am about Speed Racer? I mean, I watched the cartoon when I was kid, but it was no Gaiking or Starblazers. Even as a nine year-old I recognized the premise as a little stupid (chimps and helicopters?), and the visual design of the movie by the Wachowski Brothers seems move seizure-inducing than sumptuous.......

LAist has had a regular column about television for almost two years now - we're not saying it's a good column, but it's been very regular, which is something to think about as you get older. While Los Angeles has been a mecca of film for the last 75 years or so the migration of TV production to Los Angeles didn't really begin until 50 years ago. For the most part, TV, like radio, started......

The TV Junkie is in New York City and will be at the above SNL taping! Tonight 9:00pm Miss USA NBC - Donnie and Marie host the event, if only they would make out like in that SNL sketch 10:00pm Battlestar Galactica SCIFI - Nerds and those with inner nerds rejoice! [I count myself in both demographics]......

Update: "Authorities initially said the stabbing took place at Geisha House, which they said had been evacuated. However, in an e-mail to The Times this morning, a representative of the restaurant said the establishment was not open at the time of the incident," reported the LA Times earlier today. The incident actually took place inside the Mood nightclub and the stabbed victim collapsed near the Geisha House.Hundreds of late-night restaurant club goers were removed last......

Remember the little kid on Home Improvement with Tim Allen? He finally grew up. His name is Taran Noah Smith. He owns a nice house in the hills in Sherman Oaks. He married an older woman before Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore made it fashionable. He has a passion for an environmental life. He's vegan. He used to run a vegan restaurant in his house on selected nights. And while the city stopped Taran......

- How To Shock People Without a Lousy Taser - phrets - Cop Tasered in the Family Jewels - Rescue Humor - Fuck Ashton Kutcher and his courtside Laker seats. Please taser him - AP - Amount of douchebags with more than one cell phone increasing - ZD Net - Render upon the Iraqis what is Iraqi: Bring Back Saddam - LA Times - Black Friday sales increased 6% to $8.96 ba-ba-ba Billion, still......

Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday the 13th, for the 2006 installment of AFI Fest, Los Angeles' valiant (read: sometimes comical, sometimes desperate) attempt to mount a world-class film festival, something this city deserves but sorely lacks. This year AFI Fest will screen 147 feature films and 36 shorts including several special screenings and premieres. The festival will host the U.S. premiere of Bobby, the Emilio Estevez-directed drama about the assassination of Robert F.......

There's nothing premiering on TV tonight, so it's time for all you couch potatoes to put down the remotes and do a little something different -- like see a movie or something. Big movies opening this week: >> The Guardian: Like Top Gun, but with swimmers. >> Open Season: Cartoon animals on film -- how original! >> School for Scoundrels: Billy Bob teaches Napoleon Dynamite how to grow cojones. But if you'd like to......

It's been awhile since ex-LA resident O.J. Simpson stuck his foot in his mouth, right? So he had to find his way back into the kleig lights and do it in a big way: He's been given his own pay-per-view, candid camera program, Juiced. In one "prank" segment that was aired on "Inside Edition," Simpson is at a used car lot, trying to sell a white Ford Bronco: "It was good for me it helped......

We've been posting some of our favorite things from 2005, so now it's time for yours. Here are the 10 most popular LAist posts of 2005, from basketball to Beckham, from Ashton to the Suicide Girls. 1. We prepare to say hello to David Beckham: Beckham Bent on LA? 2. A farewell tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: Grace in Depravity 3. Ashton Kutcher: Hollywood Maverick? But of course. 4. The Best Waiter in Los......

Laurie over at LA.Comfidential informs us that yesterday was "That 70s Show" star Ashton Kutcher 27th birthday. One of the things Young Mr. Kutcher's received as a gift was Complex Magazine naming him #1 Hollywood "Maverick, Free Spirit...Superstar and Vice Enabler" in their Burn Hollywood Burn issue. #1? Really? LAist is sure there are other high profile movers and shakers in Hollywood that are deserving of that maverick label than Ashton. What about director......

Lara Flynn Boyle did....

Let's face it. People in California have pretty much resigned themselves to the fact that come November 2nd, the electoral votes from this great state will most likely be piling up for Mr. John Kerry. It's the result of having a very liberal state which almost always ends up voting for the Democratic candidate. That's the reality, and that's fine. But lately, LAist has come in contact with (if you can believe it) a......