Fires in Malibu are nothing new. But tonight while procrastinating we thought we'd revisit the old Hole tune - Courtney's last really great hit(?) - and we were sorta stunned by all the fire references in the lyrics and in the video. It's something we don't remember being so prevalent even though it was on the album cover, etc. But still, it's sorta eerie seeing it today. "Malibu" was the second single off Hole's......

It's black on the outside and as colorful as hell on the inside. It's sound system is perfect, it's Basement Bar is cozy, and the room always seems smaller than it should. A good thing. Notorious for a celebrity death and a famous former owner, the Viper Room is a jewel on the Sunset strip. The other night at the Donnas show we met Viper booker Melissa Renee Hernandez who's super hot and friendly......

As if the past couple of weeks haven't been bad enough for Britney, her former bodyguard has officially testified about her drug use, more specifically a bender she went on with singer songwriter and fellow rehaber Howie Day - News of the World Nicole Richie's pregnant body has her at a normal weight finally - Daily News Dennis Rodman has been accused of sexual battery for smacking a bar patron's ass and leaving a mark......

Two people were killed and four critically injured in an explosion at a test site for small rocket engines at Mojave Airport in Kern County. Will Villaraigosa intervene on behalf of NBC Universal — corporate parent of Telemundo — and its new $3-billion development plan? Courtney Love reveals on her MySpace blog that she wants her old face back. Oops: leaked memo reveals that Home Depot tried to stack a City Council meeting with......

The House of Blues on the Sunset Strip is having an interesting Spring, first they had Britney lipsyncing for 15 minutes, and now they will have Courtney Love actually singing. The rumors that Love will sing with headliner Linda Perry were affirmed yesterday by the Hole leader on her website. Courtney returns to the stage tomorrow night at the House of Blues in Los Angeles! Miss Love is set to perform with Linda Perry......

Memorial Day Weekend 2007 wasn't just all about Lindsay's crash and arrest, there were other celeb items in the news..... One of, if not the most beautiful baby in the world, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turned one this weekend in Prague alongside the rest of the Jolie-Pitt litter - Celebitchy Looks like its the official end of the unlikely match of John Mayer and Jessica Simpson as these photos from Cabo reveal - Flynetonline Nicole Ritchie looking......

Recently the British company behind Doc Martens boots hired the famous ad company Saatchi & Saatchi to put together an advertising campaign that featured four dead punk rock heroes in Heaven wearing nothing but a sheet and a pair of the iconic combat boots. The ads were placed in a UK publication in April called Fact Magazine, which is often found given away for free at British record stores and clothing shops. Controversy erupted......

Days after LAist said that Doc Martens should have its ass kicked for approving a new ad campaign depicting four punk icons in Heaven wearing nothing but sheets and the famous combat boots, the shoe manufacturer claimed no responsibility, and infact severed ties with the famous ad agency. In a statement released today and emailed directly to LAist, Doc Martens' PR reps, Exposure, explains that Saatchi is to blame and the ads are as......

- Reggie the Alligator is back to say whaddup bitches - LA Observed - Mayor Tony dreams of being on Ugly Betty. Don't we all, bro? - Daily News - Any teen who attends Saturday's all-teen performance of the rock musical Quixote will get an autographed copy of Don Quixote signed by one of the performers. Yay? - Valley News - Rapist who killed 10 women including a woman 6 months pregnant found guilty......

Is it possible to love a creation in spite of its creator? You have to admit that "Live Through This" rocked, even if Courtney Love is not the most likeable person on the planet. And Picasso wasn't exactly a nice guy. The same holds true for Fred Eric, one of the most controversial personalities on the LA food scene. I cannot say my one run-in with him, in which he almost ran me over......

Sometimes I feel like the Gossip Roundups should be renamed the Britney Roundups... Like when she visited a hair salon this weekend to discuss extension choices to attach to her short do once it grows out a little more, she's having major hair shaving regret- Star Or her first brunette wigged-post rehab outing to a dance class and then sushi with girlfriends - People Clearly, dance class and sushi were not dramatic enough, because......

- If you're looking for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in LA public libraries, you will be sorely disappointed - LAT - Right now Eddie Van Halen is in rehab - TMZ - The USC football lockerroom is colorless, says black Trojan running backs and special teams coach Todd McNair, who dubbed the kickoff team The White Nation, and calls the other black coaches Brojans. Controversy brewed yesterday when one of the students created......

A Word or 36: Hopefully the jerkoff session over the Aqua Teen Hunger Force is winding down and we can get back to real topics like: is Paula Abdul getting replaced by Courtney Love on Idol? And other such ilk. Tonight - Thursday - February 1st, 2007 College Basketball: Oregon @ UCLA (PRIME, 7:30 p.m.) Ugly Betty (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) With cameos from Tim Gunn and Katharine McPhee My Name Is Earl/The Office/Scrubs (NBC,......

- Dave Naz, an heir to the Max Factor fortune, marries porn star Ashley Blue - xxxporntalk via Luke Ford - Morrissey tells Kate Sullivan a sweet ghost story - LA Weekly - Dear Kevin Costner, please go to this website and take a picture of you flipping it off - If I Blog It They Will Come - Congratulations, LA City Nerd Award Winners - LACN - Prison Break Star was Drunk and......

Tongue and Groove, a monthly spoken word/music happening around town, took place tonight at The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. Coordinated by Conrad Romo, who LA Weekly called "a friend to creatures both great and small", this event included readings from both unknown LA writers, and those who've been around the block, namely Mike the Poet, who has done over one hundred readings in and around LA this past year. He loves Los Angeles and isn't......

This week's Question of the Week comes from Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who asks through a letter to the President of the United States what the hell he's thinking reading American people's mail. In a letter that was posted yesterday by Raw Story, Feingold ends his letter with the Question of the week: You have already confirmed that you have authorized the NSA to conduct surveillance of communications without obtaining the court orders......

Winding up his colorful trilogy of outrageously beautiful volumes of photographs, famed artist David LaChapelle will be signing "Heaven and Hell" tonight at the Taschen Store in Beverly Hills. In a series that started a decade ago with "LaChapelle Land" and improved with "Hotel LaChapelle" (1999), David wraps it up with a collection of images that contains nearly double the number of the previous two volumes. LaChapelle, known for his eye-popping color and over-the-top......

- Courtney Love was a good girl, judge removes her from probation, she cries. "Thank you for not taking me into custody... You've been a good, fair judge. Sorry for crying." E! News - SUV chased by LAPD crashes into a house near Exposition Park - Mercury News - LA Opera gets $4 million to help recover music suppressed by the Nazis - Playbill - Teen Soccer sensation Freddi Adu gets traded to SLC's......

- The Simpsons have their Tire Fire, LA has its Tire Store Fire - LAFD blog - Some Hollywood women too Busy to shave their armpits? Say it ain't so! - Reuters - Martini Republic asks "who's the bigger idiot, Instapundit or Bill Kristol?" Which makes us finally understand that IT WAS A CONTEST ALL ALONG! - Martini Republic - Mom calls cops on her 12-year-old son for opening his videogame before Christmas -......

- UCLA Hoops is #1... wait it's nowhere near March - SI - LA Fire Department's Hottest Holiday Gifts - LAFD Blog - Hey Pervy High School Teachers: Here's a List of the Age of Consent around the World - Avert.org - Hey Now... it's TV Land's 100 Greatest TV Quotes - PR Newswire - Tony Soprano hurt while getting head-butted - ContactMusic - Sometimes you want to sign up for something on the......

- Winners and Losers regarding the LA Times - LA Weekly - Ralph Nader has completely lost his mind - fishbowl la - JD Drew tells the Dodgers to shove their $33 million contract - Dodger Thoughts - Santa Monica plucks their new top cop from the LBC - CBS2 - Pam Anderson had a miscarriage - US - Courtney Love to pose nude for a magazine - Access - Former Fox News reporter......

Pet Shop Boys @ Wiltern The Doors @ The Whiskey DJ AM @ LAX Raul Malo @ The Roxy Marisa Monte @ Royce Hall Aterciopelados, Los Abandoned @ Henry Fonda The UVs, Hollywood Harlots, Bastard @ Dragonfly Ass Pocket of Whiskey @ Harvelle's Sia, The Bird & the Bee, Greg Laswell @ Avalon Republic of Loose, Gran Ronde, Box Violet @ The Troubadour From Satellite, Verona Grove, Supercreep, The Robins @ Viper Room Sam......

LAist gets invited to a lot of cool events. We say no to way too many. It's not that we say no, we just never end up where we probably should be. When we were invited to the Courtney Love book signing at the Virgin on Sunset we were not only there, we were early, we had our batteries charged, we had extra batteries, we had voted, we were Ready. And secretly we hoped......

NOTE: MOST NETWORKS WILL HAVE ELECTION COVERAGE STARTING AT 10:00 PM "La Strada" (IFC, 7:30 p.m.) A night of Italian neo-realist cinema continues with the story of wife-beating circus brute Anthony Quinn. Antonioni's "L'Avventura" follows "Dancing With the Stars" (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) The death march continues, 3 teams left "Nip/Tuck" (FX, 10:00 p.m.) OK, so Julia's effing a dwarf now and Sean gets to meet his own personal devil in person personally "The Daily......

She's Miss World, Mrs. Cobain, Momma Bean, America's Sweetheart, and the Widow Courtney. While some of the punk and grunge icons of days gone by have faded out, Courtney Love's fire still rages despite the fact that so many just want her to sit still and shut up. But shutting up is one thing Ms. Love will never do. Thankfully. Just the opposite, in fact, as her memoirs Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney......

- John Kerry calls the President stupid, President and his bros are too stupid to know that they were being called stupid, so Kerry calls them stupid again - johnkerry.com - The Political Director of ABC News is stupid - Tristram Shandy via Martini Republic - Drew Brees doesn't want his mom to use his image in her stupid election - Austin Statesman - Vice President Cheney says Charles Rangel "doesn't understand how the......

- Who is this blonde bombshell at the Borat premiere at Grauman's Chinese? Answer after the jump. - Sky News - Why would a Kabbalahist want a Godfather for her son? - Daily Mail - Increased housing values create more affordable housing? - LAT via Martini Republic - Howard K. Stern is not Anna's baby daddy? - TMZ - USC discovers that The Pill does not cause breast cancer? - mediLexicon - Lee's is the......

MTV's Real World Denver reveals its new cast: two blacks, a gay, two sexually-charged chicks, and a Raiderette. In it's 18th season, the Real World seems to be living up to its barely legal aspirations - popbytes OJ offered $3.5 mil to write a book about what if he had killed his wife and the waiter. Go Trojans! - MSNBC OMG an actor is gay? And he's not a Republican Congressperson? - Defamer A......

In a secret contest to see which Republican can implode the freakiest, this afternoon's winner is clearly Nevada GOP Congressman Jim Gibbons, who while running (and winning by ten points, if you believe polls) threatened to rape a casino waitress during a drunken "party" at an upscale steak joint. The woman, a cancer survivor who sounds like a younger Courtney Love made three 9-1-1 calls alleging that the Congressman threatened her life. Close behind......

Staggering in the footsteps of several other celebrities who found themselves in similar situations after consuming too much and saying or doing inappropriate things (Rush Limbaugh, Martin Lawrence, Courtney Love, Charlie Sheen, Kelsey Grammer, Andy Dick, and of course Robert Downey Jr.,) today Mel Gibson entered rehab for his drinking problem. David Mamet, yes that David Mamet, makes a funny at Mad Max's plight. In other bad news, Beck's new video and song is......