TALK* Zócalo asks “Is Business Abusing the Ballot?” in a panel discussion tonight. “California businesses are increasingly taking their disputes with cities, labor and especially each other to municipal ballots in the form of initiatives and referenda. As a result, voters, not the market, are forced to pick business winners and losers and decide complex development, planning and zoning questions that are supposed to be handled by city governments.” To discuss this trend are......

A teacher friend of mine recently mentioned she was preparing an 80s theme party for the graduating seniors of her school. I asked, "Why 80s?" She replied that the seniors were born in 1989 and thus, they were the very last high school class to be born in that decade. I just about spit my drink all over her. I'm aware that we all age, but it still surprises the bejeezus out of me......

Monday Mike Carey presents The Devil You Know 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Doug Stumpf presents Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy 7pm @ Book Soup Joy Horowitz presents Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School 7pm @ Central Library Michael Tucker signs Living a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy 7pm @ Dutton's Jerry Stahl presents Love Without 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach Thomas......

Despite his recent slash amazing drunken video release, David Hasselhoff was granted sole custoday of his two teenage daughters - CBC Skating with Celebrities star Kristy Swanson pulls a Tanya Harding and was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend (and former skating partner's) ex- wife - People Angelina Jolie and the kids take a fathers day shopping trip - She also speaks about potentially repairing her estranged relationship with her own father Jon Voight - Just......

Today is the day folks! Paris Hilton goes to jail, and word on the street is her fellow inmates are eagerly awaiting her arrival - Associated Press In other Paris news, her record label is being sued for ripping off the UB40 song Kingston Town for her recent single Stars are Blind - Daily Mail Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, has pulled out of her NBC slated reality show that would follow her and......

This just released home video, taken by David Hasselhoff's teenage daughter, shows The Hoff half naked and trying to eat a burger. Hey, who hasn't been there before? At least you weren't in a video like this. Or this. You see, it's not his drunken decisions that worry us. It's his sober ones.......

I have no idea why, but I'm trying to make all of this week's 4:20 Movies weird musicals (preferably starring or directed by celebrities). Here's David Hasselhoff -- wearing what looks like the the cast-off plastic chest from Wrath of Khan -- in the musical Jekyll & Hyde musical.......

A Word or 48: House was pretty good last night and the timing was great what with the blizzard hitting New England today. With the semifinalists declared on Idol and Paula Abdul declaring that she's never been drunk in her life, I get the feeling that show is really coming along now. Today - Wednesday - February 14th, 2007 Breakfast at Tiffany's (TCM, 4:05 p.m.) Holly Golightly, not the band Beauty and the Geek......

How much has Lamar Odom meant to the Lakers this season? Look at it this way, he was playing more minutes per game than Kobe Bryant. If one guy deserved an injury-free season after everything he’s been through it is Odom. But the Lakers are going to have to get by without his minutes for at least the next four weeks as he suffered a “moderate” sprain of the MCL in his right knee. It’s......

Lindsay Lohan turns 20, insists that pot is gross. - MSNBC Uma Thurman snags a new beau. So what? But when/where did she get those amazing sunglasses? - yeeeah Brit and KFed are "outraged and saddened" that pictures of the couple enjoying happy moments with their son on the beach were stolen and leaked to "US Weekly" who then published them. "Us" of course being one of the many magazines who speculate on the......

David Hasselhoff rushed to the hospital after an alleged shaving/chandelier accident. Alleged because we live pretty large but we don't have chandeliers in our gym's mens rooms. - People Man who crashed car into CHP cruiser around 2am was allegedly drunk - CBS2 Paris Hilton allegedly brought 20 bags with her on the airplane - Dlisted 2nd Street trees to be chopped down so traffic can allegedly flow better - Downtown News Screw you......

Quick -- what happens when you want to put on an American Idol-esque show during the summer TV doldrums, and Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest are busy spending the bizillions they earned during the regular TV season? You get David Hasselhoff in the role of Randy; Brandy playing Paula, some Brit “journalist” named Piers Morgan playing Simon; and an aging Regis Philbin taking over Seacrest’s role in a two-hour waste......

We know David Hasselhoff is awesome. How could the driver of K.I.T.T. and the head lifeguard on Baywatch not be? Besides that he's a musical superstar and so locked into our cultural fabric that some even think he's the anti-christ but luminary? As in an inspiration to others? Well, former Governer Jerry Brown seems to think so. He writes of his experience at Mayor Villaraigosa's inauguration:On Friday I attended the inauguration for Antonio Villaraigosa,......