It's 5:00 p.m. in Santa Monica and the boys at the online video startup Bush League TV, who launch next week, are live online video-feeding one man's attempt to break the Guinness World Record for longest consecutive video game play. He'll be going for a minimum of 25 hours. You can follow them on Twitter, or better yet, sit at home on your computer and watch a guy named Jim play the video game for......

Update: tonight's screening at the Arclight is a special presentation with a Q&A with the director Seth Gordon afterwards. The film will then show tomorrow at the Nuart thru the 23rd. If you walk through the arcades these days you will see three different games. Driving games where you speed through various versions of Hell. Shooting games where you shoot and kill as many people places and things that you can. And walking down......

Suburbia: 140-mile commute to LA and back, life in subsidized housing in Antelope Valley is of a different brand. Douchebag: So this is where David E. Kelley gets his material for Boston Legal on ABC -- right here in LA where our own City Attorney stonewalls the simplest of yes or no questions. What an asshole, don't vote for this guy if he runs for anything. Another good example: he wasted money suing the Grand......

Grand Theft Auto, Doom, and Counterstrike are the reasons why young people kill, homicide "expert" Jack Thompson continues to preach. Crying when he recalls the prayer that he claims to say whenever he drops his teenage son off at school. Forgetting, somehow, that the first recorded murder ever was between two brothers. A murder that any so-called expert, and anyone who regularly prays, should know about: Cain murdering Abel. The first two kids ever......

I am in shock. Despite a ton of promotion, great reviews and legions of Quentin Tarantino fans, Grindhouse opened in only fourth place. That would be $3.4 million behind the "former ghetto rapper heads to the burbs" comedy Are We Done Yet? and only $1.5 million ahead of the "I'm Hilary Swank, and I've won two Oscars, so I can star in whatever piece of poorly conceived commercial dreck I want to" horror film......

10. Coke - Grand Theft Auto Parody Major companies paid $2.6 million per each 30-second spot during yesterday's Super Bowl. Overall, we'd have to say that the commercials were pretty damn good. Because the Coke ad above ran for a minute, it means that that thing up there is a $5 million commercial. Meanwhile, we kept noting that we didn't remember seeing a Pepsi commercial. But then halftime came and we saw that Prince's......

Marshall Astor loves San Pedro something fierce. He is a working artist who not only manages programs at Angels Gate Cultural Center but also operates the Walled City art gallery in his spare time. He's organized a group show at the Brewery Project called "Contemplating Apocalypse" that will debut on September 9, 2006 with a reception starting at 7 PM. Custom brewed malt liquor will be on hand and patrons will be encouraged to......

So you've got your car alarm, Lo Jack and The Club to perhaps avoid your car becoming a statistic at the next neighborhood watch meeting. What's next? Your window is next. It's called VIN Number Window Etching. Tomorrow, at the Westfield Fashion Square in Sherman Oaks, there will be an Auto Crime Prevention Clinic from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m with the LAPD. Get your learn on about Auto Safety, Car Burglary and Grand......

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to make a decision that could affect the video game industry in a major way. Sometime in the next few days, Schwarzenegger may either sign or veto a bill prohibiting the sale of violent games to minors. The bill would prohibit the sale of “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel” games to people under the age of 18. The possible penalty for breaching this law would be a fine of......

The controversy surrounding the so-called "Hot Coffee" mod that allows you to see sexy material in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has come to a boiling point. In an unprecedented decision, the Entertainment Software Rating Board Wednesday changed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ rating from M for "Mature" to AO for "Adults Only" and advised retailers like Wal-Mart and GameStop to stop selling the game. This change came after an investigation by the ESRB,......

Videogames are big business, grossing more than $9 Billion in 2004. The top 2 games of 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Halo2, each alone earned $250 Million. And, some of the largest videogame companies, such as Electronic Arts, have a huge presence here in Los Angeles. As games get more and more popular, the demand for A-list acting talent to lend their voices and faces to games, has increased. According to showbiz......

[Be sure to check out the coverage of San Fierro over at SFist!] Most, if not all, Angelenos understand the bond between an LA resident and their car. It is, for most people, the only guarantee that you can get to anywhere in Los Angeles in a (relatively) timely manner and without all the stops and starts necessary in public transportation. For those of us not shackled to the whims of the MTA, driving......

While the results of the presidential election may not be known just yet (despite what Fox News is reporting), two local measures have been decided by LA voters. Voters in the City of LA overwhelmingly supported Proposition O, a $500 million bond measure to fund projects that will prevent ocean and beach pollution and put us in compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. The Los Angeles Times described Prop. O as “unexciting, expensive,......

LAist has a question for our readers: What's not fun about jacking a car and driving around LA robbing, killing, and generally causing mayhem? The answer? Nothing. Nothing is not fun about that. It's awesome! Our friends to the north (no, not Fresno), don't see it the same way for some reason. The Canadian government has issued a warning to parents that "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is, among other things, "vile and violent".......