a writer's perspective On the heels of last weeks announcement that Warner Brothers would be laying off as many as 1000 people this week, the WGA hosted Employee Solidarity Day at the studio today. All picketers, barring those at NBC, were asked to report to Warner Brothers instead of their usual posts. As a result, my usual gate was the place to be today. I think it was a pretty savvy move on the......

Burger King has begun an ad campaign to promote its new meaty meat burger. "Just when you decided to go vegan: the triple whopper sandwich" pokes fun at vegans, or at the decision to become vegan. Now anyone who's ever made the choice to stop eating meat would not be lured by an extra fast food beef patty or two. So the concept is kind of silly, and likely to pass quickly into the......

Deep in the heart of Echo Park, there's a store called Han Cholo. It's a very special store/artisan's workshop where they make and sell urban jewelry with a twist; pendants made in the shape of Han Solo's blaster or a ring in the shape of Chewbacca's face. It's the perfect bling to sport at Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend, especially since Friday is Star Wars day. Larger photos after the jump.......

Carrie Fisher is a year older today and LAist, for one, is grateful for that fact because she's still around for us to enjoy. Fisher should be the patron saint of Los Angeles. She's the consummate Angeleno: grew up in Beverly Hills as the offspring of glamourous Hollywood stars, became a global icon herself via the "Star Wars" triology, lived the LA "high" life as a drug addict, crashed, burned, crashed, burned, turned the......