Photo by Tom Andrews via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The LA Times has the latest and more details on the deadly stand-off in the Valley that left one SWAT team member, Randal Simmons, and four others dead. Okay, this is just terribly, terribly, terribly wrong: why is the city cracking down so hard on street vendors who sell bacon wrapped hot dogs? Police continue to search for three kidnappers who abducted......

Spider-Man 3 would have been an immeasurably better movie if it had just stuck to one villain. Seriously, Venom should not be sharing the screen with anyone else. No End in Sight received ecstatic reviews when it was released in theaters so, naturally, no one saw it. Correct that mistake when it lands on DVD shelves. Talk to Me was better than I expected; Wendell Baker was worse; Day Watch was unwatchable nonsense. The......

Andy Samberg has to be one of the luckiest guys alive. Look at that goofball. Between trysting with starlets like Natalie Portman and Kirsten Dunst, his day job includes making shorts like "Lazy Sunday" at Saturday Night Live. And it all started with video sketches Samberg and his Lonely Island cohorts posted on the Web. (The other two guys got writing gigs on SNL.) So it’s fitting that Samberg is helping kick off YouTube Sketchies,......

Oh look at me, I'm EMO-Man. This mask helps hide my shitty acting for at least half of my performances. *Warning* Spoilers and a negative review after the jump......

Lots of Britney news this week folks... Britney hits the stage again for the first time in three years, for fourteen minutes of pure lip synching bliss - People See the vids for yourself - Hollywoodtuna Maybe Brit Brit planned her comeback while lounging poolside and taking topless photos in early April - Splash Rehab shmehab, Lindsay gets her drink on this week - I dont like you in that way Speaking of underage drinking,......

A Word or 36: 60 Minutes was interesting what with alleged ratfink George Tenet telling us all the things he should have been telling us years ago, when it would have mattered, when we could have done something about it. Tonight - Monday - April 30th, 2007 D'backs @ Dodgers (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.) How I Met Your Mother/The New Adventures of Old Christine/Two and a Half Men/The King of Queens (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) Two......

Apparently not only is Jared Leto a wannabe rocker, but he is also a wannabe lover - according to Penthouse gal Krista Ayne (pictured, right), Leto's skills are lacking, and he's too busy with his makeup to call a girl back - Page Six India attacks Richard Gere! Effigies of the star are burned on the streets of New Delhi for his recent and taboo public display of affection - TMZ Britney on the road......

It may not be the best film at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, but Black Snake Moan, director Craig Brewer's follow-up to Hustle & Flow, definitely has the best tagline. Even if it doesn't lead to an Oscar-winning comeback for mark Christina Ricci,* who spends a good chunk of the film chained to a radiator in her underwear, she can always cherish this stylish yet practical knit cap emblazoned with a silhouette of her......

- Add a second Gmail Inbox - sitening - Apply for the third-best job in the world (sorry, Editor of LAist is taken, as is publisher of Playboy) - sheraton - Foil the dreaded "pit" manuever - almost - google video - Listen in on Gitmo detainee hearings - NPR - Laugh at Lohan's lack of edjumacation - Defamer - Wonder why Tom Cruise didn't faux-marry Penelope Cruz. Yowza! - egotastic - Enjoy Keeeersten......

LAist has an unflinching and terrible crush on Ms. Kirsten Dunst. Once Christina Aguilera got married, Keeersten jumped to the top of our list of most eligible bachelorettes, and she's definitely the only reason we sat through those Spider-Man movies. Therefore when we saw the variety of negative comments about her new movie Marie Antoinette, which opens today, we were disappointed. Especially since it's the vision of everyone's favorite Coppola, Sofia, who first made......

You know you've got a good thing going when people are linking to your new commercial. And they're doing it for free. And everyone will be excited to see it. Yesterday New Line released the new Snakes on a Plane commercial, which Yahoo! apparently got the exclusive rights for. That's another sign you're far too lucky -- when people negotiate to have the exclusivity to show your commercial. If Snakes on a Plane turns......