It was a fun-filled day Saturday at Universal Studios in spite of the relentless heat. Stars posed on the yellow carpet, stiltwalkers danced, fireworks exploded, kids feasted on cupcakes and cotton candy, and a human cannonball shot out over the crowd. And all this before the ride even opened! Also check out our ride preview, and videos from the opening gala!......

What's better than spending your Friday night among free donuts and over 85 pieces of art from The Simpsons? Yeah, that's right, nothing. Starting at 6 p.m. tomorrow night, Every Picture Tells A Story on Montana Ave. will have an art opening showing off and selling 40 original production drawings from The Simpons Movie, over 25 original production cells from TV show and limited edition prints and treatments from film. Many of the prints are......

Using a sweet ten inch D.I.Y. Bart Simpson Blank Platform Qee Figure as a blank canvas, 50 artists from Doink to Rentals frontman Matt Sharp to Simpsons creator Matt Groening himself have created one-of-a-kind Simpsons art that will be unveiled today in Hollywood. Meltdown Comics at 7522 W Sunset Blvd is hosting an opening tonight from 7 to 11 (still cross-marketing are we?) where one can not only gawk at the sweet 10" figures......

Last Wednesday’s show at the Billy Shire Gallery in Culver City had all the elements needed for a typical Los Angeles VIP event – work by a world renowned artist (Tim Biskup), a celebrity host (JJ Abrams), sponsorship from two hip brands (Vanity Fair and Helio), and a roster of guests most people only read about in the usual arts & culture magazines (Matt Groening, Mark Ryden, Adele Mildred, and Shepard Fairey, among others). The......

Because it took The Simpsons so long to make a movie might mean that it will actually be really great. However, the fact that the show has been on the air for so long might mean that it has run out of edgy ideas. It already gets way less hype than shows that it opened the door for like "South Park", "Family Guy", "Futurama", and our favorite, "Drawn Together", but we're keeping our fingers......

The Simpsons is a show that proves there is longevity in Hollywood -- as long as your looks don't change. Right, Michael Douglas? Matt Groening's cartoon of loveable misfits has been around since 1989, and now someone's created an ultimate homage to the show: a live-action, shot-for-shot tribute of the opening credits. Just watch. Thanks to Lost Remote for the heads up. And Fox for the photo.......

Anyone can tell you what's wrong with Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, but few can clearly articulate what's right, magical and true about this place as well as Lawrence Weschler does in his 1998 New Yorker essay, "LA Glows," which is included in Weschler's latest collection of New Yorker articles, Vermeer in Bosnia. That essay inspired many Angelenos, including local writer Jim Ruland, who interviews Weschler in the "The Golden West" issue of......