A publicist handling the forthcoming film co-written and produced by John Atterberry, the music executive who was fatally shot during the December 9 Hollywood shooting rampage, died while en route to the music executive's funeral on Wednesday. more ›

Michael Russell, a onetime publicist for the annual Golden Globe awards, filed a lawsuit late yesterday against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group that puts on the annual showbiz spectacle, reports the Daily News. In his suit, Russell alleges that many HFPA members take part in "unethical and potentially unlawful" behavior he likens to "payola" schemes. more ›

Hours after the murder of 64-year-old entertainment industry publicist Ronni Chasen, investigators working the case are puzzled as to who would shoot the woman in her car multiple times in the chest and leave her to crash her vehicle and die. more ›

Authorities have identified the woman who was found shot to death inside a crashed vehicle in Beverly Hills overnight. The victim is 64-year-old Ronni Chasen, a "longtime Hollywood publicist" who "has represented such entertainment luminaries as the late actress Natalie Wood, composer Hans Zimmer, and move producers Dick Zanuck and Irwin Winkler," according to LA Now. more ›

R&B star Chris Brown says the media's got it wrong when it comes to what happened the night before the Grammys leading up to his turning himself in and spending some time in jail instead of onstage at Staples center. more ›

Here at LAist, we get hundreds of e-mails a day, sometimes at the rate of one e-mail per minute. Press releases, invites, statements and tips all flood our boxes. Many of these e-mails are from bands. Whether they are local or traveling through, there are lots and lots of shows every single night in this town and that adds up in the inbox (and sometimes it's coming at you from multiple sources at the same time: the manager, a publicst, a tour rep/venue, the band themselves). more ›

Offering low-cost clothing to slim-hipped wastrels isn't easy, and Swedish clothing chain H&M strives to stay on the cutting-edge of cutting costs. Competing in a cutthroat global marketplace, the company has found that budgetary consciousness doesn't only apply to the factory floor, it can extend to the highest reaches of the corporate machine thanks to the advances of the computer age. To that end H&M is the first major retailer to deploy the PR-Bot... more ›