If you wanted to spend the night with Conan O'Brien, you may have just missed a huge opportunity. The talk show host recently listed his TV studio on the renter's site Airbnb, and selected a group of ladies to stay for three nights out of thousands of applicants. more ›

Team Coco strikes again! Need a place to crash early October? If you don't mind being filmed and featured on the Conan show, you might want to arrange to shack up for a few days at the Burbank soundstage that's home to O'Brien's TBS show, which is now being "rented" by Airbnb. more ›

The only countdown to Keith Olbermann's last minutes as host of his MSNBC show "Countdown" came abruptly, as the show came to its end to the surprise of its viewers with just a couple of segments' notice back in January. A couple of weeks later came word that Olbermann was headed to Current TV with a new nightly news show in the works, and today we're learning that the show will bear the same name and timeslot as Olbermann's MSNBC gig. more ›

Bad news ahead for employees of Warner Bros. here in Burbank. According to cbs2.com, the studio "plans to lay off scores of studio staffers and outsource jobs to India and Poland to cut costs amid falling entertainment revenues." The layoffs will be focused on back-office workers whose jobs involve "information systems, finance and accounting," from multiple divisions in the studio's operations. Warner Bros. currently employees 8,000 people worldwide; their last major rounds of cuts that hit close to home happened in 2005, when 300 of the 400 jobs cut came from the Burbank lot. No other information about the pending job losses has been made available. more ›

Over the holiday week, it appears that Warner Brothers has painted over their huge Looney Tunes/Hanna-Barbera/Warner Animation mural that's been there for more than 15 years, finds animation authority, historian and author Jerry Beck on his blog, Cartoon Brew. "To give them benefit of the doubt, perhaps they are going to replace it with an even better graphic of Bugs Bunny and crew. I hope so... but who wants to bet that Harry Potter or the live action Dark Knight will soon be guiding us toward the Cahuenga Pass." more ›

After arguing that a proposed condo and office tower's construction would interfere, as well as ambient noise once its parking garage is completed, with the quality of sound in their underground recording studio, Los Angeles City Council allowed the development to go through today. more ›

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When it comes to crotch identification, no one works harder than LAist. Last week one of our favorite LA blogs, Defamer, ran the underwear photo above (and to the right), accompanied with a story about a movie and blah blah blah. But the mystery remained: Who's Crotch is That?" Happily, our tireless hours of up-close interviews and in-your-face journalism have not been for naught. Thanks to an amazingly reliable source close to the project,... more ›