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Ludo Lefebvre Gushes About L.A.'s Food Scene, Slams New York's Stuffiness on Anthony Bourdain's 'Layover'

Ludo Lefebvre Gushes About L.A.'s Food Scene, Slams New York's Stuffiness on Anthony Bourdain's 'Layover'

Anthony Bourdain spends a segment of "The Layover" speaking with chef and pop-up restauranteur Ludo Lefebvre, who slams the East Coast and gloats about how he has free reign in his adopted hometown. more ›

"Modern Family" Toddler's F-Bomb: A Big Effing Deal or Not?

"Modern Family" Toddler's F-Bomb: A Big Effing Deal or Not?

Despite protest, last night ABC aired an episode of the award-winning comedy "Modern Family" that included toddler Lily dropping the F-Bomb. As promised, the precious moment was bleeped, the girl's mouth pixilated, and the actress only charged with uttering "fudge." more ›

69th Annual Golden Globe Awards: The Complete List of Winners

69th Annual Golden Globe Awards: The Complete List of Winners

Did you catch last night's telecast of the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards? We've got a complete list of who took home the trophies last night courtesy the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. more ›

Andrew Zimmern Pops Up In L.A. to Cook, Learn and Spread the Gospel Of Our "mind-bogglingly spectacular" Food Scene

     

When Andrew Zimmern, host of the new Travel Channel show "Bizarre Foods America" came to L.A., he knew he had to make a really great episode in tribute to what he sees as a premiere food city. more ›

More Cheese On the Alleged Heroin Burrito Smuggler: Deputy Flunked Out of "The Academy" on Reality TV Show

More Cheese On the Alleged Heroin Burrito Smuggler: Deputy Flunked Out of "The Academy" on Reality TV Show

The LASD deputy who allegedly smuggled heroin into jail via a burrito also happens to have been one of the participants of "The Academy," a Fox reality show in which he "was portrayed as the dim-witted class bumbler." more ›

Wanna Catch A TV Or Movie Shoot? Head To Griffith Park

Wanna Catch A TV Or Movie Shoot? Head To Griffith Park

Cinema and television-obsessed, mark Griffith Park as your number one go-to spot to spy a production shoot. The iconic site boasts the number one spot as 2011's top offlot L.A. shooting location. The park reportedly housed 346 permitted days for its main address last year. more ›

Megan Mullally Confirms 'Party Down' Movie Is A GO!

Megan Mullally Confirms 'Party Down' Movie Is A GO!

"Party Down" fans, the new year brings good news for one of your favorite cancelled TV shows. Chatter surrounding whether or not the L.A.-based show will grace the silver screen was confirmed on Sunday by series star Megan Mullally. more ›

2012 Writers Guild Awards Nominations: The Complete List

2012 Writers Guild Awards Nominations: The Complete List

Nominees for the Writers Guild Awards were announced today by the Writers Guild of America (WGA), honoring the men and women who pen the stories, characters and reports the world later becomes smitten by on the silver screen, television sets and via the radio waves. more ›

Former 'SNL' Writer Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in Hollywood Hotel

Former 'SNL' Writer Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in Hollywood Hotel

Joe Bodolai, a former writer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live," was found dead in a hotel room in Hollywood. TMZ reports that "cops recovered a bottle of antifreeze and Gatorade in the hotel room ... and it's likely his death was due to consumption of the toxic chemical." more ›

Video: It's Festivus For the Rest of Us!

Video: It's Festivus For the Rest of Us!

Gather up your aluminum pole, prepare to perform some feats of strength, and get ready to air your grievances. Yes, it's Festivus, the non-holiday holiday for the rest of us. Or at least the holiday beloved by "Seinfeld" fans and people who are distracted by tinsel. Enjoy! more ›

69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominees: The Complete List

69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominees: The Complete List

Nominees were announced this morning in the 25 categories of awards handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes. Gerard Butler, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones and Sofia Vergara joined HFPA President Dr. Aida Takla-O'Reilly for the announcement from the Beverly Hilton. more ›

AFI Names Movies & TV Shows of 2011: A Year of "Bridesmaids" and "Breaking Bad"

AFI Names Movies & TV Shows of 2011: A Year of "Bridesmaids" and "Breaking Bad"

You may still be compiling your list of the best in film and television of this year, but the American Film Institute has just released their selection of what they're hailing as the 10 best movies and television programs of 2011. more ›

A Peek Inside the Surprising Pasts of Famous Folks: Talking With "The Mortified Sessions" Host & Creator David Nadelberg

A Peek Inside the Surprising Pasts of Famous Folks: Talking With "The Mortified Sessions" Host & Creator David Nadelberg

How does a tattered notebook crammed with doodles and poems, a prom picture, an essay written in penciled block letters, or an unsent love letter saved in a shoebox or album shape who we are today? We talk to David Nadelberg, host and creator of the new series "The Mortified Sessions" to find out. more ›

Conan O'Brien De-Gays Christmas

Conan O'Brien De-Gays Christmas

In response to a Michigan music teacher who has sparked controversy over the removal of the word "gay" from the beloved Christmas song "Deck the Halls," America's favorite ginger Conan O'Brien produced a product that we can all now cross off our Christmas lists. He de-gayed Christmas music with Straight-Up Christmas: Vol. I. more ›

LAist Interview: Leeza Gibbons

LAist Interview: Leeza Gibbons

Leeza Gibbons is co-host of "America Now," a daily newsmagazine that will inevitably be on air in Los Angeles. We had the chance to talk to Gibbons about this new show as well as her considerable career in entertainment news reporting. more ›

Baby's Got Backlash: JLo's Bronx Love Letter Fiat Ad Deemed Fakery

Baby's Got Backlash: JLo's Bronx Love Letter Fiat Ad Deemed Fakery

Uh oh: Jennifer Lopez's street cred (eye roll) is totally in peril. The singer-actress-pitchgal is being criticized for filming her homage to her hometurf, the Bronx, on the smooth streets of Beverly Hills in her latest TV ad for Fiat. more ›

Amy Poehler Wins Power of Comedy Award, Promises More Female Programming

Amy Poehler Wins Power of Comedy Award, Promises More Female Programming

Amy Poehler won Variety's Power of Comedy Award on Saturday, staking the claim as the first woman to do so. Her acceptance speech jabbed at Will Ferrell then weaved in and out of her crass humor and genuine advocacy for cancer awareness. The ears of feminists perked up as she promised, "I will take this honor seriously, and I'm gonna use my newly acquired power to create television shows that highlight issues important to women." more ›

Why L.A. Chefs Are Happier, and Fondue As Food Trend: An Interview With 'Chef Hunter' Carrie McCully

Why L.A. Chefs Are Happier, and Fondue As Food Trend: An Interview With 'Chef Hunter' Carrie McCully

What happens when a popular restaurant needs a new head chef? For some, the answer is to put in a call to Carrie McCully, a chef recruiter. Considering America's fascination with the restaurant biz, it's no surprise that what McCully does has become the focal point of a new Food Network show, "Chef Hunter." more ›

Academy Confirms: Billy Crystal Will Return As Oscars Host For 9th Time

Academy Confirms: Billy Crystal Will Return As Oscars Host For 9th Time

It's a rumor no more: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced late yesterday that funnyman Billy Crystal will indeed return to host the Oscars in 2012. more ›

'Beavis and Butt-Head' Are BACK & 'Dumber Than Ever'

'Beavis and Butt-Head' Are BACK & 'Dumber Than Ever'

In case you haven't heard or have banned MTV from your life, "Beavis and Butt-Head" have been revived and are gracing the network with their infectious laughs, crass humor, extreme stupidity and fart jokes. The series returned on October 27 and airs Thursdays at 10pm. Huh-huh-uh-huh, cool. more ›

Conan O'Brien to Officiate Televised Same-Sex Wedding

Conan O'Brien to Officiate Televised Same-Sex Wedding

America's favorite ginger Conan O'Brien will personally perform a same-sex wedding during tonight's show on TBS. Airing from NYC, the event marks the first same-sex wedding on late night television. Please note: The wedding is not a comedy bit. It's a "real, legally binding, same-sex marriage between our show's costume designer, Scott Cronick, and his partner, David Gorshein," explains Conan during last night's mention of the upcoming nuptials. more ›

Heads Up, Burbank: Obama to Include 'Tonight Show' Appearance in Next Week's L.A. Visit

Heads Up, Burbank: Obama to Include 'Tonight Show' Appearance in Next Week's L.A. Visit

Heeeeeeeeere's Barack! On his next visit to Los Angeles, President Barack Obama will make a stop in beautiful downtown Burbank to tape an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Tuesday's guesting will mark Obama's fourth time on the Leno show, says The Daily News. more ›

Underage 'Hannah Montana' Star Arrested for DUI

Underage 'Hannah Montana' Star Arrested for DUI

A 20-year-old Disney Channel star was busted Sunday in Burbank on suspicion he was driving under the influence. Mitchel Musso played Oliver Oken on the kid-friendly network's popular Miley Cyrus vehicle "Hannah Montana." more ›

Warning: Your Sony LCD TV Might Spontaneously Combust

Warning: Your Sony LCD TV Might Spontaneously Combust

Are things heating up on your favorite television show? Or, is it your television set that's heating up so much it could catch on fire? Sony has announced a recall of their 40" Bravia LCD HDTV sets after learning that a component inside the TV "may overheat and at times ignite inside." more ›

Hey! Who Wants to Suck on Some <s>True</s> Tru Blood?

Hey! Who Wants to Suck on Some True Tru Blood?

Just in time for Halloween, what makes more sense than sucking back a bottled beverage made in the spirit of HBO's biting drama, "True Blood"? Tru Blood Beverage, which debuted for sale two years ago via HBO's online shop, is now available in the flesh in plastic bottles at your neighborhood BevMo! more ›

Hey Dick, Look Out for that Ottoman: Celebrating a Classic TV Moment

Hey Dick, Look Out for that Ottoman: Celebrating a Classic TV Moment

"The Dick Van Dyke Show" is the kind of classic television you used to tune in to Nick at Nite for (before they went pseudo-retro with reruns of "The George Lopez Show," WTF?). But if you've never actually seen the show, you probably still know just one moment from its beloved and goofy opening, when Van Dyke takes a pratfall over the ottoman in the Petrie living room. more ›

Dorothy's Dress, Scarlett's Curtains & Other Iconic Costumes Part of New Exhibit at Chinese Theatre

Dorothy's Dress, Scarlett's Curtains & Other Iconic Costumes Part of New Exhibit at Chinese Theatre

Sometimes it's the treasures of yesteryear that keep Hollywood fresh. Such could be the case with the next chapter in the history of Hollywood's cherished Chinese Theatre, which is hosting their first-ever exhibit of memorabilia. The exhibit, the "Hollywood Legends" collection, includes almost 1,000 costumes from beloved films and television shows. more ›

The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: A Complete List of Winners

The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: A Complete List of Winners

Did you watch the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night? The show that celebrates great television can often leave a lot to be desired when it comes to being great television itself. Twitter chatter last night during the live broadcast at 5 p.m. local time, and the re-broadcast at 8 p.m. indicate mixed reviews of the show. more ›

What Will the Stars Eat & Drink After The Emmy Awards?

       

The Hollywood-ites who will be in attendance Sunday night for the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards get to follow up the ceremony with a swank party called the Governors Ball. Find out what they'll be eating and drinking (and seeing) at the shindig. more ›

Andy Whitfield, Star of TV's 'Spartacus,' Dead at 39

Andy Whitfield, Star of TV's 'Spartacus,' Dead at 39

Actor Andy Whitfield, who starred in the television series Spartacus: Blood & Sand, died Sunday following an 18-month-long battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 39. more ›

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