Andy Sternberg

Nokia Theatre was packed Tuesday night for a one-off chat and Q&A at which Steve Martin and Tina Fey expanded on highlights from her new book "Bossypants." What was billed as a summit of two comic writers with recently released books was more of a casual three-way love fest between Martin, Fey and the audience, which laughed and applauded with near-absurd frequency. Carolyn Kellogg's in-depth review at Jacket Copy gets into detail:Fey took the...

Andrew Hyde gets around. The iPhone Tracker app confirms this. (Photo via flickr). Andrew Hyde sold all of his worldly possessions last August and began a trip around the world. He makes no secret of this -- its detailed on his website. We're well aware that personal information becomes vulnerable whenever we agree to the terms of service of yet another fun geo-location mobile app as it typically utilizes information from the phone's positioning...

A hit-and-run driver is at large after striking a 17-year-old bicyclist and fleeing the scene in Canoga Park Wednesday night. German Alex Romero, a senior at Chatsworth High School from Reseda, was pronounced dead at the scene. Romero was riding bicycles along with a 17-year-old friend on northbound De Soto Avenue near Valerio when he was struck from behind by a Toyota Corolla or Camry hatchback, according to the LAPD. The driver then sped away...

Terror in the U.S. no longer sees any color. After nearly a decade, the sun has finally set on the Department of Homeland Security's rainbow of terror color-coded alert system. In the near future, terror as we've feared it will no longer be expressed in terms of the more shocking shades in the spectrum as the department's brand new National Terror Advisory System (NTAS) public guide (pdf) is introduced. "We've been 'orange' since 2006,"...

In between hours of breaking down tape from Sunday's ugly loss to the New Orleans Hornets, Lakers' power forward Lamar Odom received the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award today. Odom started nearly half of the Lakers 82 regular season games this year, primarily due to injury to starting center Andrew Bynum. However, it was his energy off the bench that helped the Lakers through a sometimes-lackadaisical second half of the season, beginning...

The Medical Kush Doctor marijuana dispensary is raided on 4/20 (photo via Venice 311. No better day for a tour of beachfront dispensaries than April 20th, or 4/20, the date/time a bunch of stoners once decided to use as code for smoking the pot. But to walk into a marijuana dispensary, one must have a medical marijuana ID card administered by a county health official (thanks to, yep -- CA Senate Bill 420). But...

Tim Hetherington image via Twitter Academy-Award nominated film director and war photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya Wednesday along with award-winning Getty photographer Chris Hondros, according to Business Insider and ABC News. UPDATE: Later reports indicated that Hetherington was killed in the attack while Hondros and at least one other journalist were seriously wounded. Hondros later died of his wounds at the hospital. Hetherington was last heard from via Twitter on Tuesday: "In...

We almost forgot to post a video for your lunching pleasure today. Y'wanna know why? Afroman will tell you in this, um, blast from the past featuring Jay and Silent Bob.... We'll be keeping an eye out for the budsicle truck. Happy 20th of April. Enjoy!...

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USC is probably the last school in town at which you'd expect to find a student body actively engaged in administrative injustices and campus policy but that may be starting to change. "The tide is beginning to turn as USC continues to upset certain members of its community," said Max Hoiland, one of the student organizers behind the march and rally, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Thursday in the United University Church parking lot.