Carolyn Kellogg

Hooray for the homeless! The LA County Board of Supervisors has approved the $100 million plan to build 5 major homeless shelters and service centers at points around the county. This should relieve the concentration of homeless in downtown LA. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky called the move "a historic investment." What do you do to get the Mayor's attention when he's busy talking to national media on immigration? Disrupt the fluffy "Crash Day" ceremony in...

At left: Katie Holmes leaving Tiffany's Beverly Hills yesterday (via Just Jared) At right: Mia Farrow with director Roman Polanski on the steps of Tiffany's while filming Rosemary's Baby. Just a coincidence, we're sure. tags: katie holmes spawn...

It's time to redeem '80s era David Bowie. Look at the adorable floppy yellow hair, the highwaisted yellow pants. He's always been a handsome devil, that Bowie, and his 1983 look is very 2006 fashion forward. LAist and the friendly folks at Filter are giving away 2 DVDs. Just fill in the form below. Three songs from "Let's Dance" are on this concert DVD, recent re-released with a bonus documentary. There are tons of...

Hello Klimt: Maria Altmann, the 90-year-old Angeleno who won a long dispute with the Austrian government over 5 paintings taken from her family by the Nazis, has loaned those paintings to LACMA; they go on display today. The museum characterizes all of the paintings as masterpieces; they include 2 familiar portraits of Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer. A long goodbye: Never fear, the Dutton's in Beverly Hills and Brentwood are safe. But literary types are...

Bunnies, schmunnies. The unholy folks behind the 1947 Project are revving up their crime bus for a half-day excursion on Easter Sunday, April 16th, from noon to 5pm. This time they're calling it the Nightmares of Bunker Hill; it will tour downtown LA and tell tales, we're guessing, of nefarious activities on and around the Bunker Hill of yesteryear. Most of Bunker Hill was covered by grand old houses that got chopped up into...

Madonna has announced a world tour, including 14 dates in North America. "I'm going to turn the world into one big dance floor," she says in her press release. So far, the world only includes the US, Canada and Europe. Which is probably as it should be; the Kabbalah-loving Material Girl in Baghdad sounds like a really crummy idea. If you're a Madonna fan (are there still Madonna fans?) you'll be thrilled that the...

Tonight UCLA goes up against the Florida in the NCAA college basketball finals. If you missed the Bruin victory over LSU, never fear: this clip gives the Cliff's Notes version so you'll be prepped for tonight's big test....

The LA Times looks inside Schwarzenegger's Governorship and finds the Governator "difficult to predict," "mercurial," "fun," Democrat-kissing and peach-schnapps-drinking. We're thinking "loose cannon." The Daily News scrutizes the DWP's budget and doesn't like employee perks like a choir, breastfeeding classes and training. A rate hike is in the works so they're a little cranky — axing a $28,000 choir program won't save our current rates. Yesterday 5 bicyclists started a 33-day, 3,000-mile ride from...

Starting today, two websites are allowing movie downloads with the blessings of Hollywood, according to a Marketplace report we caught this morning. Studios say that now they'll release movies for download as they come out on DVD. And while we're not convinced that we want to watch King Kong on a laptop, we headed on over to MovieLink and CinemaNow to check it out. Well boy howdy, no Flight Plan or Transporter 2 for...

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley...