Carolyn Kellogg

The sassy ladies at LA.comfidential have put together the funniest side-by-side photo of the Hilton sisters ever. What you see here is the less gross half; we recommend checking it out right now....

Jen Sincero is a sexpert, musician, and the author of the bestselling book, The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks and the semi-autobiographical novel, Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer. She currently hosts the weekly sex talk radio show Dr. Happypants on killradio.org. Every week in Living in Sin, Jen provides advice for LA's sexually confused and curious. Got a question for Jen? Ask her. We promise to be discreet — all questions will...

A mid-season series on Oxygen didn't sound promising to us until we read the NY Times review that compared it — favorably! — to AbFab. Two 40-ish women leave their suburban lives and enroll as college freshmen. Cringeworthy at first, it gets increasingly debauched and insane, then mellows out to loopy — and cringeworthy again. The show's stars/creators, Christen Sussin (left) and Carrie Aisley, are veterans of LA's classic comedy hothouse the Groundlings. So...

KCRW, which was in front of the pack when it began podcasting, will kick it up a notch today and begin vcasting. The new downloadable videos should be available through iTunes, although they don't seem to be as of this writing. So far KCRW's vcast plans focus on unsigned artist performances on Morning Becomes Eclectic, with your (pictured) host Nic Harcourt. You know, there used to be a saying about having "a face for...

There is something distasteful that in the week before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Los Angeles Times has decided to run a four-part series that maligns the legacy of one of California's greatest civil rights leaders, Cesar Chavez. Of course, if the foundation is bad, if there is graft and corruption, it should be exposed. There's just something about the timing. We're still plowing through this incredibly long article, but we wonder at...

Houston Sams is a fashion stylist who prefers to work in print doing editorial and advertising, but once in a while relents for a cool project, like Weezer's videos for "Beverly Hills" and "Perfect Situation." She says "I love fashion for the art of it, for the art of expressing one’s ideas through clothing, and the fact that it’s form and function together." Age and Occupation: 37, fashion stylist Home Town: San Antonio, TX...

If you're looking for something to do tonight, why not treat yourself to the last night ever of Blue Bongo. The regular club at Little Pedro's has managed to be dance club, blues club, avant-rock club and artist hangout all at once without ever copping attitude. But Little Pedro's, a chronically underappreciated Moroccan-Spanish hybrid bar, restaurant and club on the southeast edge of downtown's art-n-architecture district finally captured the imagination of a new buyer....

This just in: Tom Delay abandons his bid to return as House Majority Leader. In more local, salacious news, Sarah Bench-Salorio will spend 6 years in prison — the maximum sentence — for sleeping with three boys at the middle school where she taught. She was 27; they were 12 and 13. Also local, but much better for you: the Little Tokyo Farmers Market moves to a new spot today: it'll be at 2nd...

We skipped the speech, so we were taken aback when we looked at the LA Times and found this photo of California's first lady Maria Shriver at Schwarzenegger's State of the State adress last night. We're no Fug Girls, but we have to comment. The fashion bar is not set high in politics. Think Madeline Albright -- fashion plate: no; good Secretary of State: yes. So Maria Shriver, who spent 15 years as a TV...

This morning, in Burbank, a car went up against a Metrolink train and the driver lost. What makes this so awful is that, as far as investigators have been able to determine, all safety mechanisms were working properly. It appears that the car's driver shot past the gates in order to beat the train. You can't beat the train. You may notice that the train was pretty much OK; its passengers were unhurt. And...