Corey Podell

Did you know it will be the Year of the Pig beginning February 18th? Zen Zoo Tea Cafe knows it and is moving up their News Years festivities to this Saturday, February 10th from 12-3pm. With activities like Chinese candy making, Tea 101, and the steady crowd pleaser of martial arts demos, Zen Zoo is the place to say good-bye to the Dog and hello to the Pig. This is YOUR year if you...

Everyone's favorite inappropriate Jewess next door, Sarah Silverman, now has her own TV show on Comedy Central, aptly titled The Sarah Silverman Program. This makes people like me, who have been fans since her one year featured player gig on SNL in the early nineties, extremely happy. Or giddy. Or joyous. Whatever. But even if you're new to the world of SS, it's still really funny, like I watched it completely sober but thought...

Tongue and Groove, a monthly spoken word/music happening around town, took place tonight at The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. Coordinated by Conrad Romo, who LA Weekly called "a friend to creatures both great and small", this event included readings from both unknown LA writers, and those who've been around the block, namely Mike the Poet, who has done over one hundred readings in and around LA this past year. He loves Los Angeles and isn't...

Last night I found myself deep into the hipster scene at the Echo. The usual Silver Lake crowd was there, along with a smattering of underage Bel Air brace-faces. After braving the rain, I caught the last two songs of the Mezzanine Owls, an Angeleno band with a solid following. After performing a Husker Du cover, the Mezzanine Owls' last song sounded like Early Flaming Lips a la Clouds Taste Metallic with that velvety...

Jennifer Aniston has not-so-secret nose job - TMZ Everyone is still pissed at Isaiah Washington - perezhilton All the rehab residents are pissed at Lindsay - glitterati George Clooney and Pam Anderson are an unlikely couple - daily dish Baby Spice is Preggers - Dlisted Britney's back at work with the tots - celebrity baby blog Madge and fam hit the red carpet. Her daughter has pretty hair. - A socialite's Life Photo by: Noeluap's...

No worries for all you out of work, over-the-hill actors out there -- there is hope. Consider Jackie Earle Haley, former child star and recent pizza delivery man. Haley is a surprise Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Ronnie McGorvey in the drama Little Children. Haley reached the peak of his fame in the seventies as Kelly Leak, the freckle-faced, motorcycle riding, bad-ass leader of the Bad News Bears baseball...

Need a one-stop shop for all things fashion? Look no further than Intuition, located at 10581 West Pico Blvd. With trendy clothing for women, men, babies, women who are preggers with babies, lingerie, accessories, body products, and even pet attire -- dealing with the nightmare of the Beverly Center parking garage is a problem no more. Intuition was opened in 1999 by twenty-five year fashion industry veteran Jaye Hersh in an effort to pay...

Everyone who knows me knows about my undying love of all things Sarah Silverman. I adore her edgy fearlessness and her complete inappropriateness. But...there may be a new idol on my block, named Chelsea Handler -- a comedienne, actress, and now writer. Her new book, My Horizontal Life: A collection of One Night Stands, is out. And it's amazing. You may know her from the Oxygen Network's gag show "Girls Behaving Badly" or from...

Yesterday, as I was perusing my usual celebrity gossip websites in hopes of avoiding any productive work, I came across a blurb that stopped me dead in my tracks. Sure, I've heard the rumors, but here it was in writing, in actual print. I know gossip sites aren't the most reliable sources, but just go with me here. It is true. The Coreys are going to be starring in a new show together --...

So I've made it through wedding season without any visible scars. Since I've just recently begun my twenty-something rite of passage through these events, I've only been to a handful and yes, I've been seated at the "singles" table at each and every one. For the most part, I've been seated with my girlfriends and other "singles" I knew. Of course there was smattering of the random cousins from Kentucky, the divorced single Dad,...