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While public television has a reputation of stuffiness with TV classics like "Masterpiece Theatre" and "Nova" documentaries, public radio, especially here in Los Angeles, is on the cutting edge of music and news reporting. Keeping that edge sharp on the music side is KCRW's (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) morning music show "Morning Becomes Eclectic." MBE celebrates is 30th anniversary this week. To celebrate, the station is offering special programming today. The three DJs, Tom Schnabel,...

I've complained about the scheduling of my beloved Trojans' games in recent years. We seem to have had a lot of late starts. 5:00, 5:30, 7:30pm... someone seemed determined to maintain the oft-speculated upon "East Coast bias" by making sure half the country was getting into bed before USC had finished its first quarter of ball. My feelings were reinforced when I saw that this year there are only three games that start by 1:30pm...

Talk show host, real estate mogul, crooner and all-around entertainer Merv Griffin has died. He was 82. Merv got his first big break as a singer with band leader Freddy Martin at L.A.'s Coconut Grove in 1948. He parlayed his singing career into acting in feature films in the 1950s. He jumped from the big to the small screen and found success as a game show host and sometime guest host for Jack Paar on...

Some around town feel that it's hip to dislike KCRW, but this LAist is a fan. It was the music programming that got me at first, but nowadays I'm sure that I listen to as much or more of the news and talk programs as I do the music. Plus, what with the internets and podcasting that all the kids are into these days, I can listen to any show any time I want....

It seems unlikely that I actually saw it, but I'd swear to you that I was up on the night that Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics destroyed a car on the Tomorrow Show. I would have been nearing the end of eighth grade and I can't imagine that my parents let me stay up, but it sure feels like I did. That's the problem and the beauty of current technology. We can't really remember...

LAist sometimes is invited to parties. Sometimes it's a backyard BBQ. Sometimes it's a dinner party. Sometimes it's LAist's friend's two-year-old's birthday party. However, sometimes it's a Hollywood film production company's high school-themed summer party where every girl dresses up as a slutty Catholic school girl....

Dreamworks and Paramount moved up the release of their summer blockbuster Transformers from 7/4/7 to 7/2/7 when someone realized that opening on Monday instead of Wednesday means you have what may be the very first seven-day opening weekend. If you're like me, you saw the trailers a few weeks ago and thought, "Hey, that looks cool." If you did think that, you won't feel cheated when you celebrate your independence from British rule by...