Tony Pierce

Billy Corgan got the band back together, sorta, and the Smashing Pumpkins are really going to have a new record this summer. James Iha probably won't be on it, and our girlfriend D'arcy or our other girlfriend Melissa Auf der Maur will probably also be replaced, but Billy and Jimmy Chamberlin didn't do us wrong on Zwan, and that rhymes with bring it on. LA street art pioneer and Obey founder Shepard Fairey's official...

Coca-Cola worked out a deal yesterday where they will pay off four plantiffs $500 each plus lawyers fees because two of their soft drinks - Fanta Pineapple and Vault Zero - were discovered to contain ingredients that can form cancer-causing benzene. And Coke will give them newer versions of the soda that now has less of the cancer-causing chemicals. Mmmmmm. While we're grateful to the plaintiffs for suing the sugar water giant, the incredibly...

- FBI Top 10 Most Wanted caught in Canada. The former Long Beach gun club president accused of child molestation - AP - 150 people in the North Hollywood Washington Mutual were evacuated by firefighters because of fumes. 11 taken to the hospital - Daily News - NBC is spinning off "Heroes" after just one season - AP - Maypole erected in front of Brentwood girls school - LAT - Researchers discover that the...

If you set your TiVo to record the GOP debates tonight on C-SPAN you're SOL. Unlike the previous debates that were shown on MSNBC, and allowed by NBC to be broadcast on the cable channel, Fox isn't playing as nicely. The CBS News blog Public Eye has the scoop: Public Eye has learned that Fox News Channel refused C-SPAN's request to simulcast the debate on C-SPAN radio, as well as the opportunity to rebroadcast...

- You've come a long way baby. Maxim ditches the usual suspects (models, actresses, hookers, waitresses) and celebrates the sexiest comedian of our time, next to Gallagher of course - egotastic - Talk about burying the lede... magician du jour Criss Angel spotting partying with Cameron Diaz AND Drew Barrymore. If that dude has any magical powers he would have dressed up as Lucy Liu and played Charlie's Angels 4 with the pair all...

Most would think that a five-year-run on a tv series on a major network would be a huge success. Five years would especially seem successful for a show that no one ever talked about, cared about, or even noticed. One that got walloped when put up against the likes of American Idol, and had to be moved to four different time slots. Indeed, one might think that the fact that the George Lopez show...

Say what you will about traffic in LA, people driving while texting, and tailgaters boiling over with road rage, but according to AutoVantage, a Connecticut-based auto club, similar to AAA, Miami is home to more road-ragers than LA, so take that Florida. For the second year in a row Miami has claimed the dubious crown of having the meanest, worst, angriest, and dumbest commuters who run red lights, talk on their phones, and slam...

Meat Puppets @ The Troubadour Lily Allen @ The Wiltern Great Northern, The Movies, Twilight Sleep @ The Echo Storm Large & the Balls, Black Halo, Derek McKeith @ Viper Room Insane Clown Posse @ Grove of Anaheim The Fizzies @ The Bordello Hello Dragon, The Press Fire @ Silverlake Lounge Low Stars, Stonehoney, Leroy Powell, Velella Velella & Point Juncture @ The Hotel Cafe Drop Dead Gorgeous, Set Your Goals, Alesana, A Day...

The infamous leader of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, the PTL, the National Liberty Journal, Liberty University, and the Moral Majority was found dead this morning in his office at Liberty Univeristy in Virginia. The controversial televangelist used his influence to push his agenda of conservative intolerance onto the Republican party who accepted it and enable it even today. That sort of influence hasn't always sat well with all Republicans. John McCain in 2000...

Dear LAist, Did you see Entourage last night? When Drama drove to Variety to beat the ass of the TV critic Paul Schneider, was that really Michael Schneider who also is a critic at Variety, appears on E!, and runs the Franklin Avenue blog? Also, where can I get that AD/HD shirt? Nancy, North Hollywood Dear Nancy, We thought the same damn thing! However, if we had tuned into the Franklin Ave. blog on...