Hollywood Hills Burn, Sign Spared

Tourists looking up at the landmark Hollywood sign yesterday may have thought for a second that they were watching the production of “The Day After Tomorrow 2;” but the blaze was the result of teenagers playing with fireworks rather than any special effects team.  I originally thought Harry Potter dropped the goblet of fire.

Fresh Pick for March 23-25: ‘The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down’

The best movie about the Los Angeles nightlife scene and the complex ritual known as talking to the opposite sex is “Swingers” featuring Vince “Double Down” Vaughn. The best movie featuring Los Angeles is “Chinatown” or “Heat” – but that’s another debate. A new movie opens today that hopes to challenge the eternal [...]

The A380 Lands in LA, Wingspan Equals 37 Kobe Bryants

Didn’t get a chance to go to LAX this morning and see the historic landing of the Airbus A380? The A380 has a wingspan of 261 feet and can carry 555 passengers or 400,000 snakes.

Fresh Pick for March 16-18: St. Patrick’s Day Shenanigans

If you normally drink at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, you have reason to be excited, as thousands of others will throw rationality out the window and pull up a stool next to you. Whether you’re at Finn McCool’s or Molly Malone’s, raise your pint glasses and slur it with me …
“Here’s to a [...]

‘The O.C’ Cancelled, Then O.C. Home Prices Fall for First Time in a Decade

“You want to stay in Orange County forever? Grow old playing golf and chatting about the NASDAQ?”
- Seth Cohen on “The O.C.”
The median price for homes in Orange Country fell for the first time since November 1996. While most people credit this decline to a cooling real estate market, and not the recent cancellation [...]

LA vs. NY: Which City Has the Best Nightlife?

I love to travel, explore the world and dance at places that require minor miracles for a guy to gain entrance.  New York and Los Angeles may have the highest concentration of these “strict door policy” bars and clubs in this country, so I will affectionately call these cities the heart and soul of [...]

Fresh Pick for March 9-11: My Chemical Romance & ‘300′

My Chemical Romance plays two LA shows this weekend and Frank Miller’s “300″, a movie about the legendary battle between Spartans and Persians in 480 B.C., opens nationwide in theaters today. If the Spartans had iPods, I believe music from My Chemical Romance would be on most of them. Which of the following [...]

Is it Global Warming or Is the Sun Just Angry Once Every 100 Million Years?

Before Al Gore made “An Inconvenient Truth”, there was Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld.” Laughed out of the box office by moviegoers, Mr. Costner was on to something when his character, Mariner, stated “dry land is a myth.” Released in 1995, the movie centered around a society that struggled to live after the polar ice [...]

Mega Millions Jackpot: It’s All About the Three Million Seven Hundred Thousand Benjamins Baby

If you looked around LA today, you noticed that most people had the same color eyes – they weren’t brown or blue, just green.  The 12-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot is at $370 million … the only reason I needed to visit a local convenience store and throw away a few dollars for the chance to beat [...]

Hollywood Blvd. Renamed The Yellow Brick Road

What’s considered evil yet traditionally misunderstood in LA?  I won’t fault you if you guessed the studio system, but it’s actually the Wicked Witch of the West, star of  LA’s new favorite show – Wicked at the Pantages.   If you’ve been living under Dorothy’s house, Wicked is the Broadway musical that is making the broom today’s must-have fashion accessory (no offense [...]