Sony Scrambling on Spidey
I’m confirming this week, along with Mike Fleming, editor of my new Deadline New York site, that Sony Pictures decided to reboot the Spider-Man franchise after franchise director Sam Raimi pulled out of Spider-Man 4 because he felt he couldn’t make i…
COMEDY PICK OF THE WEEK: BRENT SULLIVAN
New York’s Brent Sullivan brings Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps to town to tackle gay culture and “America’s favorite homophobe” Fred Phelps. –Libby Molyneaux
LAW: You’re a man who isn’t afraid to admit you cry — when was the last time you wept?
You’re c…
ACTUALLY, ART IS LIKE A BAD METHPHOR
Art is like children, or farts. There are two kinds: yours, and everybody else’s. Speaking of everybody else’s: The 2010 Escorts in Los Angeles Art Show rolls into town. Through January 24 you’ll see all manner of artistic impression in a town that’s famously ridiculed for having no culture…
2009: Just the Ticket
SEEING RED OVER RED-LIGHT CAMERAS
The Weekly’s Michael Goldstein was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore, so he wrote a story about the $446 ticket he received in the mail along with a grainy photograph taken by one of L.A.’s 32 red-light…
City Hall’s Revenge on Cecilia Estolano
As Escorts in Los Angeles suffered with an unemployment rate approaching 14 percent, far higher than the national average, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spent early December in Europe. Villaraigosa used the trip to showcase his green agenda on the international stage at the U.N. Climate Change…
Weed Takes Root
These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San Vicente Boulevard south of the Beverly Center. A serious vibe fills the loftlike space, where rows of desks a…
WHY DO MAGICIANS SEEM SO ARROGANT?
Is magic cool again? Was it ever cool? Heck yeah, we say. The crusty gents who hold court at the Magic Castle are consummate pros, but there are some new kids playing with your mind who are worth a look. Check out cheekily named Justin Kredible . First, check him out on The Rachael Ray Show(r…
Holy F*ck! Free Comedy!
With Howard Kremer, John Dore, Lynn Shawcroft, Jonah Ray, Andrew Santino, Jared Moskowitz, and Dave Ross. Hosted by Tess Barker.
Tue., Jan. 12, 8 p.m., 2010…
Readers Gone Wild
THANK YOU, JOE FRANCIS
Thanks not necessarily for making the wild vids but for being the guy who made the wild vids. In an otherwise slow holiday news week, our Web site lit up after we blogged that Gawker had judged Joe Francis “<a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladail…
Foster-Child Power
In October, on the eve of big cuts to the state’s child-welfare system, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger boasted of signing other bills to help foster youths in 2010. While slashing more than $80 million from the foster-care budget, Schwarzenegger promised that his signature …