Subject: Howard Stern

• LAFF 2007: And So It Begins

  [Part one of an ongoing series of reports from the Los Angeles Film Festival] Parking spaces in Westwood are like special offers in spam emails -- if you think you’ve got a good one, it’s almost certainly too good to be true. So naturally, the super-sweet street space I pulled into at around 5:45 p.m. turned out to have a malfunctioning meter. Sensing a premiere night, some of the local parking lots were upping their rates to $20, but the good old reliable basement of Rite-Aid was still onl

  June 22, 2007

• Wally Wipeouts!

  The call for fans to bring forth their own Wally George archives continues to be heeded, this time by an enterprising YouTube user named Billybopper1, who has compiled thirteen montages of Wally getting prank calls live on the air. Long before Howard Stern's penis and Baba Booey became call-in catchphrases, the best recurring phone pranks involved Wally's impotence. It isn't clear whether Wally simply couldn't afford a call screener or didn't want one -- it's evident watching these highlights t

  December 24, 2007

• Daily Pilot Publishes Ignorant Prudes!

  Today, the Daily Pilot published a piece by freelance writer Steve Smith in which he takes issue with my Feb. 10 op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times (where I'm a contributing editor) criticizing its bowdlerized edits regarding stories (the passing of former Nixon Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and new Times owner Sam Zell's f-you to an Orlando Sentinel photographer) where an obscenity is the story. "Contrary to popular belief, neither story is better with the bad language included," Smith

  February 26, 2008

• Porn and Taxes

  Getting stiffed by a porn star took on a whole new meaning Monday when Huntington Beach's Janine Lindemulder was arraigned in federal court for allegedly failing to pay about $80,000 in income taxes, The Smoking Gun reports today. The racktacular 39-year-old entered a not guilty plea and was released without bail. A Sept. 16 trial was set. Smoking Gun's item includes a copy of the original charging document that was filed June 18 in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon. Lindemulder, who moved

  July 17, 2008

• Darn It, There are Still Some Single Gay People

  March 11, 2004

• The Most Blatant Case of False Advertising Since 'The Neverending Story'

  Look, I don't think it's too much to ask for an album called "Dog Tracks: Songs By Dogs" to feature, I dunno—songs by dogs? I was incredibly excited when the album came in the mail today. Who could blame me? Dogs are cool, I like music. It seems like a winning proposition. So imagine my horror when I popped the CD in and realized that is, in fact, a wholesale farce. The songs are actually by humans. Yeah, WTF, right? There are already plenty of albums by humans, a.k.a every other album in the

  October 28, 2008

• On-Sale Saturday: OK Go, Killers of Comedy, More

  Not the busiest of week for on-sale dates, but we've still got OK Go (in case anyone needs to score a wacky montage scene from a sitcom circa 2006), a bunch of Howard Stern Show personalities, and more.

  December 19, 2008

• Looking Back at 2008: The Celeb-Reality Edition

  It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who opined that a new truth is better than an old celebrity-tinged news item, or at least he would have opined that had he lived in our celeb-obsessed times. So it is in that spirit these 15 Orange County brushes with famous folks in '08 are unveiled.   1) Newport Beach city officials revealed in January they were trying to acquire the statue of their adopted Favorite Son, John Wayne, that moseys in front of the Larry Flynt building in Los Angeles. Back when

  January 2, 2009

• Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 24, 2008

• Old School Hip-Hop: Back from the Dead

  I've been a Sirius Satellite subscriber (hello alliteration) since the night before Howard Stern broadcast his first censorship-free show. But in that time, I've come to love certain aspects of the other channels and have recommended this product to everyone from friends to my parents.Sirius and XM, its competitor, merged a few months ago after what seemed like an endless battle to turn two into one. To be honest, I didn't follow the merger as much as I should have because ultimately, I really d

  January 28, 2009

• Everyday Normal Guy

  Am I way behind the times? Or maybe this video isn't that popular (yet), but either way, I'm sharing it with you.The song's called "Everyday Normal Guy" by a comedian named Jon Lajoie. Now, thanks to the Howard Stern Show, my tolerance for parody music usually lasts about 30 seconds, but I actually got through this entire tune and didn't feel like I wasted my time.And the funny thing is, for a non-rapper, this Lajoie guy can kinda flow. If you dig this, Lajoie is playing two gigs a night April 1

  March 17, 2009

• Richard Christy's new metal band

  No, that's new nu-metal, but new, as in not old. Anyway, Richard Christy, famed metal drummer and the dude who does all sorts of gay shit on the Howard Stern Show, has put together an all-star metal group. I'd tell you all about it, but just read this. "Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the signing of Richard Christy's new project, Charred Walls of the Damned! This newly formed outfit features some of the most talented musicians in metal. Their collective experience is colossal an

  May 18, 2009

• The Unbearable Burden of Lightness

  August 24, 2000

• ¡Ask a Mexican!®

  February 7, 2008

• The Red-Light District of Language

  August 4, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  September 6, 2007

• Its a Mans World

  August 14, 2003

• Gospel Without God

  Lavender Diamond preach love and peace with beautiful simplicity

  July 12, 2007

• It's a Living

  Party clown

  March 1, 2007

• It's a Living

  Party clown

  February 22, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Jan. 10-Jan. 16
  

  January 18, 2007

• The Year in Letters

  Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

  December 28, 2006

• Suburban Jungle Boogie

  August 3, 2006

• Letters

  February 2, 2006

• Letters

  January 26, 2006

• First Person

  January 12, 2006

• Burning Bush: The Issue

  A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

  October 7, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Letters

  April 1, 2004

• Letters

  March 18, 2004

• Sweet and Loh Down

  March 11, 2004

• Burning Bush

  March 4, 2004

• Rally Round the Racist

  March 4, 2004

• E-GATE

  February 12, 2004

• The Blame Game

  November 13, 2003

• Frozen Assets

  October 23, 2003

• Death Watch

  October 16, 2003

• On the Outside Looking In

  September 18, 2003

• Oscar, Oscar, Oscar

  March 28, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 31, 2002

• Superstars of Special Ed

  August 10, 2000

• Surprise!

  May 11, 2000

• Mostly, Its about Sex, Mostly

  August 12, 1999

• Incoming: AC/DC, Beyoncé Coming to Honda Center (Separately)

  Attention, single ladies (and others): Beyoncé, will soon be touring behind her third mega-popular solo record, this one with the much-mocked title I Am...Sasha Fierce (Ben Westhoff reviewed it for us here when it came out last fall, check out the hilarious comments he attracted: "BBBBB I LOVE U GIRL. ALWAYS HAVE BUT THIS CD IS WHACK AS HELL! IT'S TOO WHITE AND TOO POP! THE LYRICS ARE COOL BUR THE MUSIC SIDE IS WHACK"). How this affects us: she'll be coming to the Honda Center in Anaheim on Jul

  April 20, 2009

• Jaime Pressly Returns to Costa Mesa, South Coast Plaza

  UPDATED WITH CORRECT LOCATION! My Name is Earl and I Love You, Man's Jaime Pressly returns home Wednesday to sign books at the South Coast Plaza Barnes & Noble Borders Books. Well, at least the North Carolina-born actress attended Costa Mesa High School while living with her classical dance instructor mother, who had moved to Southern California while in the process of divorcing Pressly's used car salesman and laundry king father.By 14, Jamie had already become a spokesperson for her m

  April 6, 2009

• Recommendation From Me to You

  Maybe you noticed I didn't blog last week. Or maybe you didn't. OK, you probably didn't. Anyway, I hit the road and spent the week in Portland, Ore., a city I hope to call home one day. The trip was amazing -- tons of killer vegan food, the weather was nice and the beer flowed all day and all night. But perhaps the coolest part of the vacation was the fact that I "discovered" Amy Winehouse.Yes folks, three years after she became a household name, I finally heard Back to Black and guess what? It'

  August 10, 2009

• Five Balloon Boy Jams!

  ​Since we know he's OK and all that by this point, this is in good taste, right?

  October 15, 2009

• Outgoing: Killers of Comedy at the Grove of Anaheim

  ​Shalom, everybody. The Killers of Comedy Show scheduled for Friday at the Grove of Anaheim has been canceled, somewhat mysteriously. Refunds available at the point of purchase.

  September 24, 2009

• Eight Questions with 'Howard Stern Show' Regular Shuli

  ​Shuli Egar is a hard-working man. When he's not covering breaking news stories such as the Craptacular (two guys competing to see who could shit the most over a 24-hour period) for the Howard 100 News team on Sirius Satellite Radio, he's hosting the Miserable Men show every Sunday, contributing to the team on The Jay Thomas Show or traveling across the country nearly every weekend to perform stand-up comedy. Oh yeah, he's also having his first child--a daughter--in March. The 35-year-old is p

  September 22, 2009

• How I Almost Attended Warped Tour 2009

  Robert FayetteMy biggest media hero is Howard Stern. There are many valuable lessons one can take from him, but probably the biggest is simply how honest he is with his audience. In the old days of radio, the rule of thumb was that even if the building was on fire while you were on air, you would never let anyone listening know--you would just plow forward and keep acting like everything is fine. Stern, of course, changed all that. If something fell down in the studio and made a weird noise on-a

  June 29, 2009