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  • Culture

    April 5, 2012

    Get Skin Like a Korean Soap Opera Star

    [Trendzilla] BB cream is the miracle balm that gets your skin dewy

  • Calendar

    March 22, 2012

    Alonzo Bodden

    Brea Improv

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Fans Say the Darndest Things--To 'Simpsons' Creators

    ​The Simpsons' 500th episode is upon us. As tempted as I am to write about my favorite minor characters, couch gags, and guest stars, I suspect you're getting your fill of bloggers' opinions. Instead, I've collected comments from the show's writers, artists, and crew (past and present) about us, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Gustavo Dudamel Appearing on Sesame Street

    ​LA Philharmonic's dashing music director Gustavo Dudamel is guesting on PBS' Sesame Street on Monday, Feb. 6 for the first time ever. Dudamel and Elmo are going to play together by "conducting a sheep playing a violin, an octopus playing the drums and a chorus of penguins singing opera."

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Poor Muppet to Debut on Sesame Street

    ​Sesame Street announced that a new, "poverty-stricken Muppet" will talk about hunger struggles on Sesame Street. Named Muppet Lily, her family deals with "food insecurity,"  and will part of a prime-time special with country singer Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams Paisle ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 22, 2011

    Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels If I Smoke Pot?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talk shows?

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Nastasia Townsend of Bad Girls Club New Orleans Continues Fine OC Reality TV Tradition

    ​"I will gladly go upside a bitch's head if she thinks she wants to try me."-23-year-old Nastasia Townsend, formerly a "shy little girl" from Sacramento before becoming a Huntington Beach blowhard who dreams of owning a strip club, as the end credits roll on tonight's premiere episode of Bad Girls ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Willy Wonka Caps an Unusually Chocolaty Anaheim Weekend

    ​Anaheim does not make Parliament's "Chocolate City" roll call, but that would be an apt name this weekend for the box that holds Disneyland. "Chocolate: The Event" features three days of sweet-making to pimp "Chocolate: The Exhibition" that's up through Sept. 11 at Muzeo Museum. Capping the festi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Michael Voltaggio Among Chefs to Appear at OC Fair

    Flickr User Erik Anestad​Michael Voltaggio, the brooding champion of Top Chef Season 6, will be one of four celebrity chefs who will talk, and perhaps do a cooking demonstration, at the upcoming OC Fair.

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Actor Wendell Pierce To Play B.B. King in Movie Based on Golden Bear Meeting

    ​Actor Wendell Pierce will be starring as B.B. King--the "King of Blues"--in an upcoming film, B.B. King and I. It's based on an encounter that aspiring drummer Michael Zanetis had with B.B. King at the back stage of Huntington Beach venue Golden Bear, after which he became lifelong friends with t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Katharine McPhee

    Segerstom Concert Hall

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    The Daily Show on San Francisco's McDonald's Happy Meal® Toy Ban

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSan Francisco's Happy Meal Banwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire Blog</a>The Daily Show on FacebookBelieve or not, gals and germs, there are movements afoot in Orange County to try to ban fast-food chains ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    The Antidote to Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa Cake

    Behold the antidote to Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa Cake. Watch the video above from my favorite YouTube cooking show Cooking With Dog (scratch that, it's my favorite cooking show on any medium) as a Japanese woman creates a Christmas cake from scratch. She even whips the cream by hand. I repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Real Housewives of Orange County Beefing Up Bisexual, Babelicious, Brazilian Booty Quotient?

    ​RadarOnline.com reports bisexual, "Brazilian Booty" fitness trainer Fernanda Rocha will join The Real Housewives of Orange County cast.And her role will reportedly be "to stir things up."Those who prefer your unreal reality shows shaken, not stirred, consider yourselves warned.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Much Ado About Boobs: Parents Complain About Katy Perry Showing Too Much Skin on Sesame Street

    Sesame Street​It had to happen sooner or later: the inevitable Boob Backlash.After the skirmishes and scuffles of the summer, the innocent bystanders of the Boob Wars have risen up, and they've set their sights on their first targets: Katy Perry on Sesame Street.

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010
  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Watch The Real Housewives of Orange County Trainwreck from the Beginning Starting Today

    ​Bravo will not start airing the sixth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County until January, but you can start watching seasons 1-5 in consecutive order starting today.As part of NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution's nationwide syndication deal for the Real Housewives franchise, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    The Daily Show Fake News Report on Confucius Classroom Apparently Airs Tonight

    ​Jay Chen, a member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education, informs on his Facebook page that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on a district school's controversial Confucius Classroom airs tonight."My Daily Show interview with Aasif re: our Chinese Class is sch ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Natasha Leggero

    Irvine Improv

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2010

    Food Network Chef Arrested in Alleged Murder-For-Hire Plot

    ​LA-based chef Juan-Carlos Cruz, who hosted the cooking show Calorie Commando on the Food Network from 2004-2006, has been arrested and is being held in LA County Jail for allegedly asking homeless men to commit murder.  One of the homeless men went to police, upon which "investigators l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    The Daily Show Snubs Anti-Commie Chinese Activist Kai Chen

    See no Kai Chen.​This post mentioned how cameras from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were going to be at Thursday night's Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education meeting, where activists planned to protest a "Confucius Classroom" coming to a middle school.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Team Coco Alert! Conan O'Brien Stage Show Lands in LA

    ​Conan O'Brien's live comedy/music review, which is aptly titled "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television," lands April 24-25 at Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, poignantly close to where the tall drink of redhead taped The Tonight Show before NBC fucked him over.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Comic: Leno's "Tonight Show" Rise Mirrors Nixon's Political Rise

    ​By the time you read this, the ink may already be dry on a $30 million to $40 million settlement that would allow Conan O'Brien to leave NBC so Jay Leno can reclaim The Tonight Show.Meanwhile, one of the many comedians backing CoCo has compared Leno's late-night TV ascension to the political maki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    "Consuming Kids" Screening Launches Mothers Against Nickelodeon

    ​Two Orange-based moms launch The Mothers Against Nickelodeon, which is critical of the cable channel's marketing to children, with a free Chapman University screening Thursday of a film critical of "the commercialization of childhood."

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    Loni Love

    Brea Improv

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2009

    Network

    Bay Theater

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    See Dick Run . . . Away From Indoctrination Into the Gay Vegan Godless Proletarian Revolution!

    ​Katharine DeBrecht, a Fox News favorite who has already foisted onto young minds Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, has written a follow-up titled Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!, an anti-Obama screed she boasts is "a hilarious and entertaining way ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Top Chef Masters To Return For Second Season

    Bravo TVIt was Restaurant Wars last week in Top Chef: Las Vegas, and finally this season, things got interesting. Now I've never been a fan of Top Chef when the show focuses on the extracurricular antics of the cheftestants -- the head shaving incidents of Season 2 and the hidden-camera canoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    LATE SLIP: Alex's Bar = Fangtasia in 'True Blood'

    ​So, apparently everyone else already knew this a year ago, but apparently Alex's Bar in Long Beach is used as the location for "Fangtasia," the vampire bar on HBO drama True Blood, currently in its second season.I just learned this yesterday through a post on The District's site. I posted about i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Dishney: Disney Profits Drop 26%, Conan O'Brien Laughs

    The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - Disney CutbacksA few weeks ago, the Walt Disney Company reported a 26 percent drop in profits, thanks to a decline at its many theme parks and media networks like ABC and ESPN.  Conan O'Brien, meanwhile, offered his own suggestions on how Disneyland should ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2009

    Top 5 Reasons Why I Like "Top Chef Masters" More Than "Top Chef"

    Bravo TV1. They don't live together. The first shots of the show isn't of the cheftestants waking up from bed in their undies, yawning, and brushing their teeth. Another plus of not having them shoved into the same living quarters: No possibility of head shaving incidents, hidden-camera kanoodli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Dat Phan

    Irvine Improv

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Before it Gets Old: Lazytown/Lil Jon Mashup

    UPDATE: The original video has disappeared, thanks to "a copyright claim by Lazy Town Entertainment." What, they don't like lines like "grab a dick, it's yours bitch" associated with their kids' show? Bizarre! I put up another (still-extant as of 4:26 p.m. PST on Dec. 4) upload of it, but I doubt th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    Backyardigans

    Backyardigans

  • Film

    June 19, 2008
  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    If Anyone Cares About Bowling Or OC Reality Shows

    Last night some new fancy schmancy bowling alley called Strike had a grand opening party in Tustin. Yes, bowling alleys are the next thing to hop on the glam wagon. And several reality show stars (or former stars) from The Hills and Real Housewives Of OC showed up because... hell, who knows. He ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 24, 2008

    I Want to Believe

    Lisa Williams

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2007

    Yo Gabba Gabba contract -officially- renewed

    Feature writer Shawn Smith has the latest on the psychedelic kiddie show scene: The gamble paid off. Yo Gabba Gabba creators Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz (our cover boys a few weeks back) got the news they’ve been waiting for. Yo Gabba Gabba, the frenetically fun kids show with the dancing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    Long Beach Colbert-o-scam?

    On the October 16 episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, television news anchor and Emmy nominee Stephen Colbert announced that he was "officially considering" whether or not he would announce if he was considering running for President of the United States, and would make that ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 26, 2007

    No Deal

    Robbie Miller thinks inside the box

  • Film

    February 15, 2007

    A Royal Flush

    OnDVD: Marie Antoinette

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Dopey and Sleepy

    In Harry Shearers America, there are more small people

  • Culture

    March 16, 2006
  • Film

    October 13, 2005

    The Knightly News

    George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

  • Film

    June 9, 2005

    Pop Will Eat Itself

    The movies that stopped living and became mixed-up zombies

  • Unknown

    February 26, 2004

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

    The movies that stopped living and became mixed-up zombies

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Total Recall

    Schwarzeneggers business scams

  • Culture

    June 20, 2002

    Your Soul in a Thimble

    Sledgehammers Valparaiso

  • Culture

    March 2, 2000

    Blow Hard

    Lewis Black insists hes not a dick

  • Music

    November 4, 1999

    Popera

    Dennis Cleveland aint no stinkin Traviata

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