For baseball fans under the age of 35, reading the Mitchell report should be like taking repeated shots to the groin without the Nutty Buddy. With 75 names and guys who get shipped all over the country, you know your idols didn't escape. Me? I grew up in NorCal. Matt Williams? He was our hero on the hot-corner. Glenallen Hill? The only pro player from the small town I was growing up in. That's a......

You’re probably wondering why we’ve waited so long to cover the first episode of E!’s reality series The Girls Next Door: Season 4. I would wonder too. But thanks to the nearly bi-nightly syndication of each new episode, there’s no reason to fret, and I’m happy to be able to bring you a little Wednesday coverage of Episode 1: "Patriot Dames"! But first, a little history. Despite the fact that Hef’s girlfriends Bridget, Holly and......

Band of Horses - "The Funeral" Social Distortion @ House of Blues Band of Horses, Drones, Tyler Ramsey @ Avalon Backbiter, Motorcycle Black Madonnas, Swords of Fatima @ Mr. T's Bowl Gram Rabbit @ Safari Sam's The Happy Hollows @ Spaceland Banyan, Magic Box, Trees for Treehouses @ Malibu Inn (because of the fires, check first) Claude VonStroke, Matthew Dear @ Avalon White Magic, Luke Top @ The Echo Aceyalone @ Viper Room Billy......

Monday Dave Isay, from StoryCorps, presents Listening Is an Act of Love 7pm @ Vroman's Johan Lehrer presents Proust Was a Neuroscientist 7pm @ Dutton's Nigella Lawson presents The Domestic Goddess 7pm Borders, Torrance Tom Brokaw presents Boom! Voices of the Sixties 7:30pm @ Temple Emanuel Tuesday Clive Barker presents Mister B. Gone 7pm @ Vroman's Gregory Rodriguez presents Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds 7pm @ Central Library Susanne Daniels presents Season Finale 7pm @......

NSFW as far as the video contains Hennessy and lingerie. Sean John's new Unforgivable Woman must be some stanky-ass perfume if MTV is really rejecting these ads. I mean, Mr. Combs remains fully dressed while striking multiple elevator-humping poses with Australian hottie Jessica Gomes. Above is the 3-minute long-player (the rejects were reportedly 30- and 60-second spots). Surely there's nothing a Britney or L.Lo couldn't get away with on eMpTV these days. Is Puffy......

As if I don't feel badly enough for shelling out nearly $600 for my iPhone. Today Apple unveils a bevy of product updates. The iPhone's touch screen, internet browsing glory was jacked for the brand new "iPod touch", a Wi-Fi ready iPod with a 8GB or 16GB capacity. This is essentially the iPhone without the phone capabilities and much more thinner. Great. So, what you're telling me is that I'm not going to be one......

Back in 2004, Dodger’s owner Frank McCourt made the unpopular decision to get rid of radio play-by-play announcer Ross Porter. Porter had been on the job for 28 years, and considering he had to work with color commentator Rick Monday since 1993 he should’ve gotten hazard pay. Porter was by no means as eloquent and compelling as Vin Scully. With a few exceptions no one can enter the realm of Vin Scully. But Porter......

Morris Day & the Time, Sea Wolf, The Broken West, Ben Harper, Blonde Redhead, The Emotions, Medusa, Breakestra, Autolux, Culver City Dub Collective, The Parson Red Heads, The Pity Party, Division Day, others @ Sunset Junction (10a-10p) Yolanda Adams, Angie Stone, Clarence Carter, The Laws Family, Eloise Laws, Barbara Morrison, Linda Hopkins, Billy Valentine @ Compton Summer Soul Jam, Par 3 Golf Course Stevie Nicks, ZZ Top, The Pretenders, Stray Cats, Sugar Ray @......

It didn't register when I heard that Bill Walsh died. My phone had just beeped at me. Somebody was suggesting that I do an obit here on LAist. "Sure," I thought. "Too bad I don't have time. Maybe I'll bury it in LAst Night's Action." I was wrong. Maybe I was in denial. While trying to recap the happenings in local sports, I couldn't discard Bill Walsh into a pile of other stories from "elsewhere."......

From our friends at Craigslist, and verified on the "Deal or No Deal" website, apparently the hit tv game show needs a few good women to replace some of the others who had, what, aged? Here are the details: NBC’s hit show, “Deal or No Deal” is currently looking for a few new models to join the current cast. If you’re a female over the age of 18 who has the personality and looks......

The new models for Frank Gehry's massive $900 million Grand Avenue project downtown have been unveiled. We're not sure that we dig them completely, but we're not sure that we don't. What do you think? Certainly more interesting than the bland FBI-ish towers he presented in the first round of design. While the project is progressing rather quickly since that announcement made two years ago by city officials, Gehry, and architect wanna-be Brad Pitt, there......

There are a lot of suckers out there for a good love story (this LAist poster included). And essentially, that’s at the heart of Robert Anthony Siegel’s new book All Will be Revealed -- although its premise is a more intriguing than the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-girl back plot of most chick lit or Harlequin romances. In Siegel’s novel, its anti-hero, Augustus Auerbach, is a wheelchair-bound pornography mogul in 19th century New York City. His......

- Barack Obama says that blacks are pissed and there's a "quiet riot" brewing in LA and the rest of the country. Does that mean that the real trouble won't come for another 20 years when folks begin to finally "rage against the machine"? - AP - Although the adult video world generates about $12 billion nationally, Vivid Video co-partner David James says, "Very few people make over $150,000 in this industry" - Daily......

- 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......

You may already be aware that there is a major bee die off going on right now, threatening the bulk of the US fruit and vegetable supply. Let's hope that this awesome video was made during happier times for the honey bee, and that no bees were harmed during the making of the video. Using a complex system of live insects, models, droplets of liquid and lots of pies, director Richard De Aragues has......

LAist thought it was going to be a cool night just seeing Shiny Toy Guns at Avalon on Thursday, but it turned out to be much more. Instead of making everybody wait through questionable opening acts, Billabong sponsored a charity fashion show called Design for Humanity. Minutes after swimsuit models pranced down the runway, roadies tore down the catwalk and STG rocked the house. We saw a few drunk girls get tossed out, but......

Architect geeks and other assorted party-goers descended on the A+D Architecture and Design Museum last weekend for the opening reception of Crosswired, a performance and installation series featuring design, motion visual art and experimental electronic music. We didn’t really hear anything too experimental, unless it was the deafening “rave” music that was possibly experimenting to see how much pressure our eardrums could take. We did elbow our way through a maze of Skyy 90......

Whether you're sneaking out of rehab, snorting coke off a Noguchi coffee table or just lounging around looking sexily tousled while smoking a post-shag fag with your heroin-addicted rocker boyfriend, Kate Moss has designed the quintessential clothing line for the glamorously emaciated rocker chick within us all. It makes perfect sense. Models wear clothes. Why shouldn’t they also design them? Seriously, with all the celebrities designing eponymous fashion lines (read: famous people approving or......

Few things put me in a state of panic like having to buy gifts for my tweenage nieces and nephews. No matter what I get them it will be beyond uncool. And we all know it. I have no idea what they're into, what the latest "must haves" are or what the big whoop is about hanging out at the mall all day, but apparently my old ass needs to find out because, according......

H&M, the Ikea of clothing retailers, will be opening two more Southern California stores this week. Tomorrow, Thursday, April 12 at noon the H&M store in the South Coast Plaza will open followed by the H&M at Irvine Spectrum on Friday, April 13 at noon. The first 200 customers at each Grand Opening will receive a free t-shirt and a randomly selected H&M Gift Card with a value of $10 - $300. With that kind......

A Word or 47: Full disclosure - tonight I might watch the cultural trainwreck that is Idol and then it's on to Lost and then an evening culminating with LCD Soundsystem on Letterman, they will kick ass! And then, if I can find some Cialis, a bit of Tina Fey on Conan. Tonight - Wednesday - April 11th, 2007 Jericho/Criminal Minds/CSI: NY (CBS, 8-11:00 p.m.) From post-apocalypse to a dead New Yorker in medieval......

STARDOLL.com is the new best thing I have ever seen. Having only scratched the surface of this sugary pop paperdoll fest, I speak on little authority as to the full functionality of the site. What I do know, however, is all you really need to know -- you get to play dress-up with your favorite icons, and onto some of their faces you can also apply makeup. The end. Been a while since you've......

A Word or 73: Was sad to learn of the death of Larry "Bud" Melman aka Calvert DeForest who spent over 20 years as a regular on David Letterman's shows - always able to suffer indignities and deal with situations that exceeded Punk'd and Jackass in terms of humor and sophistication by decades. Fox lostsome couple slots in the top 5 last week: American Idol got 1&2, followed by GRey's Anatomy, Deal or No......

A Word Or 28: Fox did it again last week. The top 5 most watched programs were a combination of American Idol, Are You As Smart As a 5th Grader?, and House. Tonight - Wednesday - March 14th, 2007 Dick Tracy Marathon (TCM, 5:00 p.m.) The classic from the '40s Clippers @ Rockets (KTLA, 5:30 p.m.) Suns @ Mavericks (ESPN, 6:00 p.m.) Blue Jackets @ Ducks (PRIME, 7:00p.m.) Jericho (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) The Marines......

- Fab will be DJing at Club NME tonight at Spaceland. Think Drew will show? Or will Kirsten? - NME - Good thing models don't eat b/c anyone who ate uncooked food (salad, bread, cheese, fruit) at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue Valentine party could get Hep A if they don't get it checked out by today and taken care of - TV Guide - I never liked Puddy (aka Puff Daddy, P-Diddy, Diddy,......

In what could turn out to be a long, expensive, and revealing lawsuit, Tommy Lasorda, the great former manager of the LA Dodgers, swears that he will sue if the tell-all autobiography "Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam" is released on Thursday. Hollywood madam Jody "Babydol" Gibson was popped eight years ago for pimping out high-priced hookers, porn stars, and Playboy models throughout 16 states. She was given three years but served less than......

New York-based magazine Marie Claire paid a visit to Hollywood Wednesday night to find out what LA gals dig about their bodies (not including the silicone/restylane/botox enhanced parts). The event was held at the not-so-hip-anymore club Mood, and was promoted to some (including us) as a model search. In fact, the photo shoot was for a monthly feature called “Beauty Roadshow,” a photo montage of women from different states and a blurb from each......

If Los Angeles seems a little light on groupies this weekend, don’t be shocked. It’s just that the NBA’s All-Star game, which is the brightest light of the year to the groupie moths, is just a one-hour plane ride away in Las Vegas. This is a weekend only the guys at The Smoking Gun could dream up: Take a sport where the players have the reputation for being rich and out of control, then drop......

Hey you behind the Self Help stack! Take your hair out of that bun, whip those reading glasses off -- someone's looking for you. Former LAist editor Adrienne Crew, the LA Brain Terrain blogger and blog book author, announced yesterday that she will find the hottest bookstore employee in town. Will it be you, Book Soup guy? How about you Dutton's babe? Countless good-looking actors and models populate the service industries of Los Angeles.......

Recommended After Innocence - Jessica Sanders directs this documentary detailing the stories of seven men who were wrongfully imprisoned for decades (some of them on death row) before finally being exonerated by DNA evidence. The Amazing Screw-On Head - This animated 30-minute pilot (I can only hope there will be more episodes) based on the comic book by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is full of awesome animation (it closely mimics Mignola's style), witty dialogue,......