Celebrity Kink

· Ladytron at Hollywood and Highland; The Broken West at Echoplex; Mute Math and Eisley at Avalon; James Blunt at Spaceland.
· The National Geographic Film Festival at the Egyptian screens Sonam…The Fortunate One for its opening night. We never thought we’d see the words “love, lust, and repentance” in connection with yak herders, but there […]

If Britney Spears is really interested in disempowering the paparazzi who stalk her day and night, merely carrying around a camcorder to cleverly reverse the predator/prey relationship (really, why hasn’t any other famous person thought of such an elegant commentary on celebrity obsession before?), she’s going to have to commit to the concept fully. Until […]

It’s not for nothing that youth-skewed cable network The Disney Channel has long been referred to by their competition as “Mickey’s Little Tramp Factory,” having churned out a steady stream of them since its 1983 launch. Its latest vixenish graduate, High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens, was recently caught traipsing nakedly across the internets and […]

It’s probably too early for Warner Bros. to start rolling out the promotional stunts, but we can think of worse ways to build buzz for Dark Knight than by releasing swarms of actual bats around the city. And even better if they’re bold enough to do it indoors. [Curbed LA]

On last night’s episode of Kid Nation, the pint-sized utopia-builders of CBS Bonanza City learned the sobering lesson that among the dozens of off-camera adults retained by the network so that their bold social experiment didn’t quickly devolve into a prepubescent Jonestown (watch out for that Michael kid–the way that he can make the entire […]