The Hollywood Film Awards, televised live for the first time Friday night, got its first ever highlight reel clip when an apparently drunk Johnny Depp sauntered up to the microphone and delivered a slurry, curse-filled award presentation speech for the
A woman in Great Britain claims that pop artist Ne-Yo’s songs are giving her fits – literally. Zoe Fennessy, 26, suffers an epileptic seizure every time she listens to one of the pop star’s songs, reports the Daily Mail. “If he
Getty House, the Los Angeles mayoral mansion currently occupied by Mayor Eric Garcetti, uses approximately 2,100 gallons of water a day, five times the average amount of water used by other Los Angeles households. According to CBS Los Angeles, the
California Governor Jerry Brown and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval met at a forum on Thursday for the first in a series of year-long meetings on how best to combat the West’s devastating drought, now in its fourth year. According to
The Duck Dynasty family is getting its own musical. According to Variety, the story of the Robertson family will serve as the inspiration for The Duck Commander Family Musical, a new theater show that will open early next year at
NFL Week 11 arrives with tonight’s matchup between AFC East division rivals Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins in Miami at 8:25 ET. Another week, another six-touchdown performance. This time, it was Aaron Rodgers who roasted NFC North division rival Chicago
Journalists, actors, directors, and one legendary television writer were honored Tuesday night at the PEN Center USA literary awards in Beverly Hills. Director Judd Apatow, “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, and journalist Glenn Greenwald all picked up awards at the 24th
It’s been a bad week for music streaming service Spotify. Just days after Taylor Swift’s record label pulled the singer’s entire music catalog off of the streaming service, at least two other artists are following her lead. According to Rolling
The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board on Monday predicted that a new crime wave could soon be coming to California, based on state voters’ decision to pass Proposition 47, legislation that mandates a downgrade of several felony crimes to misdemeanors.
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri abruptly closed down the Sacramento location of his Johnny Garlic’s chain of restaurants earlier this week, leaving one man who was hired just three days earlier out of a job. The Sacramento Johnny Garlic’s was only
The corn maze in Dixon, California is so big and tough to navigate, a number of patrons have called 911 after getting lost in it. The maze, operated by Cool Patch Pumpkins, is the largest corn maze in the world,
In what might be one of the more unusual celebrity/product partnerships in recent years, R&B singer Usher’s new single, “Clueless,” will be the prize at the bottom of specially-marked boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios sold exclusively at Walmart. The song
Republican Catharine Baker won the tightly-contested Bay Area race for California’s 16th Assembly seat against Democratic challenger Tim Sbranti last week, the first time a Republican has won a Bay Area Assembly seat since 2006. According to the San Francisco
Appearing in a promotional cypher for an upcoming release on his own Shady Records, Eminem raps a line about punching Lana del Rey in the face “twice like Ray Rice.” In the promotion for the Shady XV compilation album, which
A group of over 50 musicians, actors, celebrities, and other public figures signed a statement in support of whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks and notorious NSA contractor Edward Snowden this week. According to Rolling Stone, the signatories include musicians Moby, M.I.A., P.J.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was honored Sunday night at the ACLU’s 91st annual Bill of Rights Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, where she picked up the Ramona Ripston Liberty, Justice, and Equality Award for her work
In an interview with Australia’s themusic.com published last weekend, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins slammed U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence, comparing the album’s controversial instant iTunes rollout to George Orwell’s 1984 and saying there wasn’t “anything great” on it.
Advocates for legal marijuana, emboldened by the movement’s recent midterm election successes in Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia, will seek to place legal marijuana initiatives on the ballot in California in 2016. At least one pro-marijuana legalization organization,
A newly relaunched online matchmaking service is using saliva samples to match customers up with prospective romantic partners. Southern California-based Singldout knows that a large component of what attracts people to each other is biological; to that end, the service
Week 10 NFL action is here, kicking off with Thursday’s matchup between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati at 8:25 ET. Make sure you’ve got Bengals running back Jeremy Hill in your lineup. Those who read last
California’s 26th congressional district race between incumbent Democrat Julia Brownley and Republican challenger Jeff Gorell is still too close to call. According to California’s Secretary of State’s website, Brownley leads Gorell by exactly 530 votes, or a 50.2-49.8% margin. Gorell’s
San Benito and Mendocino County, California residents on Tuesday approved Measures J and S, respectively, which are ballot measures that ban fracking in the Coast Range Mountains and Northern California communities. Ironically, according to Southern California Public Radio, critics of
One dispensary in Sacramento came up with a novel way to get out the vote in the midterm election on Tuesday: free marijuana for anyone who came in with an “I Voted” sticker. According to local affiliate CBS13, the River
The city of Malibu passed Measure R Tuesday night, a controversial measure that would limit the number of chain stores in new developments citywide. The measure had been heavily championed by actor/director Rob Reiner. According to the County of Los
LOS ANGELES – Democrat state Sen. Ted Lieu defeated Republican challenger Elan Carr in the race to succeed Rep. Henry Waxman in California’s 33rd congressional district, according to the Associated Press. Lieu was leading Carr by a 56.3-43.7% margin with
