L.A. Federal Judge Hears Dismissal Arguments in Weinstein/Judd Lawsuit

Beverly Hills Courier (Arts & Entertainment) 9/18 2:36P Victoria Talbot

(CNS) A Los Angeles federal judge heard arguments but made no immediate ruling Tuesday on Harvey Weinstein s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Ashley Judd, alleging that the disgraced producer tried to have the actress blackballed in...

Check Out This Week’s Featured Pets From the West LA Animal Shelter

Beverly Hills Courier (Pets) 9/18 2:12P Victoria Talbot

The West Los Angeles Animal Shelter , located at 11361 W. Pico Blvd, LA, Ca, 90064, has hundreds of loveable dogs and cats awaiting foster care or adoption. Each week, the Courier introduces a few great animals that are waiting for their furrever...

Billboards Across L.A. Are Becoming Public Art Spaces

Los Angeles Magazine 9/18 12:15P Brittany Martin

TheBillboardCreative wants you to stop and actually look at those ubiquitous billboards you typically ignore while walking down the street. For the month of October, the group is replacing the usual...

These Are the 6 Best Cheeseburgers in L.A. Right Now

Los Angeles Magazine 9/18 12:03P Gwynedd Stuart

In case the greeting card from your mom got lost in the mail, I am pleased to inform you that it is National Cheeseburger Day. Wait, didn t National Cheeseburger Day happen, like, just a few months ago? No, you big doofus. That was National...

Jose Antonio Vargas Has Written a Book for Every Undocumented American

Los Angeles Magazine 9/18 8:42A Pamela Avila

To some people, I am the most famous illegal in America. In my mind, I am only one of an estimated 11 million human beings whose uncertain fate is under threat in a country I call home, writes Jose...

Gilda Radner is remembered in her own words in the documentary 'Love, Gilda'

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 9/18 7:40A Susan King

With the aid of rare audio recordings, the late “Saturday Night Live” comic force Gilda Radner narrates the story of her life in the new documentary “Love, Gilda,” which opens Friday in Los Angeles. But it wasn’t easy initially for director Lisa...

This DTLA Pop-Up Will Be the Ultimate “Beauty Wonderland”

Los Angeles Magazine 9/18 5:35A Brittany Martin

Sephora knows about all those times you ve come into the store just to wander the aisles and play with all the fun, colorful products–and not only do they not mind, they re throwing a pop-up event...

4 Plant-Based Cheeseburgers That Rival Their Beef Counterparts

Los Angeles Magazine 9/18 4:44A Garrett Snyder

These satisfying patties—each a meatless alternative with all the trimmings—taste like the real deal. Double Good Burger at Monty s Good Burger Nodding to classic roadside burger shacks like In-N-Out, this ambitious all-vegan chain serves...

Emmys: 'Mrs. Maisel' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino enjoys a victory lap at the revamped Governors...

LATimes.com (Lifestyle) 9/18 3:05A Ellen Olivier

How could anyone miss Amy Sherman-Palladino at the Governors Ball? At the official after-party for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, she strode onto the rooftop Event Deck at L.A. Live in Los Angeles in her top hat and fuchsia-lined tailcoat. She’d...

Emmy Awards audience shrinks: Early TV ratings for NBC's telecast drop 10% from 2017

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 9/18 2:30A Stephen Battaglio

The ratings slide for the Emmy Awards that has come with the rise of streaming TV shows continued with Monday’s telecast, according to preliminary data from Nielsen. NBC’s live broadcast from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles averaged...

Emmys fashion trends: Pants and pantsuits rule the arrivals gold carpet

LATimes.com (Lifestyle) 9/17 3:50P Khanh T.L. Tran

Issa Rae, Mary Steenburgen and Leslie Jones formed their own pantsuit nation at Monday’s Emmys in Los Angeles. The actresses stepped onto the gold carpet at the Microsoft Theater for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in pants-based ensembles that...

The Duo Behind the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Museum Are Bringing a Grey’s Anatomy Exhibit to...

Los Angeles Magazine 9/17 3:19P Pamela Avila

A handful of years ago in Brooklyn, New York, roommates and co-curators Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen bonded over a mutual obsession with  The Price of Gold , a documentary about Tonya Harding, Nancy...

An Old Texaco Station in Koreatown Is Now a Drive-Thru Coffee Shop With Vintage Vibes

Los Angeles Magazine 9/17 1:25P Gwynedd Stuart

Good coffee is pretty abundant in L.A. Good coffee you don’t have to get out of your car for is harder to come by. Partners John Juniper, Jeff Solorio, Edoardo Chavarin, and Benjamin Montoya set out...

A Beach Cleanup Crew Is Tracking Which Brands Are Plastic Pollution’s Worst Offenders

Los Angeles Magazine 9/17 12:50P Brittany Martin

Over the weekend, thousands of volunteers came together for the 34th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day, picking up hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash from beaches up and down the state. One group used the occasion to host an event in...

'Big Jay' McNeely, whose honking tenor saxophone style helped turn R&B into rock 'n' roll, has died

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 9/17 12:05P Randall Roberts

Cecil “Big Jay” McNeely, whose honking tenor saxophone helped define Los Angeles rhythm and blues and set the stage for the rock ’n’ roll explosion of the 1950s, has died. He was 91. A singular figure in Los Angeles music, McNeely blew exuberant...