Golden Celebrity

We’ll admit to having been completely stumped by what it was Britney Spears had dressed up as for Halloween, but our musical cousins at Idolator appear to have nailed it: Mid 80s-era Lee Roth. It’s Diamond Dave, Bitch! [Idolator]

In the eerie quiet before the impending writer (and potential zombie) strike storm, few of us have truly allowed the implications of such a story-breaking and brain-eating stoppage to fully sink in. The Gays, however, have long been anticipating this day. Like stalwart, Cold War-era survivalists, they’ve lined the walls of their flawlessly appointed fallout [...]

Every now and again, new cultural correspondent (his title for at least the duration of this item) Ryan will be dropping by to toss some posts into our blog-mix. Today, he shares the photo-assisted recollections of a Halloween evening in which he learned why you never challenge a guy in an ape costume to a [...]

· Music round-up: The Pogues at the Wiltern; The VLA at the Troubadour; No Mind at Spaceland; and it’s only for UCLA students, but we thought we’d mention it anyway: Metalocalypse’s Deathklok will be visiting campus.
· Lance Bass, the second- or third-most recognizable member of ‘N Sync (depending on whether The Singing Bee was [...]

Somewhat less clever than the costume devised by our new ZGA hero was the one worn by a certain recent Century Correctional Facility inmate, who went with a suggestion given to her months ago by one of her prison Bible-study partners. Look at how she can laugh at herself, unless someone’s selling her sex tape [...]