Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Well Served: A Visit to the America’s Best Dance Crew Season Finale
We’re about 20 feet away from the doors of Stage 29 on the Warner Bros. lot that we start to hear the screams. We’re late — a 6:30 check-in time does not generally agree with Los Angeles rush-hour traffic — and the live finale of Season 7 of America’s Best Dance Crew begins at 7 […]
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Among the Booth Babes: A Visit to E3
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly called E3, takes place over the course of three days in two giant exhibition halls and a series of scattered booths in downtown Los Angeles. E3, despite its reputation as that other Southern California mecca for high-powered geekery, is a trade show, a place of business. People here are on […]
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Miley Cyrus Is Engaged to a Hunger Games Bro
Right down to today’s news of her engagement to boyfriend of three years Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus has gracefully walked the line between showbiz glitz (marrying a Hunger Games star!) and down-home values (she’s 19!). She also gave Hemsworth a penis cake one time for his birthday, which exists entirely outside of the Nashville-to-Hollywood spectrum. […]
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The Busiest Man in Hollywood Counsels Hannah From ‘Girls’ to Get a Damn Job
Arguably hitting the sweet spot between relevant and ironically belated, Freaks and Geeks star and conceptual artist James Franco has finally weighed in on the HBO series Girls, via a lengthy op-ed on The Huffington Post. I think the 206th Amendment to the Internet Constitution states that once James Franco has weighed in on a […]
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Just Another Saturday Afternoon Watching Fabio Sell Protein Powder at the Whole Foods, That’s All
If there’s one supreme rule of etiquette that anyone who has lived in Los Angeles for more than a year or so eventually learns, it is this: Do not acknowledge celebrities at Whole Foods. Whole Foods Market is a kind of Demilitarized Zone in the vast and varied landscape of Hollywood; a place where we […]
