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Whoa. Coachella 2013 Dates and Ticket Details Just Announced!

May 14, 2012 at 3:39 PM | by | Comments (0)

HOLY SMOKES, you guys. The dates have already been announced for Coachella 2013 and ticket sales begin next week! Didn't everyone just, like, get over their hangovers from the desert orgy music festival this year?

The dates you need to set aside in your iCal are: April 12-14 & April 19-21, 2013.

As with Coachella 2012, 2013's version will be split into two identical weekends of performances from musicians old and new, with a hologram or two thrown in for max viral appeal. The only thing that won't be identical are the attendees, since you have the option of hitting up the first weekend and being surprised, or hitting up the second and being well prepared. Either way, we recommend you start phoning your choice Palm Springs hotel now to inquire about early booking deals.

Lest you forget, Coachella is an event that's ticketed in advance. The first tickets will go up for sale online through the official Coachella website NEXT WEEK. Specifically they state, "Advance passes go on sale beginning this Thursday, May 17th, 2012 10:00 am PDT through the following Thursday, May 24th, 2012 10:00 pm PDT."

Count your pennies, kids, and see you there?

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Get Inside Cathay Pacific's New SFO Lounge, No Matter Your Airline, with a Little 'Klout'

Where: San Francisco International [map], San Francisco, CA, United States
May 10, 2012 at 10:22 AM | by | Comments (2)

What's your Klout score? Wait—don't groan at the question, because finally Klout—the social media influence measurement index or whatever—is useful for something other than sounding super douchey when talking about your "online presence."

You see, Klout just launched an iPhone app. It's free to download and you can do so here, straight from the iTunes store. With this app, you can gain access to Cathay Pacific's new SFO First & Business Class lounge, no matter what airline you're flying or class you're traveling.. The only catch? You've got to have at least a Klout score of 40, and you've got to be traveling from the "A" boarding gates at SFO (list of airlines below).

Not only is this a freaking brilliant idea, but it's going to spoil whoever opts to check it out, since the SFO lounge (Cathay's only lounge in the entire United States), has computer workstations, three shower suites, a noodle bar (featuring the famous Dan dan mien), a booze bar, modern seating areas and free WiFi.

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Milla Jovovich Pays Tribute to Adam Yauch at LAX

May 7, 2012 at 3:10 PM | by | Comments (0)

Milla Jovovich paid a personal tribute to Adam Yauch at LAX yesterday.

The Resident Evil star sported a faded Beastie Boys t-shirt while boarding a flight out of Los Angeles. Yauch, a member of the Beastie Boys and leader in the cause for Tibetan freedom, died Friday after a three-year battle with salivary gland cancer.

Apparently faded t-shirts are the new favorite fashion for flying celebs. On Sunday, Kristen Stewart was also spotted at the LAX in a worn striped tee as she caught a flight to NYC for tonight's Met Costume Institute Ball.

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Spend Opening Weekend of 'The Avengers' with Stan Lee in Catalina

May 3, 2012 at 2:19 PM | by | Comments (0)

This weekend Stan Lee will celebrate the release of The Avengers on California's Catalina Island and you can join him!

Lee, who is the former president of Marvel Comics and co-founded the POW! Entertainment company, is set to host a special screening of The Avengers at the Catalina Film Festival this weekend. He'll also introduce the documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story and appear on a panel to discuss his work.

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Another Airport Will Now Deliver Your Food Straight to the Gate

May 3, 2012 at 8:50 AM | by | Comments (0)

Total laziness—we mean convenience—is on its way over to Sacramento International Airport, as HMSHost introduces their tasty travel app to hungry travelers. We’ve already mentioned how ordering up lunch, dinner, or just a snack is an option at airports like MSP, JFK, and ORD, but now the fun has arrived at SMF.

Esquire Grill or Burgers & Brew are the two initial offerings available through the B4 YOU BOARD app. Salads, cheeseburgers, and even macaroni and cheese are available at your fingertips, and then things will be delivered right to your where you’ve parked yourself near the gate. It sounds like the serving hours are scheduled between 10:30am and 6:30pm each and every day, so you might just have to order the old fashioned way if you’re looking for some breakfast.

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How To Get Tickets To The Hero Complex Film Festival in Los Angeles

April 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM | by | Comments (0)

The L.A. Times' comic movie blog, Hero Complex, is hosting its 3rd Annual Hero Complex Film Festival next month featuring movie screenings followed by Q&As with the movie's stars, directors, and producers. Past fests have included appearances by Warren Beatty, who presented Dick Tracy, and producer Alex Kurtzman,with a screening of Star Trek.

This year's festival will feature a double feature of Dawn of the Dead, with director Zack Snyder and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, and Shaun of the Dead, with director Edgar Wright. Among the other movies showing at the fest are A Clockwork Orange with Malcolm McDowell, Super with Rainn Wilson, and Serenity with Nathan Fillion.

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The Celeb PDA Fest Continued for Coachella's Second Weekend

April 24, 2012 at 9:42 AM | by | Comments (0)

Love was still in the air during the second weekend of the 2012 Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA.

Katy Perry and her new boyfriend, Florence + the Machine guitarist Robert Ackroyd, took a break from making their own music on Sunday to share PDAs and catch a few other acts, including Rihanna and Calvin Harris.

Other couples caught roaming the fields of Coachella this weekend included Dita Von Teese and The Hurts frontman Theo Hutchcraft, Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, and Penn Badgley and Zoe Kravitz.

If you missed the annual music fest, check out Coachella's Live YouTube Page for some of this year's best performances, without the crowd PDAs blocking your view.

[Photo: JustJared]

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Coachella is for Celebrity Lovers, or, rather, Celebrities in Love

April 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM | by | Comments (0)

Love was in the air for celebrity couples at the 2012 Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA over the weekend.

Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger were spotted sharing some PDA alongside The Vampire Diaries' hottest real-life couple, Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev during Justice's set on Sunday. Ian and Nina, who usually keep mum about their relationship, were surprisingly affectionate throughout the show.

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One Coachella Down and One To Go

April 16, 2012 at 9:04 AM | by | Comments (0)

Coachella is dead! Long live Coachella!

As the first year that the desert music festival is doubled to cover to weekends, 2012 seems to be thinning the buzz. THANK GOD. Hey, we love Coachella and everything, but now that festival-goers can chose from weekends, all the social media madness from Indio, California is now spread out. Alas, there were a few things that went down these last three days to put Coachella into the national conscious (and get people psyched for 2013--jeez).

To start, H&M staged a "Kiss for a Cause" tent, which served three purposes: one, for every tweet or instagram you did using their hashtag, H&M would donate $1 to AIDS research; two, H&M used some of the photobooth puckers on their own streams, making a few good-looking folks mini-famous for the day; and three, everybody got to see what everybody else was wearing in the hot weather (answer: fringed leather vests & faux-navajo prints).

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How To Get Tickets To Kathy Griffin's New Talk Show

April 10, 2012 at 1:28 PM | by | Comments (0)

Kathy Griffin has a new gig hosting her own one-hour talk show, which will air Thursday nights beginning April 19.

Kathy will feature Griffin hanging out in studio with celebrities, friends, and her wine-loving mom, Maggie. And, though the show won't air until next week, they are already giving away free tickets to both this week's rehearsals and the first show taping.

Kathy will be filmed at Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood. To reserve tickets for either Friday, April 13's rehearsal, the Wednesday, April 18th taping, or Wednesday, April 25th's taping, visit http://on-camera-audiences.com/shows/Kathy and select the date you wish to attend. Each episode will be be taped at 7:00 P.M. and will air the next night on Bravo. All audience members must be 18 years old and arrive wearing "hip, upscale attire."

For more information about Kathy, visit www.bravotv.com/kathy.

[Photo: Bravo]

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All-You-Can-Fly Private Jets for Under $1000 Coming to California

April 10, 2012 at 9:13 AM | by | Comments (0)

JetBlue better watch out, as there’s a new airline getting in on the all-you-can fly action. It’s not one of the big legacy carriers or even one of the more popular low-cost carriers, but it is a brand new airline that looks to send passengers up and down the California coast. Usually private flights or airline membership programs are way out of reach per most, but that might be a little bit different if Surf Air gets their way.

Just last week the airline opened up its doors and began accepting applications in advance of a planned launch (as soon as this summer), with flights in and out of spots like Palo Alto, Monterey, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. That’s perfect for those Silicon Valley hotshots looking to head out of town for billion dollar investment meetings—can you say Instagram? However, with Surf Air you don’t need to be a tech titan to afford a private ride.

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Why You'll Want to Check In at Cathay Pacific's SFO Lounge...on Foursquare

April 6, 2012 at 2:52 PM | by | Comments (0)

Flying out of San Francisco International anytime soon? You're going to wish you were on the other side of the sliding glass doors that lead into Cathay Pacific's brand new Business/First Class lounge, and not just because airline lounges are awesome, but because Cathay is running a Foursquare special this month for flyers who check in to the lounge using the location-based social networking app.

If you're a flyer with access to the lounge, be sure to fire up Foursquare on your phone and show your checkin to the lounge receptionist. For that, you'll receive a free Cathay Pacific "keepsake," as well as be entered to score an upgrade on your next flight if you leave a business card.

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