Dateline: Los Angeles, where the temperature (at 3 p.m.) is 70 degrees and regular unleaded gasoline costs $4.66 a gallon.

I reached my hotel (the Beverly Hilton, home of the Golden Globe Awards) after a thrilling, 2.5-hour sightseeing tour of…

How does anybody on the West Coast ever avoid spoilers? I’m in Los Angeles, where the TV Critics Association’s summer press tour started today, and rushed back to the room at 9 p.m. Pacific time to watch the “Hell’s Kitchen” finale.…

I just have to respond to this comment on my post about Florissant trio Pearl Heart being eliminated from “Nashville Star”:

I have been a fan of Nashville Star since it started and until yesterday didn’t even know Pearl Heart…

Ah, the mysteries of love. Who could argue — at least after watching the “After the Rose” special — that DeAnna and Jesse aren’t in love? Crazy, giddy, head-over-heels in love, with a wedding date and everything. (I see a…

Didn’t you folks in Florissant vote? From all the local enthusiasm for the Krechel sisters of Pearl Heart, and considering how cute (and extremely talented) they are, it was a shock to see them eliminated Monday night  The judges thought…

My colleague Dan Caesar covers sports on TV, but I have to mention that whether you’re a tennis fan or a Cardinals fan, you had to hate KSDK’s split-screen “solution” to Sunday’s collision of the men’s Wimbledon final and the…

Our chat at 1 p.m. is our last for two weeks. I’m heading for Hollywood Tuesday and will do just one chat from there, on July 17. (Exact time TBA, depending on what I have that day.)

Meanwhile, though, think…

Wow, they really had to pad this thing to manage a two-part season finale. All the recaps at the start, and again in the middle, plus the completely extraneous trip to New York. Can you imagine anything Christina and Petrozza…

Here are the most recent ratings, as always courtesy of ABC. Note that the No. 2-rated show of the week was “Wipeout”! Not my cup of torture, but I am enjoying “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” which has an…

An intrepid reporter for the Orange County Register (home paper in California where Brooke lives) dug for answers about the “Farmer Wants a Wife” love story. In other words, what’s up with Brooke and Matt? Read the article here.