// PRESENTED by Samia Khan
SCENE ONE: music school in Hollywood, specific location not to be disclosed for fear of stalkers Samia is late to her 6:30 songwriting class due to LA traffic. She parks at a meter at 6:38 and fills it til 7:58, running out of coins and hoping a parking attendant won’t drive by and see a …
What happens when you take a Grey-Goosed-out comedian friend (let’s call him FI, short for Funny Indian) to one of the hottest spots in Hollywood? Um. You befriend a Disney star whose song you secretly love (and not-so-secretly blast everytime it plays on Satellite Radio.) The Grey-Goosed-out friend? Rajiv Satyal (or as I call him, …
What happens when you encounter a couple basketball teams (more specifically, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the LA Clippers) at a club? THIS: SK on Birthday: “Hi Kevin, I’m Samia. It’s my birthday, can I have a picture?” Kevin Durant, busy partying: “Sure” *we pose* I’m happy. And now, an Oklahoma City Thunder fan. Enjoy …
So, fate had it that I ended up at LA-trendy-burger joint Umami Burger the other night (thought trendy and burger in my opinion should contradict eachother.) Umami, being a “trendy” place, obviously had a wait. Yes, 12-dollar-burgers (no sides included) are wait-worthy…when you’re expensing your meal. So, I waited. And in that waiting period, I …
OK so let’s cut the BS. You know it, I know it, we all know it. I just haven’t well, addressed “it.” I’m brown. South Asian. From the Indian “subcontinent.” Rather, my parents are from there. Mom raised in Pakistan, dad raised in India. One arranged marriage and 30-something years later, their 24-year-old daughter is …
Snoop film’s his MTV variety show, “Dogg After Dark,” on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Kress in Hollywood. Megan and I were there on Wednesday, waiting to interview him for Hollywood 411. In the hour we waited, the one thing we most noticed were the scantily-clad extras…. SO Hollywood. By that I mean… I guarantee at …
I Love British Accents. Needless to say, producing a shoot with British comic/actor/host/author Russell Brand was well, “lovely.” Post-interview, I asked if he’d be in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, because well, he could totally pull off the whole pirate thing…and I’d heard rumors about him playing Johnny Depp’s brother. He said probably not, he’s …