So it seems L.A. Record throws a party every single time they release a new issue. Fine with us. Not only does little rag provide excellent local music coverage, their staff makes for good drinking buddies. We attended the latest celebration last night at Cha Cha Lounge in Silverlake.

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The guys (they’re all guys) at Topless Sports News are hoping to expand their empire into entertainment news. They’re looking for a movie reviewer with good reading skills and a nice rack — in that order.

Having begun in 2005 as a kind of “Sports Night read by topless women,” Topless Sports News realized the pitfalls of working with the Young and the Witless.

“It’s hard to find a woman who can read and is willing to take her top off,” said head sports writer/comedian Scott Schultz. “We do a financial segment at the start of each show, and we brought in talent who couldn’t read the word ‘Dow.’ It’s frustrating.”

So the producers decided that this go-around they’d be willing to sacrifice a little pulchritude for a woman who could, say, read the word “pulchritude,” off a teleprompter.

Schultz, whose background includes comedy writing and sports editing at CBS Sportsline, says it’s a challenge to write punchlines for women who can jiggle but can’t deliver a giggle.

“We finally came up with a solution where we’d shout out the correct pronunciation,” Schultz said. “It was funny at first. But then we’d have to do it about 40 times in a 20-minute shoot. We’d be talking as much as them.”

We can’t wait to hear what their anchors do with Pan’s Labyrinth.

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