NPR: The Week's Last Call

The Week's Last Call

OK, folks, time for last call. We'll be back on Monday. If you see anything interesting over the weekend, shoot me an e-mail at newsblog@npr.org.

And now, my last tidbit for the week.

Seems that Lindsay Lohan, et al., may have pushed the envelope (marked "underage drinking binge") too far. I mean, didn't you find it interesting that so many underage celebrities were regularly stumbling drunk as sailors on shore leave from all these trendy Hollywood clubs?

But now Lohan's most recent adventure in Boozeville has finally forced the state to do something about the problem. The Los Angeles Times reports that this "wave" of reports of underage drinking has prodded the California Alcohol Beverage Control Board to increase undercover surveillance of these clubs. As a result, the board wants to close down Mood, one of the hottest of the Hollywood clubs, for 15 days for serving alcohol to minors.

A friend of the bar owner said Mood is being "unfairly targeted" and that everybody does it. Well, as they like to say on cop shows ... Tell it to the judge.

4:56 PM ET | 06- 1-2007 | permalink

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