In his new book, "Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly" — a mix of fact and fiction — music writer and L.A. native Jeff Weiss brings us back to the last gasp of the celebrity ...

The narrator of L.A. author Jeff Weiss’s “Waiting for Britney Spears” happened to be in the right place at the right time. It was August 1998, the last Friday of summer school at Venice High, and the ...

In an excerpt from his buzzy new book, Jeff Weiss recalls a mid-2000s golden age when the tabloids tracked the starlets’ every move as they battled one another and dodged the paps at the city’s most ...