Alexia Tsotsis

Alexia Tsotsis, LA Weekly Alum, Too Snarky for Moviefone/AOL/Huffington: High Five!

FacebookAlexia Tsotsis, scheming up snark like it's her job​So this is what happens when the snark training at Village Voice Media leads to a responsible career at an uncool corporation. It's just as we thought! One receives stern, pent-up (but rose-smelling) letters from the mother ship, advi ... More >>

That's What She Liked: 20 Reasons Why You Should Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings

View the photo gallery here. Ah, the new Facebook and what your "likes" say about you. As you've (hopefully) read by now, Facebook's new API turns the social networking site into a bargain-bin of users' tastes for publishers and marketers to sift through, store and sell. Facebook (and companies li ... More >>

10 Headlines You Will Never See After SXSW

Craig Hlavaty"SXSW Attendee Doesn't Want That Free Beer" 1. "Random Guy With Guitar On Street Signed To Major Record Label" 2. "AT&T Makes Up For Past SXSW Coverage With Zero Dropped Calls, Lightning-Fast Connection" 3. "Wristband Holders Have Nothing But Love And Respect For Badge Holders" 4. ... More >>

Over the Weekend: DJ AM Dies, L.A. Fire Rages, Fight Breaks Out at the Echo and More

There was definitely something in the air this weekend in Los Angeles, and it wasn't just ash and smoke. There was a restlessness only further provoked by the heat, raging fire and a week of high profile deaths that began with the loss of Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne and ended with that of Adam "D ... More >>

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Over the Weekend: Comic-Con '09, Cosplay, Ninjas and Sexy '60s Spies

If city traffic felt a bit lighter over the weekend there was a reason why -- a majority of Angelenos hightailed it to San Diego for the annual Comic-Con to indulge their inner geek, strap on that Storm Trooper costume, spend their savings on first editions, preview new video games and attend panels ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Cage and Yak Ballz at El Rey, Also I Like to Rock, VIP Sneak Peek at Bigfoot Lodge West

This weekend was about one thing and one thing only: live music. While our sister papers Riverfront Times and Village Voice rocked out at Pitchfork Music Festival '09 and Siren Festival '09, respectively, the L.A. Weekly opted for more intimate club and theater fare. Dios, part of our current cover ... More >>

Techcrunch Crunchup: L.A. Does it in Realtime

SoCal native and the "Golden God of Tech" Michael Arrington was born and raised in Huntington Beach so it came as no surprise that the L.A. contingent was out in full-force at this year's Techcrunch Crunchup Real Time Conference and summer party at the August Capital offices in Palo Alto. There for ... More >>

Music Gaming at E3 Expo: First Look at Beatles Rock Band, Last.fm's Xbox Partnership

Alexia TsotsisThose of us who remember the '80s (um, not me) might recall Sony introducing the first CD player in 1982. We've all come a long way since then, and nowhere was this more evident than at E3 Expo this week. West Coast Sound's "three is a trend" alarm went off when we realized that the pl ... More >>

Anti-Christ Protest at E3 Computer and Video Game Expo

Today a group of religious protesters gathered outside the E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center to rally against the EA-helmed game Dante's Inferno. The protesters' message was simple: Play Dante's Inferno and go to Hell. Check out the photograph below of our favorite sign bearing the slogan ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Doves Live at Wiltern, Operation Bombshell, Vampyrically Speaking, DJ Jesse Saunders at Incognito

Two very odd things happened over the weekend: First, Angels and Demons somehow managed to beat Star Trek at the box office (we think it's a conspiracy), and second, two of our writers, Chris Hardwick and Alexia Tsotsis, each broke a toe on Saturday (the same toe, even... also a conspiracy). Don't b ... More >>

Fucking With "Fucking With Drew Barrymore”

And more thoughts on L.A. People 2009

The Open Social Web: Filter Failure and an Interview with Chris Messina

The Internet is basically the ur-social network and highlighting this is one of the big thrusts this year at the Web 2.0 Expo. With so many platforms and podiums from which to broadcast the minutae of our lives (as well as the glut of input from everyone you've ever spoken to once at a conference) a ... More >>

Web TV's Streamy Awards: Next Year It Could Be You Up There

Alexia TsotsisNeil Patrick Harris on stage at the Streamy AwardsOn approach the Wadsworth Theatre looked like it'd been swarmed Saturday night. Upon closer inspection the over 1300 people in attendance were as glamorous as glam could get at a first annual award show, and the critical mass was indica ... More >>

SxLA: Los Angeles Interactive in a Post-Network, Post-Geographical World

S. TaylorHalo soldier reads up on Los Angeles at SXSWi ScreenBurn ArcadeAlthough we arrived back at LAX last night exhausted and missing Austin, we felt no symptoms of the dreaded SXSW SARS. Los Angeles was the new girl in town at SXSWi, and this was LAWeekly.com's first time covering Interactive. J ... More >>

Bigg Digg Shindigg and Driskill Flashmob: Party Hopping SxSW Style

View more photos in the SXSW Parties: Bigg Digg Shindigg Driskill Flashmob slideshow Erin BroadleyL.A. Weekly's Alexia Tsotsis and Digg's Kevin RoseAfter spending long afternoon holed up in the Hilton lobby getting our blog on, LAWeekly.com decided to hit the streets of Austin to find out where ... More >>

Change V2 at SXSW Interactive: Lessig IRL vs. The Political Machine

Alexia TsotsisCaptain ObviousHaving learned from our mistakes yesterday, we decided to eat something bland for breakfast this morning (what kind of a person has a taco for breakfast anyways?) and hit the convention center early in order to make one of the morning panels - specifically one I was real ... More >>

L.A. Tech Community Does it Better: Put Up or Shut Up at SXSW Interactive

Erin BroadleySloane Berrent and Andrew Warner for L.A. TechThe audience at Sloane Berrent's and Andrew Warner's L.A. tech scene panel were a group of people I could name off the top of my head entirely in @s -- @andrewwarner, @sloane, @seanpercival, @lauriepercival, @shiralazar, @jackiepeters, @wmma ... More >>

Tech Set Blogger Lounge: So Banging We Had to Blog Elsewhere

Erin BroadleyAlexia Tsotsis with Brian SolisAfter we were inspired by the How to Rawk SXSW panel, Web Editor Erin Broadley and I decided to get our blog on at the TechSet blogger lounge - after winding our way to the  "Being John Malkovitch"-esque semi third floor we found our way to the Tech S ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Prince Performs Post-Oscars Party, Golden Age of Comic Books Exhibit, Mindshare LA, Mardi Gras at Farmers Market, The Game at Club Nokia

Academy Awards weekend in L.A. is madness so rather than exhaust ourselves party hopping the typical Oscar bashes, L.A. Weekly opted to check out what the rest the city had to offer. We indulged our inner geek at Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of ... More >>

Top 10 Things You Don't Want Facebook to Own (About You, FOREVER)

On February 15 the user awareness blog Consumerist discovered that Facebook had discretely changed its Terms Of Service - slashing a couple of lines about the expiration of Facebook's ownership of your content after you delete your profile, as well as tacking on the following addendum: "The follow ... More >>

Last Night: Digital Drinks @ Digital L.A. - When Swank and Tech Collide

Alexia TsotsisApparently the best way to get to Coco de Ville, the location of this month's Digital Drinks @ Digital LA, is to "just look for the paparazzi out front and you'll find it." When you spend most of your time at networking events it's very easy to forget that "the paparazzi" exists. I hav ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Candy Cane Lane Light Riot, Downtown on Ice, Automatico Party Cultivates Spanglish Underground, Boxing Fans Party for PacMan

If you're reading this, congratulations. It can only mean one thing -- you survived another holiday season of over-eating, over-imbibing and (probably) over-spending. So, welcome home, double-up on that espresso and let's get back to work. Somehow in the midst of our holiday haze, L.A. Weekly found ... More >>