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  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    The New Era of (Good) Healthful Cookbooks, Starting With Hero Food And Salad for Dinner

    Those low-fat, low-carb, low-trend-whatever cookbooks will likely always have a market. But yet another positive trickle-down effect of the current farmers market and backyard gardening era has been the really great "healthful" cookbooks we've been seeing recently, Hero Food: How Cooking With Delici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Microsoft Is Poaching Engineers: With A Bacon Cart

    For some reason, Microsoft seems to think that experienced software engineers are difficult to find in this down economy, so it's trying to recruit talent from the Seattle offices of Amazon, Adobe and Google. The Seattle Times reports that the battle for skilled coders is being waged with free bacon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls Murder Book Shoots to Top of Amazon

    ​Murder Rap, the book written by former LAPD detective Greg Kading implicating Sean Combs and Suge Knight in the slayings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, officially came out today. So far, only LA Weekly has interviewed Kading about his self-published book and the revelations he shares, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Angry Birds: The Cookbook

    Flickr/tomazstolfaone very angry bird​ If weather girls can become television food megastars, then why can't massively addictive Finnish game apps become cookbooks? That was a rhetorical question; of course they can. And what better game to make the transition to cookbook than Angry Birds, a g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    The Long Tail Of Lil B: Why The Based God Is A Genius

    Some people say quantity is not quality ... but what if someone came along and rewrote all the rules? It's no secret that rap's resident weirdo, Berkeley's Lil B The Based God is a new media powerhouse.  Until recently, he existed almost more online than in the real life. That's because the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Modernist Cuisine: How to Score (Um, Borrow) Stunning Cookbooks Via Twitter What Nathan Myhrvold Does With His Blow Torch

    A. ScattergoodModernist Cuisine​ Twitter can be a beautiful thing, for zamisdat poets, for Middle Eastern dissidents, for Newt Gingrich. It can also be a very useful emergency button. So when we recently found ourselves needing the answer to a specific question from the copy desk, we put out a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

    If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    8 Things You Need to Know About Music in the Cloud

    cloud music...​ The future is almost here. Except for the part with jet packs and holographic television. The part that is here? Cloud based music storage. WTF is that, you might be wondering, and why should I care? Herewith we will tell you what it is, why it's important, and how it affects ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    8 Last-Minute Gift Ideas for L.A. Music Lovers (and Obsessives)

    ​There's always that someone in your family or group of friends or entourage (this is LA we're talking about after all) who is a little intimidating come Holidays gift season. They're way into music, but they're into music in an obsessive way that seems to say "you'll never be able to find a m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2010

    The Day Captain Beefheart Outsold the Beatles, the Stones and Pink Floyd

    Beatle Bones and Smokin' Stones: The Captain abides​It is a widely known (and kind of sick) fact of the music business that nothing helps sales of the back catalog of an artist like the death of said artist. The massive sales bump caused by people rushing to online (and occasionally also to b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook: L.A. in the Mix

    amazon.com​The need to obsessively bookmark every delicious-sounding recipe you find on your favorite food blogs is quickly lessening, since new cookbook Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook: 100 Great Recipes, Photographs, and Voices hit shelves on Tuesday. Foodista, which is sort of like Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    What Do 'Bud Bundy' and the Streamy Awards Have in Common? Everything!

    ​Hi, I'm David Faustino, and this is what happens when I drink (so drunk right now): You may remember me from a little show STILL ON TELEVISION called Married... with Children. It's generated over a biiiiiiiillion dollars for... Well, I don't really know who gets all the money... But anywa ... More >>

  • LA Life

    February 11, 2010

    Farewell to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore

    Old friend set to close this year

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    100 Words For Foodies: CliffsNotes For The Gourmand

    Amazon.com​Tired of trying to Google culinary terms when you're right in the middle of an episode of Top Chef or, I don't know, reading your favorite food blog? Well the editors of American Heritage Dictionaries have come out with a book for you: think CliffsNotes for food people. Six bucks to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Countdown to LAMBERTGEDDON! (Day 17): We Want Your Fan Art

    Fan Art by deviantART's CaribbeanBlueWe Want Your Fan Art!​Like the entire music-listening world (#9 album on Amazon.com on presales alone!) we at West Coast Sound are extremely excited about the November 23rd release of For Your Entertainment, the debut album by our fellow Angeleno and Americ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Frank Bruni in Town on 'Born Round' Book Tour: Movie of the Week Coming Soon?

    Amazon.comHow to become a food critic​For anyone who's been missing Frank Bruni's restaurant reviews in the New York Times lately, or is fascinated by the seemingly paradoxical intersection of food criticism and bulimia, the NYT staff writer will be talking about his new book, Born Round, tomo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Mark Peel's New Cookbook: New Classic Family Dinners A Recipe for Cold Cucumber Soup

    Amazon.comNew Classic Family Dinners​Mark Peel has had a busy summer. In addition to working on the new bar up the street from his La Brea Avenue restaurant Campanile, opening a new take-out place (more on both projects coming), competing in Top Chef Masters and appearing as a judge in the new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt: The Book?

    Just when you thought the "two memes one shirt" phenomenon had hit its last iteration (how long before we see a "Three Wolves with Dead Kittens in their Mouths on a Moon shirt?"), The Mountain -- the company behind the world's first viral T-shirt -- is apparently looking for a book deal. The propos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Kindle This: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Tops Bestseller List

    Amazon.comJulia Child a best-seller​For those bemoaning the lost art of reading (here's David Ulin's fine piece in the Los Angeles Times) or the lost art of cooking (Michael Pollan in the New York Times), there is good news on both counts: Julia Child's classic cookbook "Mastering the Art of F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Dr. Eliot's 5-Foot Shelf: Diana Kennedy's "The Art of Mexican Cooking"

    Amazon.comThe Art of Mexican Cooking​When Charles Eliot, the former Harvard president, declared that one could get a perfectly serviceable education by spending 15 minutes a day reading from the books that could fit on a five-foot shelf, he did not have cookbooks in mind. But these days, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Author Harris' Death: Heart Disease

    Amazon.comE. Lynn Harris​The L.A. County Coroner's office announced that successful author E. Lynn Harris, who died suddenly last week at the age of 54, was stricken by heart disease aggravated by high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, according to Associated Press. Harris, who lived i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Friends Of Friends releases Daedelus/Jogger Remixes EP; Download Nosaj Thing's Version (MP3)

    ​ Last March a brand new local imprint, Friends Of Friends Music, kicked things off with a conceptually cute first release. Label head Lazy Brow (Leeor Brown, also of independent music marketing group Terrorbird) wrangled beloved L.A. electronicist Daedelus as curator of Friends Of Friends Vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Larousse Gastronomique: The Necessary 8-lb. Book In Your Cookbook Library

    It is the Summer of Julia, when teenage girls will soon be lining up along the hot concrete sidewalks of Wilshire Boulevard to watch Meryl Streep flip omelets and deconstruct ducks onscreen.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Darth Vader Toaster, the USB hub of Evil, and other home appliances from the Dark Side

    Okay, I know we're all hoarding our money these days, but I wanted to bring this item (and some others) to your attention, in case anybody out there happens to be shopping for USB hubs or Darth Vader helmets anyway. From ThinkGeek.com, Darth USB has 480 MBps of digital connectivity and four ports. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Last Night: The Internet Wants to Be Free, But We Need to Get Paid - Dealmaker LA

    Dear Internet, You broke media. Please fix. Thanks in advance, Everybody As eyeballs flock to the Internet without a reciprocal shift in advertising revenue, the online world is scrambling for a new business model that reflects the potential and reach of online marketing. As traditional medi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    The "Revolutionary Road" Not Taken

    Defamer has a film obitchuary for the Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet vehicle, Revolutionary Road, and its failure to sucker Oscar voters into giving it a single nomination. ("Good Fucking Riddance, Revolutionary Road.") One hoped-for outcome of the Academy Award snub, Defamer says, is "a foreseeable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    iTunes to Go DRM free, Drop Some Prices, Raise Others

    A few weeks ago after a visit to the Mac repair shop for my ailing MacBook, one of my favorite albums of the year, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, stopped working on my iTunes because I apparently had used the music on too many computers. Which was a load of crap, of course. I had ... More >>

  • LA Life

    November 27, 2008

    ¡ask a Mexican!

    A few weeks ago after a visit to the Mac repair shop for my ailing MacBook, one of my favorite albums of the year, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, stopped working on my iTunes because I apparently had used the music on too many computers. Which was a load of crap, of course. I had ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Museum Gift Shop: Huntington Library Bookstore & More

    A few weeks ago after a visit to the Mac repair shop for my ailing MacBook, one of my favorite albums of the year, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, stopped working on my iTunes because I apparently had used the music on too many computers. Which was a load of crap, of course. I had ... More >>

  • LA Life

    January 24, 2008

    Ask a Mexican! Las Puertas

    Never realized Jim Morrison was the equal of Morrissey and Charles Bronson among other Mexican guero icons.

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

    There are quite a few twists to the story of the new Radiohead album that broke on the band's website last night . One that is getting very little attention is the terrible name of the album: In Rainbows. But here are a couple others: 1. Journalists won't get advance copies or early access. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Amazon's MP3 Bargains

    Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "1234" by Feist, which is popular because it's played in an Apple commercial. Amazon's songs are DRM-free and 256k which are the big selling points. ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 26, 2007

    William Langewiesche on The Atomic Bazaar and Facing our Worst Fear

    The eventualist

  • Art+Books

    May 17, 2007

    The Bookish Set

    Inside the indie booksellers

  • Music

    August 17, 2006

    Rippin' & Dippin'

    Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Do You IMDB?

    How a fanatic helped put Hollywood under one big tent

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Really Hot Air

    Viacom sucks up to FCC over Howard Stern’s indecent exposure

  • News

    July 17, 2003

    Surfing for Trouble

    Viacom sucks up to FCC over Howard Stern’s indecent exposure

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Maybe

    Viacom sucks up to FCC over Howard Stern’s indecent exposure

  • Art+Books

    November 1, 2001

    Webs

    Steven Johnson has seen the future, and it’s SimCity

  • Art+Books

    June 8, 2000

    The Community Is the Brand

    Steven Johnson has seen the future, and it’s SimCity

  • Art+Books

    March 30, 2000

    Tactical Embarrassment

    The subversive cyber actions of ®™ark

  • Art+Books

    March 30, 2000

    Patently Absurd

    The subversive cyber actions of ®™ark

  • Art+Books

    February 24, 2000

    Hacking the Future

    Why code crackers will lead the digital age

  • Art+Books

    November 18, 1999

    Patently Mine

    Microsoft and Amazon test new open-door policy at U.S. Patent Office

  • Art+Books

    July 29, 1999

    The War Over Your Personal Privacy Is Over.
    You Lost.

    The top five ways the technological revolution has been a war against you

  • Art+Books

    July 8, 1999

    Wait-and-Switch

    Why is Amazon.com debuting free digital downloads?

  • Art+Books

    April 29, 1999

    Campaign2000.com

    What the administration's antitrust crusade against Microsoft means for Al Gore on the stump

  • Art+Books

    April 8, 1999

    Greetings from Multimedia Glitch

    Crashing the Webbies; deconstructing Bil Keane

  • Art+Books

    March 18, 1999

    On the Line at Amazon.com

    Blue-collar labor in a high-tech company

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