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Tinder Is Like Pandora for Hooking Up

Twenty-seven-year-old Justin Mateen knows a whole lot about your dating life. He knows how old you are, how many Facebook friends you have and what physical characteristics you're most attracted to in a potential mate -- that is, if you're a member of the nationwide, L.A.-made dating app, Tinder, wh ... More >>

Venice Drum Circle Goes Digital

The popular Venice Beach Drum Circle has done away with the bongos and embraced the digital age. This week the group, which meets every Sunday just before sunset, announced that it has replaced traditional instruments with a collection of smartphones and Rock Band drum kits. Ariel Coriander, who de ... More >>

30-Minute Lunch: Egg Slut Truck

Place: Egg Slut Truck. (Note: At its current schedule, the truck can be found at Handsome Coffee Roasters Mondays through Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.) Atmosphere: Your best option is to pair your order with an espresso with milk from Handsome Coffee Roasters just a few steps away. The barista ... More >>

Inside the World of L.A.'s Puppet Filmmakers

A movie must be completed before its screened, right? Not according to Graphation. Last night, in Downtown Los Angeles' Hive Gallery, the independent film group kickstarted their first installment of Works In Progress by presenting three unfinished films to an audience. The focus of the WIP seri ... More >>

5 Sriracha-Inspired Fashion Accessories

If you're one of those people who puts Sriracha on everything, you're not the only one. The Rosemead-produced condiment has been making big headlines these days. Over ten million bottles of the popular chili are made each year and the sauce has become a food-culture mainstay. Remember Sriracha lolli ... More >>

LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: Javier Guillen, Best Instagram Account

Best Instagram Account Javier Guillen @goeastlos Javier Guillen didn't set out to become a social media maven. The 31-year-old East L.A. native was just fooling around with his iPhone — and trying to finish his degree at Cal State Northridge after a seven-year hiatus. But it didn't take long t ... More >>

Cramming For Tests Doesn't Work, Says UCLA Study

As legions of new freshman launch their college careers at USC, California State University campuses and other schools this week, they are beginning their higher education during a time of unprecedented access to knowledge. It's at their fingertips -- on their laptops, iPads and iPhones. The answer ... More >>

Los Angeles Ranks High Among Cities With Young Adults Slacking at Home

Now we understand why so many young Angelenos can afford iPhones, glasses without lenses and pool parties at the Standard hotel rooftop. Turns out nearly a third of you are living at home with mommy and daddy. A new study about young adults (those 20-34) living with their parents during this Great ... More >>

L.A. Gay Pride 2012: Author James Langteaux Answers 'What Does It Mean To Be Gay?'

"What does it mean to be gay?" A seemingly simple question, but one that's not often asked. With Los Angeles Gay Pride starting today, various gay folks have been giving us their answers in a weeklong series. James Langteaux is a TV producer and author of Gay Conversations with God, among other boo ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/30 - 5/4

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Goan restaurants are almost nonexistent in the U.S., perhaps due to the fact that the region enjoys such a resort-town popularity in India that few of its chefs would ever imagine emigrating their bustling hotel kitchen posts. ... More >>

L.A. Geeks Sue Google Over Bad Android Apps

If it weren't for geeks keeping tech companies honest we'd still be using Windows 95 and paying AOL for dial-up. Two L.A. men, Dodd Harris and Stephen Sabatino, are seeking class-action status for a suit against Google. Their issue? The duo claims that some Google Android phone apps don't work, an ... More >>

Big Sexy, a Pot Brownie Expert Who Turns Marijuana Entrepreneurship Into a Lifestyle

"I'm sorry, I'm just texting my butter maker," says the man in the black XL Rocca Wear shirt. He goes by "Big Sexy," and with a filled-out, 6-foot-5 frame, he lives up to that moniker and then some."It's more than a name," he says. "It's a lifestyle. Try to say 'Big Sexy' without smiling." The ... More >>

Chefs Feed: Your Latest Food App

So many apps, so much food, so little time. The latest fun food app is called Chefs Feed, which was released yesterday by Credible, Inc., and it's sort of like an aggregate of all those Bon Appétit back pages where your favorite chef told you what they liked to eat on their own time. The Los Angele ... More >>

iPhone Porn? There's a Controversial New App For That

Hottest Girls​While your iPhone's browser can take you just about anywhere your pervy heart desires, Apple has been touchy about approving actual apps with sexual content. The App Store might as well be an Hamish town, because, according to company policy: Apps containing pornographic materia ... More >>

iPad Killer Sought by Tribune Co., Corporate Parent of L.A. Times: Try Not to Laugh

Newspaper suits want to go head-to-head with this.​The Chicago-based geniuses at the Tribune Co., corporate parent of the Los Angeles Times, have their sights set on an iPad killer. Really. Because nothing says "future-forward high-tech hub" like the land of hot-dogs and coronary disease. The ... More >>

Jobs For Los Angeles Amid Lukewarm Unemployment Report, Shite Economy: Craigslist Has The Answers

Temari 09Reach for the sky, L.A.​So the unemployment rate in America is not quite as bad as we thought, and Wall Street is slightly happy but still schizophrenic. Because nearly 1 in 10 people out of work this summer is sort of okay, comparatively, and maybe better than last year, but not rea ... More >>

Best iPhone App: Das Bunker

Best Food Porn: Matt Bites

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'Dog Wars' Android App Lets You 'Juice' Your Dog, Shoot Police; Real-Life Police Not Amused

androidsoftware.us​Much in the same way the iPhone "Smuggle Truck" app set immigrant-rights groups into a tither, L.A. police (along with the nation's top animal-rights activists) are now fuming over a dogfighting app for Android called "Dog Wars." It's just a game, sure...

Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been the Past Year

hotgirlswithiphones.comApple is getting creepy.​Stunning news out of the tech world this week: You're iPhone is tracking your every move and saving it in a file that can be converted into a map. It has been doing this for almost a year -- since June, according to the UK's Guardian newspaper. ... More >>

David Bowie's Most LA-centric Single Gets KCRW Remixes and Its Own iPhone App

​One of our favorite artists just announced that he is releasing one of our favorite songs as a $2 iPhone app allowing fans to make their own remixes. David Bowie (or whoever handles his business this days--he hasn't been since in public in a long while and there are some wacky conspiracy the ... More >>

Marijuana Bust-Alert iPhone App Prank in L.A.'s '420 Times' Dupes San Diego Columnist Tom Blair: There's Not an App For That

420 TimesActually there's not an app for that.​It appears San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Tom Blair was duped by an April Fool's joke in L.A.'s own marijuana magazine the 420 Times. In a Monday column titled "What are these people smoking?" the journo blasts the Times for rolling out its "D ... More >>

Find The Best Restaurants, Happy Hours, Pot Doctors in L.A. With Village Voice Media's Free 'Best Of' App

hotgirlswithiphones.comOur app is simply the best.​You can Google it. Yelp it. Even do Yahoo, Citysearch and Urbanspoon. But if you want to get to the best in L.A., there's a one-stop app for you. The Village Voice Media Best Of app. If you're in L.A., the iPhone app will route you directl ... More >>

How To Make Your Own Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake [Video]

In what is perhaps the best mashup in the history of Life with Elementary School Kids, Mike Cooper over at Electricpig.co.uk has created a playable Angry Birds birthday cake, complete with instructions and YouTube video. See above. So let your kid watch this on your computer for 150 consecutive t ... More >>

Pat Yourselves on the Back, Angelenos: You Spent a Nation-Topping Half-Billion-Plus Hours In Traffic In One Year

Sweet home, Angeleno.​Breaking news, we know: L.A. tops the list of major American cities when it comes to time spent in your car, "excess" gas used waiting in traffic, and commuter stress. We spent more than a half-billion hours staring at brake lights. This according to the just-released U ... More >>

Marijuana Prices In Medical-Pot States Like California At Low, Low Prices (Thanks To Drug Gangs And Mexican Cartels)

Your bud Mary Jane doesn't cost as much as she used to.​The legalization of medical pot in 14 states including, of course, California, has driven the price of weed down to new lows. This, of course, makes no economic since, since legalization = more demand = less supply = higher prices, in ou ... More >>

Arizona-Like Immigration Initiative Proposed For 2012 Ballot In California

Welcome to California, now go back to Mexico.​While much of Arizona's controversial immigration law has been held up in court, some Californians are trying to put a similar measure on our 2012 ballot. Because we all know whatever problems we have -- unemployment, the deficit, slow iPhone conn ... More >>

Ariel Pink's New Wayne Coyne Directed Video May Cause Seizures/ Mind Expansion

Ariel Pink's New Wayne Coyne Directed Video Will Cause Seizures/ Mind Expansion

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/8-11/12

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But if it's really not too much trouble, could we all declare a moratorium on implicit comparisons between spherical foods and the male anatomy? Thanks. It would mean a lot." A Food-Writing Misstep of Which I've Been Guilty ... More >>

Top 10 Kitchen Safety Tips (Excluding: "Don't Be a Moron")

Flickr user Photography_1O1Is your meat being stored at the appropriate temperature?​ It is National Food Safety Education Month, because everyone knows that the best way to deal with a serious issue is to give it its own month. We also love giving out National Days (yesterday was National Cr ... More >>

Delta Lets Passengers Book Their Flight On Facebook

​You can now book your flights on Facebook. Delta Air Lines announced on Thursday that it was launching a new feature on Facebook that would allow passengers to book fights from LAX and other airports directly via the social media website. The "Delta Ticket Window" can be accessed on the comp ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Open Season

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer aalorber, who took the shot of last Sunday's crawfish boil at Dominick's with his iPhone. That would be the 3G, which apparently works a whole lot better than the one Steve Jobs tried to demo the other day. Happy crawfish season. ... More >>

Can You Hear Me Now? Maybe Not At Coachella

Dennis Romero​Coachella has its own iPhone app this year, and at least one artist, Plastikman, planned to integrate an audience-interaction app for his performance at the three-day festival. But for all the iPhone-waving hipsters who have trekked to the California desert for the party, AT&T co ... More >>

Steampunk Ghostbusters Mash-Up Featuring The League of S.T.E.A.M.

Every few weeks, L.A.-based performance/art collective The League of S.T.E.A.M. unleashes a new video filled with steampunk adventures of a supernatural nature. They also perform live at art spaces, nightclubs and fandom conventions. If you were at Comic-Con last year, you might recognize some of th ... More >>

Name That Pastry Chef Christmas Rush Edition: Who's Macarons Are Under This Tree?

As the Christmas week countdown has begun, we're respecting your need to dash out for last-minute holiday shopping by providing this iPhone-friendly Name That Pastry Chef single-pager. In between online sweater shopping for dad (sweaters are like caviar: when in doubt, go with classic black), tell u ... More >>

Top 140: L.A. Twitter Conference's Greatest Hits

Tweeps took over Hollywood & Highland's Kodak Theater for the 140 Character Conference, the second edition of Jeff Pulver's global Twitter initiative (first in New York, next in London) that explores the effects of the real-time web on business, media, and culture. Here are our Top 140 (or so) twee ... More >>

Castles in the Sky Poll

Curbed L.A. today features a bit of architectural whimsy -- not in the form of Buck Rogers-like blueprints imagined during the 1930s, but a list of city projects that never saw the light of day and which would make cool destinations on a iPhone GPS application. Some are dead and buried projects such ... More >>

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

During the President's health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event -- Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst -- with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform. This realtime 2 ... More >>

Vote or Die: Ultimate Guide to SXSWi Panel Picking

'Tis the season for SXSW panel Twitter deluge, or as one attuned tweeter put it, "How to Annoy Your Friends with Social Media Pestering to Vote for Your SXSW Panel." Because we've also spent the better part of the morning slogging through the SXSWi panel goat rodeo (moment of Internet Zen: Yoga For ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/2 - 8/7/2009

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If one's national bard writes a poem to a dish consisting of chopped-up offal cooked in a sheep's stomach together with oatmeal and spices and secured with a curious pin, then that dish must be authentically national." Keep Y ... More >>

Advertising Now: Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

When death of your industry becomes default small talk in the conference lobby and every media related conversation devolves into something along the lines of "how do we save the Los Angeles Times?" you know things are not boding well. Perhaps this is why media buyers (the typically underpaid twenty ... More >>

Personal Training for Dorks and Other Web 2.0 Conference Survival Tips

Always on the look out for the marketing zeitgeist (the concept, not the bar - which serendipitously we were at last night for theMix agency party), LAWeekly.com noticed these "Personal Training for Dorks" flyers up around the conference center and desperately missed our gyms back home. The only "ex ... More >>

Weird Things We Found at SxSW

It speaks volumes for the nature of a media industry event when, along with the requisite Diet Sodas and veggie plate, there are mini Colgate wisp toothbrushes given out at the concessions table. While we'll leave you to consider the implications of why you would need a mini toothbrush at a tech con ... 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 >>

SXSW Interactive: Twitterati, iPhone Socks and a Don't Mess With Texas Breakfast

SXSW convention center full of LA Weekly issues... even the old ones LAWeekly.com's first day at SXSW started early as I couldn't wait to get up and start my morning with a huge breakfast -- which of course led to the requisite dash for Pepto-Bismol because my body isn't used to a Texas "small," ba ... More >>

Whither the Econocalypse? Scenes From L.A. Tech Month

On the precipice of a tech revolution

Last Night: Tech Industry Geeks Barrage Knitting Factory for Digg.com Meetup L.A.

Hundreds of Diggnation fans, Diggers and general tech industry geeks barraged the Knitting Factory last night for the Digg.com Meetup L.A. -- the crowd on Hollywood Boulevard started lining up at 8 a.m. with attendees setting up folding chairs, the general vibe reminiscent of a Star Wars or LOR prem ... More >>

Last Night: Enlightened Debauchery with Mindshare LA @ The Lacy Lofts

The process of Googling has come to define New Millenial thinking - if you lack some piece of information you can just borrow it from someone else, a stranger with whom you now share a connection. This collaborative borrowing is the main thrust behind Mindshare LA, an event held every 3rd Thursday o ... More >>

Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances

Hollywood starts new year with a bang