Blogs and Blogging

Job! Topless Robot, Home of 'Nerd News, Humor and Self-Loathing,' Is Looking for a New Editor

Topless Robot, home for "nerd news, humor and self-loathing" is looking to immediately hire a new chief blogger and editor. Yes, really!

Mike Gatto's Blogger Problem

The Assembly District 43 incumbent faces opponent Greg Krikorian, but a worse opponent is Mayor Sam

How to Ask a Food Blogger for Food Recommendations

What You'll Need: A general idea of the type of cuisine or specific dish you would like to eat, or not eat The number of people in your party A price range of how much you would like to pay for your meal The part of town where you will dine A note of any special considerations (i.e., kid- or dog-f ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Web Awards 2012: We've Got Some Finalists!

We asked for your help finding the best and brightest online in Los Angeles, and you delivered. After combing through thousands of nominations for the L.A. Weekly Web Awards 2012, we're happy to announce our finalists. But we can't do all of this ourselves. We've got a panel of judges to help us pi ... More >>

Meet Your Food Bloggers: Drew Hubbard and Ben Waters of L.A. Foodie

Pair two affable, self-described "food dudes" living in L.A. -- digital marketing consultant Drew Hubbard with film and video editor Ben Waters, who has improv comedy training -- and you get L.A. Foodie. The site with the colorful burger logo and light-hearted tone delivers commentary on topics rang ... More >>

Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Failing Charter School, Threatens Conservative Blog 'Mayor Sam' With Lawsuit

Don't you just love when public-sector pricks try to threaten truthy Internet journalists with baseless "defamation" lawsuits? Nothing's funnier to us than the image of these guys in their offices, all red-nosed and flustered, shaking their fists and frantically searching Thesaurus.com for bigger a ... More >>

Comments: Race to the Finish

Cookbook Of The Week: Herbivoracious, A Blogging Revelation

Herbivoracious by Michael Natkin is the sort of cookbook we really shouldn't need, as most of us with access to Southern California's abundant produce already have what the second half of the subtitle offers: 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes. But we really didn't need a book on The Art of ... More >>

I Am a Reverse Coyote: Smuggling Food Tourists Into Tijuana

Tijuana is the new culinary media darling, but this writer has been smuggling food tourists there for years

Fuck SXSW: 10 Ways to Re-Create It in Los Angeles

South by Southwest (or just "South by" if you're cool and/or in a fake hurry) is well under way, with the interactive and film portions kicking off last weekend and the biggest draw, the music, just beginning. Couldn't make it all the way to Texas? Fuck it. For those of us left behind, we bring you ... More >>

Elina Shatkin's Exit Interview: Top 10 Questions for Food Writers

After 16 glorious, fatty months, I'm filing my last story for L.A. Weekly. Instead of a windy "fare thee well" post, I decided to conduct my own exit interview, answering the top 10 questions I am asked. This has been an amazing job, and I was lucky to have it. I was even more lucky to work for and ... More >>

Sexy Sex Writers Wanted

L.A. Weekly is seeking new contributors who are willing to write on the wild side. Our NSFW blog is recruiting freelancers of all stripes: essayists who can write about their own experiences, reporters who know how to track down the experts and punchy stylists who don't mind riffing about sex, even ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet

Adam Roberts is one of those food blogger-turned-published authors whose success makes the rest of us drool. He created his blog, "The Amateur Gourmet," in 2004 while studying law at Emory University. "I'd come home from a long day of law school, my brain would be fried, and the only thing I could ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Billy Vasquez of The 99 Cent Chef

Billy Vasquezthe 99 Cent Chef​Where does Billy Vasquez, the 99 Cent Chef, find inspiration for his blog? At L.A.'s ubiquitous 99 Cents Only Stores, of course. His blog reports on the current food items (some vary from day to day) as well as other under-a-dollar bargains at local markets. Us ... More >>

The Bill To Stop Online Piracy Would Totally Fuck Up Music Blogs

By Gabrielle Canon Over Thanksgiving weekend, 2010, a Homeland Security division wrongfully seized a hip-hop blog called Dajaz1, on allegations of copyright infringement. The site -- which got some 3,000 hits a day or so -- was run by a guy from Queens known only as Splash. As you can see on the C ... More >>

Blogger Jailed Over Bad Beef Noodle Review

We've heard of restaurateurs having hissy fits over bad Yelp reviews and even kicking out newspaper reviewers, but jailing a blogger over a bad review? That would be insane... or would it? A Taiwanese blogger was recently sentenced to 30 days in detention, two years of probation and ordered her to ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Resigns: We Now Have Nothing to Write About

​If it wasn't here before, the era of the blogger as king-taker is upon us. After L.A. blogger Andrew Breitbart revealed that New York U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner was sexting and sending revealing photos to women who aren't his wife, the congressman resigned today, saying: Today I am announcing ... More >>

Marvin Gapultos: Adobo Road

Kevin ScanlonMarvin Gapultos​ Not so long ago, Marvin Gapultos was a marketing writer for a software company, and the Filipino food he grew up with was incidental music in an otherwise busy life. Then, as so many people did in 2008, he lost his job and began recalibrating what he wanted that l ... More >>

2nd Annual Food Blogger Bake Sale: Eat Sweets, Feel Good

Chocolate Chip Stuffed Cookies from What's Gaby Cooking.​Ah, bake sales. There's not much else that makes you feel quite like a sugar-crazed kid again. But most of us feel a lot better about gorging on sweets these days when we have an excuse, and this weekend, the perfect opportunity will com ... More >>

From Food Blog to Food Truck to Cookbook: Marvin Gapultos Gets a Book Deal

screenshot of Burnt Lumpia post​ Local food blogger Marvin Galputos, who runs the Filipino food blog Burnt Lumpia, is having a good run lately. The Filipino food truck, Manila Machine, that he started with fellow food blogger Nastassia Johnson (Let Me Eat Cake), participated in the 3rd annual ... More >>

[Updated, Again]: Dervaes Family Trademarks "Urban Homestead" Term: Legal Battle Follows

The cover of The Urban Homestead, written by Erik Knudsen and Kelly Coyne, which might be renamed in the next printing.​Updated, 2/22, 12:30 p.m.: The Dervaes family recently filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice to Google regarding content in The Urban Homestead by K ... More >>

Rick Bayless Taco-Blocks Local Blogger

Chicago-based chef Rick Bayless, who graciously introduced Los Angeles to authentic music right after introducing us to authentic Mexican cuisine, doesn't want a certain Los Angeles blogger to know what he's doing. The blogger in question is Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA, who savaged Red O in ... More >>

The Bikeroots

City Council candidate Stephen Box and L.A. bicyclists roll into the halls of power

LA Weekly Switches To Disqus Comment System: Tell Us We Suck Faster, More Efficiently

Tell us how much you care.​Dear readers: You know we love your comments. Especially when you call us names and say we got the facts more twisted than Sarah Palin's panties when she's at the NAACP convention (as if). And to that end, we made commenting much easier for you. Forget the old Capt ... More >>

Year in Review: Best Blog Comments of 2010

Flickr/Shaun Martin​ Reader comments are to blogs what letters to the editor used to be, more or less. But as anyone who used to read those has long recognized, blog comments are -- not unlike blogs themselves -- faster, shorter, and often far more irreverent. Which is what makes them so much ... More >>

Formerly Vegan Blogger Threatened by Angry Vegans

Flickr/jonny.hunter​ What happens when a prominent vegan defects and becomes an ardent omnivore? Death threats, of course. After years of living as a self-professed "vegangelical," Natasha, a well-known vegan blogger at Voracious, ended up with debilitating health problems. Her doctor urged ... More >>

Q & A With Nick Malgieri: His New Baking Book, Food Bloggers The Occupational Hazards of Blueberry Muffin Recipes

AmazonNick Malgieri​Baking instructor, cookbook author and generally very funny guy Nick Malgieri was in town last week, giving a talk at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. Just for fun, of course, and as part of his current book tour. Malgieri's tenth book, Bake!: Essential ... More >>

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 >>

Squid Ink Among the Best Food Blogs in the Nation

​And now a brief message from LA Weekly's Editor, Drex Heikes. Amy Scattergood, able keeper of this blog, is not one to tout her own fare, but others will. Via Poynter, the Association of Food Journalists has deemed Squid Ink the second best food blog in the land. Not bad for a blog that beg ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/14-6/18

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I WANT TO BUY YOUR GOATS."

Manhattan Beach Bubble Blogger Outs Himself

Dave Fratello, the un-anonymous blogger behind MB Confidential​For the last three years, real estate agents in Manhattan Beach have been vexed by an anonymous blogger.MB Confidential has become a must-read for prospective homebuyers by ridiculing overpriced listings and exposing deceptive real est ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"

2nd Annual Eat My Blog Bake Sale

​The first Eat My Blog bake sale, held last December, was such a success that food blogger Cathy Danh (Gastronomy) has decided to hold another one. The second bake sale, with proceeds again going to the L.A. Regional Foodbank, will take place on Saturday, June 19th at the Hollywood outpost of ... More >>

Mickey Kaus: An Irritating Candidate

Full of So Much Win: L.A. Weekly Web Awards

Prop. 8 Trial: Cambridge Professor Says Gays Raise 'Well-Adjusted' Kids

Anti-gay marriage supporters aren't the only people who can succeed as parents.Patrick Range McDonaldPro-gay marriage marchers in Westwood in November, 2008.​At the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco on Friday, Cambridge University psychology professor Michael Lamb told the court that gay and le ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/7 - 12/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When we reminisce about the old Luau in Beverly Hills, he always reminds me how the bar was full of call girls." Meet Your Food Blogger: Pat Saperstein of EatingLA. "L.A. seems to get caught up in these trends, ... More >>

TV Newsman Goes Off On Perez Hilton

​Sam Rubin, the resident entertainment reporter at KTLA News in Los Angeles, went off on gossip blogger Perez Hilton Tuesday after the online celebrity walked off the set Monday without fulfilling an agreement to appear on the station's "Morning News." Rubin said on-air that Hilton was schedu ... More >>

Help Wanted: Want To Be A Food Writer? Can You Write About Food Without Using The Word "Delicious"?

Want to be a food writer? Think you can write witty, pithy posts for this blog? L.A. Weekly's food blog (the very blog you're reading now) is seeking qualified freelance food writers. Must know the L.A. food scene, be able to write intelligently about it, come up with creative pitches and supply pho ... More >>

Meet Your Drink Blogger: the Varnish Bartender Chris Bostick

Chris BostickBartender's Choice​Chris Bostick is one of the guys you'll see poised behind a fleet of beakers at the Varnish, bathed in dim, syrupy light, shaking a cocktail shaker in the way that a great drummer teases a snare, conjuring chaos with calculated precision. An Austin native with ... More >>

Queer Town: GLAAD Hesitant to Criticize Director Todd Holland

On Monday morning, L.A. Weekly broke the story that openly gay, Emmy-winning director Todd Holland told an audience at Outfest on Sunday afternoon that he advises young, gay male actors to "stay in the closet" if they want to succeed in Hollywood. By Monday afternoon, gay bloggers and their readers ... More >>

LA People 2009: The “Tweethearts” — Laurie and Sean Percival

From the (Unofficial) Bigg Digg Shindigg to Sex Lives of the Microfamous: Your Ultimate Guide to SXSW Interactive

With the biggest conference presence of the entire SXSW festival, SXSW Interactive is more than just a place where, as ace SXSW Interactive Press and Publicity coordinator Tammy Lynn Gilmore put it, "you get to meet all those people you follow on Twitter." Unlike music and film, it's difficult to ma ... More >>

West LA Doctor's Website Targets Super-Graphics

A new billboard battle is being waged -- this time in cyberspace. A protest website recently popped up to "address the injustice placed upon the tenants of 10801 and have the supergraphics' removed forever." The blogger, Dr. David Allan, started the site after part of his office on the north wall of ... More >>

Obama insider, IBEW, SEIU, fire back at L.A. bloggers in solar war

By Daniel HeimpelWhat do you get when the top chieftains at City Hall, plus Barack Obama's wildly successful California campaign director, plus one of L.A.'s most politically-connected government unions all pit themselves against a few gadflies whose power is their ability to blog and dissent?Those ... More >>

Live Election Day Blogging from New York's Village Voice

I've already voted, have you? Today's the big day and we're going national with our coverage. Click here to stay updated with live election blogging from Roy Edroso of the Village Voice who will be working feverishly all day and night to bring you the latest updates, upsets and commentary from New Y ... More >>

Krist Novoselic Says Flipper Still Rules, OK???

If you're going to listen to any aging punk rocker wax nostalgic for a cult-band like Flipper - and we've all probably heard more than we need to - is there anyone you'd rather give the benefit of the doubt to than Nirvana's bassist / Northwest political gadfly? You're in luck. Krist Novoselic is ... More >>

Celebs to the Slaughter

Why Arianna’s Blog Blows

Censor Alert

Congress considers controls for cable TV and the Internet