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Cry Baby Lane VIDEO: Watch Nickelodeon's 'Banned' Halloween Movie Online

Viacom (Please don't sue me?)Scaredy cat.​So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick "Cry Baby Lane." According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and on ... More >>

LinA in LA: Coloring Outside the Lines

Thanksgiving Cupcake Challenge: Give Us Your Best Turkey Gravy-Filled, No Cheating With Syringes

flickr user saucydragonflyMarzipan Is So Last Year​There are so many thoughts that come to mind with turkey gravy-filled cupcakes, Armageddon arriving two years early being among our current favorites. But once you step back for a moment to consider the Double Down of the pastry world (should ... More >>

SXSW: From @ Platform to Ad Platform? Twitter Announces @anywhere

​Perplexing the business-model hungry pundits with a difference of just one letter, Twitter CEO Ev Williams surprised the crowd today at his SXSWi keynote by announcing not an Ad platform but an @ platform, a way to further integrate Twitter's data into third party platforms without implementing a ... More >>

Operation Work as Little as Possible: SXSWi Parties That Don't Suck

We got through day one of "Operation Work as Little as Possible: (a.k.a SXSW Interactive) and now after a relaxing massage in the press room and a not so relaxing false alarm we're ready to continue on our quest to ignore as many P.R. emails as possible. Because alcohol is great for killing producti ... More >>

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

From Anti-Technology to Twittering Fool: Slash Talks Social Media Pros and Cons

Erin BroadleySlash accepts his golden floppy for "Best MySpace Music Page"​Partygoers look for several things when deciding whether to attend a Hollywood soiree: convenient parking, networking opportunities, beautiful women, an open bar, and perhaps the most important as of late, does the part ... More >>

Grammys' Social Media Rock Star Summit: Music Fans at the Forefront of Digital Culture

Melissa Jun RowleySocial Media Rock Stars: Digg's Kevin Rose and Mashable's Pete Cashmore​For more than half a century the Grammy Awards have been the pinnacle institution of American music. (But that doesn't mean the tone of the show and the brand itself have to be institutional.) While the ... More >>

Announcing the LA Web Awards: Nominate Your Favorite Website, MySpace Page, Tweeter, Opinionator

​ It's a busy frickin' Interweb, isn't it? So much blather and hot air, so many sites to wade through to find something useful and/or awesome and/or informative. Believe us, we know. We're filling space a dozen times daily on all things music, and still can't cover all the information that co ... More >>

Who Has The Best Web Presence in L.A.? The LA Web Awards Wants To Know

It was a big year for unemployment, foreclosures, stimulus packages, bailouts and ... the internet. After all, those without jobs, full-time freelancers and the under-employed would be bored to death if it weren't for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Now we're asking you to use that hard-earned onlin ... More >>

LA Weekly Presents the LA Web Awards: Vote For Your Favorite Food Blog, Restaurant Site, Twitterer, Drinking Blog

You can tell it's the end of the year when you start getting the lists and round-ups, catalogs and awards, best-ofs and Top 10 this and that. Or rather, more of them. In this vein, we've launched our "LA Weekly Presents the LA Web Awards" which is open for voting through Dec. 31st. You can nominate ... More >>

In the Boardroom With Mahalo's Jason Calacanis

L.A.'s brash tech superstar

Tweet-Up on the 405: L.A. Start-Up Wows Techcrunch50

City Sourced just got a unanimous thumbs-up from Techcrunch50 judges Lior Zorea, Bradley Horowitz, Kevin Rose, Satish Dharmaraj and Tim O'Reilly (!) and as Techcrunch is reporting, might have a potential investment opportunity from Kevin Rose coming up. ​Founded in L.A. by Jason Kiesel and Ku ... 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 >>

SEO This: The Lazy Man's Guide to Page Views

Have you ever found yourself wondering, "Why doesn't anybody go to my website?"Local SEO Ninjas Tony Adam, Jeff Henderson, and Sean Percival get their search optimization on. Perhaps it's because there is nothing on there worth seeing. After all, if there was something really cool on your site th ... More >>

The Chosen Ones: Media CEOs Eat Grasshoppers -- A Love Story

Maybe because we used to work on the dark side, we're suckers for a good viral marketing ploy (see: viral buzz, brand ambassadors, evangelizing, product seeding, online influencers, etc.). That being said, when we saw Digg founder Kevin Rose, L.A.'s own Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis and Rubicon Project ... More >>

Ten Things We Learned At Web 2.0 Expo (Including How to Monetize Twitter)

Ten Things We Learned At Web 2.0 Expo (Including How to Monetize Twitter) 10. That the computer company SAP is not pronounced "sap" and apparently it is the "IBM of Germany." So if you see someone with "SAP" on their badge, you get the picture... (one person excused our ignorance as being specific ... More >>

Web 2.0 Expo: "Less is More" is More at Social Web Tech Conference

While we thank our lucky stars that rumors of a rampant April Fools' converge virus turned out to be just that, we feel even luckier to be in San Francisco learning the ins and outs of the social Web at O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 conference. Coining the term in 2005, Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 has been ar ... More >>

Over the Weekend: SXSW Music, Metallica's "Not So Secret" Show, Mad Tea Party, Puppet Up! Uncensored For Adults Only

After 10 long days (and nights) we can finally say South by Southwest 2009 is a wrap. Though we still haven't unpacked, we've dragged our road weary and hungover bodies out of Austin, Texas and back into the office to bring you a play-by-play of this year's SXSW Music and Interactive. But just becau ... More >>

Last Night in Austin: Mashable Rooftop Bash at SxSW

Erin BroadleyMashable.com's Pete CashmoreWe were at it again last night, and the party pings did not stop coming. Bumping into Fast Company guru Robert Scoble and PR impresario Brian Solis in the Hilton Hotel lobby after listening to an enlightening Core Conversation organized by Digg's marketing mu ... More >>

Chasing the Party Van: From RVIP to Gawker to Facebook - SxSW Parties

View more photos in the SXSW Games and Girls slideshow. Courtesy of Mashable.com and Wm. Marc Salsberry, @wmmarcJulia Allison behind the decks at the Facebook partyAfter a full day of paneling and working hard to bring you fresh SXSW daily, we decided that it was time to play hard. Convening in the ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>