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Kevin James Joins A Growing List of Conservatives Who Back Liberal Eric Garcetti in L.A. Mayor's Race

Former mayoral candidate Kevin James endorsed Eric Garcetti today, making him the latest conservative to side with the liberal councilman out of concern that Controller Wendy Greuel is too beholden to unions.James, a former conservative radio host, joins bloggers Michael Higby, of Mayor Sam, and Pau ... More >>

Remembering Napster

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

Cookbook Of The Week: LudoBites Is (Almost) Here!

When the LudoBites cookbook landed with a thud on our desk, our reaction was the same as when the Ludo Truck is parked less than a block away. Other Cookbooks Of The Week can wait -- there is duck fat fried chicken to eat. Ludo Lefebvre's wife and business partner extraordinaire, Krissy, and food ... More >>

Two New Food Photography Books For Bloggers: Food Styling & Photography for Dummies Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling

Even a "dummy" can tell a food blogger from a "normal" restaurant-goer. The blogger is the one with the expensive camera, ready to focus on any promising morsel. The word "dummy" is appropriate here, because the "dummy" book industry is now zeroing in on bloggers (Food Blogging for Dummies is alr ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Nastassia Johnson of Let Me Eat Cake

Nastassia Johnson, blogger behind Let Me Eat Cake, has picked out several items to try at downtown's Semi Sweet Bakery on a recent afternoon: A croissant flecked with chocolate, an Almond Joy Doughnut, and a cookie called "Triple Chip" -- chocolate, butterscotch, and potato. She wanted a slice of 7- ... More >>

How to Succeed on YouTube: Goof Off in Your Basement ... Only Better

Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch Blow Things Up, for Cheap

Check out our entire YouTube issue here. Inside every marketing firm's boardroom and quadruple co-sponsored tech networking event are people squawking endlessly about the very thing that Freddie Wong does effortlessly: Tapping into the gamer-savvy market, blah blah, making your content "clickable," ... More >>

Annoying Orange Creator Dane Boedigheimer Tells Us How His YouTube Series Made the Jump to Cartoon Network

Annoying Orange is one of the biggest successes of YouTube, as the series that started as a lying-in-bed revelation from creator Dane Boedigheimer eventually found 2.4 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion views online. The series follows its title character as he interacts with other food i ... More >>

Q & A With Simpsons Exec Producer Matt Selman: The Food Wife, Food Blogging Dining at Jitlada With Matt Groening

Courtesy of 20th Century Fox ​Just a few weeks ago Fox Studios and the voice actors and producers of Simpsons were engaged in a financial tug-of-war that threatened the existence of the long-running animated series. If you need to remind yourself why we should celebrate the resolution (two mor ... More >>

Where to Catch a Social Media Disease

Spotify: The Honeymoon's Over

L.J. WilliamsonI cain't quit yew.​Last month I posed the question: Which Is Better: Spotify or Grooveshark? Though my comparison of the two music subscription services wasn't entirely conclusive, I reckoned that, in the end, "Grooveshark just has too many glitches, whereas if a track shows up ... More >>

How YouTube Turned My Home Video Into a Flight of the Conchords Ad

My YouTube video​Two years ago I assembled a crappy little birthday video montage for my friend, using a combination of Flip clips and ultra-lo-res digi-pics. My masterpiece was set to the tune of the Flight of the Conchords' "Foux Du Fafa" -- with iMovie's Ken Burns effect applied, of course. ... More >>

Is Grooveshark the Future of Digital Streaming?: The Secrets of the Popular Streaming Site You're Probably Listening to Right Now

Did Prince upload all this?​ Article and interview by Jade Shames I got on Skype and called my contact. His name is Ben Westermann-Clark, the VP of Public Relations at Grooveshark's head office in Gainesville, Florida. While I'm writing this article, I'm listening to a band called Masterfac ... More >>

[UPDATED, Again]: Pink Taco's Pink Donkey Angers Animal Rights Activists

[Update (May 11th, 1:30 p.m.): Through May 15th, the Pink Taco in Century City will be featuring a special margarita, the "PETA-rita," with 100% of the proceeds from going to PETA. And Friday, May 13th is "bring your pet to the patio day" from 3 to 7 p.m.] [Update (May 5th, 1 p.m.): Our sister bl ... More >>

Donald Glover & Childish Gambino

Page Two: A Young Person's Guide to Odd Future

The Complete Discography (till this afternoon)

The Manila Machine: Filipino Food Truck Rolls Out

Marvin GapultosManila Machine​ The democratization of food, if you can call the evolution of the food truck such a thing, continues. And this time, instead of a rogue chef taking the wheel, it's a pair of food bloggers. Noting the relative absence of Filipino food in Los Angeles in general, an ... More >>

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 >>

From Laptops to Rolling Pins: National Food Blogger Bake Sale Next Weekend

whatsgabycooking.comWhats Gaby Cooking's Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Muffins​Bloggers armed with spatulas and baking mitts will take hunger into their own hands next Saturday. Following December's successful blogger bake sale spearheaded by two local bloggers, close to 50 kitchen savvy Angelen ... More >>

Federal Ruling In Favor Of Limiting Internet Access Could Be Mixed Blessing For Hollywood

​A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday that would allow Comcast to limit customers' access to heavy-file downloading and other sites that take up a lot of data "pipe" could be a mixed blessing for Hollywood. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the ... More >>

Tell Me What You Tweet, and I Will Tell You What You Are

Tuesday night, Zócalo hosted a tribute to Gourmet Magazine at the Skirball Center, with Laurie Ochoa, Jonathan Gold and Ruth Reichl in discussion with Evan Kleiman. Bloggers sat braced with their phones, calculating the perfect 140 character report. Their tweets, after the jump. Zocalo ​

From Moveable Type to Moveable Feast: Eat My Blog Bake Sale This Weekend

http://ravenouscouple.blogspot.comRavenous Couple's mochi truffles​Chances are many blog-induced fantasies will be realized this Saturday at Eat My Blog, a bakesale organized by food bloggers Cathy Danh and Laurie Moore to raise funds for the L.A. Regional Food Bank. Featuring the work of 40 f ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Tony Chen of Sinosoul

Most people know Tony Chen for his restaurant-reviewing, chef and critic-stalking food blog SinoSoul ("Sino" is the Latin prefix for "Chinese"). His most recent project, Eating Valley Boulevard, is suspiciously reminiscent of Jonathan Gold's goal back in the '80s, to eat at every restaurant on Pico ... More >>

Foodbuzz Blog Awards Announced: And the Voting Begins Now...

You can never have too many awards, or too many award ceremonies, can you? Today Foodbuzz announced the nominees for their 2009 Blog Awards. Among the nominees, selected from some 3,500 nominations from readers and fellow bloggers, and including a few notable local stand-outs, are Smitten Kitchen fo ... More >>

Eight candidates scare L.A. City Hall

A September 22 election in Council District 2 may shake all the way to downtown

Meet Your Food Blogger: Cathy Danh of Gastronomy

Cathy Danh's Los Angeles-based food blog, Gastronomy, straddles science and language, table and stove. Danh likes to cook, eat and write. Her fiancé (and frequent dining partner) Vernon Chaplin, aka The Astronomer, is a physicist who also enjoys eating, particularly with Danh. To manage the impact ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Eddie Lin of Deep End Dining

"Eddie Lin eats raw chicken," sounds like the kind of insult you might find scrawled on a bathroom stall or passed around on a piece of scratch paper in a high school classroom. In Lin's case, it validates a Renaissance eater. Eddie Lin, the blogger behind Deep End Dining, has risked his stomach ... More >>

Bites of Sugar: A New Food Blog from Tavern's Pastry Chef

Bites of SugarSunlight on macarons​The Maginot line between the kitchen and the Internet keeps getting fainter, between the updates of tweeting chefs and the posts from guerrilla food bloggers madly blogging from the bathrooms on a restaurant's opening night (that according to Anisette chef-ow ... More >>

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

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 >>

Thurston and Kim Rather Rip Through MOCA

Plus, Lovers & Strangers at Hear Gallery, Mustache Mondays at La Cita and Dance at Arena

Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?

Let's Forget About the Tongue-Tied Lightning: Battling Britney Spears and Gilbert Arenas for 2008 Weblog Awards

Sunday afternoon, my editor e-mailed me and asked how I was doing in the 2008 Weblog Awards, where I'm nominated for Best Celebrity Blogger, alongside blogging heavyweights Gilbert Arenas and Britney Spears. Yes, you read that correctly. "I think I'm going to lose to Britney Spears," I wrote back. ... More >>

Metrolink Tries to Censor Bloggers

A paranoid transit agency spends public money threatening critical Web sites

Why to Love This Song: The Dodos "Fools"

How does Pitchfork.tv stack up against YouTube? ALSO, let's just talk about how rad this song is, okay?

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 >>

They Must Be High

Spacing out with Ben, Chris, Tom and Tom

RSS Feeds Page

Bandwidth on the Run

Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe

Make New Friends

...but beware of Fakesters

The Big Dirt Napster

A digital new era finds the labels asleep

Power to the Peer

you can lead consumers to music, but can you make them pay?

A Pirate’s Life for Me

How Napster restored my faith in the Internet (and why the RIAA can’t take it away)

Netizen's Uprising

Pandora’s Box

Napster unleashes whole new Net ball game

The Domain Name Game

Is TV Dead?

Webcasting tries to go prime time

Sonic Surfers

Web radio: Freedom of choice is just a keystroke away

Net Edibles

Chew on these fast facts and estimates