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  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    The Crucial Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

    Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2013

    Please Subscribe: New Documentary Looks at What Makes a YouTube Star

    See also: *Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera and Friends Create a YouTube Channel *Our Profile of YouTube Star Jenna Marbles *Our YouTube Issue Some people like to have only egg whites in their omelet," declares a tomboyish young woman as she weaves around a sparsely appointed L.A. apartment kitchen, h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2013

    What is .art? Financiers and Artists Vie for the Power to Define the Domain Name

    By Jef Otte The Internet is about to radically change, and hardly anyone knows it. Think about it like a phone system: The Internet operates on just a handful of top-level domains (TLDs) -- like .com and .org -- that function like area codes. Right now, the internet needs more of them. And pretty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2013

    Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold

    See also: *Our Streamy Awards slideshow *Our profile of Jenna Marbles, from our People Issue The 3rd annual Streamy awards, honoring excellence in original online video, streamed live online (appropriately) Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium. More than ever before, nominees ran the gamut of n ... More >>

  • News

    February 7, 2013

    BiteSize Studio Hits Hollywood

    A Truman Show–like view into the world of online video creators

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2013

    Living on Mars Time: What If Your Day Lasted 24 Hours, 39 Minutes and 35 Seconds?

    Kirsten Siebach didn't want to go to the party. "There's just no way I can make it at 10 p.m.," she found herself thinking, "because that's breakfast time." For weeks Siebach had been falling asleep in church and calling her mother daily to check her own sanity. But it was her friend's birthday, so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2013

    The God Particle Complex

    Kirsten Siebach didn't want to go to the party. "There's just no way I can make it at 10 p.m.," she found herself thinking, "because that's breakfast time." For weeks Siebach had been falling asleep in church and calling her mother daily to check her own sanity. But it was her friend's birthday, so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 3, 2013

    Evening With Dr. Jane Goodall

    Kirsten Siebach didn't want to go to the party. "There's just no way I can make it at 10 p.m.," she found herself thinking, "because that's breakfast time." For weeks Siebach had been falling asleep in church and calling her mother daily to check her own sanity. But it was her friend's birthday, so ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    December 27, 2012

    Why Artists Are Blurring the Line Between Real History and Pretend

    Kirsten Siebach didn't want to go to the party. "There's just no way I can make it at 10 p.m.," she found herself thinking, "because that's breakfast time." For weeks Siebach had been falling asleep in church and calling her mother daily to check her own sanity. But it was her friend's birthday, so ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 27, 2012

    Promised Land Review: Gus Van Sant Directs a Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski

    Kirsten Siebach didn't want to go to the party. "There's just no way I can make it at 10 p.m.," she found herself thinking, "because that's breakfast time." For weeks Siebach had been falling asleep in church and calling her mother daily to check her own sanity. But it was her friend's birthday, so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2012

    Caltech Crafts Gingerbread Mars Rover

    One giant leap for a pastry chef? We've seen a lot of cool gingerbread houses around town, but nothing tops the gingerbread Mars Curiosity rover that the nerdy minds at Caltech have come up with. Crafted by Kevin Isacsson, head chef of the Athaneum, the Pasadena university's private dining club, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2012

    Rainn Wilson's Website SoulPancake Gets Serious, With Web Series About Death and L.A.'s Homeless

    In 2008, Actor Rainn Wilson (NBC's The Office) wanted to create a space on the internet where people could discuss life's big questions with total strangers. You know, what Socrates and Plato would have done if they had access to adequate bandwidth and a YouTube deal. Knowing nothing about building ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    November 8, 2012

    MOCAtv on YouTube: Museum Tries to Lure Online Art Lovers

    In 2008, Actor Rainn Wilson (NBC's The Office) wanted to create a space on the internet where people could discuss life's big questions with total strangers. You know, what Socrates and Plato would have done if they had access to adequate bandwidth and a YouTube deal. Knowing nothing about building ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2012

    Space Shuttle Endeavour is Home: PHOTOS

    In laid-back, SoCal style, the space shuttle Endeavour was more than fashionably late to its final home, the California Science Center, but people along its 12-mile route from LAX to Exposition Park didn't seem to mind the extra viewing time. The Endeavour got to its destination today at 1:10 p.m. ... More >>

  • News

    October 11, 2012

    Endeavour's Tree-Chopping Truth: Readers Weigh In

    In laid-back, SoCal style, the space shuttle Endeavour was more than fashionably late to its final home, the California Science Center, but people along its 12-mile route from LAX to Exposition Park didn't seem to mind the extra viewing time. The Endeavour got to its destination today at 1:10 p.m. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2012

    Endeavour's Road Trip to California Science Center Expected to Draw Masses to L.A. Streets

    You thought Endeavor fever was over once the retired space shuttle hit the ground at LAX following its amazing flyover last month. You're wrong. The fever has only begun. Because L.A. will get an even closer look at the shuttle next week. That's way cool, except that the cops are worried too many ... More >>

  • News

    September 27, 2012

    Endeavour's Tree-Killing Debut

    Steve Soboroff falsely said the chopped trees were dying, sick

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2012

    8.6 Earthquake in Indian Ocean Triggered Aftershocks in L.A.'s Backyard

    If you've noticed that the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Rim seems to rock like a frat party every time there's a giant earthquake, new science might just back up your observation. A new study by U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Fred Pollitz documents how the Pacific Rim went bonkers following ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2012

    Teen Sexting: More Than 1 in 10 L.A. School District Kids Do It

    Sexting is the new teen scourge, apparently. Yet another academic study has found that more than 1 in 10 teens have been sexting lately. This research, however, is local: 1839 students in the L.A. Unified School District were questioned about their texting. The results?

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2012

    Space Shuttle Endeavour: Why Isn't the California Science Center Conducting an EIR Before Cutting Down 265 Trees?

    The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that any project which "may have a significant effect on the environment" be prefaced by an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) -- an often lengthy document investigating the project's possible effects on both the natural environment on the urba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2012

    Los Angeles, Inglewood Officials to Sacrifice 400 'Majestic' Trees in Way of Space Shuttle Endeavour

    "Space exploration events are like the Olympics; everyone just feels good," Inglewood Mayor James Butts said at a triumphant press conference on the September 20 arrival of the space shuttle Endeavour. And the spacecraft's 12-mile trip from LAX to the California Science Center on October 13, added ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2012

    Earthquake 'Swarm' in Imperial Valley Still Raging, Could Signal Larger SoCal Event

    An underground thunderstorm of seismic activity, officially called a "seismic swarm," hit a farm town called Brawley in the Imperial Valley yesterday -- gearing up around sunrise with some magnitude 2s and 3s, peaking with a magnitude 5.3 and 5.5 just after noon, and rolling into Monday morning with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Curiosity Aside, Mars Could Experience Earthquake, UCLA Researcher Finds

    If you think space is the final frontier, you might be in for a disappointment. While NASA's Curiosity rover is snapping shots of a crater and hoping to find earth-like life on the Red Planet, UCLA scientists have discovered it has a lot in common with Southern California. It turns out Mars has te ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 19, 2012

    Droning on and on

    If you think space is the final frontier, you might be in for a disappointment. While NASA's Curiosity rover is snapping shots of a crater and hoping to find earth-like life on the Red Planet, UCLA scientists have discovered it has a lot in common with Southern California. It turns out Mars has te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2012

    Enjoy the Heat Wave While You Can: Los Angeles May Be in for a Long, Stormy Winter

    As the mercury rises this week and your commute gets a couple shades sweatier, we don't want to hear you whining to the L.A. Daily News that you're "very tired of it being constantly warm." Seriously -- be grateful, people! Because it's looking like you'll have plenty of time for your miserable rai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2012

    1 in 4 Teens Sexting Nude Photos; Sexters More Likely to be Having Real Sex

    Some research has shown that preteens are hitting puberty and younger and younger ages. It looks like technology is catching up with kids, or vice-versa: A new study finds that 1 out of 4 teenagers has texted or emailed nude pictures, and half have been asked for a naked photo. The study, publishe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Issa Rae and Awkward Black Girl Fill a (Tiny) Niche

    Check out our entire YouTube issue here. In front of the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the Grove, someone is scraping lightweight plastic chairs across the pavement instead of picking them up, and the sound is akin to fingernails being dragged down a chalkboard. Issa Rae, the 27-year-old writer, direct ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Megan Lee Heart and Reply Girls Game the System, While YouTube Wants Our Eyeballs Pointed Elsewhere

    Check out our entire YouTube issue here. Megan Lee Heart made tens of thousands of dollars in the last year -- and did it all from her home in suburban Sherman Oaks. No special effects. No fancy equipment. Just strategic positioning -- and as many as 10 videos each day. Her most popular YouTube cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    30 Other Ways to Succeed on YouTube

    After you've read our YouTube issue on the secrets to online video stardom, check out 30 other ways to succeed on YouTube:

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2012

    Hollywood Fringe Festival Can Has LOLPERA

    It's a warm Saturday afternoon a month before the start of the Hollywood Fringe Festival and LOLPERA is in its first day of rehearsal. Cast members have just finished a run-through of the work's dramatic opening number in the living room of Director Angela Lopez's Long Beach apartment. The word "mas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Invasion of the Beauty Bloggers

    Erika Brechtel's kid is only 3 years old, but she knows the perils of being raised by a fashion blogger. "Mom, put your iPad down," she'll say. Or rather, scream: "Mom! Put! Your! iPad! Down!" Brechtel, 38, is a mom, homeowner and full-time graphic designer married to "a workaholic architect husban ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Free Wi-Fi Comes to Los Angeles' Comcast, Time Warner Customers (Sort of)

    Five of the nation's biggest cable companies today announced they're rolling out free wi-fi hotspots for customers. The markets covered including Los Angeles, New York, Tampa, Orlando, and Philadelphia. The participating companies include Comcast and Time Warner Cable in L.A. and Cox Communication ... More >>

  • News

    May 17, 2012

    Could Fracking in Los Angeles Cause an Earthquake?

    Five of the nation's biggest cable companies today announced they're rolling out free wi-fi hotspots for customers. The markets covered including Los Angeles, New York, Tampa, Orlando, and Philadelphia. The participating companies include Comcast and Time Warner Cable in L.A. and Cox Communication ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Could Fracking in Los Angeles Cause an Earthquake?

    Conversations about fracking, the controversial technique for natural gas extraction (alternately known as "that thing that turns your tap water flammable") are typically confined to Pennsylvania, where the critically acclaimed documentary Gasland was set, or the state of New York, currently debatin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    It's The Hottest Year Ever, America

    If your face melted off in March, you nearly died during the second weekend of Coachella in April, and now you're wondering if there is hell on earth in May, you're not that crazy. And it's not just an Inland Empire thing either. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said recently t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/7 - 5/11

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I was never trying to make a statement about vegetarianism at Ubuntu, I was just trying to showcase the best ingredients I had available." Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Prefabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Sombrero Shaped Galaxy Has Multiplied

    It turns out the so-called Sombrero Galaxy -- shaped like the Mexican hat -- is now two. Ay Dios mio: Leave us Latinos alone for two seconds and -- boom! -- we multiply. Well, not exactly. The Sombrero was two all along, NASA Spitzer Science Center researchers at Caltech said recently:

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Want to Start a Food Blog? Food Blogging for Dummies Could Be Just What You Need, Depending on Your Pie Expectations

    We were bound to get a food-blogging edition of the endless "Dummies" series (we must not be getting any smarter) one of these days. With Food Blogging for Dummies, the days of "Branding Your Food Blog Through Consistency and Frequency" chapter headers has arrived. The author is Kelly Senyei, an as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    5 Podcasts for Food Lovers

    If you're already a podcast listener then you most likely know and love KCRW's Good Food and The Splendid Table, two of the best shows on the radio, ready for uploading at any time. In terms of food coverage, there's also NPR, Martha Stewart, and the list goes on. Those shows are great because they' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    10 Awesome Photos of Space, From 'The History of Space Photography' Show in Pasadena

    Four hundred years ago, stargazing was practically illegal. The Roman Inquisition sentenced Galileo for supporting Copernican astronomy, and most people still believed the earth was flat. Fortunately, science has since come a long way, and now, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has made space e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    "State of Food Blogging" Survey Results: Guess How Much Food Bloggers Earn (You're Right)

    According to the results of the first State of Food Blogging Survey, your friendly neighborhood food blogger can be described as "a married woman in her 30s or 40s living in the United States. While she is either a parent or perhaps on the way to being so, she is likely to be employed full time, par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    HotPad: The Coffee Warmer for Your New, Overheating iPad

    If you're one of the over three million or so proud owners of the new iPad, you also are the proud new owners of a coffee warmer. All you need to do is visit the HotPad website and hit Run; the site then will run a script to purposely overclock your iPad's processor and make the tablet nice and toa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Meet Your Food Blogger: Valentino Herrera of Trippy Food

    Valentino Herrera abides by two philosophies: Try everything, at least once. And share unusual experiences with others, especially when it comes to travel and eating. Both ideas are evident on his blog, Trippy Food. Don't expect hallucinogenic mushrooms. For Herrera, "trippy" means unusual items ran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Are 1 Million L.A. County Residents Getting Fracked Over by Oil Company PXP?

    Guess what? If you live anywhere near the 1,000-acre Inglewood oil field -- in Culver Crest, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, Village Green or anywhere around there -- your home is bordering the largest urban oil field in America. Cool, right? It's run by giant Texas oil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Dana Gould Tells Us the Secrets to Creating a New Podcast (and Dishes on His Dave Grohl FX Comedy)

    Comic and prolific writer Dana Gould has seemingly done all that Hollywood has to offer: performing on everything from Kimmel and Conan to HBO, Comedy Central, MADtv and The Daily Show; acting roles stretching back to The Ben Stiller Show, The Nanny, Roseanne, Ellen, Seinfeld and The King of Queens; ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

    The main virtual hall​ Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    NASA Seeks Volunteers for Astronaut Cooking Challenge

    Are you unemployed? Hungry? Have you always wanted to be an astronaut? NASA may have just the job for you. The space agency is seeking six volunteers to live on a simulated Mars base on a Hawaiian lava flow for four months to test meals that could be served on an eventual mission to Mars, Sci-Tech ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Geek Chicks: PyLadies, a Gang of Female Computer Programmers

    Nanette GonzalesKatharine Jarmul, PyLady​It's not that the PyLadies are intimidated by the men who dominate computer programmer events and workshops. It's just that they got tired of feeling like outsiders.Katharine Jarmul, 29, remembers the day they first identified the problem. She and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    UCLA Scientists Invent Cheap, Bendy Solar Panels That Could Charge Your Car, Phone

    This is the handiest thing to come out of UCLA since those stretchy, glowing devices that can "move with the body." (Aka, a raver's dreamwear.) Now, UCLA is expanding its stretch-nology into the Big Green industry. A new method of collecting the sun's energy and using it to power man's devices is ... More >>

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