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L.A. School Police Officer Shot in Chest at El Camino High in Woodland Hills

The El Camino High shooter fired a semiautomatic handgun at an L.A. school police officer​Update: "LAPD Chief Says Jeffrey Stenroos, L.A. School Officer 'Shot in Chest' at El Camino High, Was Lying." Updated after the jump: Did the LAPD overreact to the sort-of-on-campus shooting? Plus, there ... More >>

Top L.A. Twitter Slang, According To Study: omw, tacos, raining, coo, bomb, papi, af, nada, MICKEY, #KOBE... And More

Getty Imageswyd Kim Kardashian? nada, omw​And all this time we thought our Internet speak was universal -- connecting sea to shining sea for a big jolly Twittery universe. Nope, say researchers at Carnegie Melon University in Pennsylvania, who went totally 2011 on the linguistic community and ... More >>

Top 8 Twitter Tools: Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Musical Idiots Who Are Worse Than Courtney Love

8 Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Twitter Idiots Worse Than Courtney Love

I-5 Freeway At L.A. Grapevine Still Closed After Night From Wintery Hell

Bakersfield NowNot a good start for weather in 2011​What a depressing way to start a brand-new year of the infamous Los Angeles commute. All those holiday stragglers who waited until Sunday night to drive home -- hoping to avoid the mass SoCal exodus/influx, not realizing it was really this z ... More >>

Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 1)

Top Ten Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds

Twitter Suspends Account Of Pro-Wikileaks Hackers, 'Anonymous' Opens New One

Twitter​Update: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. No, really. Can someone please tell us. Updated after the jump: Twitter claims it was an "accident." Right. The official Anonymous account is still down. The others appear to be fake. Also, Sarah Palin was a victim. Originally posted at 5:50 p.m.

TSA Scanner 'Opt Out' Day Has Trouble Getting Off The Ground At LAX

Earth Hope NetworkInternet rebels get cold feet in the face of the big bad TSA​All major news sources this morning are clawing at whatever mangled corpse is left of the TSA hype. Today was supposed to be national opt-out day -- and still could be, of course, once the straight-laced early-morni ... More >>

Bill Nye Passes Out During Climate-Change Lecture At USC; Students Keep Tweeting

Where's your head at?​Update from Nye's publicist: "Bill Nye is feeling much better after a good night's rest. He says he pushed himself too hard after a long day of an early satellite media tour combined with a late night speech." Originally posted at 7:15 a.m. Nineties science icon Bill Nye ... More >>

The Gaslamp Killer Presents A Helpful Public Service Announcement

via twitter.com/THEGASLAMPKILLER​ A word to the wise via the extremely vital Twitter of L.A.'s Willie Bensussen a.k.a. the Gaslamp Killer, Low End Theory resident and absolute maniac in all the best respects. See him for yourself Saturday at the Magical Properties tour at the House of Blues w ... More >>

Twitter Kicks California Secretary Of State's Ass In Real-Time Election Coverage

Even Ah-nold chooses Twitter on Election Day​On California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's most important night of the year, her prehistoric website was handling the traffic like the 405 freeway at 5 p.m. The standard map and chart features were wiped inexplicably, then replaced by a ghetto P ... More >>

And Now, A Brief Message From White On Rice Couple

screenshot of White On Rice Couple's Twitter page​

Harold Yong Park Charged With Three Counts Of Capital Murder In West Hollywood Triple Slaying: Pot Robbery Suspected As Motive

Google Maps​The man arrested in connection with a shocking triple murder in West Hollywood was charged Wednesday with three counts of capital murder, a move that could have "death penalty" written all over it if the suspect is convicted. Thirty-one-year-old Harold Yong Park, who also faced sp ... More >>

West Hollywood Triple Murder Near Melrose Avenue Under Investigation

Google Maps​Updated with victims' names. First posted at 12:11 p.m. Sheriff's detectives on Friday continued to investigate the shooting deaths of three men in a West Hollywood apartment. The victims were identified by the coroner's office Friday afternoon: Pirooz Moussazadeh, 27; his brother ... More >>

Good Tweets: The Top 25 Who's Who of Food Safety on Twitter

​Thanks to a tweet from @marionnestle (that would be Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University, author of What to Eat and other books, and of the Food Politics blog, to those who d ... More >>

11-Year-Old Stabbed Near Palmdale; Teen Boy Arrested

Google Maps​An 11-year-old girl was stabbed to death and a teenage girl was injured in an attack in the high desert community of Littlerock that left a teenage boy in handcuffs, according to county fire authorities, sheriff's officials and news reports. The violence in the 10300 block of East ... More >>

Koreatown Bank Robbed, Suspect Search Underway

Google Maps​Authorities on Tuesday afternoon were searching for a suspect or suspects who robbed a Bank of America in Koreatown, a sergeant at the Los Angeles Police Department's Olympic Division told the Weekly. An active search was underway around the bank at 3442 Wilshire Blvd., he said. T ... More >>

Library of Congress Acquires Entire Twitter Archive: Top 9 Responses

​By now you probably know that the Library of Congress is archiving every single tweet on Twitter since Twitter's inception in 2006. If you didn't know, it's probably because (a) you're not on Twitter, (b) you have a real life that exists apart from the internet that is not dependent on tellin ... More >>

Adam Cooper: The Mayor's Twitterer

Kevin Smith's Twitter Campaign Against Critics

​After almost exactly a month in theaters, Kevin Smith's Cop Out has made $42.7 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing film directed by the sometime-indie icon, by a substantial margin. Meanwhile, the Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan cop-com was a total strikeout with critics, nett ... 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 >>

Metalocalypse Fountain Can Be Yours for $40,000

Think your pad could stand to be a bit more brutal? Adult Swim is currently selling a real-life version of the blood-leaking, boy-devil fountain that adorns fictional metal band Dethklok's animated palace. Yes, really. For $40,000, you too can be as ridiculously metal as Nathan Explosion and the gan ... More >>

When Ordered, Twitter Monitors Tweet-Bangers For Authorities -- Report

​Representatives of Twitter and Facebook said they cooperate with authorities investigating gangs that use the social-networking tools to communicate about crime, according to a report. "Representatives from Twitter and Facebook say they regularly cooperate with police and supply information ... More >>

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 >>

Gordon Ramsay To Start Tweeting: ?@*! in 140 Characters or Less

Fox​Ah, at last some reason to read the Ritalin haiku that is Twitter. On February 1st, Gordon Ramsay will begin tweeting. In a BBC radio interview, the celebrity chef said, "I've gone on a Twitter course. I'm just going through all the stages in terms of prep, properly understanding it. I'm d ... More >>

Chain Of Fashion Stores Lets Customers Tweet For All To See (Are They Asking For Trouble?)

​In what could be seen as visionary or monumental blindness, a Los Angeles-based fashion retailer is putting tweets about its brand up for all to see via LCD televisions in its 68 stores nationwide. Metropark this week announced the launch of its "Reverb" Twitter interface that allows tweets ... More >>

Will Tweet For Food: Free Food & Deals From the Not-So-Secret Society

If your idea of finding free food is trolling the aisles of Bristol Farms or Whole Foods, toothpick in hand, ready to stab the next cube of cheese you find, there's an easier way these days--if you have a Twitter account. Sure you can use social media to keep up with foreign elections and monitor wh ... More >>

Curt Smith: Ruling His World

Model for the Post–Rock Star, Post–Record Label Age?

Free Sprinkles Cupcakes. IF You're Willing to Whisper Sweet Nothings to Your Salesperson

Sprinkles Cupcakes is tweeting away, eager to hook customers by luring them in with free cupcakes. But there's a catch, of course, and a seriously goofy one at that. If you really want the goods, you must whisper a newly-updated phrase (imparted via Twitter) to the person behind the Sprinkles counte ... More >>

Hollywood Wants Tighter Lips On Twitter

Studios are cracking down on talent and executives that use Twitter and other social networking sites to reveal details about productions in progress, according to the Hollywood Reporter.Twitter, in fact, was the preferred medium when Paula Abdul broke the news of her departure from Fox's American I ... More >>

Halloween Costumes Go Viral

Los Angeles is a social media capital (Beverly Hills is home to MySpace headquarters) and epicenter of Hollywood's tweet-crazed narcissists. So we thought we'd take a look at the hottest, social-media-inspired costumes for the quasi-holiday that's tailor-made for L.A.Twitter's dreaded Fail Whale.​ ... More >>

Balloon Boy Story Has Wings

In 1987 we had Baby Jessica, an 18-month-old who fell into a Texas well and remained stuck there between October 14 and 16. Her ordeal provided daily fodder for the relatively new 24-hour cycle of cable news. She was a sensation for days and weeks afterward, and she even inspired a television movie. ... More >>

What Your Governor Is Eating For Breakfast, via Twitter

In the this-picture-is-worth-1,000-words category, a Twitpic of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's breakfast, from his Twitter feed, @Schwarzenegger. Along with the picture, the text: "This is how I start my day." A bit more upbeat than his previous update ("Water is biggest crisis facing CA. 40% unem ... More >>

Tweet to Live. Don't Live to Tweet

Advertising -- Coming To A Tweet Near You?

A few weeks ahead of its conference in Los Angeles, Twitter amended its terms of use to allow for advertising. The move means that the micro-blogging service might finally go for the brass ring by monetizing its huge base of 45 million users. "... We leave the door open for advertising," blogs CEO ... 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 >>

TWEET THIS: GET A LIFE, TWITTER USERS!

Did Obama Live Tweet His Own Speech? No, But Everybody Else Did

This morning Twitter user @denisbaranov asked for summary of Barack Obama's speech, specifically one without subjectivity (since most of the amateur punditry concerned the "You lie" outburst from a now infamous Senator from South Carolina, Joe Wilson). ​We went straight to the L.A. Times tra ... More >>

Chefs Who Tweet: From Knives to Pacojets to iPhones

It used to be that chefs needed mastery of culinary techniques, dedication, and a great work ethic to become successful. But now there's another requirement: social media skills. As the restaurant scene evolves, chefs are discovering that the dining public requires more than culinary technique and g ... More >>

Drink And Tweet: Twitter Taste Live, or Why You're Not Drinking Alone if You're on Twitter

What happens when you cross a wine geek with a tech geek, then turn them loose on Twitter? You get wine tasting across time zones and even continents, lots of passionate oenophiles, and happy winemakers. It's called Twitter Taste Live and it's a place where the online community can purchase, taste ... 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 >>

Re-Tweet Legal: New Media Libel and the Law

Courtney Love and Mark Cuban gave Twitter an unwanted credibility boost last month. The ever problematic stars each found themselves on the wrong end of defamation claims and fines respectively, filed by angry Twitter users who believe they've been unfairly "tweet-ed" by Courtney and Mark.* Twitter ... More >>

Live-Tweeting the French Laundry -- Four-Hours in 140 Characters or Less

Beware All Ye Who Enter: Food-and-wine-induced stupor may occur. My iPhone has grown into an extension of my hand (see: day job). So when I first stepped inside Thomas Keller's famous French Laundry in Napa Valley, I wanted badly to Tweet my amazement, to Flckr the restaurant's discreet filigree ... More >>

Meme Analysis: THE MOST WTF WEEK IN INTERNET HISTORY

Is it just us or did someone unleash Pandora's box o' crazy on the interwebs? Between the "Dude Where's My CNN?" run for Twitter Class President (Seriously guys, that "race" thing was like asking "Who is more popular, Coke or Eggs?"), our ex-boyfriend Anonymous finally joining Twitter (after all the ... More >>

Friendfeed: Not Just For Geeks Anymore, Scobleizer Gives Us The Lowdown

Last night instead of watching another installment of Gossip Girl on the CW, we decided to bite the bullet and do something we had been meaning to do for weeks but put off (no, not taxes) -- we took a deep breath and signed up for a new profile on Friendfeed.com. The impetus for this newfound brave ... 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 >>

"What Had God Twat?" - Twitter's Ev Williams on the Future of Twitter

While his co-founder Biz Stone was sharing every "mundane detail of every moment of his life" on the Colbert Report (highlight: "Biz in Biz Stone does not stand for business model"), Ev Williams was on hand at the Web 2.0 Expo taking questions from video blogger Veronica Belmont on how his product h ... More >>

How to Rock SxSW Without Getting Lost or Losing Your #Skittles, iPhone, and Dignity

Erin BroadleyUser generated SXSW fortune cookie After getting lost in the cavernous Conference Center and desperately seeking help from one of the SXSW volunteers in order to find the inconveniently located Room C (thank you so much Natalie Shanks), I attended my first panel of the day, "User Genera ... More >>

Thurston and Kim Rather Rip Through MOCA

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

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

On the precipice of a tech revolution

The Korean Taco Justice League: Kogi Rolls Into L.A.

From Rosemead side streets to Venice dive bars, hungry Angelenos have a new way to roll