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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 >>

Ivan Lopez, 23, Courts 8th Grader Online and Takes Her to Vegas Motel for Sex

luisvilla via flickr​It's a parent's worst nightmare: You wake up in the middle of the night and find out that your 13-year-old daughter is missing. Then you realize that the man who has been courting your daughter sexually on the Internet is probably the one who took her away --- to Las Vegas, n ... More >>

Gilt Taste Lauches: Ruth Reichl's Fabulous Prose & Fancy Cheese Store

Gilt TasteSeriously pretty asparagus​ For those of you who've been staring bleakly at your old dust and demi-glace covered copies of Gourmet, or stalking Ruth Reichl via Twitter, you now have a shiny new website to visit. Gilt Taste officially launched yesterday, with Reichl as the editorial a ... More >>

WIKI, DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER

Will.i.am's New Say-No-To-Ecstasy PSA : Your Tax Dollars At Work

blackeyedpeas.com​Via Dennis Romero and our own Informer blog: L.A. County's Department of Public Health taps the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am and Deadmau5 collaborator Kaskade for an anti-ecstasy PSA to prevent future incidents like the death of Sasha Rodriguez at June's Electric Daisy Carnival ... More >>

Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman

Online Emmy Searches Leading To Malicious Websites

​And the winner is ... not you. At least not if you searched online for Emmy victors and came up with a computer virus instead. Security virus firm Symantec warned on Monday that as much as 57 percent of certain Emmy-related search results online will lead users to malicious sites that will at ... More >>

'WeHo News' To Partner With Frontiers Media

​WeHo News editor Ryan Gierach tells L.A. Weekly that his spunky online-only newspaper that covers the city of West Hollywood will soon announce a partnership with Frontiers Media. The publishing company owns Frontiers, Southern California's oldest gay and lesbian magazine, and will now have ... 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 >>

Food Truck Tracking Online: Cluster Truck Comes to a Screen Near You

Web surfing for the exact location of your favorite food truck isn't so fun when you're starving and only have an hour lunch break. Web developer Scott Rocher, a self proclaimed "food truck fanatic," can save you a few minutes with his new website, Cluster Truck (he gets big points for the name), wh ... More >>

Gang Members Get Booked For Facebooking

Mario Rocha was identified and convicted as a gang member despite much proof.​It's something we reported on a few years ago: Gang members are using social networking sites to represent their neighborhoods, show pride in their sets and display their muscles, weapons and bravado. Today, authorit ... More >>

Surfas in Culver City: Bannetons and Bottarga AND Cooking Classes

Foodies in this town have long beaten a track to Surfas, the cooking and restaurant supply store in Culver City. You can probably trace the origins of half the bannetons and cannelé molds and bottarga and sea salt caramels in Los Angeles kitchens right to the corner of National and Washington. The ... More >>

All Fire, All the Time

As firefighters slowly but stubbornly turn the tide against the Station Fire, FM radio station KPCC offers a full Web page devoted to Southern California's wildfires. The page, which fills a void left by television stations that have pretty much abandoned round-the-clock coverage of the Station Fire ... More >>

This Site's Dead Anyway: Twitter DDoS Overlooks MySpace, Does an Attack Signal a Site's Relevancy?

Yesterday, if you were searching for a short-form, self-indulgent way to describe what you had for breakfast, you were shit out of luck. Basically, the Internet's most popular social networking sites broke. Web sites that were down yesterday included: Facebook, Livejournal, YouTube, Google, and the ... More >>

Huffington Post Hiring Editor for New Local L.A. Page

This just in: The Huffington Post has announced to LAWeekly.com that the influential Internet newspaper and media Web site is currently looking to hire an editor to lead its new local Los Angeles branch. HuffPost Local: Los Angeles has yet to set a launch date but is actively looking for the right c ... More >>

Hardee's Biscuit Hole Contest: Name That Breakfast

Ah, the joys of marketing junk food. Got some extra bits of dough at your mammoth fast food chain? Fry them up, dip them in frosting and hold a naming contest. Fiat revenue.

Updated: Craigslist Declassified

Besieged by politicians and media, the founder of the popular online classifieds site finds an unlikely ally: a victim’s family

“But for Craigslist, Donna Might Be Alive Today”

Guilty plea this week in Southern California’s own Craigslist-connected tragedy

Threadless Founders Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff Crowdsource Their Way Into Our Hearts

With recent the election of a former "community organizer" to presidency, community organizing or "crowdsourcing" has become the buzzword for the great shift in our culture from "top down" (Bush) to "bottom up" (Obama) everything. In this vein, the Threadless.com co-founders Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Ja ... 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 >>

After George Weber's Murder, NSA Sex in Context

Web 2.0 Expo Parties: #awesome #nom

After watching John Maeda's surprisingly complicated keynote about keeping it simple, and watching the endearing Amanda Koster from Salem Garage spread awareness about the usage of social media for social good, we enjoyed a surprisingly abundant assortment of dried fruit and cheese at the official P ... 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 >>

Stage Raw: Horton Foote Dies at 92

HORTON FOOTE DIES, AT 92 From The New York Times: Horton Foote, who chronicled America's wistful odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas, died in Hartford, Conn., on March 4, 2009. He was 92. Mr. Foote wrote more than 60 plays, most of which are ... More >>

When Cute Isn't Pretty: "Cute With Chris," the Web Show for Misfit Teenage Girls and Women in Their 30s Who Like to Knit

A ride-along on satirist Chris Leavins' Internet highway

Indie 103.1 Announces Move to Internet-Only Broadcasting, Cease Transmitting Over the Airwaves Immediately

Indie 103.1 FM, the lauded, independent-streaked commercial rock radio station, just announced on the air that the station will stop broadcasting over the airwaves effective immediately, and will become an Internet-only station. The station has already updated its website to reflect the move. It's ... More >>

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L.A. Music Publisher's Suit Against Lil Wayne Threatens to Rewrite Rules on Mixtapes

Karma policed

The Smell's Fantastic New Website

Downtown all-ages club The Smell has long been hub of an insanely vibrant punk, noise and experimental scene. The much-discussed grassroots community has seeded many a memorable night, but until now it had never been successfully captured online. This week, however, the club debuted its new website ... More >>

On Weezer, the Numa Numa dance, and Internet Fame

Weezer reminds us of all the internet fads we tried so hard to forget. ALSO, my exit, screen left.

Who Bought Cory Kennedy's Socks?

Catching up with Crass today: 33% visionary, 33% crochty, 33% right on and at least 1% annoying

Penny Rimbaud: "What is classified as ‘punk' music these days is absolutely empty and gutless."

Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the future.

Good Reads List / Good Reads Website

Don't want to sit at home watching the primary returns, biting your nails and pulling your hair? The National Book Critics Circle is sponsoring events in fifteen cities where people meet up and talk about what they're reading. The L.A. one is tonight at Skylight Books at 7:30. 1818 N. Vermont Ave. ... More >>

Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geek

Agents 2.0: The new generation of dealmakers at UTA Online

Soulja Boy: Cranking the Chain

No one understands the murky, download-rampaged world of major-label rap better

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe

Action taken in solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

Missed the sold out Beirut shows? Ahh, lucky you. They're playing at 6:30 tonight at Amoeba Records. Go on over and check it out or read Rena Kosnett's review to convince yourself not to miss it. Photo by Rena Kosnett Amoeba will have a webstream of the performance on their website, but come o ... More >>

Shoot to Thrill

The ever-evolving photo booth

They Must Be High

Spacing out with Ben, Chris, Tom and Tom

Tweaking Bill O'Reilly

The Bastard Fairies’ new paradigm for indie promotion

Best Safe Haven for Injured Critters

Emmery’s Mysterious End

Did the 14-year-old’s killer meet her at a party?

Not for Shrinking Violets

Local designer gets off on MySpace

Bandwidth on the Run

Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe

Make New Friends

...but beware of Fakesters

X-Rated eBay

Guns Dot Com

Cops battle LAPD Internet posting

Very Serious Sex