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Burning Love Co-Creator Erica Oyama Gives Us Dating Advice

Erica Oyama is the great comedic mind behind the scripted comedy web series Burning Love on Yahoo. The show parodies reality dating shows like The Bachelor, and recently released its third season while winning a Webby Award for Special Achievement of the Year. The first season made the jump from ti ... More >>

The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck: Worth the Wait?

Last week, to much fanfare, New York City's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck rolled into Los Angeles for the first time ever, bringing its famous Strauss-creamery soft serve and dulce de leche with it. It was billed as a "pop-up truck," combining two of the most overused food trends in a way that might have ... More >>

D.C. Declares Laughable 'Transit Revolution' in Los Angeles While Metro Hacks Bus System

'Tis the season for local and national politicians to co-opt the media into singing their praises. November 6 is right around the corner -- and one positive article by a respected journalist is the (free!) equivalent of 100,000 campaign mailers. But because L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the pres ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa for Governor? What Voters Need to Know About the 11 percent Mayor

We were away from L.A. a few days and came back to see numerous articles about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wanting the job of California governor. Yahoo! News even made a strange case for why Villaraigosa could run for president. That news isn't surprising -- Villaraigosa always has big ... More >>

Villaraigosa Wants to be Governor of California

As mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa gets a D. Maybe a C. Blame constant multimillion-dollar deficits, a do-nothing City Council, the specter of municipal bankruptcy, corruption in Building and Safety, increased taxation through parking and traffic tickets, and the worst roads in America. ... More >>

Small Demons, a Website of Every Person, Place and Thing Referenced in Your Favorite Books

Outside a Pico Union gas station, Valla Vakili is reading William Gibson's Spook Country: "Close to the tents under the freeway, Mr. Sippee catered to an eclectic clientele of the more functionally homeless, sex workers of varied gender and presentation, pimps, police officers, drug dealers, office ... More >>

Birding in L.A.: 7 Reasons to Do It, and How to Get Started

Bird-watching. A word that is synonymous with you don't really know because you've already lost interest just thinking about it for one second. Lucky for you this post isn't about bird-watching; it's about birding. I said MOTHERFUCKIN' BIRDING YOU GUYS! Sorry. I got a little overzealous trying to ... More >>

Top 10 Gyms in Los Angeles

If there's anything we are not lacking in Los Angeles, it's places to work out. But finding the perfect gym to tone, slim down or -- dare we even say it -- find a date is a highly subjective decision. Then there's that old real estate rule of location, location, location; you want something close t ... More >>

Tim Leiweke's NFL Stadium Position: AEG is Willing to Share Revenue, and Today's EIR is Out to Change L.A. Driving Habits

By Hillel Aron Some call AEG's Tim Leiweke Los Angeles' most powerful man. But hours before today's release of a 10,000-page Environmental Impact Report for Farmers Field NFL stadium, Leiweke was stressed. Jacket off, slumped in a chair, drinking a Coke, he didn't seem like president of a firm with ... More >>

Postcard on the Run App: New L.A. Company Will Send a (Scented!) Postcard From Your iPhone or Android for $1.99

Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. The idea was simple: Take all those moments captured on smartphones and make something tangible out of them, fusing the online and the offline world. That's what Josh Brooks set out to do when h ... More >>

Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.

Ask Mr. Gold: Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: What's your favorite fake restaurant in Los Angeles? (However you feel like defining it.) --David Chow (via Facebook)

Google Doodle Ignores Cinco de Mayo -- Again

White as Larry Page's asscrack​It's one thing to brush off Cesar Chavez Day in favor of some old German corpse's 200th birthday (OK, fine, Robert Bunsen's burner is pretty nifty, as far as lab miracles go), but Cinco de Mayo? Damn. Google must really hate Mexicans. Even in the U.S., everyone ... More >>

Porn Legends Who Love Vinyl, Part 2: Jasmin St. Claire on Record Store Day (and Being Metal 4Ever!)

Diamond Bodine-FischerJasmin St. Claire at The Rainbow Room​Yesterday we found out where crossover porn queen/indie musician Shash Grey goes to get her vinyl (read "Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!") Today we were lucky enough to corner one of West ... More >>

Facebook to Establish Offices on Los Angeles' Westside: Do You Like?

Facebook plans to make more friends in L.A.​Facebook is coming to Los Angeles. "Like" or unfriend? The Palo Alto company has signed a letter of intent to lease 8,000- to 15,000-square-feet of office space at the Tishman Speyer complex in Playa Vista, according to the Los Angeles Business Jour ... More >>

Could California's Big One Be Around the Corner, Triggered by Japan's 9.0 Earthquake?

tomvandewegheJapan's big one.​One man caused a lot of fright in California in recent days, and we're not talking about Gov. Jerry Brown. No, he's journalist Simon Winchester, who wrote in Newsweek that the Japanese 9.0 earthquake March 11 paired with other Pacific Rim shakers could help trigg ... More >>

Seven Opinionated Reasons An L.A. Downtown Stadium Could Be A FAIL From The Start

One vision of a downtown stadium.​An NFL stadium downtown. Frankly it even has some of us hardened Anshutz Entertainment Group (AEG, the company that wants to do this) watchers giddy with excitement. Perhaps our testosterone has gotten the best of us. A piece looking at the viability of a s ... More >>

Massacre Of 13 In Tijuana Linked To California-Bound Pot Seizure?

Was huge seizure of California-bound marijuana tied to Tijuana massacre Sunday?​One of the key issues in the debate of the full legalization of marijuana in California is whether voter approval for Prop. 19 would change the cartel-linked supply lines for pot in the Golden State. On Monday Baj ... More >>

Can a Yeasayer Remix Save N*E*R*D (and Nelly Furtado) from Totally Sucking?

N*E*R*Ds​Or a Hot Chip remix? Or one from Crookers? Or an entire iTunes EP of remixes of the exact same song -- the Nelly Furtado-featuring "Hot-N-Fun," which is neither of the things its title suggests? The Neptunes have made some of the darkest, weirdest, greatest beats that mainstream hip- ... More >>

Star Wars Cantina Scene, Now With More Daft Punk, Snoop, etc.

(Via Pitchfork) Three huge brands, one MASSIVE marketing exercise: The Soccer World Cup. Adidas. Star Wars. If that wasn't enough, Daft Punk, Snoop, Noel Gallagher, Ciara, David Beckham, Ian Brown and others are edited into this.

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

Teen 'Sexting' Of Nude Photographs Could Lead To Serious Charges

​Four teenage boys were in hot water this week after 'sexting' between the high school students led to the posting of sexually explicit photos of underage girls on a Yahoo message board, authorities said. The foursome, comprised of15-year-old students at Yucaipa High School in San Bernardino ... 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 >>

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

Naruto Tops American Idol in 2009 Yahoo Searches

Check out Shannon Cottrell's timeline "Britney Watch Out, Naruto Dominates." It's not that Naruto hadn't made Yahoo's top searches of the year before, but when we saw the anime series sandwiched in between Britney Spears and American Idol, we couldn't help but notice the rank of the anime/manga fra ... More >>

Your Online Recipe Box: Epicurious.com A 1941 Recipe for Lobster Thermidor & Their Most Popular Recipe, Double Chocolate Layer Cake

The vast Condé Nast recipe database Epicurious.com is a phenomenal resource for both home and professional cooks, kind of like The Beatles catalog for food people. With the closing down of Gourmet Magazine (this month is the last issue), Epicurious became even more valuable, as it now functions as ... More >>

Blackboardeats.com: Serious Bargains An Interview with The Editor About The NYC Expansion & Why Everyone Loves Free Salumi

BlackboardEats.com​BlackboardEats.com, a free email newsletter and website, launched in Los Angeles about six weeks ago. The site, which was founded by former Yahoo! Food editor Maggie Nemser, is based out of Venice (Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Monica) and provides subscribers with discou ... More >>

Right Said Fred Cancels Halloween, Will Not Dance on King Tut's Tomb

By Daiana Feuer King Tut might rise from his fake tomb at the Egyptian Theatre, but Right Said Fred will not be dancing on his head. Richard and Fred Fairbrass were scheduled to perform "I'm Too Sexy" live during the King Tut's Tomb Halloween spectacular on Saturday night in Hollywood. An email ... More >>

Birthday Girl

Vote or Die: Ultimate Guide to SXSWi Panel Picking

'Tis the season for SXSW panel Twitter deluge, or as one attuned tweeter put it, "How to Annoy Your Friends with Social Media Pestering to Vote for Your SXSW Panel." Because we've also spent the better part of the morning slogging through the SXSWi panel goat rodeo (moment of Internet Zen: Yoga For ... More >>

Octo-Mom Seeks Patent on 'Octo-Mom'

It had to happen. After being dubbed "OctoMom" almost from the moment after she gave birth to octuplets last January, Nadya Suleman is seeking to copyright the moniker. Sort of like "Angelyne" or "Yahoo Serious." The Smoking Gun carries the story (and link to documents) today, quoting Suleman's moti ... More >>

Disney's Small World Ride: The Horror Returns Anew

Last time I went to Disneyland, the It's a Small World ride was (miraculously) closed for refurbishment. Now, it is open once more, to torment adults and delight children. For even greater obnoxiousness, Disney has added in characters from its more popular franchises--Aladdin, Nemo, the Little Merm ... More >>

Last Night: Digital Drinks @ Digital L.A. - When Swank and Tech Collide

Alexia TsotsisApparently the best way to get to Coco de Ville, the location of this month's Digital Drinks @ Digital LA, is to "just look for the paparazzi out front and you'll find it." When you spend most of your time at networking events it's very easy to forget that "the paparazzi" exists. I hav ... More >>

Voters' Guide to Controversial Political Measures: Links to all Coverage Here

*Proposition 6: The Most Implosive By Max Taves October 30, 2008 A tiny, unnoticed clause could allow the use of much looser hearsay in trials. *Questions Still Surround Oliver Stone's W. By Nikki Finke October 30, 2008 Winner or loser? Origina ... More >>

What Could Stop Obama: Secret Racist Democrats

The AP-Yahoo poll on race and what it says about our prejudices that still remain

Library Book Liberation Front: Don't Tax Library Books

Apolitical L.A. roars at deficit-mired Villaraigosa

Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped last week; they've been in town all this week gigging (a few nights ago for the Yahoo! Live series, and tomorrow at the Apple Store at the Grove); an ... More >>

Arroyo Art Project Whitewash Hits AP

Associated Press has a story on Yahoo News this morning about the permitted artwork along the Arroyo Seco that went up last year during the Meeting of Styles, which brought together graffiti artists from across the country. According to their reporting, "The county has given organizers until Wednes ... More >>

Snoop Goes Country! Snoop Dogg Live at Fox Studios, March 6

photos by Timothy Norris Snoop Dogg gigged with an 18-piece backing band in a Fox Studio sound room last night for the Nissan Live series shown on Yahoo! Music, and now that I’ve pimped the corporate affiliates that made this evening of taping possible, let’s just say right off the bat: I have ... More >>

The God of Sperm

In an industry veiled in secrecy, a powerful L.A. sperm peddler shapes the nation’s rules on disease, genetics — and accidental incest

Foo Fighters, Secret Show, 9/18

Foo Fighters Secret Location, Los Angeles By Ryan Colditz The Foo Fighters were filming live material on Tuesday night for an upcoming appearance on Nissan Live Sets, presented by Yahoo Music. Unlike a normal concert, between songs there was an ongoing Q&A between fans and the band. Only several hu ... More >>

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 31 - April 6

Clueless Times

The hapless daily faces cuts and shearing of Scheer

Taking the Bait

Getting past the teasers for Taking Lives and Dawn of the Dead

It Ain’t Yellowstone, But It’s Home

Tactical Embarrassment

The subversive cyber actions of ®™ark

Hacking the Future

Why code crackers will lead the digital age

Out on the Web

GeoCities founder David Bohnett just wanted to make the WWW a community. Now he's worth $350 million.

Make Money Fa$$$t!!!

Signed, Bill G.