Keith Plocek

Here you’ll find all of Los Angeles, its people, birds, trees, buildings, burgers, signs and stickers. More than 1,500 members strong, the pool is updated almost daily by amateur and professional photogs, all of whom share their work in exchange for the chance at a little Internet glory. The LAist......

“The Eastsider LA” were the first words out of pretty much everyone’s mouth when we mentioned this category. Jesus Sanchez covers the northeast corner of Los Angeles like only someone born in Boyle Heights could. His take on news and events in Echo Park and beyond give one of the......

You could call Tumblr the hot dog of social media: Sometimes it seems like it’s made entirely of lips and assholes, and nobody locally is doing a better job posting pics of both than The Streets Are Calling. Photographers Rat Handsome and Organ Donor (probably not their real names) lurk......

“Space Suit of the Week” might not sound like the most highbrow concept, but in the hands of writer Alex Dent the recurring series becomes a meditation on technology and human progress (with some personal journaling thrown in for good measure). Dent is just one of the talented writers on......

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. —Poe’s LawThe bad news about a free and open Internet? Sometimes you get had by brilliant satirists. Christwire: 1; TRMS: —Rachel Maddow,......

PhillyD’s YouTube digests of the latest political and celebrity stories put plenty of high-dollar TV anchors to shame. The man knows how to work a jump cut, and we like to think his 1.6 million subscribers know a little bit more about the world after each viewing. Or maybe they’re......

As street food in Los Angeles ascended from roach-coach jokes to hipster late-night snacks to mainstream acclaim, it found a champion in Bill Esparza, a man who calls himself the world’s first tacorazzo. Esparza’s Street Gourmet LA travels all over Los Angeles and the rest (yes, we worded that correctly)......

Remember the announcer from NBA Jam, the way he’d shout “He’s on fire!” after someone made three baskets in a row? The good folks at G4TV.com should play that every time a new story appears on the site. Just looking at their E3 coverage is enough to convince you they’ll......

“I sure hope no one ever discovers that watermelon causes cancer, because at the rate I put them away, I’d be a goner for sure,” writes Erika Kerekes atop a recipe for watermelon agua fresca with lime. It’s a classic quip from the woman behind In Erika’s Kitchen, a blog......

Armed with a police scanner and a whole lotta energy, Alex Thompson tracks grime and crime in Venice, the land where hippies stab each other and the rich pass out on the beach. Some of Thompson’s recent posts allude to strife within the Venice crime-fighting community, but we’ll keep checking......