Keith Plocek

Damien Newton’s daily news source is really wonky, but in a good way. Newton and the other Streetsblog writers might be activists at heart, but they can still dig up a good scoop. Reducing our dependence on cars seems like a no-brainer, and Streetsblog takes a smart approach to helping......

Food photography is nowhere near as easy as Matt Armendariz makes it look. Just ask any of the countless food bloggers who tweet iPhone pics of every meal. Armendariz’s food photos are so bright, so crisp, so ... pardon us while we wipe the saliva off our keyboard. This is......

Liberal blogger Heather Parton doesn’t buy into the mentality of the D.C. village, and it probably helps that she’s all the way across the country in Santa Monica. Ballsy and fearless, she’s been up to the minute for over eight years. Who needs a fancy site when your opinions speak......

Location, location, location. It’s the mantra of real-estate agents and sex therapists, and it’s also a big part of what the five dudes behind Beers in Paradise are all about. As the site says, “Two of our favorite things are drinking beer … really good beer, and imbibing said beer......

Note to restaurant owners and their webmasters: We don’t need light jazz in the background when looking for a menu of Cajun food, or images of Southern Mexico floating by when in search of a phone number. Take a lesson from EatChego.com, which has all the basic info right there,......

Starry Kitchen’s Tumblr site has the requisite menu and contact info placed front and left of center, but currently there are 66 pages of so much more. Photos of meatball curry compete for space with a YouTube embed of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Cecilia,” and don’t get us started on the......

Billed as Los Angeles’ biggest music publication, L.A. Record definitely lives up to both parts of its double entendre. Reviews of albums are thoughtful and plentiful, and the mag’s writers are fully immersed in the scene, making it a pub of record. We prefer the website to the print version,......

Founded by Kevin Roderick, LA Observed is a must-read for L.A.’s political and media elite. News, politics, sports, business — it’s all in there, along with a good dose of media navel-gazing. We have no idea when Roderick sleeps, but if we ever need a late-night fix, he’s far more......

“Allow me to be blunt,” writes L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky on his website. “It’s going to be a mess out there.” He’s talking about the planned 53-hour closure of the 405 next month, and he’s displaying a frankness you don’t often find on a government site. Yaroslavsky’s characteristic mug......