Sweet Contests and How To Get Your Picture on LAist

- The Name the Year of the Dog contest ends at 4:20pm today, so to enter the contest where you could win a pair of tickets to the new Molly Shannon animal lovin movie, go name that pooch!

- The Win the Fall Out Boy tickets at the Forum contest ends on Friday, so head over to that post and tell us why you love the band and you might get to see FOB with the Academy Is... and your boy Paul Wall, among others.

- People who would like us to consider their pics to be used in some way on LAist can let us know several ways, the easiest being tag all your pics on Flickr "LAist". The second easiest is to join our LAist Featured Photos Group on Flickr. The third easiest is to just email us at thelaist @ gmail and say, yeah bro you can use any picture of mine that you want, just link to the pic and call me Blah Blah".

The photo above is from the Mika concert at the Troubadour by Patrick LA who submitted it to our LAist Featured Photos Group. See how that works!