
- About the above picture: The Rawking Refuses To Stop!, a blog of all things Los Angeles pop culture and MP3, shares with us their best concert photos of 2007. Above, they sneak out of LA to New York to see Les Savy Fav at the Bowery Ballroom (we'll just say they did the same thing when they came here).
- Don't forget -- you still have today and tomorrow to enter our Rufus Wainwright/Belinda Carlisle contest for a great New Years Eve show. Enter here! Enter here!
- BRRR!!! It's cold! This crisp weather is expected to continue throughout the week, with a chance of rain this weekend. The Antelope Valley is under a Cold Weather Advisory; temps there are expected to be well below freezing tonight.
- Cardinal Mahoney celebrated an early morning mass for the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe this morning; a crowd of about 2,000 worshipers came to share their prayers for immigration reform.
- Check out the Great Wall of Studio City! A mural was unveiled on Ventura Boulevard this week that pays homage to the Valley's historic and artistic past. Yes the Valley has a historic past, don't give me none of your lip.
- Jessica Alba is jumping on the "Preggers Celebrities" bandwagon; long-time boyfriend Cash Warren has knocked up the star. She is 26 and he is 28. Yup, another article for the " Dear Boyfriend: Everybody Else Is Doing It!" category. Sigh.
- Victory for the freelancers! Viacom/MTV will be returning health insurance to their freelancers! Complaining works, kids. Uh, well, sometimes.
- Velvet Revolver's lead puppet Scott Weiland refused a chemical test to see if he was on drugs at the time of his November 21st arrest for reckless driving; so far tonight's show at the Gibson is going ahead as scheduled.
- First our computer help lines, now our children's art! NPR documents the animation industry's move away from Hollywood to India: "Both The Golden Compass and Alvin and the Chipmunks used digital animation that was created in Mumbai."




You mean when they cOme here. Les Savy Fav is playing this Saturday at The El Rey. Don't miss it.