Courtney Walker

A while back, Iast summer, I was in San Francisco and covered the Facebook Developers Conference where I discovered the ginormous amount of attractive nerds there. Sitting on Building Great Apps panel I attended was the crazy hot Sebastien de Halleux, COO and Co-Founder of Playfish. Playfish has a... continue reading on LAist

Tonight at 7pm, McSweeney's Voice of Witness will be hosting a reading at ALOUD in the Central Library in support of their new release, Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan. Praised by humanitarian badass John Prendergast, the book is a collection of oral histories from the... continue reading on LAist

Tonight, the artist collective BOXeight, known for bringing Fashion Week back to downtown LA by establishing themselves as an alternative to the traditional Fashion Week, is opening their 6,000 sq ft gallery and exhibition "I Think It's Art, I Think It's Fashion". Long deemed the largest independent arts organization in... continue reading on LAist

Going into F8 (the Facebook Developers Conference) yesterday, there was an expectation of learning something new and exciting about the uses of Facebook as a means of building a business, evangelizing a movement or business or brand (in LA all of that means preaching to others about yourself) and... continue reading on LAist

Last Saturday Ford and "Band from TV" partnered together in Downtown LA to launch the Ford Flex with a charity scavenger hunt through that roamed throughout Los Angeles, raising money for various charities. Basically the event challenged each team to use the interactive technologies of the new vehicle - Ford... continue reading on LAist