We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Kanye West at the Staples Center, the third show they've added in L.A.! Other People's Love Letters, the book where you can see 150 love letters you were never meant to see. Joe Jackson's Rain, available now on Amazon.com. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Kanye West at the Nokia Theater, tickets went on sale today! Other People's Love Letters, the book where you can see 150 love letters you were never meant to see. Joe Jackson's Rain, available now on Amazon.com. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the new album that's available now. Busted......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Joe Jackson's Rain, available now on Amazon.com. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the new album that's available now. Busted Tees, giving you free shipping when you buy three shirts. If you're interested in advertising on LAist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit.......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist. Joe Jackson's Rain, available now on Amazon.com. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the new album that's in stores February 5th. Busted Tees, giving you free shipping when you buy three shirts. If you're interested in advertising on LAist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit.......

As you might have guessed, we're pretty big into gaming over at my house -- our console set-up includes the both generations of the Xbox, not one but TWO PS2's (one for the living room, one for the bedroom), a Dell XPS with a wide-screen monitor (for PC gaming), a Nintendo Gamecube, a Nintendo 64, an SNES, and a Gameboy -- oh, and possibly a Sony PSP floating around somewhere. Our 50" big-screen is optimized......

So you've been bowled over by our Best of the Year lists, but do you demand more? Scratch that, do you crave more? Because if you do, you're in luck. Here's a round up of some of 2007's more creative year-end round ups. Time's Top Ten Underreported Stories of the Year. You gotta love how Time gets into the list spirit this, well, time of year. Twenty-five top tens, with everything from kids books......

If you're like me, you notice great gift ideas while surfing the web in April. Then one day you realize it's already December. In fact, it's a week before Christmas and you forgot to order anything. Is it too late? Do you really have to brave the crowds at the mall? Of course not! This is America! Amazon.com will guarantee shipping, but you have to shell out the bucks. No more Super-saver shipping. -For......

Online book retailer Amazon.com announced today that they have purchased an original, hand-written and hand-bound copy of J.K. Rowling's "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a book of children's stories that plays a major role in the plot of "The Deathly Hallows." The book, one of only seven made, was auctioned off in London at Sotheby's for 1.95 million pounds. Proceeds from the auction are going to The Children's Voice Campaign, a charity that benefits......

I probably wouldn't have pointed to Amazon.com as a champion of progressive thought and equality, but what do I know? Gaywired.com reports that Dana Rudolph, publisher of Mombian.com, was interested in entering an Amazon.com contest that offered a prize of $25,000 in college tuition. The recipient of the prize could either be the winner or the winner’s immediate family member, which the website categorized as “his or her spouse, children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents and......

Ahead of the Wednesday holiday, the DVD pickings this week are awfully, awfully slim. When the first season of a Sci-Fi channel TV show is the bestselling new DVD on Amazon.com you know you're looking at a fairly dreary list of new titles. A few of them, though, do merit interest either because they're pretty good (Puccini for Beginners) or pretty awful (the Corey's Dream a Little Dream 2). If you're looking for some......

We're pretty stoked this summer to be on an ultimate frisbee league team with the Los Angeles Organization of Ultimate Teams, or LAOUT (get it? LAyout?). This week was the first week for the summer league where games are played at Balboa Park in Encino and Oakwood Park in Venice. It's fascinating to see a group of strangers from all over LA get together, play, win (of course, go Team Tan!) and hang out......

If Santa stiffed you and didn't get that Nintendo Wii system you asked for, you still have another chance this year to buy one... and then break your television or yourself. Amazon.com will be taking orders for the ridiculously popular new video game system this morning some time between 7am and 11am, their website says. Wii Available for Purchase 12/29: The Nintendo Wii will again be available for purchase on Amazon.com on 12/29, Friday......

We are rapidly approaching the season where we have to go out there and shop for our family and friends. Maybe you're like LAist and hate shopping, maybe you're like the rest of the world and find some pleasure in crowded parking lots, lines at the registers, and hours spent wrapping and shipping off presents. If you're like us you praise Jah for Internet shopping that allows you to avoid lines, get your crap......

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy......

It's a moment every writer either dreads or dreams of — the appearance of your very own fan base. It's even more mind-blowing when a fan base coalesces around a book that hasn't even been published yet. Such is the dilemma facing LAist.com's resident provocateur, Paul Davidson. One of Paul's loyal readers, Kevin Apgar, has organized a "Grassroots Blogger Book Marketing Campaign" or GBBMC to promote Paul's latest book, "The Lost Blogs: From Jesus......

This week Oprah takes on Osama. If you're thinking the Queen of Daytime might bring something soft and fuzzy to the table, no way. She's not telling Osama to keep a dream journal. She's going hard news, for two whole episodes. In fact, she's fearmongering up a storm: What should you be worried about? she demands. Meet the man who met Osama Bin Laden! How vulnerable are we to another attack?!? OMG, is the......

We're already obsessed with allconsuming and 43things, the tag-friendly websites created by the robot co-op (and funded by Amazon.com) meant to help you keep track of what you and others are doing, attempting and consuming, but 43places might be even cooler. Smooth, glossy and elegant, 43places integrates flickr photos into this shared experience of travel and adventure. What we love about flickr is the fascinating way it allows us to see the world through......

Amazon.com reports these best-sellers for Los Angeles, California For the week of Jan 16-22 1. City Baby L.A. by Lisa Rocchio 2. Symphony by Frank Gehry 3. Norman Klein by Rosemary Comella 4. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles 5. Sacred Spaces by Robert Berger 6. Dancing at Ciro's by Sheila Weller 7. When Hollywood Had a King by CONNIE BRUCK 8. Dynamite Road (KLAVAN, ANDREW) Since the list is mainly composed of non-fiction,......

The Inland Valley's Daily Bulletin reports that "Some of the estimated 40,000 Sri Lankans living in Southern California prefer to vacation in their native country this time of year" putting many of them in the path of Sunday's huge earthquake and tsunami in the region. It puts our 7 or so inches of rain in perspective doesn't it? It's quite interesting watching local news and seeing how delicately they try to play the incredible......