Hoping to reach out to Latino voters, Barack Obama is using Spanish-language television advertising on Telemundo and Univision here in Los Angeles. The commercial began airing yesterday, and is centered around the concept of hope. The message features a Spanish-speaking narrator and the Democratic Presidential candidate hopeful delivering his words in English with subtitles. The content focus on the autobiographical, with the aim of appealing to the largely immigrant community on the basis of......

The new "Man" for Burning Man is revealed....

By William S. Burroughs For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts — thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison — thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger — thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot — thanks for bounties on wolves......

Don't forget to enter our Arcade Fire ticket giveaway contest for their Thursday appearance at the Hollywood Bowl. Lobster Festival in San Pedro continues through tomorrow, as well as WIRED Magazine's NextFest at the convention center. Immigrant experience, community and the "delirious noble dream." LAist Editor-At-Large Carolyn Kellogg reviews 'The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories' by Ellen Litman for the LA Times. Long Beach is the first to begin mandatory water......

2008 Burning Man Art Theme announced, The American Dream....

As Guest Day Editor, Siel, a.k.a Green LA Girl, will be joining LAist with a few posts throughout today. Read her interview here and check out her site. Junk mail's one of those things that annoys people on a daily basis -- but seems unpreventable all the same. Those supermarket flyers fill up our mailboxes week after week, and for most, the unwanted mail seems like an uncontrollable influx -- What's worse -- I know......

Joseph Barbera died today at 95. Partner and co-founder of the famed cartoon studio, Hanna-Barbera, he helped give the world such classics as Tom & Jerry, Yogi Bear, and the Flintstones while earning eight Emmys along the way. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1911, Barbera was originally a banker who lived the American Dream by converting his everyday doodles into characters that will go on forever. The Hanna-Barbera studios became a subsidiary of Great......

OK, can we just agree right now that Eric Garcetti is the coolest LA City Council President, like, ever? That's him on the red carpet — the one crouching down, taking the photo of other guests. The occasion was last night's screening of The New LA on the Paramount lot. So much LA political high-wattage was there that I couldn't get them all down: three or four city council reps, Mayor Villaraigosa, controller Laura......

FRIDAY • Red Sparrows, Upsilon Acrux and Zombi (aka the new Goblin) perform tonight at Spaceland. Doors open at 9 PM. • Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel & Dimed, will be signing her newest, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream at Skylight Books tonight at 7:30 PM. Click here for our complete list of events for the weekend. Photo of Zombi ©2004 Shawn Brackbill......