Somewhere inside the archives of my storage closet resides one of those relics of yesteryear--a recordable audiocassette that, on one Saturday night about fifteen years ago, I stuck in my "boom box" and pressed down the play and record buttons together to capture the KROQ DJ giving his shout-outs to all the folks who'd just called in, including me and one of my partners-in-crime. "And Lindsay and Laurie in La Crescenta are going to Rocky......

Grindhouse Monday and Tuesday it's The Muthers, a combination blaxploitation and women-in-prison flick that stars Janine Bell and Rosanne Katon as a pirate duo who must rescue Bells sister from the private jail of an evil coffee plantation owner, followed by Fight for Your Life, a revenge thriller about a pacifist black minister whose family is taken hostage and tortured by a trio of convicts, until he finally snaps and wreaks his vengeance. Wednesday and......

The United States Olympic Committee just announced that Chicago has won the honor of representing America as possible host city for the 2016 Olympics. Before you go kick the dog or jump off the Hollywood sign, you should be sighing a breath of relief. Today's vote in Washington doesn't mean that Chicago will get the Summer Olympic games, it just means that they can spend more money over the next two years to compete......

Welcome to the latest edition of Ask the MACist, the column where I answer your Mac and Mac-related questions with hopefully more clarity and insight than you could ever need. As always, I want to thank those of you who sent in questions this week. They are much appreciated. Keep it up! And remember, if you have a question about anything Macintosh, Macintosh-related, or even something about another technology like TiVo, Blackberry, XBox 360,......

There are people in LA who have children. As LAist gets older we have noticed that even some of our friends are finding themselves with babies who then turn into little people. It's quite fascinating. Because the people with the children want to entertain these creatures who sorta look like them they have to choose between the commonplace tales produced by Disney or the commonplace tales produced by a purple Dinosaur. Lately there have......

Remember last month when President Bush was in Florida and he spoke at an event and afterwards told a man in a wheelchair "You look mighty comfortable"? Well Mr. Observant topped himself this morning when he chided Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsten about his sunglasses. (video via Crooks & Liars)THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on? Q: I can take them off. THE PRESIDENT: I’m interested......

As LAist posted earlier this week, ready or not, Christmas is just around the corner. (See your local Starbucks baristas in their spiffy new red shirts hawking who knows what.) And so what if it's not even Thanksgiving? Does anyone really care? Well, we do. And we don't just have a bone to pick with retailers. We're also kinda ticked off at a few local L.A. radio stations. In particular, KOST 103.5 and KZLA......

As LAist is a big fan of the art that is called "weblogging" or "blogging" or "meandering prose", we'd like to take a moment today to point out that the 2004 Weblog Awards are now officially open for voting. Although nominations ended on December 1st, and the contest is no longer accepting new blogs to add to the list -- a quick visit to the site provides a long list of well-received weblogs for......