Live blogging the Democratic Debate 7:43 The spin is winding down and the media room is beginning to empty. Reporters are putting the finishing touches on their debate articles and the crew is beginning to clean up the bottles and box dinners provided. But the next six days until Super Tuesday will be anything but quiet. Commercials will continue to fill the airwaves, candidates will have events around Southern California and LAist will party......

From the Front Lines I bring you "Day One of the Strike." The mood is very light and almost jovial; this shift has only been out here three hours. I think that is going to change fast. They caused a lot of rubber necking traffic but no real problems. They did get a lot of attention. There was lots of food to go around, and an official station for people to check in. It's a......

Utilizing his iPhone the way Steve Jobs hoped he would, LAist contributer Brad Herman took these pictures of the WGA writers strike from what appears to be out front of the Fox studios in West LA. Here we are now almost all the way through Day One of the strike and there doesn't seem to be any acts of violence or retribution, nor have any souls of teenagers found their way into their middle......

Snoop Dogg w/ The Snoopadelics, Dolemite @ Music Box (win tickets) Rodrigo and Gabriela @ John Anson The National, The Broken West @ El Rey Audreye Sessions, Day One Symphon @ The Echo Narcissistic Tendencies, Vette, Cirkus @ The Cat Club Trainwreck Riders, Black Diamond Heavies, Tim Seely @ Spaceland Woman's Worth, Barfer, Rose for Bohdan @ The Smell Funeral for a Friend, Alexisonfire, Emanuel, Fightstar @ The Troubadour Purple Gang, Tattooed Millionaires, Pistol......

by Jeff Baum for Gothamist Gothamist headed down to Manchester, Tennessee with over 80,000 other music fans from across genres and across the world to take in Bonnaroo 2006. Three days of some of the best bands around from Jam to Jazz to Rap to Rock. We were up bright and early Friday morning to get the weekend off to the right start. Our first stop was to check out talented multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird......

One would assume that the line-up will be announced tomorrow or Tuesday but that hasn't stopped the fake line-ups from cropping up. There's a really good mock-up out that seems to have scoured the internet for every band rumored to be coming to the Empire Polo Field. As losanjealous notes, Smashing Pumpkins, either in a headline or a second from the top spot (we're guessing a second from the top spot on day 2......

We've been posting some of our favorite things from 2005, so now it's time for yours. Here are the 10 most popular LAist posts of 2005, from basketball to Beckham, from Ashton to the Suicide Girls. 1. We prepare to say hello to David Beckham: Beckham Bent on LA? 2. A farewell tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: Grace in Depravity 3. Ashton Kutcher: Hollywood Maverick? But of course. 4. The Best Waiter in Los......

Well, the “fit’s hit the shan,” the storm has hit, whatever metaphor you’d like to use–the mayor’s race has taken the long-predicted turn to the negative, as detailed in today’s Times. Hahn’s come out with his first attack ads, while Villaraigosa and Hertzberg have responded with their own (credit Parke Skelton and John Shallman with the pre-packaged response ads; they knew it was coming). Though we haven’t seen the ads (we don’t have time......