In a week when the governor wasn't running for re-election but lost big anyway and Jesus is Magic won the hearts and minds of our readers becoming our biggest giveaway yet (there were well over a hundred entrants! We love that), we welcomed a couple new contributors, gave a shout out to local digital photographers and started working on a new contest/contributor search that we hope to announce early next week (hint: if you like talking to people about LA and know some interesting folks, you're going to want to pay attention). more ›

It doesn't get any less frustrating over time. The Times has two articles in the paper today that we read that reference websites and blogs and their impact on something but fail to provide even a url with which readers can go search out on their own, let alone clickable links within the online articles. The first has to do with Tail O' The Pup which has been talked about on several blogs that LAist frequents. The other one, though, the one built entirely on the reaction of some bloggers gave us no frame of reference with which to jump off on our own easily and it is the much more scandalous story: Pop fiction writer Dean Koontz was accused of being racially insensitive for his "Mr. Teriyaki" anecdote that he has been telling for many years. more ›

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