When you find yourself sitting around the house (your house, your parent's house, your friend's house, the house of the weird person you met on the Goldline last week) over the long holiday weekend, you'll probably be too full of beer or wine or turkey or stuffing or pumpkin pie to do much of anything besides sit on the couch and stare at whatever's in front of you. Which is fine - if you're into... more ›

Regardless of what we think about pretty boy actors who seemingly have it all handed to them on a silver platter, anyone who lives in LA for a while either becomes friends with stars or have friends who are friends of stars. And one thing that's clear about celebrity, is that the stars are just like us, if not more pathetic. While you and I are struggling to make ends meet, the stars are... more ›

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Monday Barbara Taylor Bradford discusses and signs The Ravenscar Dynasty, 7pm @ Vroman's Frank Warren of postsecret.com fame speaks, 7pm @ Borders Books in Torrance Tuesday Vendela Vida presents Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, 7pm @ Book Soup Anthony Swofford (award-winning author of Jarhead) presents Exit A: A Novel, 7pm @ Vroman's Patricia Marx signs Him Her Him Again the End of Him, 7pm @ Dutton’s Brentwood Portia Iversen signs Strange Son,... more ›

With the year winding down, LAist is asking famous celebs, local politicians, and other movers & shakers of LA to tell us what they thought were tops of 2006. Before founding PostSecret, Frank Warren grew up in the Valley and attended Colfax Elementary School with Adam Carolla. If you missed his book signing last month, you can catch him on January 15th at Borders Books in Torrance as he signs the next PS book, "The... more ›

The premise was simple: start a blog, let people know that if they sent a postcard to a specific address with their secret it might get posted on the site. The rules were clear: make a 4 x 6 postcard, be brief, be legible, be creative - let the postcard be your canvas. The results were amazing: PostSecret.blogspot.com became one of the most popular blogs of all time, currently in the Top 10 of... more ›

Rioting continued yesterday in the LA County jails in Castaic. The LA Times reports more than 500 inmates were involved, nearly 100 were injured and 28 had to be hospitalized. more ›