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It's not like the Los Angeles Business Journal is out to get us. It's just that some media outlets outsource their online advertising to affiliate programs and some of those programs have malicious ads snuck into them by evil spammers posing as advertisers. That said, Google and StopBadware.org have now joined together to bring their internet neighborhood watch to your web block:What is this page? You landed on this page because Google's independent testing...

To some, Elvira Arellano is a leader among pro-immigration rights activists who think the federal government' immigration and trade policies are unfair. To others, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Arellano is just another attention-grabbing, "criminal alien and immigration fugitive," unfairly using her American-born son as an Elián González-like prop for pro immigration activism . Arellano spent an entire year inside Adalberto United Methodist Church on Chicago's West Side, defying a federal order to report...

When Sam Zell, the soon-to-be new owner of Tribune Corp., parent company of the LA Times, was quoted as saying this on Saturday, we called him a ridiculous old man: "If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?" Zell said during the question period after his speech. "Not very." And the consensus from the blogosphere this weekend? That he's a ridiculous old...

When Tribune Corp was met with two similar offers for its media conglomerate that includes the LA Times, the Chicago-based company decided that it felt better selling to a fellow Chicagoian, real estate billionaire Sam Zell than to a group of billionaires living here in LA. Although Zell will be ponying up just $300 million of the $8.2 billion deal, he will be calling the shots. And on his radar, incredibly is Google, and...

This man had balls people Devastating to our local Armenian community and those of us who enjoy free speech, editor of Agos Armenian Daily newspaper in Turkey, Hrant Dink, was assassinated. "The assassination of Mr. Dink is not only an attack on the Armenian community of Turkey; it is an assault on freedom of speech, truth, and justice everywhere," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said on Friday. "Mr. Dink spoke frankly and courageously about the history...

We can't help but laugh at all the media brouhaha over what has come to be known as the "Gay Cowboy Movie" Brokeback Mountain, which snagged (pardon us) an assload of Golden Globe noms this morning, as well as was named "Picture of the Year" and Ang Lee as "Director of the Year" by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association just the other day. Our favorite bite is this item from FishBowlLA that notes

Ang Lee's "Brokeback" has been described as a "gay cowboy movie" in Google News in no fewer than 279 separate headlines, making it officially okay to search for "gay cowboy movie" on Google whilst at work.

Can you say "gay cowboy movie" ten times fast? We think you can. We know we can. Our conversations these days are peppered with "gay cowboy" references, mostly including the subject-verb clause "I love" as a lead in. Our favorite thing has to be from the movie's official website, where you can enter the "Share Your Story" section:

From sold out screening to sold out screening, moviegoers are emerging deeply moved by the humanity and honesty of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN's extraordinary love story. And they want to talk. Here's a place to share your feelings about the film, the connections you felt, and to share how watching it might have brought back memories of your own. After all, everyone has their own "Brokeback Mountain." Have you ever gone back to yours?

Hmmm. We're guessing this forum's moderator is going to be on their toes fending off the Jesus freaks and homophobes. And, to respond here in our little gay-cowboy friendly forum--If by "Brokeback Mountain" of our own you mean Rawhide, the Gay Cowboy bar at Vineland and Burbank, well, the answer is no, we haven't ever gone back. Once was enough, thank you.

We're shocked, actually. Not only that the most recognizable legal name of the last 15 years is gone but that he died much older than we thought. Just about everyone is short on details but he died of a brain disorder. While his legacy will forever be attached to the OJ Simpson trial, his relavence to Los Angeles is much greater than that. Cochran worked tirelessly on community focused cases and was proud of being a black lawyer zealously championing black men he felt were wrongly accused of crimes.