Hoping to reach out to Latino voters, Barack Obama is using Spanish-language television advertising on Telemundo and Univision here in Los Angeles. The commercial began airing yesterday, and is centered around the concept of hope. The message features a Spanish-speaking narrator and the Democratic Presidential candidate hopeful delivering his words in English with subtitles. The content focus on the autobiographical, with the aim of appealing to the largely immigrant community on the basis of......

"You see this watch? You see this watch? That watch cost more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am. And you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you -- go home and play with your kids! You wanna work here? Close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this......

- Franklin Ave: Photo of Elaine from Seinfeld as she was out on the picket lines, her new show is one of a half dozen that had to stop production today - LA Observed: No LA blog has covered the SB News Press fiasco better than Mr. Roderick, which is tricky since the N-P's website is decidedly Web 1.0. Today we learn that another staffer had to be escorted from the premises. - Defamer:......

Recent major events for the LAFD include last night's apartment fires in North Hollywood and Westchester. Busy day on LAPD's blog: a drive-by shooting yesterday, a labor day homicide, Congressman Xavier Becerra's office burglarized, two fatal Skid Row stabbings, a Carl's Jr. robbery and a fatal shooting this morning in South LA. Sparked by the recent heat-reated power outages, Matt Littman at the Huffington Post asks if Los Angeles is in permanent decay: "It......

The 7th annual Bloggy Awards announced their nominees today. Leading the way were the usual suspects: BoingBoing, Dooce, and Blogger. But long overdue for love were our sister sites Gothamist and Torontoist. Torontoist is nominated for Best Canadian Weblog. They're up against Regret the Error, Photojunkie, Kill the Goat, and Drawn (mysteriously missing is the recently crowned Raymi the Minx who won the Canadian Blog Awards for Best Blog and Best Diarist.) The mothership......

The Huffington Post is one of the biggest Internet surprises over the last few years. When it debuted in May of last year no one thought there was any need for another political blog, especially a liberal one, when Kos, Atrios, and Wonkette seemed to be covering all of the bases. This August, after being around barely over a year, the HuffPo became the 5th most popular blog on the entire web according to......

- You know you've accomplished something good when you go outside and burn a couch. You know you've really accomplished something good when the cops shoot rubber bullets at UCLA kids - Daily Bruin - You know the Gods of College Upsets are on OT when the unranked Gauchos of UCSB beat the favored Bruins for the national soccer championships. They still burn couches in IV don't they? - AP - Congratulations Nick Douglas,......

- There are twice as many men than women with IQs over 120. Not so fast, Dubya - The Independent - Police taser an 11-year-old in a Jonesboro, Georgia middle school - WSBT - Just in time for Christmas! A perfectly preserved dinosaur nest containing 22 fossilized eggs of ancient dead baby dinos will go on auction tomorrow here in LA - AP - Just in time for Kwanzaa! Own Jessica Alba's bra -......

1. Engadget: Next Friday Circuit City will be selling $99 laptops, sorta 2. BoingBoing - Cemetery 2.0 links your real headstone to your Facebook Memorial page. 3. FC2: Windows Vista doesn't work with the Zune? 4. Gizmodo - Blender capable of blending 40 pens 5. Xujing Lei - still loves her cat 6. Huffington Post - Guest blogger John Murtha writes: "Iraq is key... Let's get to work." Hey John, don't quit your day......

- Red Sox pay $51 million just for the right to negotiate with a Japanese pitcher - ESPN - Every James Bond Movie Trailer Ever - cinematical - The Portraits of 42 American Presidents on a single strand of hair - world art miracle (via) - A hotel room that looks like a cartoon - Kunst - Fox News internal memo proves that, well, they're Fox News - Huffington Post - As Jack Abramoff......

Kicking the party while they're down, last night Bill Maher went on CNN's "Larry King Live" and was as politically incorrect as always, stating that many chiefs of staff in Washington DC are homosexuals. When asked by King to name names, Maher threw out the name of no one less than GOP party leader Ken Mehlman himself. Larry said he was unaware that Mehlman, who is rumored to be stepping down as RNC Chairman......

- A Correction letter was sent out by CA Secretary of State to all 14,000 OC voters who got the illegal voter fraud from the GOP wannabe - Lonewacko - Miami-bound American Airlines jet returns to LAX due to odor - NBC4 - Marilyn Manson to open an LA art gallery on Halloween - EarthTimes - Two plead guilty in $30+ million bank fraud scheme - AP - Orel interviews for Oakland opening. Will he......

This election has officially begun. Politicians on both sides have decided to take their gloves off. In Orange County, we've been following the drama happening with the young man who decided to commit possible voter fraud to get into congress. While in Missouri, Senate candidate Claire McCaskill has enlisted a powerful plea by Michael J. Fox to consider hopefuls dedicated to furthering the progress of science, namely stem cell research. The Huffington Post reports......

Update: Among much 9/11 coverage on Gothamist, they also do The Inappropriate 9/11 Coverage Awards. Has anything changed in Hollywood? In Pop culture? LA Times' Patrick Goldstein reflects: ... it would take more than a horrific catastrophe to quench our thirst for the madcap antics of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Star Jones Reynolds, Jessica Simpson and all the other bobble heads bouncing around our celebrity universe.... I spend a lot of time around showbiz......

The veteran LAFD captain suspected of killing the nude woman who was found a few blocks away from his Eagle Rock home posted his million dollar bail. His ex-girlfriend says she's not surprised, claims he was abusive. - LA Daily News Sarah Silverman's got her priorities. Some favor green M&M's, some virgins, some demand new toilet seats which are to be destroyed the very next day. The slender comedian and Jimmy Kimmel beard wants......

Tonight's Midnight Movie "Bush: Addicted to Oil" is a music video spoof that is currently #5 on the Huffington Post's Contagious Festival leader board. Each month the LA-based political web site hosts viral videos and original short films. LAist sent some emails to Addicted to Oil head honcho Andy Menconi, who sent some back. LAist: It seems like we should be seeing a lot more of these from people since technology is cheap, the......

Great, now that we finally got her number, Paris Hilton announces she will be celibate for a year - Guardian (UK) All we ask is she starts wearing underwear around the help. - I'm Not Obsessed Good thing we'll always have that 13 year-old Glory Hole on the first floor men's room in Memphis. - Daily Helmsman Lindsay Lohan lapping up Kabbalah, and being cute with sparklers, is changing her name to Rose. Allegedly.......

It started when we headed to the Huffington Post to see what they had to say about Cheney's hunting accident: we got distracted. Look, they had a link to the CheneyHunt Game! Shoot along with Cheney! But the game doesn't last long enough for us. Of course Jon Stewart nailed it on The Daily Show last night: Cheney: #2 With A Bullet!. Incidents like these are like manna from heaven for satirists, and they......

We're looking for new interviewers. We're also giving away a signed poster from The Chumscrubber. We opened a merch store as well featuring LAist branded American Apparel shirts (amongst other things). And we talked about... - UCLA Basketball and why you'll love and hate this team. - We're cooking in the kitchen - pumpkin cheesecake and pinzimonio. - The Huffington Post/Yahoo!/Gawker Party and local blogs. - Who knew Jane Austen and John Hughes had......

Hmmm, what better day to start what will probably become our weekly look around the local blog soap operas than the morning after The Huffington Post/Yahoo!/Gawker Media love fest that was billed as a night celebrating Defamer's Mark Lisanti but really was to celebrate and launch the syndication agreements between the three parties. While we generally hovered next to the go fug girls, the Mister Zero you don't want to !@$* with, Defamer's Employee......

LA Observed reports this morning about the huge blog v. blog argument currently going on between LA Weekly columnist Marc Cooper and Weekly freelancer Nikki Finke in regards to her recent attack on Arianna Huffington's brand new celebrity/political-centric blog, Huffington Post. As the hits have just been tallied up and around 8 million for the Huffington Post's first day, the question isn't whether or not Finke's goal in slapping Arianna on her first day......

After much discussion and publicity for Arianna Huffington's foray into celebrity group blogging, The Huffington Post launched this morning. It'll be interesting to see how timely the blog stays. Initial posts by the well known names cover well treaded topics like gay marriage and the death of Hunter S. Thompson. We will always appreciate any opportunity Harry Shearer has to take a closer look at the oddities and inaccuracies of news media and Laurie......