I nearly swerved off the road yesterday when I heard Phish's "Heavy Things" being played on the radio. Phish. A jam band. On local LA radio. I'm too cheap to purchase satellite radio, and I've been lazy about replacing the CDs in my car. So I spend my driving time listening to NPR or local traffic reports on the AM stations. LA radio has been dead to me for a long time. I'm out of......

After being kicked off the Adam Carolla show, Danny Bonaduce was given his own radio show 2-3pm every weekday, only to remind listeners that Danny isn't like-able and is seriously lacking talent. He seemed to try to be more appealing on Carolla's show, maybe because it wasn't HIS show. Bonaduce started off on Thursday by telling us about the memo's he received from management "Don't talk so much about yourself, don't try and top everyone's......

Yes, we know he was most recently Mr. KABC, but we knew Mr. K before he had to shorten his name because of the transient and disloyal nature of local radio. We took an oath to protect Mr. KFI from all enemies foreign and domestic, and we would have joined him in his one-man crusade against Veganism but if we did it would no longer be a one-man crusade. Mr. is moving to the former......

Before the current tyrannical rule of Tony Pierce, Carolyn Kellogg was the editor of LAist, in a time many yearn for. But she decamped for the University of Pittsburgh, where she's getting an MFA in creative writing. In between bouts of homesickness, she blogs about books and podcasts interviews with writers who rock at pinkyspaperhaus.com. Top 10 LA Things You Don't Realize You'll Miss, Until It's Too Late 10. Beaches. I hardly went to......

If you like blogs (safe guess, since you're here) and have any interest in the media, you might want to shell out $10 tomorrow for the panel discussion at the LA Press Club. It's called Watching the Watchdogs: LA's Media Websites and will be moderated by blogger-turned-LA Times staffer Matt Welch. Panelists include LA Observed's Kevin Roderick, LA Radio's Don Barrett and Ron Feinman. They'll talk about how they keep tabs on local media......