We're serving a double stack of Steve Martin for today's video lunch in honor of the big guy's 66th birthday. Here are two uniquely Martinesque dead-on-balls-accurate documentary films about Los Angeles. PS if you're not regularly reading the banter between Steve Martin and Albert Brooks on Twitter, you are missing out. more ›

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Breakfast at Tiffany’s or L.A. Story - what movie will you vote for to be screened June 24, 8 p.m., at Nokia Plaza at L.A. LIVE? Los Angeles Film Festival organizers narrowed it down to these three classics celebrating milestone anniversaries and are asking Angelenos to choose which movie will play at the free, outdoor event. At press time, Raiders of the Lost Ark is in the lead with 40% of the vote over Breakfast at Tiffany’s (39%) and L.A. Story (21%). more ›

Sean Bonner is the co-founder of Metroblogging, which is the largest network of city-based blogs on the entire Interwebs -- with 50 cities under their masthead. When he's not launching new web ventures or contributing to blogging.la, he's running the Culver City art gallery sixspace with his wife Caryn, being Vegan, or riding his mountain bike while humming Ice Cube tunes. 1. name: Sean Bonner 2. birthplace: Washington DC 3. LA neighborhood you live... more ›

Critics come up with Best Of movie lists all the time, but today we wanted to see what the people want. The people who get their home movies from Netflix, that is. It's easy enough: Netflix has a feature that lists the movies that are tops with members in one city that don't do so well elsewhere. Here in LA, we're self-obsessed — Steve Martin's LA Story, from 1991, tops the list — we like movies about moviemaking, and we seek out the short films of David Lynch. more ›

Carolyn Kellogg has been the editor of LAist for just about a month. She's been writing for the site for much longer than that. At the same time, she hosts Pinky's Paperhaus but we'll get into that later. She explains her professional past as a "former music journalist turned web producer". We'd describe her as energetic, intelligent, invested, excited and colorful. more ›