Results tagged “miscellaneous”

I didn't want to just do a "best of" list. So this year, I've decided to take a years worth of personal New Year's Resolutions, ask around for those of friends and put a call out to readers (email me here) about things you've always wanted to know, always wanted to do and then take those requests and ask an expert, an insider to help out. The result? Here goes...

Part II of ten surprisingly lovely days with a 19-Year-Old Swedish Sex Kitten who turned out to have quite more than Nordic good looks.

This past weekend, in the steep hills of Echo Park, there was a Christmas party extravaganza complete with booze, baseball players and bad taste. Described as "Your Parent's Christmas Party," the holiday invite explained that one must "come dressed in what your parent's once thought was their holiday best," because after all, "This is how we do it in 92." With that in mind, I reluctantly put on one of the fugliest xmas sweatshirts I could find and polished enough bottles of champagne and wine to appropriately begin celebrating the holiday season.

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part photo essay, one, two). That wasn't the only photo essay either: Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy friends and Star Trek actors all joined in at the Writers Strike and KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas brought two nights of amazing bands that included Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park (Part I), Modest Mouse, Muse, Spoon and The Killers (Part II). Not only is L.A. a great music town, it has just been named the best city for bookish types. For those who are looking for something a little more active, American Gladiators are back (yes!) and if that's not enough, how about a Christmas gift of action and adventure?

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

As is the custom around these parts, we would like to take a moment to thank this weeks' advertisers on LAist.

We'd like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

Once again, we would like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on LAist.

Drum roll please...here's a list of advertisers this week on LAist.

Got a second? Good! Because we want to thank the advertisers on LAist this week:

First launched in May of 1945, the Lane Victory saw service in three wars (WW2, Korea, and Vietnam), and is now maintained as a museum ship and docked at LA Harbor Berth 94 in San Pedro. Although the Lane Victory wasn't a combat ship (she was operated as a Merchant Marine vessel and carried cargo), she saw plenty of action and still has all her guns, some of which are still occasionally fired. Nothing...

In our continuing effort to pay for things around the office, we'd like to take a moment to thank the advertisers on LAist this week:

Servers aren't cheap, so we'd like to take a moment to thank the advertisers on LAist this week: