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......

Do you like ice cream? Do you like free stuff? Do you hate free stuff, but like ice cream? Then get thee to an Ice Creamery. More specifically, high-tail it to the nearest Ben & Jerry’s, because today is Customer Appreciation Day, and that means free scoops of Groovy Brownie Nougat-Chunk Hippy Nut-Swirl Fudge-Monkey for everybody! While “Free Cone Day” sounds like something LAist might have come up with when we recently celebrated “Make Up......

Every morning at 6am we have been playing the National Anthem. We're pretty sure we can do one a day until the end of the year without repeating. Today we're happy to bring you Phish, in what is surprisingly a fine example of excellent harmony. It's not crazy and swirling and show-offey, it's happy, proud, and solid. Not at all what one would expect from a bunch of ice cream eating long haired hippies.......