The Sweet Sixteen is here, and I don’t mean a bunch of whiny rich kids who cry when their parent’s give them a Lexus instead of an Escalade. Boo hoo. more ›

For this belated Season Preview of the USC football team I haven’t concerned myself with typical journalistic staples like accuracy, objectivity, or integrity. I am not a sports writer or blogger (I’ll leave the heavy lifting to guys like Scott Wolf and Ben Malcolmson). What I am is a USC graduate with an extremely biased view of Trojan football and semi-regular Internet access. In the exhaustive research I put into writing this, I have... more ›

To follow up from yesterday's post about Britney Spears' hair being up for auction, it appears that the auction we linked to was prematurely closed. Now we are learning that there is only one place where one can get the hair formerly on the troubled scalp of the now bald pop princess. But first let us say that we have never met Ms. Spears, we've never examined her hair, we don't have any proof... more ›

LAist loves those LA County Fair commercials with the tagline: "If there's any place that could use a county fair, it's LA." Ain't that the truth. Where else can you see the wonders of nature -- like deep fried Snickers -- first-hand? more ›