We Love BUR! Jet Blue is seen as a major force behind 2006 being the best year for Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. "With 5.7 million passengers, the Burbank airfield had an increase of 3.2 percent in passengers from last year." (SFVBJ) Business as Usual in LA While the Aqua Teen Hunger Force guerilla marketing campaign in Boston caused mass panic over terrorism and bombs, the same campaign in LA and other cities hardly... more ›

The fact that Monday night's show at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood was completely sold out wasn't surprising at all; a show consisting of both The Rapture, an already established dance-punk band, and The Presets, an Australian electro duo slowly gaining exposure in the States, was designed for LA audiences; the night was a perfect balance of both old songs we've already danced to and new songs we'll continue dancing to. more ›

You may (we may) hate LAX, but Fodor's doesn't. They really don't love the strip mall(esque) airport either: Yesterday, Fodor's released Airports We Love (and Hate) and gave Amsterdam, San Francisco, Vancouver, Honolulu and other airports some 'love' rankings. Gee, we wonder why... And who are the lousy losers? LaGuardia and JFK. Those were the only US airports listed. Those outside of country nominated for being bad ass: Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, Moscow Sheremetyevo,... more ›

The Philadelphia theater community has set up a protest blog to attack their vitriolic local critic, Toby Zinman, known as the Bitch of Broad Street for her snarky reviews. Zinman has been the main theater critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer since January and has alienated most of the town since then with statements like "You could go into the University of the Arts musical theater program and with your eyes shut point out five people who can sing the socks off this cast.” more ›