Xeni Jardin is a long-time contributor and co-editor of the mighty BoingBoing. She's a Contributing Writer for Wired and you can also hear her quite often on your radio if its tuned into . Recently she traveled to Guatemala (just getting back home this week) and blogged about it beautifully on her travel blog. Because she's perfect, when we asked her to compile a list, she chose "Top ten places to buy things that......

Today people are buzzing about the LA Times poll that says Antonio Villaraigosa leads James Hahn by 18 points in the race for Mayor. The Angelino calls the news "devastating" for Hahn. While LA Voice scoffs at voter apathy and the tiny number of likely voters (suggesting a write-in for Xeni Jardin), the poll hits the national blogsphere on Daily Kos and the AP isn't far behind. BoiFromTroi reminds us that last time around,......

Whether writing in Wired and numerous publications, reporting on NPR, blogging at Boing Boing, or giving her own LA-centric perspective at blogging.la, Xeni Jardin continually mines the vast marvels of technology, the Internet, and popular culture. Xeni’s career has brought her to Los Angeles, yet she maintains a busy travel schedule that includes appearing at and hosting conferences in places far and wide. So who says the best tech pundits are in San Francisco......

Earlier this week, NPR's Day to Day featured something we hope to get in our Christmas stocking this year: the TrafficGauge. A PDA-sized real time wireless traffic map? As Xeni Jardin said during her piece, "It's like having a psychic friend." How lovely would it be to know whether or not it's going to take you twenty minutes or an hour and a half to go from the west side to Hollywood? Or to......

There's too much going on Sunday, November 7th. How can we choose between the following lit events all happening on the same night? If we could, we'd start out in the west of Los Angeles at Royce Hall, UCLA in Westwood where Russell Banks converses with Michael Ondanjtee about Film and Fiction while their pal, actor Willem Defoe, just sits between them, exuding dangerous charisma. 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Live Event Tickets: $35, 28,......