Just a couple of weeks ago LAist's Eye Nosh was all about lunch at the Gumbo Pot, a meal determined to have been a success ("Everything was Real Good!"). Perhaps that's what inspired LAist Featured Photos pool contributor Sparkylulu to head over to the Farmer's Market to check out the Ya Ya Gumbo and more at the Gumbo Pot. Only, well... we were pointed in the direction of their Yelp review, and, yikes! And,......

Last Friday night at Bordello, Elite Yelpers gathered for drinks and music to wish Stephy S, Community Manager of Yelp.com for Los Angeles (she's like Tom of MySpace, but goddess style), a farewell adieu as she takes on a larger responsibility for the website up at its San Francisco HQ (sister site SFist should feel so lucky). Since May 2006, Stephy has been leading the way for Yelp.com, bringing in the energy for a site......

Even though we smiled in the pictures in our rented tuxes and frilly dresses, most of us had a shitty time at prom. Some of those haunting memories and major disappointments may have followed us into adulthood, and for some, ruined our lives forever. When you're a teenager and the prettiest girl you know just broke up with her boyfriend, and your "girlfriend" lives far away and her dad won't let her fly back......

There's a movement afoot: social networkers are committing MySpace-icide and are finding loquacity at Yelp.com. They are yelping, rather reviewing, restaurants, spas and even freeway interchanges. The San Francisco-based company has gone as far as giving certain members a coveted elite status. And that's where we crossed paths. A couple weeks ago, we went to a Los Angeles Yelp.com elite party in Hollywood at Tiny's K.O. to steal/recruit writers for LAist meet and greet......