Andy Sternberg

The general pitch at Google I/O 2011 was this: Use Google's web-based tools and applications, combine with seemingly infinite storage space in the cloud, and bulky hard drives and desktop PC's will become remnants of our technological evolution. A Google account combined with a device running Android or Chrome OS will be all you need to do [almost] anything.

Today's animated video lunch pays homage to our favorite slashers: Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Leatherface. It's Friday the 13th... watch your step!...

Ron Paul, 75, will once again play the role of pissed-off anti-establishment candidate, ironically not as an Independent or third-party candidate but on the GOP ballot. He's the second GOP candidate to officially announce candidacy after Newt Gingrich. "Time has come around to the point where the people are agreeing with much of what I've been saying for 30 years," Paul told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America.

Following the failed Christmas Day 2009 bombing of a plane bound for Detroit, President Obama asked airports to "aggressively pursue enhanced screening technology, protocols, and procedures." Mayor Villaraigosa responded by directing LAPD and airport police to conduct a review of existing security procedures at LAX and today introduced a new team of dogs to sniff out passengers.

photo by Howard F. via LAist Featured Photos pool Firefighters were working to extinguish a fire that broke out at Blue Ocean Restaurant on Garfield Avenue in Alhambra Thursday morning. Smoke could be seen billowing in the sky as the roof of the seafood and dim sum restaurant. Three people were in the kitchen of the restaurant when the fire started, according to Alhambra Asst. Fire Chief Ray Mosack. The roof of the building...

Former sports commentator and columnist Jay Mariotti was charged with three counts of felony this week for stalking and assaulting an ex-girlfriend. It's apparently the same woman who had Mariotti on the ropes in the first place -- he had been on probation since pleading "no contest" to multiple misdemeanor charges stemming a domestic violence incident last August

We spoke with AOL's Entertainment Practice Head Debbie Menin at Digital Hollywood Spring 2011 last week at the Ritz in Marina del Rey. We discussed the different ways in which consumers are using social media to inform purchases and decisions and how that in turn is informing the advertising industry.

Hundreds of thousands of people were expected at Sunday's Fiesta Broadway in downtown L.A. Those who made it to the Red Bull Music Academy's Panamérika stage at 4th and Broadway were in for a rockin' afternoon featuring performances by Toy Selectah, Chico Mann, Mexican Institute of Sound and Ozomatli....

2004 photo from Millard Canyon, now reopened, by Robert Garcia via flickr. The Forest Service plans to reopen more than 100 miles of hiking and mountain biking trails that have been closed since August 2009's Station Fire. Numerous trails in the Angeles National Forest in the mountains east of the 2 will be reopened by next Monday, May 16, the U.S. Forest Service's Sherry Rollman told Altadena Patch. Areas expected to reopen, according to...

Photo by KT King via flickr. A week of protests across the state of California began Monday as part of the California Teacher's Association (CTA) $1 million State of Emergency campaign. Thousands of teachers were expected to participate in sit-ins, teach-ins and protests over proposed budget cuts along with the threat of layoffs, larger classes and the elimination of myriad programs. "Grade-ins," in which teachers will publicly grade papers, are planned in Orange County...