Carolyn Kellogg

no really, Botox is good for you - Front page "news" from the LA Times: Getting Botox injections to freeze your frown lines may improve your emotional well-being. If your face can't move into a frown, according to a survey of 10 women, your moods may be less gloomy. No word on which 10 women were in the survey. an LAPD wrinkle - Implementation of a computer system to track officer conduct has stalled...

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the...

to NFL or not to NFL Will too much municipal money be needed to draw the NFL back to Los Angeles? That's the question critics are asking, according to a report in the LA Times today. We're not sure about the exact finaancing scheme, but we do think it's time LA got a football team again. It's embarassasing. Sheesh, San Francisco and San Diego both have one. Olympics for LA? The Coliseum, which would...

Labor activists are upset that Madonna has been crossing picket lines at the Forum to rehearse for her upcoming humungous concert. IATSE Local 33 is holding the picket line; IATSE 33, SEIU 1877 (janitors) and Operating Engineers 501 have joined in support. But maybe they're barking up the wrong pop star tree. Madonna, who is from the onetime labor stronghold of Michigan, has left the US for England and adopted a bizarre accent to...

unhappy trails The Donald is ruffling feathers in Rancho Palos Verdes with a request to rename the street that leads to his new development Trump National Drive. So far, city officials are sticking with the current Ocean Trails Drive. fake TV Also from Palos Verdes (buzzing with news today, the PV!): a man who claimed to be producing a government-backed TV show about the Department of Homeland Security is expected to plead guilty today...

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wiedling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much. LAist has finally come around to purchasing tickets for Clipper Train. Hyper local dating sites are spamming L.A. neighborhoods and the fascinating Dame Darcy talks with LAist about art, the city and earthquakes....

shredding moms Yesterday moms in Laguna Niguel skated a bowl in a mothers' day fundraiser. "Kids are proud to have a nonconforming parent," the LA Times writes, which puts a nail in the skating-as-rebellion coffin for us. Wait, we hear more banging — it's 35-year-old mother Jenny Sparks, who tells the paper: "Skateboarding is the new Jenny Craig." immigration numbers An AP report in the Daily Breeze says that it's going to be hard...

LAist waxes individual on Sundays, so this seems like the perfect time to tell you that I'm at LAX. I mean, I was; now I'm 2,000 miles away. I was going to post from the airport, but.... Why doesn't LAX have WiFi? If there was ever a building that looked like it should radiate internet waves, the gloriously sixties-era futuristic Encounter is it. But does the airport have a WAN? Little terminal-based WiFi? Nooooo....

Blogger Peggy Archer got this shot while working on a film set. Too bad those tree branches wouldn't be in the shot — they sure are pretty....

music for a Valley high American Idol top 3 finalist Katharine McPhee visited Notre Dame High School, her alma mater, and got an official welcome from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilwoman Wendy Greuel. She also drove some high school boys to the brink when she sang "God Bless the Child" (check out the guy on the right). young love The LA Times finds a modern Romeo & Juliet at the racially divided Jefferson High...