Carolyn Kellogg

Last week K-Fed's press release made the rounds, with Franklin Avenue posting it in its entirety. LAist has been slipped a copy of the album cover. We couldn't keep it to ourselves. Thanks to NYer Todd Umbarger for the tip....

Jen Sincero is a sexpert, musician, and the author of the bestselling book, The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks and the semi-autobiographical novel, Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer. She currently hosts the weekly sex talk radio show Dr. Happypants on killradio.org. Every week in Living in Sin, Jen provides advice for LA's sexually curious. Got a question for Jen? Ask her. We promise to be discreet — all questions will be posted...

We're bouncing back and forth between the NBC and E! red carpet broadcasts. Woah, Dean Cain is carpeteering for NBC and he still looks like Scott Peterson. Dean, it's time to lose the highlights. At the other end of the spectrum, Matt Dillon looks perfect. Really. Just perfect. In the post-Dawson's Creek runoff, Michelle Williams has easily trumped Katie Holmes for best career, best father of her child, best husband. Look how cute she...

We've been looking at billboards for BloodRayne all over the city without much enthusiasm for weeks now. (What is Ben Kingsley doing in this movie? We'd rather see him in Ghandi II: Electric Boogaloo). But when we stopped at a light on Fletcher near the LA River yesterday, we yelped with delight. The scary malevolent force behind BloodRayne is revealed! It's Bill Cosby! Whoever peeled back the BloodRayne billboard to reveal this horrifying secret,...

Quick, where were you 12 years ago today? Here's a hint: at 4:31am, the Northridge Quake hit. The Daily News remembers and looks at new earthquake sensing technologies. Sewage is all over the Santa Monica Bay after malfunctions at a treatment plant. Apparently it started bubbling up through manholes in Manhattan Beach, and then things just got ickier. The LA Times tries to figure out what went wrong. Fellow bloggers the 1947 Project conducted...

We tuned in a little late to the E! pre-red carpet awards. 5:30pm the "Live" bug in the bottom corner is distracting, because the sun is blaring on Ted (ugh) Casablancas, but it's already set in real life. Live is a lie, we're on time delay here in California. In fact, we've already heard, via KPCC, that George Clooney has won Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. And Rachel Weisz has won Best Supporting Actress;...

Blogwatching the Golden Globes (it's not liveblogging if it's tape-delayed, right?) We forgot to write down times, but trust us, this is (mostly) chronological. We blogged the red carpet, too. Supporting actor starts things off: George Clooney for Syriana. Clooney's acceptance speech: "I thought Paul Giamatti was going to win. It's early -- I haven't had a drink yet.... I want to thank Jack Abramoff, I don't know why, just because. Who would name...

With Google providing a map API for anybody who wants to play, map mashups are spreading like wildfire. Submarine wrecks, golf courses, volcanos, Chicago crime: they're all being mapped with Googlemaps. Our new favorite is the still-young LA Eats With Maps, which was created by the man behind LA Foodblogging and LA Blogs. Anyone can sign up, post a restaruant, short description, and its location: voila, it's mapped! So far we trust the restaurant...

Mark Sarvas has championed local reading series, excoriated the LA Times Book Review, and tirelessly blogged about all things literary on his site The Elegant Variation. With its smart writing, frequent updates and splashes of wicked humor, it has become required daily reading — for both Angelenos and folks in the Big Established Publishing World in NY. He is also a founding member of the LitBlog Co-Op (more about that below), which announced its latest...

Today, as we're sure you know, is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Perhaps his "I Have a Dream" speech is what inspired the LA Times to ask a bunch of local activists and entertainers what they would dream up for an imagined Los Angeles. To our surprise, nobody invoked Blade Runner. Instead, people are thinking along the lines of transportation (TC Boyle, Mike Watt) and graffitti (Robbie Conal). So we put the question to...