Jason Toney

After 10 years since it's last bath, LA's most prominent landmark is getting all gussied up. It seems no one heard our pleas to tear it down. We also recently gazed at it lovingly from Runyon Canyon. We've never taken the Hollywoodland stairs but would assume you can see the sign pretty well from there as well. Curbed LA points out the illegal name changes it has had over it's 80 year history. LAist...

Now, let's be honest with ourselves here and just speak the truth: Showgirls is the best movie ever made...ever. Disagree with LAist? Well, you're wrong. It even has a website saying as much with quotes and a picture of Elizabeth Berkeley's dad placed gloriously on her ass. Nomi Malone even has 72 friends on MySpace, many of whom, it seems, have no idea that she is a fictional character. Joe Ezterhas is like a...

The 4th Annual Indie Music Video Festival returns to Echo Park next week with a ton of music videos you probably haven't seen and a musical performance by Bubble on opening night. We're giving away two pairs of tickets that will get you in to both nights of the festival where you'll get to see music interpretations that include cartoon spacegirl renegades and a randy boy in a bunny suit. Who wouldn't want to...

This photo of a group of handpainted figures at the Casa California shop taken by Leilani Wertens and the following photo of a dyed pooch at Long Beach's annual dog costume contest by Justin Rudd are just a tease of some photos you'll see in tomorrow's post spooky holiday photo essays. Which is a good way to let you local photobloggers know that we want to hear from you. We're planning some cool contests...

- Some other new blogs to check out: After Hours City LA and Antonio Watch. - Speaking of blogs, fishbowl LA talks about the blog explosion at The LA Times, meanwhile the Times wants to know your postal service horror stories. - The BBC points out what we were thinking all along - before the billboard flap, we couldn't tell you when Get Rich or Die Trying was coming out in theatres, now we've...

Jen Sincero is a musician, sexpert, 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 a weekly sex talk radio show called Dr. Happypants on killradio.org. You can catch Jen live in all her sinful glory this Thursday at the M Bar. Living in Sin is her weekly advice column for LA's sexually curious, confused and...

terra non firma noted that la.curbed.com was in existence but password-protected back in August but we think the popular new york real estate blog is getting closer to a left coast launch. We caught the site in our referral logs this morning and have noticed an increase, though not overwhelmingly so, in posts of interest about building, buying and renting in Los Angeles on the site. Who wants to take our action that Curbed...

Last year about this time, we had a lively discussion about the cameras being installed at red lights around the city. Come to find out this morning, courtesy of an eye catching headline in The Times, that for the past few months, those cameras haven't even been working. You mean to tell us we could've been playing chicken with the Orange Line all weekend and no one would've been the wiser? The Daily News...

While we spent our weekend Halloween partying at a house party featuring people in costumes that looked oddly similar to LA.Com's party at Spider (including someone dressed as Jack and many a sexy girl scout and sailor), some of you were at the Olympic Auditorium causing trouble. Now, we loved Pat Smear's powerful guitar in the 90s as much as the next guy or gal but LAist doesn't think that would cause us to...

Cal Gun Laws and The Claremont Institute take a look at Chief Bratton's application for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in LA and wonder why he got approved while other private citizens have to jump through much higher hoops in order to get one. It is an interesting question. Cal Gun Laws points out that LA has one of the most stringent policies in the country and state and for much of...