Jason Toney

Just a quick reminder that this is the last day to register to vote for our Special Election that's coming on November 8th. You have until midnight. And, yeah, we're tired of all these dang elections as well and know this one seems unnecessary and we almost never want to hear the word proposition again (unless, of course, it's sexual in nature) but the issues are important. We've talked a little about them before....

What a day for Rachel and J.R. to make their debut. The 14th city in the Gothamist network is Miami and they've launched today with the major story of their lovely locale being the arrival of Hurricane Wilma to Florida. Five of the six stories today deal with Wilma and her awful ways. More than 1 million people are without power currently but that isn't stopping the newest kids on the block. Please welcome...

Is locally based web phenomenon and recent newscorp acquisition MySpace really only two years old? Gracious. They grow up so fast. One of the single most popular, unattractive and youthful websites in the world is hosting a two year anniversary concert at freakin' Dodger Stadium this weekend from 5 PM to 11 PM featuring Dashboard Confessional, The All-American Rejects and Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World and proceeds going to Hurrican Katrina Relief. Tickets...

Tonight, we're going for a sneak peek at the new Burton Morris exhibit at the Hamilton-Selway Art Gallery. You can get your chance to take a gander at the artist's latest Pop Art work tomorrow night at the opening reception from 5-9 PM. Tomorrow, we're hoping to catch a double feature of movies we've been neglecting. Domino is tops on the list -- hey, they spend much of the film in and around LA,...

- Mayor Sam's Sister City turned one. - We read the description of this job but we still have no idea what a Senior Experimentalist does or why USC would want one. - We've got some updates on the Suicide Girls story coming soon but, for now, you can just get some SG video podcasting for your shiny apple products. - Does Villaraigosa's removal of fees from use of local municipal buildings for filming...

Memorable Laker achievements extend from the glory days of George Mikan to their recent string of championships with Phil, Shaq and Kobe, but one of the most important contributions from Laker past came to an anticlimactic end this week. Vlade Divac's retirement represents official closure of the first truly prominent European player in the NBA. Today, we know the Euro influence through names like Dirk Nowitzki (the good), Nikoloz Tskitishvili (the bad) and Antoine...

While the President is in town admiring the original Air Force One and mucking up the streets (and, by extension, fashion week), the governor isn't happy with him. Well, honestly, the governor can't be happy with much lately. The LA Weekly delves into how our once über-popular state head has become as unliked as, well, President Bush. We especially like Marc Cooper's take which suggests that Mr. Schwarzenegger's decline has come about because, unlike...

Want to know what LAX is going to do to prevent Avian Flu from spreading locally? Well, they are having a media press conference tomorrow at The Raddison to outline their plan. At present there have been 117 confirmed human cases and 60 deaths from the flu, the vast majority in Viet Nam. Skunks of Los Feliz has a much simpler plan for containing the disease....

Apparently it's cool to be like Antonio. Check out the websites of two of the candidates for DC Mayor. Look familiar? A prospective voter in DC noticed the similarity between the two sites but Tom Sherwood figured out that the two weren't really ripping off each other. They are biting Villaraigosa's style. In other news, the Mayor knows how to make peace, fines himself and wants to stir the trash for a higher fee....

If you live in Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Artesia, Downey, Bellflower and Westminster anyway. Verizon has a glitch that is preventing all kinds of telephonic conversation in those parts of town and we're thinking that a rainy SoCal day is really not the day you want the phone lines to go down. First the power goes out, then the fires, now the mudslides, hail and the phones go down? LAist guesses we...