Jason Toney

On a gloomy day like today, it is hard to be motivated to do even the most basic tasks for yourself, let alone somebody else. That's why we're inspired by local good samaritan groups Operation Gratitude and DoOneNiceThing.com who remind us this week that little acts of kindness make everybody feel better. Operation Gratitude and it's creator Carolyn Blashek are all about showing the troops we appreciate them. They send care packages and goodies...

Boi From Troy is right, it's time to join the LA Clippers Bandwagon. Long-suffering Clippers fans should be psyched with Elton, Sam, Chris Kaman and the rest getting it done against the Nuggets and looking likely to make it to the next round of the playoffs after going up 2-0 impressively last night. So, here's your bandwagon starter kit: -Get your video highlights from last night's butt-whoopin'. -Show your love to Clippers fans as...

Do you think President Bush took some time out of his busy schedule this morning at UC Irvine getting protested by demonstrators on both sides of the immigration debate (neither side seems to like to the guest worker program...or each other much for that matter) to check out the HIPer Wall at UCI's Center of GRAVITY? Outside of showcasing how much UC Irvine loves acronyms, the HIPer Wall is the subject of an Apple...

We just started reading LA Sports Columnist and one-time LAist interview subject J.A. Adande's blog this week. Actually, just yesterday when he posted some of the mail he's been getting regarding his NBA MVP column in which he had the gall to not choose Employee #8 (and not to get sidetracked but this LAist contributor agrees. Steve Nash made every player on his team look like an MVP candidate and LeBron James played like...

Both USC and UCLA's student papers look at interesting homeless issues today. The Daily Bruin heads out into Westwood to talk to area homeless people as they examine the court ruling invalidating LA's stringent anti-homelessness policy. USC looks at students without homes and how some of them have begun sleeping in the stacks in the 24 hour library. The Daily Trojan points out that this isn't that uncommon an occurrence at expensive universities around...

Naveen Andrews loves Los Angeles: It kind of has an element of rootlessness, and it attracts rootless people. Google and the Da Vinci Code. We have to confess, starting off with an easy sudoku clone was a good way to get us hooked. The game began today. There's shaking going on at the San Andreas fault and seismologists aren't quite sure why. We do know that it wasn't why the Hotel San Diego fell...

San Clemente has never looked so seedy. The sleepy town just outside of Orange County is the backdrop for Rian Johnson's first film, Brick (note: Brick is an advertiser on LAist but this is not advertorial). We won't argue that the film should join the pantheon of great LA/So.Cal flicks we've been talking about recently or that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's just the best film we've seen this year. There...

What is up with all the bodies being found in cars of late? Just this past weekend, a cab driver was found dead in his car in Lancaster as was an as-yet-to-be identified woman near Hawthorne. Apparently just announcing that you want to go Los Angeles and become a star is enough to get you killed and put in a trunk. That's what appears to have happened to a Texas woman in February. Her...

We don't often talk religion on LAist. Who knows, we may all be happy heathens merrily going about our online lives without a spiritual care in the world. But today, this LAist contributor went to church for the first time in who knows how long. The scene was Shepherd of the Hills in Porter Ranch. There were some interesting things said today but we don't want to talk about the sermon. No, we want...

Last week, we struggled to find the local video blogs (in truth, we didn't look very hard and hoped they would come to us), but this week, we've got two vid-blogs, a comedy 'cast and one music blog that we're newly obsessed with. Zadi Diaz's Karmagrrrl video blog spent last week revealing secrets and talked about a local video blog festival that we're sorry we missed. Rock N Roll TV is not for the...